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One hundred and thirty nine

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Marielle woke the next morning with Grayson’s question still sitting exactly where he had left it, although the man responsible was already downstairs pretending that preparing breakfast required enough concentration to excuse him from looking at her. She stood in the kitchen doorway for several seconds and watched him cut strawberries beside Theo, who had apparently been assigned responsibility for pancakes and was producing shapes that bore very little resemblance to circles.

Grayson noticed
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  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and fifty one

    Three months after their second wedding, Grayson Cole discovered that becoming the chief executive of a reformed multinational company was considerably easier than persuading his son to wear matching socks to school. The argument had begun at seven fifteen on a Tuesday morning, when Theo appeared at breakfast wearing one blue sock and one green sock, then informed his father that matching clothes were an unnecessary adult obsession that contributed nothing to academic performance.Marielle sat at the kitchen island reviewing a school permission slip, making absolutely no attempt to support her husband despite the fact that Theo had been given six pairs of identical school socks specifically to prevent this kind of discussion.“Your school has a uniform policy,” Grayson explained while checking his watch, although his son appeared entirely unconcerned that an important executive meeting would begin in less than an hour.“The policy says I have to wear socks, and I am wearing two of the

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and fifty

    Marielle discovered that getting married to the same man twice did nothing to make the second wedding less nerve-racking, especially when the groom had spent the previous evening guarding a mysterious piece of paper as though it contained the combination to a bank vault. By eight that morning, she had already checked her phone four times, refused breakfast twice and threatened to confiscate Theo's wedding folder after he appeared in her bedroom demanding to know whether brides were allowed to change their minds about cake decorations on the actual wedding day.“You cannot change the cake now because the lady already finished making it, and Dad said we have to stop giving her new instructions,” Theo explained while standing in the doorway wearing his trousers, white shirt and one sock. His other sock had disappeared somewhere between breakfast and the staircase, although he seemed considerably less concerned about that than the possibility of somebody interfering with his carefully neg

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and forty nine

    Marielle tried twice to reach for the folded page before accepting that Grayson had no intention of letting her see whatever he had changed in their old agreement, although his decision to hold the paper above her head during her second attempt almost started an argument serious enough to threaten the peaceful evening they were supposed to be having before their wedding.“You understand that keeping documents away from me has a terrible history in your family,” she said as she folded her arms.Grayson immediately lowered the paper. “That comparison is deeply unfair considering this document contains no financial crime, altered evidence or attempt to destroy your father’s reputation.”“You are still withholding information.”“For approximately fourteen hours, after which I intend to read it to you in front of witnesses.”Marielle narrowed her eyes. “You counted the hours.”“I have been informed repeatedly that tomorrow has a schedule.”“The schedule I prepared because you contributed a

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and forty eight

    Three weeks before the wedding, Grayson discovered that paying for an event did not give him any meaningful authority over it, because Theo and Marielle had developed a system in which his financial approval was welcome while his opinions were apparently subject to committee review.The discovery occurred on a Saturday morning when he entered the dining room and found fabric samples covering half the table, photographs of flowers occupying the other half and Theo sitting between two open notebooks with the serious expression of someone managing a project considerably more complicated than second-grade mathematics. Marielle was speaking to the island property manager on her phone while marking items on a printed list, and neither of them acknowledged Grayson until he moved a stack of invitation samples away from his usual chair.Theo immediately looked up. “You cannot move those because Mommy arranged them from best to worst.”Grayson returned the samples to their original position. “I

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and forty seven

    Julian’s attorney arrived at the Cole house shortly after nine the following morning, although Grayson had already read enough of the proposed resolution to understand that his brother would not walk away simply because he had eventually decided to cooperate. The prosecutors had taken Julian’s voluntary return, full statement, surrender of records and assistance separating the original Cole fraud from Marcus Reed’s later manipulation into account, but none of those things erased the records he had removed, the evidence he had destroyed or the confidential company information he had deliberately passed to Marcus.Marielle sat across from Grayson at the breakfast table while he read the attorney’s message again, and neither of them pretended the outcome was unexpected. Julian had known consequences were coming when he gave his formal confession, and he had specifically refused to make cooperation conditional on escaping them, yet knowing that in principle was different from seeing the t

  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and forty six

    Marielle read the restitution framework twice before she reached the section that contained the proposed public correction, and by the second reading she had stopped noticing the numbers attached to compensation because the words beside her father’s name mattered more. Alfred Cassian had spent years being described inside Cole Maritime as the employee whose conduct had triggered financial losses and internal disciplinary action, while the company now proposed replacing that record with one stating that he had identified suspicious transactions, requested an internal investigation and suffered retaliation after threatening to report the matter externally.Grayson sat beside her on the sofa without interrupting, although he had already read the draft earlier that afternoon and marked several passages for revision. He knew Marielle needed to encounter the document as Alfred’s daughter rather than as someone receiving another explanation from the chief executive of the company that had de

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