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Chapter 26: Celeste's Source
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2026-08-21 04:27:20
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The private investigator's initial findings arrived a week later, delivered in person rather than over email or phone, Marcus Webb himself sitting across from Amelia and Damian at the dining table with the calm, methodical demeanor of someone who'd spent decades untangling complicated criminal schemes."I'll give you the short version first, then the details," Webb said, opening a slim folder that seemed almost deceptively thin given the gravity of what he'd apparently uncovered. "Marcus Delgado didn't disappear after Meridian's collapse. He rebuilt, carefully, under a company called Ridgeline Capital Partners, incorporated eight years ago under a business partner's name to keep his own fingerprints off the paperwork. He's been operating in relative obscurity since, mostly small-scale investment fraud nothing large enough to attract major regulatory attention, but consistent enough to suggest he's rebuilt significant personal wealth.""So he's been fine this whole time," Amelia said,
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The security upgrades happened quickly cameras added to the penthouse's private entrance, a rotating detail of two guards stationed discreetly near the building, Amelia's driver instructed to vary routes and timing whenever she left for the literacy program or to visit her mother. It felt, at first, like an overreaction, a level of caution that belonged to spy movies rather than her actual life.Then, three days into the new protocols, one of the security guards flagged something on the building's exterior footage a man loitering across the street for nearly two hours, watching the entrance with the kind of patient, unhurried attention that suggested surveillance rather than coincidence."He never approached anyone," the head of security explained to Damian and Amelia that evening, pulling up the footage on a laptop at the dining table. "Just watched. Left before we could get close enough to identify him clearly. But this isn't the first time we caught similar footage two days ago too
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The press release went live at nine in the morning, timed deliberately to coincide with market opening, Damian's legal and communications teams having spent the final hours before dawn triple-checking every word for accuracy and legal soundness.Amelia watched it happen from the kitchen table, coffee growing cold in her hands as she refreshed the news feed on her phone every few minutes, watching the story ripple outward in real time. The headline that emerged across financial outlets was measured, factual: *Blackwood Industries Releases Internal Findings Clearing Former Consultant of Wrongdoing in Decade-Old Corporate Scandal.*It wasn't sensational. It wasn't designed to be. But within hours, follow-up pieces began appearing, digging into the details, connecting dots the original statement had laid out plainly Marcus Delgado's name surfacing again for the first time in years, Meridian Capital's collapse recontextualized as the result of deliberate fraud rather than mere market misfo
Married to the Cold Billionaire After Betraying Him Chapter 26: Celeste's Source
The truth about Celeste's connection to Victor came out sooner than Amelia expected, and from an unlikely source Priya, Julian's fiancée, who called Amelia directly a few days after the engagement party with an uneasy note in her voice."I don't know if this means anything," Priya said, "but I overheard something at my aunt's dinner party last night that made me think of what Julian mentioned about Celeste. My aunt runs in the same social circles as Victor Blackwood's set, and she mentioned, completely in passing, that Victor's been quietly funding some kind of publicity effort. She didn't have details. But she specifically mentioned Celeste's name as someone helping coordinate it."Amelia felt her pulse quicken. "Funding it how? Do you know what kind of publicity effort?""Not exactly. Something about 'setting the record straight' on some family matter. My aunt assumed it was just normal rich-people drama, didn't think much of it. But given what Julian told me, I thought you should k
Married to the Cold Billionaire After Betraying Him Chapter 25: The First Move
The countermove, when it finally came, arrived not as a dramatic strike but as something far more insidious a carefully placed story in a respected financial publication, subtle enough to avoid outright libel but pointed enough to do real damage.Amelia read it over breakfast, Damian's tablet propped against the fruit bowl while he took an early call in his study. The headline alone made her stomach drop: *Blackwood Industries' Sudden Leadership Shakeup Raises Questions Among Investors.*The article was careful, professionally written, full of anonymous sources and vague insinuations rather than direct accusations. It painted a picture of a company in turmoil, a young CEO making rash, emotionally-driven decisions, an ousted patriarch whose decades of steady leadership had apparently kept the company stable through market fluctuations that the current leadership might not weather as gracefully. Nowhere did it mention Amelia by name, or the truth about the marriage, or any of the real s
Married to the Cold Billionaire After Betraying Him Chapter 24: Celeste's Angle
The invitation to Julian's engagement party a surprise announcement that had caught everyone off guard, including, apparently, Julian's own long-term girlfriend gave Amelia and Damian their first real reason to be back in the social circuit since Victor's confession had upended everything."I didn't even know things were that serious with Priya," Damian admitted, adjusting his cufflinks in the mirror as they prepared for the evening. "Julian's kept that surprisingly private, for a man who usually can't keep anything to himself.""Maybe some things are worth protecting from the spotlight," Amelia said, watching him in the mirror's reflection, something warm passing between them at the observation. "I understand that instinct a little better these days."The party itself was smaller and warmer than the galas Amelia had grown accustomed to, held in a private event space Julian had rented specifically because, as he put it, "if I have to get married someday, I at least want the engagement
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