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Chapter 213 First Contact
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She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 258 St. Jude's
(Natasha)Brenda never calls me. Brenda emails. Brenda schedules.So when Brenda's name lights up my phone in the middle of the afternoon, I know it's bad before I answer."Chase collapsed in the board meeting."Her voice cracks."They've taken him to St. Jude's. They suspect it’s a cardiac episode."I don't remember the drive.I remember parking badly, and a security guard starting to say ma'am, you can't stop there, and me rushing past him like he didn’t exist.They can have the car towed, I don’t care.St. Jude's keeps the cardiac cases in a corridor the color of weak tea, and that's where I run out of forward motion.They won't let me in.He's being assessed. Please take a seat, ma'am. Someone will come and talk to you as soon as there’s news.I sit, fighting the urge to push past everyone and go to Chase’s bedside.James finds me there.I sent him a message, hoping he’d be able to use his doctor clout to give me answers they’d otherwise be withholding.He lowers himself into the
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 257 The Echo
(Chase)The board meeting has been going an hour and I've stopped hearing words.That's the first thing I notice.Someone's presenting numbers, mouth moving, and it won't resolve into meaning. It's just sound.I haven't slept right in weeks.The nights are all the same.When Lily isn’t with me I work past midnight, then lie in the dark running tomorrow on the ceiling, and get up again before dawn.It's been like this ever since the company was handed back to me.I had the best intentions about striking that work-life balance this time around, but I can’t help feeling I have something to prove.Mostly that I’m much better at this job than Mason.And mostly I want to prove that to Natasha.On top of that Lily's teeth is coming in.And I spend most nights tossing and turning, wondering if I’m using the right approach in trying to win my wife’s heart.Slow and careful.It’s the one thing I've made myself not rush, but what if that’s the wrong way to go about it and I lose her?Every night
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 256 Discovered
(Sonia)"Cut," Liam says, for the ninth time, in a voice he learned off YouTube."That was good. That was really good. Can you do it once more, but with your soul?""This is my soul, Liam. You're looking at it. Adjust your expectations.""Your soul's incredible. I just want more of it."We're shooting on a rooftop somebody's cousin technically owns, in LA heat that's turning two dozen croissants into a public health concern.Liam brought the croissants.Liam always brings croissants. It’s like a tic.There are four people on this crew, and he packed enough pastry for forty and a belief in his seven-minute short film that should be studied by scientists.He's in a denim jacket.It's ninety degrees.He's worn the wrong coat every day I've known him, and I've stopped expecting the sun to win that argument.The whole roof smells like hot tar and a mish-mash of fruity vapes.Apparently everyone in film school vapes and they all prefer different flavors.It’s giving me a headache."Why am I
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 255 The First to Know
(Natasha)I asked Julian weeks ago how sick his wife was.He handed me a magic trick instead of an answer.Said she was magnificent, changed the subject, the way he does when the truth is load-bearing.So tonight I’m circumventing him for his own good.Taylor may think he’s still in love with me. I know that’s not true.He’s going to lose the woman he really loves soon, and I want to be prepared so I can clear my schedule in time to be there for him.I invite Taylor to my place for a drink, because I want to see what she does when the audience is only me.She arrives with a bottle of something expensive and tells me my townhouse is aggressively tasteful.Which from her is a compliment and an insult holding hands.We have one drink.She's funny.She does an impression of Julian ordering wine that’s so accurate I have to set my glass down so I don’t choke to death on the contents of my glass.But I'm not just watching the show.I'm watching the spaces around it.And the spaces are wrong
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 254 The Big Chair
(Natasha)I say yes on a Tuesday.Which feels right, because the whole thing started on a Tuesday, and I'm nothing if not consistent."We're delighted," the recruiter says, in that voice that bills by the quarter-hour."Truly. The board will be thrilled.""I can only start in two months," I tell her. "I won’t leave Stein in the lurch. Mr. Stein will need time to find my replacement and there are projects I have to wrap up.""Understood."I don’t think I’m imagining the note of approval in her voice.Understandably so.It’s the ones who'd walk out at the drop of a hat that you need to worry about.I hang up.And then I sit in my office and do deep-breathing exercises for five minutes, because I've gone and done it.CEO.The big chair.A firm that has nothing to do with Mason, or Chase, or my shares in Warren Global.A company that I absolutely know is hiring me strictly because they want me to run their business.No emotions tangled up in it at all.Mine. Built by me, run by me. No man
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 253 The Universe Has Notes
(Chase)"Your nervous system thinks you're being chased by a lion," Chloe says."All day. Every day. That's the not-sleeping. Your body's been screaming at you and you've had it on mute."I'm on a floor cushion in an apartment that smells like incense and burnt oranges, holding a mug of something brown she's promised me isn't coffee and is, in fact, "the opposite of coffee, energetically."After tasting it I suspect it may just be muddy water.I’ve made a terrible mistake.I came here on my own two feet. Nobody made me. I have to keep reminding myself of this."Mute," I say."Mute. Oh my God, completely."She lowers herself onto the cushion across from me, still as lithe as a willow, even with the tiny bump."Most powerful men I meet are running on cortisol and spite. You can hear it. Your voice sits up here."She taps her throat."It should sit down here."She taps her belly, which is round now, which I am being very normal about.Some of this is insane. I'd like that on the record.
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