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Chapter fifty-eight

مؤلف: Elira sloane
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THE LONG GAME

ROMAN'S POV

The penthouse felt too quiet after Noelle left.

I stood at the window, my phone still in my hand, staring at the city lights below until they began to blur in my vision. The call I had just ended was still ringing in my ears. Lawyers in Frankfurt arguing over clauses, compliance issues that could derail a nine-figure deal I had spent months building. The pressure had been mounting for days, and today it had finally boiled over.

I hadn’t meant to snap at her.

Noelle had
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  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S DIRTY SECRET: A FORBIDDEN SECOND CHANCE   Chapter seventy-seven

    DANGEROUS POSSIBILITIESROMAN'S POVI couldn’t sleep.The penthouse was dark and silent, but my mind was loud. Screaming with every worst-case scenario. I lay on my back in the king-sized bed, staring at the ceiling, the city lights casting faint patterns across the room.Noelle’s face kept flashing in my head.The way she had looked at me when I told her I couldn’t touch her. The tears streaming down her cheeks as she sat on the floor. The quiet pain in her voice when she asked if we might be related.I turned onto my side, punching the pillow in frustration.I loved her.That love was the only real thing I had felt in years, and now it might be the most forbidden thing in my life.My mother’s words wouldn’t leave me.“A week before I married Declan… I slept with James Carter.”“The timing matches your birth.”If Noelle and I shared the same father…I sat up abruptly, swinging my legs over the edge of the bed. My chest felt tight, like I couldn’t breathe properly.I walked to the

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S DIRTY SECRET: A FORBIDDEN SECOND CHANCE   Chapter seven-six

    FALL APARTROMAN'S POVI sat in the back of the Maybach, staring out the tinted window as the city blurred past, but my mind was nowhere near the road.The visit to Liana earlier today had left a bitter taste in my mouth.She had been so happy, too happy. Her eyes had lit up the moment I walked into the visitation room, and she had thrown herself into my arms like no time had passed. She kept whispering that I had come back to her, that Noelle was just a fling, that we were going to be together again.I hadn’t corrected her.I couldn’t.Not when I was barely holding myself together.The DNA test results were still weeks away, but the possibility that Noelle might be my half-sister was slowly eating me alive. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her crying on the floor of her apartment, begging me to tell her it wasn’t true.And I had walked away.Because touching her now felt like the worst kind of sin.My phone buzzed in my lap. A message from Noelle.Noelle: Are you okay? You looked

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S DIRTY SECRET: A FORBIDDEN SECOND CHANCE   Chapter seventy- five

    FALLING MANNOELLE'S POVI couldn’t stop crying.The moment I closed the apartment door behind me, the weight of everything crashed down like a wave I could no longer hold back. My legs gave out beneath me. I slid down the wall until I was sitting on the cold hardwood floor, knees pulled tightly to my chest, sobbing so hard my entire body shook.Everything hurts.The meeting with our parents replayed in my mind on an endless loop. Sylvia’s trembling confession about her one-night affair with my father a week before she married Declan Mathew, the stunned silence in the room, my father’s furious demand for a DNA test, and Roman’s shattered expression as the possibility that we might be half-siblings hung in the air like a death sentence.I pressed my forehead against my knees, tears soaking the fabric of my dress. My chest felt like it was being crushed. How could something so beautiful turn into something so ugly in the span of one conversation?Milo jumped onto my lap, meowing softly

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S DIRTY SECRET: A FORBIDDEN SECOND CHANCE   Chapter seventy-four

    THE MEETINGNOELLE'S POVRoman's penthouse felt colder than usual that evening.I arrived with my father at seven thirty p.m. exactly. He was silent the entire car ride, his hands tight on the steering wheel. I could feel the tension radiating off him. When we pulled up to the grand entrance, he turned to me with worried eyes.“Are you sure you want to do this?” he asked quietly.I nodded, even though my stomach was in knots.“I need the truth, Dad. Whatever it is.”We were led into a private sitting room on the second floor. The space was elegant but intimate, dark wood paneling, soft lighting, and a large fireplace crackling in the background. Sylvia Ashford was already there, standing near the window in a simple but expensive navy dress. She looked composed, but her hands were clasped tightly in front of her.Roman arrived moments later.The moment our eyes met, my heart clenched. He looked exhausted, his jaw tight, shadows under his eyes. He gave me a small, strained nod but didn’

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S DIRTY SECRET: A FORBIDDEN SECOND CHANCE   Chapter seventy-three

    NOT MINEROMAN'S POVMy phone rang at eight thirteen p.m. while I was sitting on the balcony of my penthouse, a glass of whiskey in hand, watching the city lights flicker below like distant stars.The name on the screen made my stomach drop.MotherI answered on the sixth ring, my voice carefully neutral.“Mom.”“Roman.” Sylvia’s voice was crisp, but there was an undercurrent of tension I rarely heard from her. “We need to talk. In person. Tomorrow evening at the house. I’ve invited James Carter. He’ll be there too.”I froze, the whiskey glass halfway to my lips.“James Carter? Why the hell would you invite him?”There was a long, heavy silence on the line. When she finally spoke, her tone was quieter, almost weary.“Because there are things that can no longer stay hidden. Things I should have told you years ago.”My grip tightened on the phone.“Mom, what is this about?”Another pause. I could almost see her sitting in her elegant study, back straight, fingers tapping the edge of her

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S DIRTY SECRET: A FORBIDDEN SECOND CHANCE   Chapter seventy-two

    HE'LL LOSE EVERYTHINGROMAN'S POVI stood at the floor-to-ceiling window of my penthouse, staring out at the glittering New York skyline, but all I could see was Noelle’s face.The hurt in her eyes when I gave her that cold, professional nod this morning. The way her voice had cracked when she asked if I was okay. The quiet disappointment when I told her I was too busy to see her.Every moment replayed in my head like a punishment I deserved.I loved her.God, I loved her more than I had ever loved anyone.She wasn’t just a beautiful woman I wanted to possess. She was the first person who made me feel like I could finally breathe after years of suffocating under family expectations. She listened when I told her about Derek’s embezzlement. She didn’t judge me for running to Europe. She held me like I was worth saving.And now I was pushing her away.Because my mother’s words had planted a poison I couldn’t ignore.“The dates line up too closely… James and I were together right befo

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