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CHAPTER TEN
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THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
Both — The First True ThingHe told her on a Friday.Not the last day of the two weeks. The ninth day. He had been at the downtown office that morning and he had come back at four in the afternoon and she had heard his car and heard him come in and heard, by the particular quality of his footsteps on the stairs, that he had decided something.She was in the sitting room. She was always in the sitting room in the late afternoon now, the chair by the window, the book she was sometimes reading and sometimes holding. He came in and she looked up and he looked at her with the expression she had named, finally, in the direction of — the face pointed toward something — and sat in the chair across from her.They looked at each other."I've decided," he said.She waited."I'm not ending the marriage," he said. "Not for the board. Not for my father. And not because I've resolved everything — I haven't. There are things I'm still carrying that I'm not done carrying and I think you know that." He
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Elder Brown and Mara — The Full TruthHe called her on Wednesday.Not Simon — Elder Brown himself, from the Hancock Park number, at nine in the morning, while Simon was at the downtown office for the first time in two weeks and the estate was running its ordinary Wednesday rhythms around her."Come for lunch," he said. "Just you."She went.The garden in the Wednesday noon light was different from the night — larger, more deliberate, the November sun finding specific things to illuminate and leaving others in shadow. He was not in the garden this time. He was at the kitchen table with food already on it — simple, the food of a man who cooked for himself and had stopped performing hospitality for its own sake — and he gestured to the chair across from him.She sat.They ate for a few minutes in silence. Not the Simon-silence, which had a specific grammar and intent. The silence of two people who have already said the hardest things and are not in a hurry to fill the space after them."
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Mara — The Decision She Made FirstShe did not wait for morning.She had understood, sitting in the car on the drive back to the estate while Simon drove in silence and the city moved past the windows in the dark, that waiting for morning meant waiting for him to carry something that was hers to carry. He was going to sit with his father's ultimatum and he was going to think, which was what Simon did, the careful thorough thinking of a man who followed every option to its end before he chose — and he was going to arrive at something, by morning, that was shaped by the weight of what he was being asked to account for.She was not going to let him do that alone.She got out of the car at the estate. She said goodnight. She went upstairs to the residential bedroom and sat at the desk by the window and looked at the Hollywood Hills in the night and then she did the thing she had been deciding to do for the last forty minutes of the drive.She called Elder Brown.He answered on the third r
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Simon — Until MorningHis father's ultimatum came at four thirty in the afternoon.It came, as all of his father's pronouncements came, with the calm certainty of a man who had made a decision in private and was delivering it rather than discussing it. They were in the study, all three of them, and his father had made tea which was the thing he did when something was going to take a while to say and he wanted the time of the making to belong to him."I've spoken to the family's lawyer," his father said. He looked at Simon. "What I'm going to tell you is not negotiable. It is the position I've arrived at and it's the position I'm going to hold."Simon waited."Mara cooperated with the federal investigation," his father said. "That is a matter of record and it is going to proceed without my involvement. I am not going to attempt to interfere with it and I am not going to use the family's legal resources to complicate it." He looked at Mara. "What happened to your sister and your father
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
Both — The RoomShe spoke for forty minutes.Simon sat beside her and did not interrupt and did not look at her while she spoke — he looked at his father, watching his father's face the way he watched things that mattered, for the information that existed beneath the surface of the response. His father's face was still in the processing way. He had the full weight of his attention on Mara and he did not move it for the forty minutes she spoke.She said Adaeze's name first. She said it clearly and she said the age — twenty-two — and she said what Adaeze had wanted to be and she said what had happened and she traced it back to the Century City transaction the way you trace a river back to its source, following the water to the place it started.She said Frederick's name. She said Daniel's name. She said what they had done with the specificity of someone who had read the files until they were memorized and then lived inside the consequences of them and had not confused the two things.Sh
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER THIRTY
Elder Brown — What a Father KnowsHis name was Charles.This was something almost no one used anymore — he had been Elder Brown for twenty years, had been Mr. Brown before that, had been Chairman Brown for the decade in between. His wife had called him Charles. Frederick had called him Dad in public and Charlie in private when he wanted something, which had always worked and which Charles had always known worked and had allowed anyway. Daniel had called him Sir until he was thirty and then, slowly, Dad, the transition happening so gradually Charles wasn't sure when it had completed.Simon called him Father.Had always called him Father. Even as a small boy, which had seemed, at the time, formal for a five-year-old — and which Charles had understood, even then, was not formality but the specific instinct of a child who had absorbed that certain distances were correct and maintained them by instinct rather than instruction. Simon had been, from the beginning, the one who understood the
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Mara — 48 HoursHayes called at six in the morning.She was already awake — she had not slept, had lain in the residential bedroom through the night with the rain thinning and stopping and the house going through its pre-dawn stillness, listening to Simon's study light stay on until three and then
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Both — The AlmostThe rain came back on Tuesday.Not the apologetic rain of October, thin and gone by noon — this was November rain, the kind that settled in over the hills and stayed, turning the estate grounds dark and the windows silver and the rooms inside smaller and warmer than they were on d
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Mara — The Decision to StayShe could have left on Saturday.She had identified the exit three weeks into the mission — not because she planned to use it, but because Hayes had trained her to identify exits the way other people identified doors, automatically, as a matter of survival. The exit was
THE BILLIONAIRE MARRIED HIS BROTHERS' KILLER CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Simon — WatchingThe driver's name was Marcus. He had worked for Simon for six years and he had the specific, invaluable quality of a person who observed without being asked to and reported without embellishing.He had called Simon at four fifteen on Friday afternoon."Mrs. Brown met someone at a c
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