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Chapter 68
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The rain shifted against the glass."That deserved defending," she said. "Regardless of what else was true."Carter was very still.He had the particular stillness of a person receiving something they'd stopped expecting to receive — not gracefully, not with practiced ease, but with the slightly stunned quality of genuine surprise."I don't know what to do with that," he said quietly."You don't have to do anything with it," she said. "I'm not saying it to require something from you. I'm saying it because it's true and you asked."He nodded slowly.They sat for another long while.The tea was cold. The rain had settled into its nighttime rhythm, lighter and more consistent, the kind you could sleep to. The city outside the windows was doing what cities did at eleven at night — present but quieter, the daytime insistences gone soft."The board meeting," Maeve said eventually."Yes.""What do you want to happen?"He considered this for a long time. Longer than a man being strategic woul
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And you think they'll vote to remove you.""I think they've already decided and the meeting is the formal mechanism." He said it without bitterness. With the particular flatness of someone who has finished grieving a thing while it was still in the future. "Three of the major shareholders contacted my attorney before the hearing was over today. They want stability. They want someone whose name isn't currently on the cover of every newspaper in the country.""Sterling.""Possibly. Or someone new." He paused. "Someone whose father didn't steal three hundred million dollars from the pension fund."The sentence sat between them. She felt him feel it."Your father made those choices," she said."My father made those choices and I covered them for three years.""You're fixing them.""I'm trying to." He looked at the window. "Fixing things doesn't undo the period where they weren't being fixed. The people who lost their retirements still lost them for the years I stayed quiet. Linda still ha
MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART Chapter 68
The kettle boiled.He poured.He brought both cups to the table and set one in front of her.She looked at it.The tea bag was still in it, string and tag submerged, and the water was the flat grey color of something that had been poured over the bag and immediately stopped — not steeped, just ambiguously introduced to the concept of tea.She looked up at him.He was already watching her, the expression of a man who suspected he'd done something wrong but wasn't certain what."You need to let it steep," she said."I did let it steep.""For how long?"A pause. "It's been in there the whole time.""Carter." She turned the cup to show him the color. "This is hot water with a tea bag that has been threatened."He looked at the cup. Then at her. "It's the same color as tea.""It's the color of water that heard tea was nearby and got hopeful." She lifted the string and held the bag above the cup. "You leave it in. For at least three minutes. Four, ideally."He looked at this process as if i
MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART Chapter 67
"Yes," she said. "I actually think I am."Her brother made a sound that might have been relief.Outside, the rain continued.Inside, in the quiet of the safe house, Maeve Sullivan sat with her phone pressed to her ear and talked to her brother about nothing important — the food stall he'd driven past the other day, whether their mother had tried the new medication, what the weather was like in Ohio — and let the ordinary weight of it settle around her like something she'd been missing without knowing she was missing it.When Carter came upstairs an hour later, she was still on the couch. Her brother had been replaced by Sarah, who had been replaced by a silence she didn't feel the need to fill.Carter stood in the doorway for a moment."Yamamoto released their statement," he said. "It's done.""I know.""The board meeting is confirmed for seven AM.""I know."He came and sat in the chair across from her. Not beside her. Across from her, which felt right — the correct distance for two
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"Because the ruling means the trial proceeds. Which means months of headlines, months of the company's name in the same sentence as conspiracy and fabricated evidence and kidnapping." He looked out his own window. "They want resolution before the markets open Monday. Which means they want me to make a decision by tomorrow morning.""Step down.""Or be voted out." He paused. "Which is the same thing, just with less dignity."The car moved through a yellow light. The rain picked up."Marcus has been tracking the Yamamoto situation," Carter said. "They've been watching the hearing. Their legal team has been in contact with our board since yesterday." He stopped."And?"He turned to look at her directly for the first time since leaving the courthouse. "The merger is effectively over. Yamamoto's board voted this morning. They're releasing a statement tonight attributing it to 'changed circumstances in the strategic landscape.'" A pause. "Which is the corporate language for the person we we
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On the charge of conspiracy," Judge Hendricks said, and here she paused long enough that the room gathered itself, "the prosecution has presented, in addition to the above, a recorded video document capturing a conversation between the defendant and a third party in which the coordination of a deliberate attack on the complainant and on Carter Montgomery is discussed in explicit terms." She looked at the video screen, now dark, as if she could still see the footage on it. "The defense challenged the authenticity of this footage. The challenge was not supported. The footage is admitted. The charge of conspiracy proceeds to trial."She turned another page."On the charge of attempted kidnapping—" she paused again, "—the prosecution has presented zip tie restraints with the complainant's DNA, forensic evidence from the vehicle used in the incident, financial records linking the defendant to the individual who carried out the physical act, phone records documenting seventeen calls between
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