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Ninety

Author: Nyra Vale
last update publish date: 2026-09-10 17:17:33

Grayson knew which document Julian meant before he saw it. The memory came back in pieces, not because the transaction itself had mattered to him at the time, but because he remembered the year. His father had still been running Cole Maritime as though every office, ship and employee belonged to him personally, while Grayson had recently been given authority over part of the company's operations. Most days ended with stacks of paperwork on his desk, much of it prepared by departments he had b

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  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    Ninety three

    Marielle waited until Theo was asleep before opening the first letter. She had tried reading it earlier, but Theo had returned to the study looking for her, and one glance at his face had been enough to make her close the folder. He had already spent too many evenings watching adults disappear behind doors with worried expressions. Tonight, she sat beside him through his shower, listened while he read several pages of his shark book aloud and stayed until his breathing became steady. Hearing his voice, even quiet and uncertain, felt like something worth protecting. Only after she returned downstairs did she allow herself to think about the package waiting on Grayson's desk.The oldest correspondence was dated more than fifteen years earlier. Most of it was ordinary company material at first, the kind of language Marielle had learned to read carefully during the investigation because the important details often hid among routine approvals. Alfred's name appeared on payment reviews, acc

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    Ninety two

    By four that afternoon, Grayson had stopped calling Julian himself. His brother's phone had gone straight to voicemail for more than an hour, the company car assigned to him was still in the Cole Maritime garage, and nobody had seen the private vehicle he normally kept at his apartment since early that morning. Grayson could have involved the police, but there was no crime in an adult packing a suitcase and leaving home, and reporting Julian missing would create questions they were not ready to answer. Instead, the investigator checked airports, private terminals and the properties Julian was known to use while Grayson sat in his study with his phone beside him, waiting for information that never seemed to arrive quickly enough.Marielle collected Theo from school because Grayson could not risk leaving the house. Theo spoke twice during the drive home, once to tell her he had finished the book about sharks and again to ask whether Dad would be home for dinner. The improvement should h

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    Ninety one

    Marielle waited until Grayson left the study before she spoke to Julian again. He had gone upstairs to check on Theo, although she suspected he also needed five minutes in a room where his brother was not sitting across from him, explaining why years of lies had supposedly been necessary. Julian remained in the same chair after Grayson left, his elbows resting on his knees while he stared at the documents scattered across the desk. He looked exhausted rather than frightened, and Marielle found that harder to tolerate. He had known this night could come. Somewhere between discovering what their father had done and removing evidence from the archive, Julian must have imagined what would happen if Grayson ever learned the truth.Marielle closed the study door and returned to the desk. She did not raise her voice because anger had gone past the point where shouting would help. She thought about every time Julian had stood near her while Alfred's name came up, every meeting where

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    Ninety

    Grayson knew which document Julian meant before he saw it. The memory came back in pieces, not because the transaction itself had mattered to him at the time, but because he remembered the year. His father had still been running Cole Maritime as though every office, ship and employee belonged to him personally, while Grayson had recently been given authority over part of the company's operations. Most days ended with stacks of paperwork on his desk, much of it prepared by departments he had been taught to trust. He had signed contracts, approvals, insurance documents, financing notices and internal authorisations until his own name had become something he stopped noticing.Julian had a copy stored outside the company's current system.He did not explain where he had kept it. He opened an encrypted folder on his phone, found a scanned document and sent it to Grayson's computer. The file appeared seconds later. Marielle moved closer as Grayson opened it, and she knew the

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    Eighty nine

    Grayson did not respond immediately. He remained behind the desk with the security footage frozen on the laptop, while Julian sat opposite him and Marielle stayed near the sofa. A few minutes earlier, Grayson had wanted an explanation for missing records and leaked documents. Now his father's name had entered the room, and Marielle could see how much that changed things. Grayson had spent years separating himself from the man who raised him, but there were some wounds distance did not fix. Julian knew that better than anyone, which made Marielle wonder whether he had saved this part for last because it was the truth or because he knew it was the one thing capable of making Grayson listen. Julian began with the transactions connected to Alfred Cassian. They had not started with Alfred, he explained, and they had never truly belonged to him. Years earlier, Cole Maritime had been expanding faster than its finances could safely support. Several large contracts depended on the company ma

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    Eighty eight

    Julian arrived twenty-eight minutes after Grayson called him, and Marielle knew because Grayson had checked the time often enough for both of them. He had not called security, his lawyer or anyone from the board. The investigator had offered to stay, but Grayson sent him home after asking for copies of every file and the original footage. By the time Julian's car appeared beyond the front windows, the house had gone quiet. Theo was upstairs, and Marielle had promised to check on him before bed. She had offered to leave Grayson alone with his brother as well, but he had asked her to stay. That frightened her more than the anger she had expected from him.Julian walked into the study without knocking, dressed in the same clothes he had worn to the office earlier that day. His gaze went first to Grayson, then Marielle, before settling on the laptop positioned in the middle of the desk. He must have understood immediately that this was not another discussion about the audit. Stil

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