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Chapter 16
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My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 40
Olivia POVThe federal investigation into Webb Industries moved faster than anyone expected, Vanessa's documentation proving airtight enough to trigger raids on Webb's offices within a week, his own board scrambling to distance the company from him entirely once the scope of the conspiracy became public. Roman spent those weeks buried in calls with his own board, his legal team, and a growing chorus of business journalists suddenly very interested in a story that had, somehow, evolved from a custody battle into one of the largest corporate fraud scandals the city had seen in years.Through all of it, Ethan remained our steady center, oblivious to the financial complexities swirling around him, content instead with ordinary things — a new set of colored pencils Mrs. Doyle had picked up, a particularly stubborn puzzle he refused to let either of us help with, the gradual, warm rhythm of an ordinary life slowly, finally settling into place around him.I found myself, more and more often,
My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 39
Olivia POVThe prosecutor's office arranged the meeting for two days later, a small conference room downtown, Priya seated beside us, Vanessa's own defense attorney across the table looking considerably less confident than he had during the custody hearing months earlier.I hadn't wanted to come, if I was honest with myself. Some part of me would have been perfectly content never seeing Vanessa's face again for the rest of my life. But Priya had been firm — my presence, as the person Vanessa's actions had most directly harmed, carried weight in a room like this, and Roman had squeezed my hand in the car and told me I didn't have to say a single word if I didn't want to, that simply being there was enough.Vanessa herself looked different, stripped of the polished, camera-ready presentation she'd always maintained before. Plain clothes, hair pulled back simply, no makeup to soften the exhaustion visible in every line of her face. For the first time since she'd walked back into our live
My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 38
Olivia POV"Her lawyer," I repeated, sitting up straight, the warm, lazy contentment of a moment ago evaporating instantly. "Why would her lawyer be here? She's in custody.""That's what I'd like to know." Roman was already dialing Adrian back, his voice sharp with the particular wariness that had become second nature to both of us over the past weeks. "Put him on."A moment later, a man's voice came through the speaker, clipped and professional. "Mr. Callahan, my apologies for the late hour. My name is Gerald Finch. I represent Ms. Sinclair in her ongoing legal matters. I have documentation I need to deliver personally, given the sensitivity involved.""You could have sent it through my attorney," Roman said, flat."Ordinarily, yes. This particular matter requested direct delivery, per my client's specific instructions." A pause, and something in the man's tone shifted, careful in a way that made the hair on my arms stand up. "It concerns Ethan."Roman's whole body went rigid. "What
My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 37
Olivia POVWe stayed at the lake house for four full days, and by the time we finally packed the car to head back, I'd nearly forgotten what it felt like to check the news the moment I woke up,The habit crept back the second we crossed back within range of decent cell service, my phone buzzing with two days' worth of accumulated notifications the moment it found a signal, and I felt the familiar knot of anxiety tighten in my stomach even before I looked at the screen.Most of it was noise — follow-up coverage on the Webb Industries scandal, a few messages from Anaya wanting details, one from my mother asking, with the particular gentle persistence only mothers seem to manage, whether I was finally going to tell her the whole story instead of the carefully edited version I'd been feeding her over the phone.I stared at her message for a long moment, guilt creeping in around the edges of the peace I'd just spent four days building. She'd been fighting her own battle this whole time, an
My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 36
Olivias' POVI said yes to the lake house three days later, standing in the kitchen with flour on my hands from an attempt at baking that Mrs. Doyle had generously described as "ambitious," when Roman appeared in the doorway with that same photo pulled up on his phone again, watching me with a patience that told me he'd been waiting for this moment without any real pressure attached to it."Yes," I said, before he'd even asked the question a second time. "Yes, I want to see it. All of us. Together."His whole face transformed, and for a second I saw exactly what he must have looked like as a much younger man, before Vanessa, before Ethan, before eight months of silence and grief had carved themselves into the guarded lines of his expression. Something lighter. Something almost boyish."This weekend," he said. "I'll clear everything. No calls, no press, no lawyers. Just us.""You say that like it's simple," I said, laughing. "You haven't gone more than six hours without your phone buzz
My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 35
Olivia POVIt took four more days for everything to fall into place — the digital trail connecting Foster to Webb Industries, Foster's own panicked, hasty confession once investigators showed up at his door with evidence in hand, and finally, the recorded call Ryan had preserved, verified and entered into evidence alongside everything else.The detective called Priya's office on a gray, rain-streaked Thursday afternoon, and I watched Priya's face transform through the course of the call, tension bleeding out of her shoulders with every passing second."They're dropping all consideration of charges against you," she said, the moment she hung up. "Effective immediately. And they're moving forward with charges against Vanessa. Reckless endangerment, conspiracy, tampering with evidence, and given the security breach, likely charges against Foster and potentially Webb Industries as a corporate entity as well."The relief that crashed through me was so total I had to sit down, my legs sudde
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