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I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT chapter 34
Nathaniel's POV"It wasn't your father who buried the inspection report," Dana said, sliding a folder across my desk with hands that weren't quite steady, "it was Marcus's father, and Marcus has known that for years."I stared at the folder for a long moment before I made myself open it, Emily standing beside me with her hand steady on my shoulder, the two of us finally facing whatever this actually was together instead of one of us carrying it alone. Dana had spent the two days since our conversation on the rooftop quietly tracing the actual source of the documents Marcus was threatening to release, working channels I hadn't even known she had access to, and what she'd found rewrote the entire shape of the fight."The inspection failure that caused the fire," Dana said, pulling a chair closer and lowering her voice even though the office door was already closed, "was signed off on by the subcontractor's site supervisor at the time. That supervisor answered directly to your uncle Rich
I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT chapter 33
Emily's POV"I'm not leaving until you actually talk to me," I said, stepping out onto the rooftop where he'd disappeared to an hour earlier, "because I have watched you disappear into silence before, and I refuse to just wait quietly this time for you to decide I've earned an explanation."The wind up there was sharper than it had any right to be for early evening, the city spread out below us in a grid of lights that used to feel foreign and now just felt like ours. Nathaniel stood at the railing with his back to the door, shoulders set in a way I recognized immediately as a man bracing for a fight he'd already decided he deserved to lose."I don't know what to say that doesn't sound like an excuse," he said, without turning around."Then don't say an excuse," I told him, coming to stand beside him at the railing instead of across from him, deliberately choosing the posture of someone fighting alongside him rather than against him. "Say the true thing, even if it's ugly. That's the
I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT chapter 32
Nathaniel's POV"You've been in that office until two in the morning three nights running," Emily said, standing in the doorway of my study with her arms crossed, "and I would like you to explain to me why that suddenly feels familiar in a way I don't like."I had not meant to let it get this far. In the days since Marcus's visit, I had told myself, each individual night, that I would tell her tomorrow, once I understood the full scope of what he actually had, once I had a plan solid enough that presenting the problem wouldn't also mean presenting my own fear alongside it. Each individual night, tomorrow had not arrived, and instead I had simply worked later, spoken less, let the careful management I'd promised her I was done with slowly reassemble itself around me like a coat I'd claimed to have thrown away."I'm handling something with the board," I said, which was true, and which was also, I recognized even as I said it, precisely the kind of half truth that had ended my first enga
I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT chapter 31
Nathaniel's POV"You have thirty days to resign as CEO," Marcus said, sliding a single folded page across my desk without sitting down, "or I let the board see exactly what your grandfather's company covered up, and exactly what your grandmother has been hiding for eighteen years."He'd come alone, which surprised me, no lawyer trailing him, no assistant taking notes, just Marcus in a suit that fit slightly too well for a man who had spent most of his life resenting how little of the family fortune had ever been steered his way. I didn't reach for the page immediately, watching him instead, trying to read whether this was bravado or something he genuinely believed he could execute."You've been planning this since the wedding," I said, not quite a question."I've been planning this since Grandfather's will named you and not me," Marcus said, and for the first time in years I heard something almost honest under the practiced contempt in his voice, an old, tired resentment that had clea
I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT chapter 30
Emily's POV"I wondered when you'd finally learn to hold a wine glass properly," Vanessa said, appearing at my elbow like she'd been waiting all evening for the chance, "though I suppose someone had to teach you which fork to use first too."The Whitfield Foundation gala was the kind of event I'd once have found unimaginable, a ballroom lit gold, a string quartet playing something I didn't recognize, a guest list that read like a business section headline made flesh. Six months ago I would have spent the whole night counting exits. Tonight, standing in a dress Nathaniel had insisted was mine to keep regardless of what happened between us, I found I didn't feel like counting anything at all."I actually learned to hold a piping bag before I learned to hold a wine glass," I told Vanessa, turning to face her fully instead of pretending not to notice her the way I might have months ago. "Funny thing about that skill, it teaches you a steadier hand than most finishing schools ever manage t
I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT chapter 29
Nathaniel's POV"He has something bigger than the marriage story," Dana said, closing my office door behind her with more urgency than I'd seen from her in years, "and I think you need to hear this before the board does."It was a Tuesday, ordinary enough that I hadn't expected the day to turn the way it did. Dana had intercepted a call meant for someone two floors below her, a mistaken transfer that had accidentally routed straight to her desk, and she had, against every instinct of discretion that usually governed how she handled information, stayed on the line long enough to hear something she clearly wished she hadn't."It was Vanessa," she said, sitting across from my desk, choosing her words like she was defusing something. "Talking to someone I didn't recognize, but from what I could piece together, it wasn't just gossip anymore. She mentioned an inspection report. She mentioned Marcus by name, more than once, and not kindly. She said, and I'm quoting this as closely as I can r
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