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Chapter 97
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2026-04-06 17:30:41
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The Billionaire’s Contract Wife Can't Let Go Chapter 101
Alex POV: Alex Suspects Charles It wasn't a conscious decision to drive to Fifth Avenue.The Mexican restaurant is north. I know this. I was driving south, and I didn't correct it, and I told myself this is because the traffic is better this way, which is not true. But now I wish I'd turned around before I came this far. I'm looking at Jack, Cilian and Eddie leaning against a car outside Charles's shop. They're relaxed and at ease with Charles who's facing outward, talking with his whole body, his hands moving, shoulders shifting, turning sideways to make some point that appears to be funny because all three of Dana's brothers are laughing. I almost hit the car in front of me.I brake. The car in front rolls on, indifferent. I pull to the curb half a block down and sit there with the engine running and watch in the rearview mirror."What the hell.”Charles is gesturing widely with both hands, illustrating something, narrating something, and Eddie shakes his head laughing and Cilian
The Billionaire’s Contract Wife Can't Let Go Chapter 100
Alex POV: Dana Makes CoffeeDana brings me coffee.I look up from my laptop when she sets it on the desk, and the smile she gives me shocks me. "Thank you," I say. "You didn't have to.""I'm your secretary after all." Still wearing that bug smile, she turns and leaves. I get up quickly and go to the door.She's walking down the corridor toward her office, and I stand in my doorway and watch her for a moment, wondering how come her skin glows more, her red hair redder and . . . her hips. Gosh. I look back at the coffee.The thought that crosses my mind next is so unreasonable that I'm almost embarrassed by it. I'm wondering whether, if Dana is angry with me for some reason, this coffee could be . . . (Poisoned?)I stop the thought before it finishes forming and feel immediately ridiculous for having started it. This is Dana. I pick up the cup and walk into Derek's office.Derek is at his desk with a steaming mug in front of him, reading something on his screen. He looks up."Mor
The Billionaire’s Contract Wife Can't Let Go Chapter 99
Dana POV: The Wormhole Theory The wine loosens everything, the way good wine does.It starts with Eddie asking Charles about the Italian political landscape, whether the current coalition would hold, whether the agricultural subsidies were affecting smaller producers, and Charles gives an answer that makes Eddie sit forward, which is how you know Eddie considers you worth talking to. Eddie only leans forward for people who know things."The issue isn't the subsidies themselves," Charles says, turning his glass slowly. "It's the inconsistency of application. The larger estates absorb the bureaucracy. The smaller ones drown in it.""Same pattern everywhere," Jack says. "You see it in the States with the farm bills. The language protects small producers on paper and dismantles them in practice.""Because the people writing the language have never set foot on a small farm," I say.Everyone looks at me."Or a small vineyard," Charles adds, and the look he gives me when he says it is warm
The Billionaire’s Contract Wife Can't Let Go Chapter 98
Dana POV: Her Sisters Like Charles Harrington The cork comes free with a clean, solid pop."Harrington?" I say.Charles looks at me, smiling. "I was wondering when you'd ask. I thought you might not.""It sounds very English.""That's because it is English." He reaches for the two glasses I've set out and begins to pour the wine. "A good portion of my family has roots there. The Harrington branch. It's old, older than anyone still living can properly account for. The most I can tell you is that they're from England, which is not very much, but there it is.""How quaint," I say."Isn't it," he says without irony. He picks up a glass and holds it out to me. I take it and sip.The wine does something immediate to my palate, and quite honestly, to the quality of the moment. It tastes rich, with a depth that suggests it has been waiting somewhere dark and patient for exactly the right occasion."How is it?" Charles says, looking at me over his glass."It's extraordinary." I look at him.
The Billionaire’s Contract Wife Can't Let Go Chapter 97
Alex POV: Jodie Is Getting Ahead Of Herself The food on my plate has gone cold. I've been looking at it for the better part of ten minutes without eating any of it, moving it once with my fork to create the impression that I'm engaged in a meal rather than conducting a silent, circular argument with himself.Jodie is sitting across from me, wine glass held in both hands, watching me with slightly narrowed attention."Alex."I look up."You haven't said a single word since you sat down." She sets her glass down. "What is it?""Work," I say. "There was meeting today."She accepts this, but incompletely. I can see the partial acceptance in the way she bends her head and purses her lips. Jodie is not unintelligent. She notices things. I pick up my fork and eat but taste nothing.At four-thirty this afternoon I walked down Fifth Avenue. After going out with Jodie and spent most of the time thinking about Dana. I came back to the office and didn't do much. I'd been angry at that meeting.
The Billionaire’s Contract Wife Can't Let Go Chapter 96
Dana POV: Lord Charles Tipping Harrington The afternoon after the meeting is the worst kind of miserable quiet. Jack and Eddie and Cilian decamp to Derek's office to debrief, their voices low and strategic through the wall, and I sit at my desk and stare at a spreadsheet I opened forty minutes ago and have not touched.Alex does not come back to the office.I check the time. I check my email. I open Instagram and close it before it finishes loading. I think about going home and immediately think about what home looks like right now. There's the flowers Alex gave me on the windowsill, two paintings leaning against the wall, and silence. My phone rings and my heart skips a little when I see who it is. "Dana," Fanny says when I answer it. "Please tell me you're not doing something boring right now."I lean back and smile a little. "Define boring.""Sitting somewhere alone looking sad. Which I suspect you are, so don't lie to me."I look at my empty desk. "I'm at the office.""Which i
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