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Nora's POV
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His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 45Nora's POVThe headline read:HAMILTON GLOBAL CEO NORA HAMILTON NAMED IN DECADE-OLD FRAUD ALLEGATION—ANONYMOUS SOURCE CLAIMS COMPANY FOUNDER MANIPULATED EARLY INVESTOR CONTRACTS.I read it twice, then took the tablet from Julian's hand and read it a third time, slower, extracting every word carefully the way you extract splinters, making sure you understand the full shape of the damage before you decide how to respond to it.The article was published on a financial news platform with a wide readership and a reputation for being first rather than careful. It was short. Four paragraphs. The sourcing was anonymous throughout. The claim was that in Hamilton Global's founding year, Nora Hamilton had deliberately structured investor contracts in a way that misrepresented projected returns, and that at least two early investors had been defrauded of significant capital as a result.There were no names. No documents. No specifics beyond the outline of the claim, but just the alleg
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 44Nora's POVThe interview room was my office.I had chosen that deliberately. Dana Reeves arrived at nine-fifty with a small crew… a camera operator, a sound technician, and a producer who moved efficiently and without unnecessary conversation, setting up equipment with the practiced speed of people who had done it in a hundred different rooms. Dana herself was dressed sharply, dark blazer, minimal jewelry, her expression professionally neutral in the way that told you she had already done her preparation and was simply waiting for the real thing to begin.She shook my hand when she walked in."Ms. Hamilton," she said."Ms. Reeves," I said. "Thank you for coming.""Thank you for calling," she said. And she looked at me with a directness that I appreciated. No performance. No warm-up flattery. Just two people about to have a real conversation.We sat. The cameras were set. The sound was checked.Dana looked at me across the small space between our chairs and said, "Ready wh
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Caleb's POV
Chapter 43Caleb's POVPatricia Cole was not what I expected, because I had built a picture of her from the little I knew. A senior Hamilton Global board member, silver-haired, formal, someone operating firmly in Nora's world and therefore likely to look at me with a particular kind of polite distance. Someone professionally cordial in the way that people are cordial when they have already formed an opinion and are simply managing the interaction.She opened the door of her home herself, which was the first surprise.A tall townhouse in a quiet part of the city, warm light inside, the smell of something cooking. She was dressed in weekend clothes, casual and unremarkable, and she looked at me with the direct, unhurried attention of someone who had spent decades reading people across tables and no longer needed any of the theatrics."Mr. Stone," she said. "Come in."She made tea. We sat in her living room. She did not open a folder or produce documents or establish the meeting with an
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 42Nora's POVI called Bree into my office on Sunday morning.Bree was twenty-seven, sharp and quietly ambitious in the way I respected most, the kind of ambition that worked instead of performed. She had been on Hamilton Global's communications team for two years before I returned and she had impressed me consistently since the first week.She came in with her notebook and her coffee and sat down across from me with an expression that said she already knew this wasn't a routine meeting."I need to make a public statement," I said. "Not through the press release. Not through a prepared corporate document. I want to sit down with one journalist and tell a story directly. My choice of journalist. My terms."Bree's pen hovered above her notebook. "What story?" she said carefully."About my sister," I said. "About why I left Hamilton Global eight years ago. About the foundation, where it came from, and what it means." I paused. "The real version. Before someone else publishes a v
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Caleb's POV
Chapter 41Caleb's POVDerek called me Saturday afternoon while I was sitting in my car outside the apartment building doing nothing in particular."The cooperation statement has been filed," Derek said. "Torres called me twenty minutes ago. He said the Veltro case is moving to the formal prosecution stage. He said our cooperation will be formally noted in the proceedings.""Good," I said."There's more," Derek said. "Torres mentioned that Victor Crane gave a full cooperation statement this morning as well. Apparently Nora met with him directly and he folded completely."I sat with that for a moment. Nora had met with Victor Crane the morning after our meeting. She had looked across a table at the man who had spent a decade quietly dismantling her life and she had handled it with the same controlled precision she brought to everything."Of course she did," I said quietly.Derek was quiet for a beat. "Caleb. How are you doing? Genuinely."It was such a simple question. Derek had asked
His Useless Wife Was A Queen Nora's POV
Chapter 40Nora's POVThe address I sent Victor was a private meeting room in a law firm Julian trusted on the twelfth floor of a building in the business district.When I arrived at eight-thirty, Julian was already there, seated in the small waiting area outside the meeting room with his laptop open and his coffee beside him. He looked up when I walked in and gave me the particular nod that meant everything was in place. Marcus was on the floor below. Two members of Hamilton Global's security team were in the lobby dressed in civilian clothes. The building's front desk had been briefed.Nobody was taking chances.I went into the meeting room alone and closed the door behind me.It was a plain room. A rectangular table, six chairs, a water jug in the center, tall windows looking out at the grey morning sky. I sat at the head of the table and placed my folder in front of me and waited.Victor Crane arrived at nine exactly.I had looked at his photograph so many times in the past wee
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