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One hundred and twenty one

Author: Nyra Vale
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-10-13 13:11:31

By the time Grayson reached home, the recovered payment records had already been sent to his lawyers and the investigators handling the manipulated documents. He read the summary in the car before going inside, then read it again at the kitchen counter while Theo sat six feet away constructing a cardboard shark for a school project. The contrast made concentration difficult. One screen contained dates, shell entities and transfers connected to a man who had inserted himself into their custody f
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  • Nanny To The Billionaire's Secret Heir    One hundred and forty three

    Theo spread three sheets of paper across the coffee table with the confidence of someone who had already appointed himself head of the wedding committee and expected the adults present to respect his authority. Marielle sat beside Grayson on the sofa while their son placed two books over the corners of the largest sheet to keep it flat, then stepped back to reveal a drawing that required several seconds of careful study before either parent could understand what they were looking at.The picture showed three people standing beneath an enormous blue arch beside a building that Marielle eventually recognised as the island house, although Theo had added several decorations that had definitely not existed during their last visit. Something with teeth appeared above the arch, smaller versions of the same creature decorated both sides of the aisle, and a suspiciously large shape floated in the water behind them.Marielle leaned closer before pointing toward the creature above the arch. “Bef

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

    Marielle had always believed Grayson looked most uncomfortable when circumstances refused to obey him, but watching him remain on one knee while she deliberately withheld her answer revealed a level of vulnerability she had rarely been allowed to enjoy. His expression remained controlled enough that anyone who did not know him might have mistaken his patience for confidence, yet Marielle recognised the slight tension around his mouth and the way his fingers had tightened around the ring box while he waited for her to end what was rapidly becoming the longest minute of his life.“You do understand that people normally answer after a proposal,” Grayson said when her silence continued long enough to offend him personally.Marielle brushed another tear from her cheek and looked at the ring again. “I am considering the terms.”“There are no terms, which was a substantial part of the speech you have apparently decided to punish me for making.”“That makes the decision more complicated becau

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

    Grayson spent the following morning discovering that proposing to a woman who was already his wife created several problems traditional advice did not cover, especially when that woman lived in the same house, knew his schedule better than his assistant and had developed an irritating ability to recognise when he was hiding something. By breakfast, Marielle had already asked twice why he kept checking his phone, once why he had moved a meeting he usually refused to reschedule, and once whether his unusual patience with Theo’s decision to pour too much syrup over his pancakes meant he was distracted by something expensive.He denied everything with enough confidence to make Theo suspicious.“Dad is doing the face,” Theo announced while Marielle packed his lunch.Grayson looked across the table. “What face?”“The one when you know something and don't want to tell us yet, because you did it when you bought Mommy that bracelet and when you knew the judge said, 'I could come home.'"Mariel

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

    The lawyer looked from Grayson to Marielle and then down at the contract between them with the careful expression of a man who had learned never to assume that married couples understood the legal consequences of decisions they had already made emotionally. They were sitting in the smaller conference room at Grayson’s attorney’s office, where Marielle had expected a ten-minute appointment and discovered instead that ending a private marriage agreement required considerably more paperwork than beginning one had seemed to require.Grayson had brought the original contract exactly as promised, along with the signed copies his lawyer requested and enough identification to satisfy a process Marielle considered unnecessarily suspicious for two people who were voluntarily terminating an agreement they had voluntarily signed. She had spent most of the first fifteen minutes listening while the lawyer explained that terminating the private agreement would not dissolve their marriage, affect the

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

    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 her before Theo did, and the brief look that passed between them confirmed that he remembered every word from the previous night. He did not ask for her answer, which Marielle appreciated more than she expected, because anything important enough to change their marriage deserved better than being discussed while Theo argued that one badly shaped pancake looked exactly like a shark.“Mommy, tell Dad this is a shark,” Theo demanded as he lifted the pancake with a spatula and displayed a shape that

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

    For the next four days, neither Grayson nor Marielle mentioned the contract again, although its approaching termination date seemed to follow them through every ordinary part of their lives. The document remained inside Grayson’s locked desk rather than on the bedside table, yet Marielle thought about it while packing Theo’s lunch, while answering messages about her father’s restitution process, and even while listening to Grayson complain that somebody had moved the charger he had left in the living room. Nothing about their routine suggested a marriage preparing to end, which somehow made the unanswered question more difficult rather than less.Grayson behaved normally too, although Marielle had learned enough about him to recognize when normal behavior required effort. He attended governance meetings, reviewed the final terms surrounding his possible return to Cole Maritime and came home early enough to supervise Theo’s homework, but every so often she caught him watching her with

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