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Chapter 36: EIGHT FACES
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My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 41. THE LETTER I NEVER SENT
ELARAI sat in the car in the drive and read Silas's letter twice before I went inside.It was short, the way everything he gave me was short, and it answered a question I had written but not yet sent, which meant one of two things.Either he had anticipated exactly what I would ask, because he knew me that well, or someone had told him what was in a letter still sealed on my bedside table.I made myself read the words rather than the mystery around them.Elara. By now you have found the device in your home. I know you have, because I know how that family works, and I know they would have placed one the moment you became a threat. You are wondering if I placed it. I did not. But I am not going to ask you to believe me, because belief is not something a person can be argued into, and you have been lied to by enough people to know that.Instead I am going to tell you how to find out for yourself. The devices that family uses are made by one supplier. Each one carries a serial mark, sma
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 40. THE LETTER I NEVER SENT
ELARAI sat in the car in the drive and read Silas's letter twice before I went inside.It was short, the way everything he gave me was short, and it answered a question I had written but not yet sent, which meant one of two things.Either he had anticipated exactly what I would ask, because he knew me that well, or someone had told him what was in a letter still sealed on my bedside table.I made myself read the words rather than the mystery around them.Elara. By now you have found the device in your home. I know you have, because I know how that family works, and I know they would have placed one the moment you became a threat. You are wondering if I placed it. I did not. But I am not going to ask you to believe me, because belief is not something a person can be argued into, and you have been lied to by enough people to know that.Instead I am going to tell you how to find out for yourself. The devices that family uses are made by one supplier. Each one carries a serial mark, sm
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 39. THE BUG WE KEPT
ELARAMy first instinct was to destroy the device.My second instinct, the one I had learned from watching Victoria, was better."We do not remove it," I said, closing my hand around it gently and setting it back exactly where we found it.Julian looked at me. "You want to leave it there.""She does not know we found it," I replied. "That is the only advantage we have left, and it is a large one. The moment we destroy it, she knows we know, and she goes quiet, and we lose the one channel where we can put information directly into her ear."Understanding moved across Julian's face. "You want to feed it," he said."She listened to us build a trap," I said. "Now we build a different one, out loud, at this table, knowing she is listening. Everything we say here from now on is a message to Victoria. We just have to make certain she never realises it is a message."It was a cold and patient kind of move, and I saw Julian recognise it as his mother's kind, and I saw him decide not to say so.
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 38. WHO IS WATCHING
ELARAI called Greer before I called anyone else.She answered on the second ring and I could hear the fear in the single word she used to greet me."Listen carefully," I said. "Victoria knows we met. I do not know how, but she does. You may be in danger. Where are you right now.""I am home," she said. "I came straight home. Elara, how could she know. No one followed me, I checked, I always check.""I believe you," I replied. "Which is exactly the problem. If no one followed you, then the leak is not at the garden. It is somewhere closer."I told her to lock her doors and to call me if anything felt wrong and to trust no one from the company until I told her otherwise.Then I sat in my car outside the church and thought about how Victoria had known.I had told Lydia about the meeting. I had told Julian. I had spoken to Greer directly, and Greer swore she had not been followed.Four people knew about that meeting. Greer, Lydia, Julian, and me.I did not believe Greer had told Victoria
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 37: THE QUIET ONE
ELARAGreer chose a small church garden on the east side of the city, which told me something before she said a word.It was a place with no connection to money or business, the kind of place a frightened person chooses when they have run out of safe rooms.She was already there when I arrived, sitting on a stone bench with her hands folded, smaller than I remembered from the meeting."Thank you for coming," she said. "And for not telling your father.""You asked me not to," I replied. "I would like to know why."She looked at me for a long moment, and I read her the way I read everyone now, watching for the thing that did not fit."Because your father trusts me," she said. "And what I have to tell you would break that trust if it came out the wrong way."I sat down beside her and waited."Forty years ago I worked for your father when Hale Tech was new," she said. "I loved that company. I loved what he built. And when Victoria took it, I lost my place along with everyone else, and I s
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis Chapter 36: EIGHT FACES
ELARAI started with a list of the eight names that same night.Lydia came to the house, and Julian made coffee none of us drank, and we sat at the table with the eight shareholders written out in front of us."One of them met with Victoria, or took her money, or owed her something," Lydia said. "People do not betray for no reason. Find the reason and you find the person.""Tell me about all eight," I said. "Everything you have."Lydia had done her work. She always had."Harlan Voss first," she said. "No relation to me, before you ask. He speaks for the cautious shareholders. Old money, careful, the kind of man who fears loss more than he wants gain.""A man who fears loss is a man who can be frightened into selling," I said. "Note him.""Second, Priya Anand," Lydia continued. "Engineer. She holds her shares because she helped rebuild the company's systems and your father gave her equity instead of a salary she could not be paid yet. She has the least money of the eight and the most l
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 13. THE WOMAN WHO KEPT EVERYTHING
ELARA I called Helena Marsh the next morning before Julian could fill my day with arrangements. She answered on the second ring as though she had been waiting for the call since she pressed the card into my hand. “I wondered how long you would take,” she said. “Not long,” I replied. “You sai
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 12. CONFESSION
ELARAThe name hung in the air between us and I made myself breathe normally.Mara Voss. Julian had said it quietly and without preparation and the sound of it in his voice told me he had been carrying it for a long time.“Who is Mara Voss,” I asked, even though I already knew.Julian looked at me
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 11. HER NAME IN HIS MOUTH
ELARA Julian’s expression changed the moment he looked at his phone screen. The unguarded version disappeared and the composed version returned so quickly that I almost missed the transition. “I have to take this,” he said. I nodded and stepped back and gave him the lobby. I stood near the
My Billionaire Ex- Husband’s Nemesis 10. THE LETTER IN THE DRAWER
ELARAThe building smelled like old wood and cold air and something else underneath both of those things.Something that felt like history that had not finished happening yet.Julian held the door open and I walked inside and looked around slowly, taking everything in the way I always took in rooms
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