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REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
ADRIAN'S POVI received her response four days after I sent the message. It was a single line text sent to the same personal number I had used. The message came on my phone at exactly six forty-one in the morning, I was already at my desk and the city outside was still deciding whether to be day or night.Ten in the morning on Sunday. Crestfield Lane, the third building from the eastern end. The door would be unlocked.I read it just once and dropped my phone.She hadn't asked for confirmation, she had given an address and a time with the confidence of someone who didn't expect to be questioned about either.I picked up my phone again and looked up Crestfield Lane online.It was a narrow street in the older residential quarter of the city, just twelve minutes ride from Laurent Group headquarters, the kind of street that existed in every old city. The buildings along it carrying the particular dignity of structures that had survived long enough to stop needing to prove itself. The thi
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY
SELENE’s POVI went to Leonard's residence at the end of the day, when the light outside had gone grey-gold of the early evening. His housekeeper had already set the table for one, which she adjusted without comment the moment I arrived.I found Leonard in the study, a glass of whiskey sat on the side table beside him, reading with focused attention on a tablet. He looked up when I entered and set the tablet down."You don't usually come at this hour.""I have something to tell you." I said as I took the chair across him he gestured toward me. "Adrian Laurent contacted me three nights ago," I said. "And we met privately."Leonard's hands resting against the arm of his chair, stayed still. His face held its usual composure, the particular stillness that had upset boardrooms and intimidated governments for decades.I had spent the last four years studying that stillness the way a student studied a difficult language, and I caught the precise half-second delay before he responded."Wher
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
ADRIAN’s POVWords moved faster inside Laurent Group. By the time I walked into the boardroom, every seat at the long table was already filled, and the quality of silence that greeted me told me the conversation waiting for me was not going to be comfortable.I sat at the head of the table and let the silence stretch for a moment before anyone spoke.Rowan Wren, the longest-serving board member and the closest person Laurent Group had to an institutional conscience, broke it first."Adrian." He folded his hands on the table in front of him. "We need to understand the Calloway intervention.""I filed a competing interest claim," I said. "And that triggered an automatic suspension of Meridian Capital's acquisition.""We're aware of the mechanics," Wren said. "We need to understand the reasons behind your move."Of course, I had an explanation prepared for this kind of question, layered carefully enough to hold up under scrutiny without revealing the actual motivation underneath it. "Ca
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
SELENE'S POVThe Meridian Capital report got to my desk at eight-forty in the morning. Clara had reported it urgent with a single line of annotation beneath the subject heading.You need to read this before the nine o'clock.Meridian Capital was a mid-tier investment firm with a quiet but consistent presence in the city's financial architecture. Not powerful enough to command attention at the level Arden Corporation operated, but embedded deeply enough in the supply structures beneath the elite market that its movements mattered when they occurred. It had been unimportant to my plans. Not a target, but definitely not an ally. Three days ago, Meridian Capital had begun acquiring a controlling interest in Calloway Data Solutions.Calloway Data Solutions was not a company most people had reason to know. It processed encrypted financial communications for private corporations operating across multiple jurisdictions. Unremarkable on its surface but buried inside its client list. It is ma
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
ADRIAN’S POVThe way she said my name sounds so familiar. Like she had known me for years, slow and unmistakable, like a door swinging open into a room.I had heard that exact cadence before. But the way the syllables fell. The particular rhythm of my own name in someone else’s mouth.I looked at Selene Arden across the firelight and for the first time, let myself look properly beyond the face. But it gave me nothing, and I understood now with sudden clarity that the face was never going to. But at everything underneath the face, the exact angle she held her shoulders. The way her hands stayed perfectly steady when everything else in the room felt unsteady. “Serena used to fold her hands exactly like that,” I said quietly, “when she was holding something back.”Selene’s hands did not move but something in her breathing changed almost unnoticed. The kind of change you only caught if you had spent years learning to read someone closely enough that their stillness had its own vocabular
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
ADRIAN’S POVI chose the house on Hollow Pine Road because it belonged to no one anymore, though, it had been my grandfather’s once before the Laurent empire now. Back when the family still measured its worth in land rather than markets.Nobody used it, my mother found it too rustic for entertaining and Damien had never expressed interest in anything that didn’t come with a view of the financial district. The house is located at the edge of the city where the buildings thinned into trees. It is a single-story stone house with a wraparound porch and a fireplace that still worked even while not in use for years. I told my driver to wait at the gate while I walked in first and lit the fire myself. It felt strange after years of staffs doing it, my hands remembering the motion more easily than I expected. The flames caught slowly as I stood in front of them for a while without thinking about anything in specific.At exactly seven in the evening, headlights moved along the gravel drive.
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER TWENTY
SELENE’s POVI barely slept…by six in the morning I had already showered, and was sitting at the study desk with the suppressed report spread open in front of me again. There was something about returning to evidence in early morning light that stripped away the noise and left only the parts that m
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER NINETEEN
SELENE’s POVOne page…That was all it contained. I stood at the dining counter with the folder open in my hands, the city lights glowing distantly behind me through the balcony glass. My wine sat forgotten on the counter beside me, untouched.The document looked official at first glance. A scanned
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
SELENE’s POVI stared at the silver bracelet inside the black box one more time. The tiny moon charm rested against the velvet lining.Ava gave me that bracelet on my twenty-fourth birthday and I remembered vividly that I wore it the night my car went over the bridge. And now it was sitting on my o
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
ADRIAN’s POVMy eyes stayed fixed on the monitor. The silver bracelet shifted slightly against the stranger’s wrist as the person pushed open the archive door and disappeared inside.Damien stepped closer to the screen. “Pause it.” The footage froze immediately.It was a small silver chain with a m
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