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Chapter 6: A trip down Memory lane
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2025-11-04 19:32:58
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Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 40: A Familiar Name Resurfaces
Julien's POVI overheard it by accident, the way most important things seem to reach me lately, standing near the coffee station outside a conference room while two board members waited for a meeting to start."—quietly picking up shares in Meridian Logistics," one of them was saying, a man named Foster who'd joined the board after the restructuring. "Small increments, nothing that trips regulatory thresholds, but consistent. Someone's been at it for months.""Meridian's one of Hartford's key subsidiaries," the other replied. "Who's behind it?""Shell entity. It calls itself Ashcombe Partners. No public leadership listed, just a registered agent and a Delaware address." Foster shrugged. "Probably nothing. Funds do this kind of quiet accumulation all the time."I didn't think much of it at the moment, not until later that evening, sitting alone at my desk, the conversation replaying itself with a persistence that eventually made me open my laptop instead of ignoring it.Meridian Logist
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 39: The Calm Before
Isabella's POVSix months after Margaret fled the country, Hartford Enterprises posted its strongest quarter in company history.I sat in my office reviewing the final numbers on a quiet Tuesday morning, no emergency calls waiting, no scandal brewing somewhere just out of sight. Profits had climbed steadily since the merger fully stabilized. Public trust, badly shaken during the smear campaign months earlier, had returned in full, reinforced by David's careful interview and the undeniable weight of the recording that finally exposed Margaret's schemes. The remaining pieces of Hamilton Group, small now, restructured entirely under Hartford's leadership, operated smoothly, without the constant undercurrent of sabotage I'd grown used to expecting around every corner.For the first time in longer than I could easily remember, my days felt ordinary.I had dinner with my brothers most Sundays now, a habit none of us had discussed formally, just something that settled naturally into place on
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 38: What's Left When She's Gone
Isabella's POVMargaret left the country on a Thursday, according to the news, a private flight out before dawn, no comment given to the reporters who'd been camped outside the estate for nearly a week. By Friday morning, the story had shifted entirely. It wasn't about Margaret anymore. It was about Julien, the last Hamilton standing, the only name left for reporters to attach to whatever came next.I watched it happen from a careful distance, the way I watched most things involving him now, telling myself it wasn't my responsibility to manage his exposure, that whatever scrutiny landed on him now was simply the consequence of the name he still carried. But some part of me couldn't quite look away either.He didn't hide. That surprised me more than anything else. Reporters ambushed him outside Hartford Tower twice that week, shouting questions about his mother's whereabouts, about whether he'd known the full scope of her schemes, about whether the Hamilton name could survive this at a
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 37: The Recording Airs
Julien's POVBy morning, it was everywhere.Every business channel ran the story on a loop, the recording playing in fragments between commentary from analysts who'd spent decades treating the Hamilton name as a symbol of stability and legacy. Gossip outlets picked it up within hours, running headlines that stripped away any pretense of nuance. *Hamilton Matriarch Orchestrated Fake Pregnancy to Force Marriage Alliance.* *The Hamilton Empire: Built on Manipulation for Generations.*I watched it unfold from my apartment, unable to look away, the way you can't look away from something you know is going to hurt regardless of whether you keep watching.By noon, reporters had camped outside the Hamilton estate, cameras aimed at the gates, waiting for any glimpse of my mother leaving or arriving. By early afternoon, three former board allies had issued public statements distancing themselves from her entirely, one going so far as to call her actions "a profound betrayal of everything the Ham
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 36: Unraveling
Isabella's POVCreed came to my office late on a Tuesday, his expression carrying a weight I'd learned to recognize over these past several months, the particular stillness he wore whenever he'd found something significant enough to change everything."We found a recording," he said, setting a laptop on my desk without a preamble. "My investigator located it through an old storage server Victoria used years ago, one she apparently forgot still existed. It's a conversation between her and Margaret. From eight years ago.""About the pregnancy scheme.""About the pregnancy scheme," he confirmed. "Explicitly. There's no ambiguity in what you're about to hear."He pressed play before I could brace myself fully.Margaret's voice filled the room, colder than I remembered it even from our worst confrontations, precise in a way that made my skin crawl. *You'll need to fake the fatigue convincingly. Nausea, especially in the mornings, where people will notice. I've already arranged the doctor.
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 35: The Threat Victoria Makes
Julien's POVI found her at a small bar downtown, the kind of place she never would have chosen back when my mother's money still kept her comfortable. Victoria looked different than I remembered from that night in our foyer years ago, thinner, harder around the eyes, like the years since had worn away whatever polish used to make her seem untouchable."Julien." She didn't look surprised to see me. "I wondered how long it would take you to come find me.""I need to understand what's happening," I said, sitting across from her without waiting for an invitation. "Someone sent me a tip. Said you were making threats, that you're owed something. I want to know what."She studied me for a long moment, swirling the drink in front of her, deciding something. "Your mother didn't tell you.""My mother doesn't tell me anything unless she needs something from me first."Victoria laughed, short and bitter. "That sounds about right." She took a slow sip of her drink before continuing. "Eight years
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 3: How did you get this?
Isabella sat in the backseat, her luggage beside her, staring at her reflection on the glass as the city outside blurred past the tinted windows. The driver barely spoke, only glanced at her through the rearview mirror when he stopped in front of the hotel entrance — a towering structure of glas
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 2: You'll Regret This
The echo of Isabella's heels followed her up the staircase like a pulse, steady, deliberate and unyielding. She didn’t stop until she reached their bedroom, the same one that had once felt like a sanctuary but now stood as a mausoleum for everything she had lost. The morning light filtered thro
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 1: The Night Everything Broke
The sound of laughter didn’t belong in this house anymore. Not the kind that rang through the marble halls like music, but the sharp, intimate kind — a man’s low chuckle, a woman’s light giggle — drifting from the foyer. Isabella froze halfway down the staircase, her hand tightening on the poli
Rejected, Now He Craves For Me Chapter 10: The Reckoning
Isabella's POV The Rolls hadn’t even come to a full stop before Genny was out of the car, heels clicking like gunfire on the gravel. I followed, legs numb, heart hammering so hard I could taste it. She didn’t head for the drawing room. She marched straight to the library, flung the double door
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