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Chapter Forty-Five: Penelope and the Properties
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My Billionaire Boss's Secret Heir Chapter Fifty-Five: Best Friend Don't Lie
Sophia's POVMini showed up at the penthouse a little after four, no warning beyond a single text — *I'm outside, let me up before I start yelling at your doorman* — and by the time I opened the door she was already mid-sentence, dragging a rolling suitcase behind her like she'd packed for a week instead of an afternoon visit."Don't even," she said, pushing past me into the entryway, dropping her bag with a thud. "I saw the headlines. I saw the airport photos. I saw you walking past reporters like a Bond villain, and I decided my best friend needed emergency in-person intervention, and also possibly wine.""I don't have wine.""Then we're getting some. But first—" She grabbed both my hands, turning me toward the light streaming through the windows, studying my face with the particular intensity only fifteen years of friendship could earn. "You look tired.""It's been a week.""It's been a *lot* of a week." She pulled me toward the couch, kicking off her shoes, settling in like she ow
My Billionaire Boss's Secret Heir Chapter Fifty-Four: Headlines
Sophia's POVNeither of us had said much since the night before.We packed in near silence — Ethan folding his shirts with the same brisk efficiency he brought to everything, me shoving my father's forgotten pajama bag into my suitcase alongside my own things, the two of us moving carefully around each other like strangers sharing a hotel room instead of a marriage. My cheek didn't hurt anymore. My pride hadn't fully recovered.On the plane, he opened his laptop almost immediately, and I watched his jaw tighten as headline after headline loaded across the screen, close enough that I caught fragments even from where I sat.*The Billionaire Who Married the Poor Girl.**Ethan Blackwell Gave Up His True Match to Marry a Nobody.**Inside the Rushed Wedding No One Saw Coming.*He closed the laptop hard enough that the sound cracked through the cabin, and neither of us said anything about it, the silence between us somehow louder than the headlines had been.By the time we landed, the airpor
My Billionaire Boss's Secret Heir Chapter Fifty Three
I only lasted about twenty minutes sitting on those stairs before the quiet started to rot.The two brown paper bags of Chinese food were still sitting on the landing where I’d dropped them, the cheap plastic handles folded flat, the smell of grease and soy sauce going cold and thick in the draft coming off the front door. My face was still stinging where she’d slapped me, or maybe where I’d slapped myself with what I’d said. I couldn't tell the difference anymore. I kept hearing my own voice echoing off the narrow stairwell—spitting those vile, ugly words at her, accusing her of things I knew weren't true just to make her feel as small as I felt. I felt sick down to the pit of my stomach.But every time I tried to convince myself to walk back in there and drop to my knees, the picture of that guy helping her out of the car flashed back behind my eyes like a strobe light.I kept seeing his fingers near her elbow. Not quite touching her, but close enough to show he felt he had the righ
My Billionaire Boss's Secret Heir Chapter Fifty-Two: Jealousy
Ethan's POVThe first alert came through during the board call.A transfer notification, small, easy to dismiss in the middle of a presentation about quarterly projections — a few thousand dollars moved out of one of the minor accounts, nothing that should have registered as more than routine. I didn't think much of it. Accounts moved money constantly; half of it was automated, the other half handled by people I trusted to flag anything unusual.A second alert came ten minutes later. Then a third.By the time the call ended, nearly forty thousand dollars had quietly drained out of an account I rarely checked, routed through channels vague enough that tracing it properly would take longer than I had patience for tonight. I made a note to have it looked into in the morning and told myself it wasn't urgent enough to chase down before dealing with everything else already stacked on my plate.It should have been the first thing on my mind.It wasn't.Sophia was.I got home a little after e
My Billionaire Boss's Secret Heir Chapter Fifty-One: Alone
Sophia's POVMy father's surgery had gone well.The relief of that single fact had carried me through most of the night before, sitting in a plastic hospital chair with Ethan's jacket draped over my shoulders while the surgeon explained recovery timelines in a voice too calm for how terrified I'd felt walking in. My mother had cried. I had too, quietly, in the hallway, until Ethan found me there and simply held me without asking a single question.By morning, my father was stable, resting, cracking weak jokes at the nurses that made my mother swat his arm and tell him to save his energy. It was, for the first time in days, something close to good news.Which was exactly why I wanted to leave the hospital for an hour and buy him something. New pajamas, since the hospital gown made him miserable. Something for my mother too, some small excuse to get out from under the fluorescent lights and the smell of antiseptic that had followed me around for two straight days."I'll go with you," Et
My Billionaire Boss's Secret Heir Chapter Fifty: At the Gate
Sophia's POVBy the time we reached the top of the hill, two of the security staff were already standing at the gate, flashlights raised, voices low and clipped as they spoke into their radios. Ethan didn't slow down as we approached."What do we have?""Man showed up on foot, sir. No car. Says he needs to speak with Mrs. Blackwell directly. Refused to give ID until we threatened to call it in."Mrs. Blackwell.My stomach turned over at the sound of it — not because it was new, but because whoever was standing on the other side of that gate had asked for me by that exact name, which meant they already knew things about tonight that almost no one should have known yet."Let me see him," Ethan said."Sir, given everything with your family right now, I'd recommend—""I said let me see him."The gate swung open, floodlights snapping on along the drive, and for a moment the figure standing just beyond the reach of the light was nothing more than a silhouette. Then he stepped forward, hands
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