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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
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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 THIRTY-FIVE
SELENE’S POVI was still at my desk when the message arrived in the evening. I had been reviewing the Tokyo partnership terms, making margin notes in the shorthand Clara had learned to decode, when my personal phone lit up beside the acquisition file.The number was known to fewer than eight people in the world.I looked at the screen and it was a message from ADRIAN LAURENT.I sat very still for a moment, then I picked up the phone and read it. We need to meet. The words were perfectly clear but I read them over and over again, till I noticed I’ve done that more than a healthy times. Adrian Laurent did not send imprecise messages. Every word in that sentence had been chosen and placed deliberately, which meant every word carried exactly the weight he intended it to carry.Not as business but he was telling me he knew enough to step outside the professional frame that had contained every interaction between us since the gala. Enough to reach past Selene Arden the billionaire and ad
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY
SELENE’s POVI almost missed her.It was the kind of almost that lived in the margin between a glance and a look — the difference between eyes passing over something and eyes landing on it. I had been walking toward the private entrance of Arden Tower after a lunch meeting that had run twenty minut
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
AVA’s POVI had never been an artist. I was someone who seek consolation in a creative gift that loss unlocked. I had no training, no natural inclination, or history whatsoever in sketchbooks or art classes. Before Serena died, the most artistic thing I had ever done was arrange a cheese board.Th
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
SELENE’s POV The Meridian Art Fair happened once a year in the old gallery district, the kind of event that existed at the intersection of genuine culture and performative wealth. Artists whose work would sell for obscene amounts stood beside collectors who bought paintings the way other people bo
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
ADRIAN’S POVThe name appeared in my security team’s report at six forty-three in the morning.I was already at my desk by then, which had become usual lately. Sleep had grown difficult in the weeks since the Hargrove Summit. Though, I wasn’t lying awake staring at ceilings. It was more that I kep
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