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Chapter 56 "What Grace Never Told Her"

作者: Ozzy Nyakie
last update 公開日: 2026-08-09 03:43:14

The morning after her visit to Charles's care facility, Vivienne drove back to Grace's quiet bungalow without calling ahead, the deleted file alert still sitting cold in her chest, something urgent pulling her toward the one person who'd already proven she'd kept pieces of this family's history nobody else had bothered preserving.

Grace opened the door before Vivienne had even finished knocking, something knowing already settled into her expression, as though she'd been expecting this particula
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    Vivienne sat bolt upright, phone gripped tight in both hands, Lucas blinking awake beside her at the sudden movement."What is it?""Derek." She was already dialing before she'd finished the word, adrenaline burning through the last traces of sleep. He answered on the first ring, his voice tight and rushed."Vivienne, thank God. I've been sitting here for an hour trying to decide whether this could wait until morning, and it can't.""Tell me," she said, Lucas sitting up fully now, alert and listening."I have a friend who works in the records office, someone who processed the access request my father's — I mean, Patience's — legal team submitted today. She called me tonight because she recognized my name attached to the original adoption certificate we found at Rosedale, and she wanted to warn me before anything became official." Derek's breath came unsteady. "Patience isn't trying to hide her adoption anymore, Vivienne. She's trying to use it.""Use it how?""The original Kingston Fa

  • The Billionaire Fell For The Widower   Chapter 132 "What She Wanted Instead"

    Vivienne stared at the message until the words blurred, disbelief pulling her fully back from the warmth of the evening.Ms. Kingston, we submitted Lucas's payment records to the court first thing tomorrow. But there's something else you should know — Patience's legal team withdrew the motion an hour ago, before we even had the chance to respond. No explanation given. It's almost like she already knew the claim wouldn't hold, and she wanted something else entirely."Lucas." She turned the phone toward him, watching his brow furrow as he read it."She withdrew it," he said slowly. "Before we even had to prove anything.""Which means the motion was never actually about winning," Vivienne said, working through it aloud. "It was a distraction. Or a message." She sat back, exhaustion warring with fresh unease. "What could she possibly have wanted that mattered more than delaying her own trial?""Maybe she wanted to see how we'd react," Lucas offered. "Test whether we'd panic, whether we'd

  • The Billionaire Fell For The Widower   Chapter 131 "The Truth Behind the Claim"

    Chloe reached across the table, gripping Vivienne's hand firmly. "Breathe. Whatever they're claiming, it's not true. You know Lucas.""I know Lucas," Vivienne agreed, though her voice shook slightly. "But I need to hear this from him directly, right now."She called him on the drive home, Chloe insisting on coming along, and Lucas picked up on the first ring, his easy tone shifting instantly to alarm the moment he heard the tightness in her voice."Vivienne, what's wrong?""Patience's legal team is claiming you received payment from someone connected to my family's trust, before you started working at Kingston Holdings," she said, forcing herself to stay steady. "They're suggesting it means your hiring, our whole relationship, was somehow engineered."There was a brief, stunned silence on the line. "That's insane. I've never taken a cent from anyone connected to your family before Kingston Holdings hired me directly, and you know exactly how that arrangement worked.""I know. I believ

  • The Billionaire Fell For The Widower   Chapter 130 “Girls’ Day”

    Chloe answered on the second ring, already suspicious. “You’re inviting me somewhere on a Tuesday. This feels like a trap.”“It’s not a trap,” Vivienne said, laughing. “I want to take you out. Spa, lunch, whatever you want. A proper thank-you for everything you did for the party. I don’t think I’ve told you enough how much that night meant to me.”“You’ve told me plenty, but I never say no to a spa day.” Chloe’s voice brightened immediately. “Give me two hours to rearrange my entire schedule around this very important emergency.”They met at a quiet spa tucked into a converted colonial house on the edge of the city, all soft linens and the low murmur of water features, and spent the first hour simply existing in comfortable silence beneath warm towels and skilled hands, months of tension slowly working itself loose from Vivienne’s shoulders.“I needed this,” she admitted afterward, wrapped in a robe, sipping tea across from Chloe in the small lounge. “More than I realized, apparently.

  • The Billionaire Fell For The Widower   Chapter 129 "The Jeweler's Verdict"

    Lucas took the ring to the jeweler himself, three days after the engagement party, Vivienne's words from the café still turning over in his mind. It doesn't change how I feel about it. If it needs resetting, we'll reset it. But it stays on my hand either way.He wanted to know anyway. Not because it would change anything between them, but because if there was truth in what Patrick and Adaeze had claimed, he wanted to make it right, quietly, before it ever had the chance to become another wound in Vivienne's already complicated family history.The jeweler, an older man named Mr. Oyelaran who'd handled the original purchase, examined the stone carefully under his loupe for several long minutes while Lucas sat across the counter, nerves twisting tighter with every passing second."This is a good stone," Mr. Oyelaran said finally, setting down his tools. "Ethically sourced, properly certified, purchased through the standard channel I use for all my clients. I can show you the full paper t

  • The Billionaire Fell For The Widower   Chapter 128 "A Warning Worth Heeding"

    Vivienne didn't respond to Uncle Fredrick right away. She sat with the message for two full days, letting her fury settle into something colder, more useful — the same deliberate patience she'd learned from months of dismantling Marcus's fraud one careful thread at a time."You're doing the thing again," Lucas observed Sunday evening, watching her scroll through documents on her laptop with unusual focus. "The quiet, calculating thing.""I asked James to look into Fredrick," Vivienne admitted, not looking up from the screen. "Ann's uncle. The one who suddenly cares so deeply about Zuri's welfare."Lucas set down the dish towel he'd been holding, crossing to sit beside her. "Vivienne.""I'm not doing anything reckless," she said, glancing at him. "I just wanted to understand exactly who's threatening to insert themselves into our daughter's life after two years of complete silence. Call it due diligence.""And what did James find?"Vivienne turned the laptop toward him, and Lucas's eye

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