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CHAPTER 38

Author: ZELIA
last update publish date: 2026-05-17 17:59:58
HIS PAST HAS A NAME

The meeting is set for a neutral location. A coffee shop in Midtown where neither of them has any history or memories or ghosts. Dominic asks Nora if she wants to come with him and she says absolutely not because being there would make it about her instead of about his actual relationship with Vivienne. But she spends the entire hour he's gone imagining what it's like when he sees her. Imagining whether there's still attraction beneath the years. Imagining whether some part o
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    SHE NEEDS SPACENora is holding Dominic's hand and she can feel the weight of his commitment and the significance of his promise but she's also feeling something else which is a crushing sense of overwhelming emotions and too much information and too many revelations happening all at once and she's understanding that she needs to step back and breathe and process everything that's happened in the last few hours. The story about her mother and Dominic's father and the twenty-year-old secret and the orchestrated nature of their meeting and the trust fund created specifically to protect her and Dominic's commitment to change are all crashing down on her at the same time and she's feeling suffocated by the weight of it all.She's looking at Dominic and she's seeing the man she loves and she's seeing his genuine commitment and she's seeing his willingness to do the work but she's also feeling confused about what's real and what's been orchestrated and whether their meeting was truly fate o

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 115

    TWO FAMILIES, ONE WOUNDDominic is sitting with this information and he's understanding that both his family and Nora's family have been wounded by the same pattern which is love that comes with control and possession and the need to be dependent and he's understanding that his father saw this pattern in Nora's mother and saw that pattern threatening to repeat itself in his own son and he decided to intervene across time and across circumstance and across generations to try to break the cycle before it could destroy another family and another woman and another child forced to watch a parent diminish themselves in the name of love.He's understanding that his father's affair with Nora's mother wasn't actually an affair in the traditional sense it was an act of resistance and rebellion against the control and possession that governed his marriage and it was a desperate attempt to connect with someone in an authentic way and it was a moment of clarity where his father understood what his

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 114

    HER MOTHER'S SECRETNora is asking her mother directly why she never told her about this connection and why she never mentioned Dominic's father and her mother is explaining that she made a sacred promise twenty years ago to keep this secret private and to protect Dominic's father's reputation and to protect his family from scandal and to wait for the right moment when the truth could be revealed without causing damage or destruction. She's telling Nora that she's been carrying this secret for two decades and that it's been one of the heaviest burdens she's ever carried because she's been forced to watch her daughter fall in love with and marry the son of a man who profoundly changed her life and she couldn't tell her daughter why she was so afraid and so protective and so insistent on independence.Her mother is explaining that when Nora started working for Dominic and when Nora told her about the billionaire CEO with the controlling tendencies and the need for power she started to w

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 113

    THE NIGHT TWENTY YEARS AGOThe scene shifts backward in time and the narrative moves to a hotel room in the city twenty years ago and Dominic's father is sitting with Nora's mother and they're talking in the quiet of an evening where both of them have stepped away from their lives and their responsibilities and their marriages and their impossible situations to exist together in a moment of authentic human connection. Dominic's father is telling her about his wife and about how their marriage has become a performance and about how he's learned to excel at control and dominance but failed completely at connection and intimacy and genuine emotional presence and she's listening and understanding and reflecting back to him a compassion that he's never experienced in his own marriage.Nora's mother is telling him about her husband and about how she's made herself small to accommodate his needs and about how she's learned to minimize her own desires and dreams to fit into the role that's be

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 112

    WHAT HIS FATHER KNEWHer mother is telling them the story of twenty years ago when she was younger and when she had a different life and when she had dreams and hopes and ambitions and when she was struggling in her own marriage and when she felt disconnected and alone and when she met Dominic's father and something shifted in her understanding of what life could be. She's explaining that Dominic's father was a different man back then and that he was struggling with his own marriage and his own need for control and his own inability to love his family in healthy ways and that he came to her for help and for understanding and for a moment of connection that wasn't possessive or controlling or conditional.Her mother is describing Dominic's father as a man who was searching for something and who was reaching for something that he couldn't find in his own marriage and who was desperate for a moment of authentic human connection with someone who wasn't requiring him to be powerful or domi

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 111

    SHOCK - HIS AND HERSDominic is telling Nora about the will and about his father's letter and about the trust fund that his father created in her name and Nora is sitting on the couch in complete shock and she's not understanding why his father would do this or how his father even knew about her or what possible connection his father could have had to her life or her future. She's asking Dominic to explain and he's telling her that the letter doesn't explicitly say how his father knew about her or why his father cared about her or what made his father believe that Dominic would marry her but his father clearly had some knowledge of her and some belief that Dominic would marry someone like her and some understanding that she would need protection and autonomy.Nora is standing up and she's pacing around the penthouse and she's trying to process what she's being told and she's trying to understand the implications of what this means and she's asking Dominic if his father ever mentioned

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 73

    THE ATTACK THAT COMESIt happened three weeks later.I was leaving an event in Philadelphia. Walking to my car with security. Normal routine. Normal precautions. Normal everything.Except the man who appeared out of nowhere with a knife."You ruined my life!" he screamed. "My wife left me because o

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 72

    THE DECISION SHE MAKESI didn't go to my next speaking engagement.Called the Survivor's Network. Told them I needed time. Told them about the threats. Told them I was scared and not sure I could keep doing this.Maria understood. "Take whatever time you need. Your safety comes first. Always.""But

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 71

    THE THREAT THAT RETURNSThe threatening email arrived on a Tuesday morning while I was making breakfast.*You should have stayed quiet.*I almost deleted it. Almost. But something made me click.*Nora Caldwell. You think you're a hero. You think speaking out makes you brave. But you're destroying f

  • BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE    CHAPTER 70

    THE MOMENT IT ALL MAKES SENSESix months into the job, I was speaking in Denver when I got the call.Dominic. Middle of my speech prep. He never called during events. Never."What's wrong?" I answered immediately."Nothing's wrong. Something's, something's right. Really right. Nora, I need you to s

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