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The Billion Dollar Marriage chapter 64
Two weeks went quickly.The estate lawyer situation moved into its procedural phase — documents filed, responses prepared, the specific slow machinery of legal challenges grinding forward. She organised three meetings, prepared two briefing documents, and sat beside him in one session with the lawyers where she took notes and asked two questions that the lead lawyer paused to write down.Afterward Eric said: "You asked the right questions.""I prepared," she said."I know." He looked at her. "You always prepare."She looked at her notes. "The uncle's argument is weaker than he presented it. The procedural question has been answered twice before in the company's history, both times in our favour. If the lawyers—""Our favour," he said.She looked up."You said our favour," he said.She looked at her notes. She had said it. She had not planned to say it. It had arrived the same way darling had arrived — from the part of her that lived in this and had stopped making distinctions."Yes,"
The Billion Dollar Marriage Chapter 65
Victoria's house was exactly what she had expected and nothing she could have fully prepared for.Large, old-money, the specific restraint of wealth that had been there long enough not to need announcing. Art on the walls that belonged in galleries. Flowers arranged by someone who understood that arrangement was a discipline. A butler who had clearly been there for a very long time and who looked at Alison when she came through the door with the specific expression of someone who had seen many people come through that door and had developed opinions about all of them.Victoria met them in the entrance hall. Kissed Eric's cheek. Turned to Alison with the gracious warmth."Alison. I am so glad you could come.""Thank you for the invitation," Alison said.They were shown through to the drawing room where three other guests were already present — two of whom she recognised from the board dinner, one she did not.And Rebecca.She recognised her immediately, not from a photograph but from t
The Billion Dollar Marriage chapter 63
The second move Victoria made came in the form of an invitation.Not to Alison. To Eric. A dinner at Victoria's house — just family, Eric, it has been so long since we have had a proper family dinner — with the guest list carefully unspecified in the invitation itself.Eric told her about it at the kitchen island."She said just family," Alison said."Yes.""But she did not list who.""No."She looked at her tea. "Rebecca will be there."He was quiet for a moment. "Almost certainly."She turned her cup. "Are you going."He held her gaze. "We are going," he said. "If you are willing."She looked at him."I am willing," she said."You do not have to—""Eric." She met his eyes. "Every room. I said every room."He held her gaze for a moment. Then nodded."The dinner is in two weeks," he said. "Saturday.""Alright." She put her cup down. "Tell me about Rebecca. The real version. What she is actually like."He looked at the counter. "She is—" He paused, finding words. "She is not a villain.
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Saturday drinks with James had a different quality from the previous ones. She noticed it immediately when she saw him at the bar — something in how he held himself, a slight additional carefulness, the quality of someone who has said a thing they cannot unsay and is now working out how to exist in the space after. She sat across from him and he looked at her and she looked at him. "Are we alright," she said. "Yes," he said. "I need you to tell me honestly." "I am telling you honestly." He picked up his drink. "I said what I said and it is said and I am — alright. Not in the way of someone who has resolved something. In the way of someone who has said a true thing and is working out what comes after." She held his gaze. "What comes after is the same as before," she said. "For me. You are one of the oldest things I have." "I know," he said. "For me too." He turned his glass. "It is just — there is a period of adjustment. After you say something like that. After you put s
The Billion Dollar Marriage Chapter 61
Friday the estate lawyer confirmed what they had suspected.Eric's uncle had found a different approach. Not a direct challenge to the marriage — the documentation was too thorough, the Webb interview too clean. Instead he had raised a question with two minority board members about the terms of the inheritance transfer itself. A procedural question, the lawyer said. Likely without merit. But enough to require a formal response that would take four to six weeks to resolve.Four to six weeks.She sat beside Eric in the lawyer's office and listened and kept her face professional and her notes precise and waited until they were outside on the street to say what she was actually thinking."He is trying to wear you down," she said."Yes," Eric said."Not to win. To cost you time and energy and make the company vulnerable while you are dealing with it.""Yes." He looked at the street. "He has done this before. With my father. It did not work then either but it cost three months and a great d
The Billion Dollar Marriage chapter 60
March arrived and James was still in the city and Eric was quieter than he had been in January.Not cold. She had learned, over the months, to be precise about the textures of his moods, and this was not cold. This was something different — a pulling-in quality, a slight increase in the distance between whatever was happening inside him and the outside that he showed her. She noticed it the way she noticed all shifts in his texture — without alarm, with attention.She did not push. She watched and waited, the way she had learned to do.On a Wednesday she came out of the bedroom at six and found him already at the window. This was unusual. He had not beaten her to the window in weeks.She made her coffee and came to stand beside him.The city was still dark."You slept badly," she said."Yes.""The board situation?""Partly." He turned his cup. "My uncle is being quiet, which is worse than when he was being loud. Quiet means he is preparing something."She looked at the city. "Do you k
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