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Chapter 108 "What Adaeze Actually Wanted"
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The Billionaire Fell For The Widower Chapter 109 "Setting the Wire Aside"
Vivienne stared at James's message for a long moment, the ambulance's steady hum filling the silence around her.James: Ms. Kingston, I think you should know — Adaeze Effiong's bank records show a deposit three days ago, right before all of this started. Half a million dollars, wired from an account we haven't been able to trace yet. Someone was already paying her, before Charles ever went missing."Lucas." She showed him the message, watching his expression sharpen despite the exhaustion pulling at both of them."Someone financed this," he said slowly. "Which means Adaeze wasn't acting entirely alone, whatever she claimed.""I know." Vivienne pressed her fingers to her temples, the weight of yet another thread threatening to unravel further than she had energy left to follow tonight. "But I can't chase that right now. Charles needs proper care, and I need to actually sleep before I'm capable of thinking clearly about any of it.""Then we don't chase it tonight." Lucas squeezed her ha
The Billionaire Fell For The Widower Chapter 108 "What Adaeze Actually Wanted"
Vivienne kept her voice steady despite the fear coiling tight in her chest. "My father already settled that claim, decades ago. The DNA results confirmed I'm his daughter. Whatever your brother tried to sell him, it was a lie, and everyone who mattered already knows that.""Oh, I know the results were conclusive." Adaeze's voice stayed calm, almost bored. "Emeka's claim was never really about biology, Vivienne. It was about money. He wanted your father to keep paying, and your father was foolish enough to think one test would end it forever." She crossed her arms. "It didn't end anything. It just meant Emeka had to find other ways to make the Kingstons pay for what they took from our family.""What did they take?" Vivienne asked, careful, buying time, aware of the microphone against her collarbone and the officers waiting somewhere in the dark beyond the cabin walls."Dignity." Adaeze's expression hardened. "Your mother chose university over my brother. Fine — people change their mind
The Billionaire Fell For The Widower Chapter 107 "The Woman Behind the Curtain"
Vivienne stared at the message, her hands going numb around the phone.UNKNOWN: Charles is safe. He's with me. And he finally has something very important to tell you — something even Patience never fully understood about what really happened thirty years ago."Lucas." Her voice came out strangled. She turned the phone toward him, watching the detective and Derek both lean in to read it over her shoulder."'Even Patience never fully understood,'" Derek repeated slowly. "That means whoever this is knows more than she did. That means this was never just about her."The detective's jaw tightened. "Ms. Kingston, I need you to reply. Carefully. We need to establish contact, buy time, figure out where they're holding him."Vivienne's fingers trembled as she typed.VIVIENNE: Who are you? What do you want?The response came almost instantly, as though whoever was on the other end had been waiting, phone in hand.Meet me. Alone this time, Vivienne — truly alone, no detective trailing three car
The Billionaire Fell For The Widower Chapter 106 "Forty Minutes Ago"
Vivienne read the message twice, her stomach dropping through the concrete floor of the warehouse."Lucas." She turned the phone toward him wordlessly, watching his expression shift from confusion to alarm as he read it.Derek leaned in to look, his face going pale. "Forty minutes ago. That's — that's around the time I was walking here to meet you.""Which means it's not you," Vivienne said quickly, some instinct in her wanting to spare him the suspicion even now. "You were already gone from the facility by then.""That doesn't clear my father." Derek's voice had gone hollow. "If someone logged in from that building forty minutes ago, using an account connected to this whole mess, it's either him, or someone else inside that facility helping him do it."Vivienne was already dialing James, urgency sharpening every movement. "James, I need eyes on Sunrise Meadows immediately. Discreetly, if you can manage it — I don't want to alarm anyone before we know what we're actually looking at."
The Billionaire Fell For The Widower Chapter 105 "Who Derek Found"
Vivienne stared at the message for a long moment, Lucas reading it over her shoulder, both of them going quiet with the same instinctive caution that had kept them alive through months of exactly this kind of message."He wants you alone," Lucas said slowly. "After everything we've learned about anonymous messages promising the truth if you show up without backup.""I know." Vivienne's thumb hovered over the reply field. "But this is Derek. Not an unknown number. Not Patience playing games. He gave us the adoption certificate. He's been trying to make things right since Rosedale.""That doesn't mean it's safe.""No," Vivienne agreed. "But I don't think it means it's a trap either." She typed a careful reply.VIVIENNE: I'm not doing alone. Lucas comes, or I don't come.The response arrived within a minute.Fine. Just him. Nobody else. Meet me at the old company warehouse on Bishop Street. I know that place has bad memories for you, but it's the one location I'm sure nobody's watching a
The Billionaire Fell For The Widower Chapter 104 "The Twelfth Name"
James found them still lingering over lunch, sliding into the seat across from them with the particular urgency that had become an unwelcome pattern over the past several weeks."Sorry to interrupt," he said, setting his laptop down. "But I think you'll want to see this before you head back upstairs."Vivienne wiped her hands and pulled the laptop closer, Lucas leaning in beside her. "What is it?""I finished cross-referencing the payment dates against Clara's files, like you asked." James pulled up a spreadsheet, columns of dates and amounts stretching across the screen. "Eleven confirmed names, like I said this morning. But there's a twelfth."Vivienne's stomach tightened. "Who?""That's the problem. I don't know yet." James scrolled to a highlighted row near the bottom. "There's a payment pattern here, smaller than the others, spread out over just the last four months — well after Marcus's arrest, well after Meridian's contract was supposedly terminated. Same shell structure, same
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