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His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 20Nora's POVThe emergency board review was scheduled for ten o'clock in the main boardroom. I was in the building by seven-thirty. Julian was already there when I arrived, standing at his desk with two coffees and a look that said the night had been long and productive."Patricia confirmed," he said, handing me a coffee. "She's bringing two of the undecided members in person this morning, before the meeting. They want to hear from you directly before it starts.""Good," I said."The outside legal team finished the fraud filing at midnight. It's ready.""Good.""And Christine Wald sent three additional documents late last night," Julian continued. "Supplementary correspondence from the original situation with Holt. She found them in archived case files she had kept in storage. They are, in her words, very clear."I sipped my coffee. "How clear?""Clear enough that when I read them I said a word I don't normally say at midnight," Julian said.I almost smiled. "Send them to th
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Caleb's pov
Chapter 19Caleb’s POVI met the stranger on Monday evening. After the first anonymous text on Saturday, two more messages had followed. They were short and carefully written, revealing just enough information to keep my attention while staying frustratingly vague. The sender claimed to know who had been systematically damaging my business relationships ever since Nora left. According to them, Nora was not acting alone. Other people were involved. People close to me. People I trusted.By Monday afternoon, curiosity had started outweighing caution. We agreed to meet at a quiet bar tucked into the business district, the kind of place where executives drank expensive whiskey while pretending they were not discussing million-dollar decisions over dinner. I arrived twenty minutes early and chose a table near the back wall where I could see the entrance clearly. I ordered a water and sat there listening to the low hum of conversations around me.I still had not touched alcohol since Thur
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 18Nora's POVOn Sunday morning, I took Mia out to breakfast. Not at the penthouse, not with a room service tray balanced by the window, but somewhere ordinary. A real table in a crowded diner, the air thick with the smell of pancakes and fresh coffee, children laughing too loudly in the background while waitresses moved between tables carrying steaming plates. I wanted her to have something normal for once, something that felt simple and real.We found a little diner three blocks from the Skyview, the kind of place with red vinyl booths, sticky laminated menus, and a waitress named Dot who called everyone “honey” and refilled your coffee before you realized the cup was empty.Mia ordered chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon and finished every bite on her plate. Watching her eat like that loosened something tight inside me.Since we left Willow Creek, she had barely touched her food. Small portions. Careful bites. The cautious way children eat when they’re carrying som
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Caleb's pov
Chapter 17Caleb's POVTara came home on Saturday, since she left. I heard her key in the lock just before noon, while I was sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of cold coffee and a stack of papers my accountant had couriered over that morning. The numbers on those papers were not good. I had stopped reading them an hour ago and was just sitting in the general direction of them, which felt like approximately the same thing.She walked in and stopped when she saw me, looking completely different. That was the first thing I noticed. She was wearing her hair down instead of the usual styled, careful way she kept it when she wanted to look impressive. She had no makeup on, and was dressed in a plain sweatshirt and jeans. She looked seventeen, young in a way she usually worked very hard not to look. She looked like her mother.The thought moved through me before I could stop it, and it left an uncomfortable feeling behind."Hey, Dad," she said softly."Hey," I said.She set her bag d
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 16Nora's POVChristine Wald agreed to meet on a Friday afternoon. Julian had reached her through a mutual professional contact, keeping my name out of it until the last possible moment. When Christine found out who was requesting the meeting, Julian said she had gone very quiet for several seconds before agreeing.We met at a small, private restaurant on the west side of the city. Not the kind of place journalists frequented. Dark wood walls, low lighting, tables spaced far enough apart that conversations stayed contained. I arrived twenty minutes early and chose a corner table near the back of the café, the kind of seat that let me see both the entrance and the street through the rain-streaked windows. My back stayed against the wall while I wrapped both hands around a glass of water I had no intention of drinking.At exactly two o’clock, Christine walked in.She paused just inside the entrance, scanning the room once before her eyes found mine. Fifty-one now, older than
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Caleb's pov
Chapter 15Caleb's POVI drove to Hamilton Global on Thursday morning, though I hadn't planned it the night before. I woke up at five, lay in the dark for an hour, and then got up, got dressed, and got into my car. I told myself I just needed to see the building, and wasn't going to do anything stupid.I parked across the street and sat in the car with the engine running. The building was everything the headlines said it was. Tall. Glass. Sharp at the edges, like it had been designed to cut the sky. The Hamilton Global logo sat near the top in clean silver letters, catching the early morning light. People were already moving in and out of the entrance at the bottom, staff with badges and coffees, security in dark uniforms.I sat there and tried to match this building with the woman who packed my lunches, but I couldn't do it. I kept splitting them into two separate people in my head. Nora from Willow Creek, quiet, aproned, invisible. And Nora Hamilton from the news screens, cold-eye
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