Share

Chapter 92

Author: TINATHEWRITER
last update publish date: 2026-10-12 19:32:16

AURIELLE

"We don't play it," he said, standing over the laptop in his study with his sleeves rolled to the elbow. "If we let that video go public, Caleb wins the news cycle. If we hold it, we own the cycle."

"Hold it how?" I asked. I was curled in the leather armchair with a cold coffee, running on nothing but spite. "He sent us a threat with a deadline. If we ignore it, he leaks it anyway."

"He leaks a video he can't prove he didn't steal." Dominic tapped the evidence bag on his desk. "Look a
Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App
Locked Chapter
Comments (1)
goodnovel comment avatar
Leeskittle
Wow! That is messed up!
VIEW ALL COMMENTS

Latest chapter

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 127

    AURIELLE Dominic wanted to storm the director's house that same night. I talked him out of it with a glass of water, a hand on his chest, and the argument that a man who has kept a secret for years does not surrender it to an ambush."Neutral directors are neutral because they have learned when to keep quiet," I told him. "If we corner him, he shuts down and calls his lawyer. If we give him room, he might finally decide he is tired of carrying whatever he is carrying.""And you want to be the one to give him that room.""He has never seen me as a Frost. He will not brace for me the way he would brace for you."Dominic held my gaze, jaw working, then nodded once. "Call him."I called the next morning, my voice warm and unhurried, framing it as a courtesy visit about the board's continuity after the resignation. The director agreed to meet at his home that afternoon, alone, no assistants. I took that as a sign.His house was quiet, all dark wood and old books, and he received me in a s

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 126

    AURIELLEDominic read the resignation notice a third time, then set the phone face down on the table with a precision that told me exactly how close he was to throwing it."Personal reasons," he repeated. "Nobody resigns a seat they have held for years at six forty in the morning over personal reasons. Somebody got to them.""Then we find out who, and we do it before the other directors read that notice the way we did." I was already twisting my hair into a knot and hunting for my shoes. "Panic spreads faster than any rumor, Dom. If they think we are losing, they will quietly decide to be somewhere else when the vote happens."He was on his feet before I finished, shrugging into a jacket he had not bothered to button. "Who do we see first?""Whoever is closest to wavering. Whoever we cannot afford to lose."We spent the morning in the back of his car, moving from address to address, and I learned that holding a coalition together is mostly the art of looking calm while your stomach do

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 125

    AURIELLE Neither of us slept. Near three in the morning, Dominic gave up pretending the sofa was for resting and sat on the floor with his back against it, the affidavit draft balanced on his knee and his mother's signature page beside him on the rug. "Tripwire," he muttered for the fourth time. "She wired the whole thing to go off the moment someone opened it." "Not someone." I slid down beside him, shoulder to shoulder, and pulled a blanket over both our legs. "A trustee who did something criminal. If Elias has nothing to hide, that clause is just a sentence in small print. If he does, it is the end of his legal cover." "Which explains why he buried it." Dominic let his head fall back against the cushion. "He did not just hide an archive. He hid the one thing that could make every protection he has ever relied on evaporate." I turned that over, and the risk calculation I had been running for days quietly rewrote itself. Opening the archives had been a way to get answers about D

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 124

    AURIELLE A narrow path is still a path, but this one ran straight through a minefield of egos, and we had to cross it without making a sound.Dominic spent that afternoon hunched over a legal pad, listing every independent director on the Frost board in his sharp, slanted handwriting. By evening the list had been cut down, crossed out, and rebuilt twice."We cannot send a group email," he muttered, tapping the pad with his pen. "The second Elias hears the words removal petition, he buries the board in motions and calls it good governance.""Agreed. So we go one at a time." I tucked my highlighter behind my ear and pulled the list toward me. "Quiet, personal, deniable. Nobody gets pressured. We ask one careful question and watch what their faces do.""Their faces?""Everyone has a tell, Dom. Directors who trust Elias will defend him before we finish the sentence. The ones who don't will go silent and start asking questions of their own." I circled four names. "Start with these."He st

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 123

    AURIELLE The dual-presence rule hit the study so hard that even the printer seemed to hold its breath."Read that again," Dominic asked, though he had heard every word.I read it a second time, slower. Only the master signatory of A. Holdings may open Box Seven, and only in the physical presence of a sitting Frost trustee."Which, as of this morning, is Elias," the senior attorney muttered, pressing her fingers to her temples."Of course it is." Dominic's laugh had no humor left in it. "My mother locks her truth behind a door, and the only person who can hold it open is the man who spent years pretending the door never existed."I wanted to say something clever. Nothing came. I watched him cross to the window with his shoulders squared, the same posture he wore in boardrooms, and I recognized it for what it was: armor over a bruise.The legal team cleared out by nine to draft a strategy outline, promising it by noon. Dominic ordered breakfast that nobody touched. I kicked off my heel

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 122

    AURIELLE Dominic did not shout. I almost wished he would. Shouting would have given the fury somewhere to go. Instead he carried it in his shoulders as he gathered the board binders into one stack, squared the edges, and set them down with a gentleness that frightened me more than any slammed door."My father signed it too," he told the room, his voice flat. "His name is right beside hers. He watched her build the safeguard, and then he spent years helping Elias bury it.""We do not know that yet," I offered carefully."Aurielle." He turned, and the exhaustion in his face was older than one night. "A man who approves a clause on Tuesday does not forget it by Friday. Someone pulled it out of three separate indexes. That takes access, patience, and a trustee's authority. Elias had the first two. My father handed him the third."I crossed the study and stopped close enough to feel the heat coming off him. "Then we find out exactly when it happened. Elias's early years as trustee are the

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 1

    AURIELLE I knew something was wrong the moment I saw her. “Good morning ma’am,” she greeted me as I made my way to my old office. Now, Victor’s office. I watched a female employee scurrying away from Victor’s office, dressed in a pencil skirt that barely skimmed her thighs. Her eyes flicked tow

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 5

    AURIELLE Of all the people, of all the streets, of all the cars in this entire city, it had to be this one? Like a total idiot, I gawked at the person standing in front of me, the guy from the website. My face was so hot that I was surprised it didn't set off a fire alarm. "I'm not dealing

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 4

    AURIELLE My scream woke the stranger up. He jolted upright and rolled away, falling to a messy heap on the other side of the bed. Instantly, he sat up and his head began to move every which way, as if expecting some kind of threat. When his eyes stopped on me, he relaxed. "Morning, princess." he

  • His Chubby Wife For Ninety-Nine Days   Chapter 3

    AURIELLE All of my self restraints leaped out of my head and straight through the open windows.This man kissed me like a drowning man, and I could tell that he wasn't holding back. My hands found his shirt and his hands found my waist, pulling me in with a certainty that made my knees genuinely u

More Chapters
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status