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Chapter 128: Protection Detail
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2026-03-26 00:17:35
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The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 131: Corporate Espionage
Caleb POVThe name on Lena's message was Daniel Forde. My corporate CFO, years with Black Enterprises, three of them reporting directly to me. The man who had sat in the war room during the SEC frame job and helped Bella and I build our counter-case. Who had shaken my hand at the press conference and said, It's good to see things working out, Caleb.I read the name and said nothing for a long moment."Caleb," Bella said again, from the window.I turned the phone so she and Diana could see the screen.Diana's expression didn't change. Bella went very still, then shifted into something controlled. Diana looked at the name and then at me. "How long has he been your CFO?""Twelve years.""Victor hired him?""No," I said. And then, because she'd asked for a reason: "He was already in the company when I took over, he was father's hire."Diana nodded once. "Then he was never yours."We didn't move immediately. That was Bella's call, and it was the right one."If we pull him now, whoever is
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Bella POVDiana arrived at the penthouse at nine in the morning with a laptop bag, a second phone, and the particular expression of someone who has decided to do a thing they find personally distasteful but strategically necessary.I let her in because Caleb asked me to. I stood in the kitchen doorway with my coffee and watched her set up at the dining table and reminded myself that her file on Caleb's phone had been thorough, accurate, and had given us three names we wouldn't have had otherwise.That was the only reason she was here."Tom's at Maya's," Caleb said, coming in from the hallway. "We have the morning."Diana looked up. "I'm aware you both have questions about my methods," she said."Questions are generous," I said.She looked at me steadily. "I've been investigating my brother's life for years using means that were not always strictly legal. You can be angry about that or you can use what I found. I'd recommend the second option."I sat down across from her. "Walk us thro
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 129: Diana's Truth
Diana POVI was not the threat. I needed Caleb to understand that, and the fact that he wouldn't return my calls was making it significantly more difficult to prevent what was already moving toward his family like a slow-rolling collapse.I sat in my hotel room with my laptop and my second cup of terrible room service coffee and the growing, unwelcome awareness that I had made a catastrophic miscalculation.The test I'd run on Bella was stupid. I knew that now — had known it the moment Caleb walked into my hotel bar and looked at me with the particular expression our father used to wear when he thought something beneath him was wasting his time. I had spent years memorizing that expression so I could anticipate it in the wild, and seeing it on Caleb's face, directed at me, had been more effective than anything a therapist had ever said.He looked like our father. And then he didn't. He set down his glass and said, I'm not going to build this on the ruins of my life, and walked out, an
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 128: Protection Detail
Caleb POVTom hated the security detail with a focused, articulate passion that I found, privately, impressive.He didn't cry about it, didn't throw a tantrum. He simply stood in the kitchen on Monday morning, looked at the two people Lena had assigned as his close-protection team, and said"But they're strangers.""They're colleagues of mine," I said. "Like James.""James brings me biscuits.""Leon has biscuits," the security officer on the left said immediately, producing one from his jacket pocket.Tom looked at it, then at Leon. "What kind?""Chocolate digestive.""Okay," Tom said, and took the biscuit, and the negotiation was, apparently, complete.The decision to pause school came from Bella and I hadn't argued with it."One week," she'd said. "Until Lena's team has a clearer picture of the school surveillance. Then we reassess."What she'd built in that week — the reading schedule pinned to the kitchen whiteboard, the morning lessons at the dining table, the afternoon project th
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 127: The Threat
Bella POVLena nodded. "She's on the watch list. But she has limited verified activity in the city this week, which doesn't rule her out — it just means if she's behind this she's using intermediaries."I looked at Caleb. "Or it isn't her."He met my eyes. "That's what I'm not sure about."After Lena left, we sat at the kitchen table with the quiet of the apartment around us — Tom's show still murmuring from the other room, the city going dark outside.I was turning the coffee mug in my hands, staring at nothing, when I felt Caleb move behind me. His lips pressed against the side of my neck before I could even react.“Caleb,” I said, but I didn’t pull away. “Now is not the time.”I felt him smile against my skin. “I know.”He didn’t stop. His mouth moved slowly up my neck, kissing and sucking. His hands slid under my shirt from behind. His palms felt warm on my stomach, then moved higher. He cupped my breasts through my bra and rubbed his thumbs over my nipples until they got hard an
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 126: Going Public
Caleb POVThe press conference was Bella's idea. I'd argued for a controlled media statement — quiet, professional, no questions instead she had looked at me across the kitchen table with her coffee and said, Caleb, they already have photos of Tom at the window. They have months of speculation. A statement looks like damage control. A press conference looks like confidence. Then she'd gone back to her laptop and that had, apparently, been the end of the discussion.She wasn't wrong, she was rarely wrong about anything that involved other people watching.I stood beside her on the small raised platform in the Black Tower media room with Tom between us, his small hand locked around two of my fingers with the grip of a child who had recently decided that this was simply where his hand lived, and I watched Bella face a room full of cameras and reporters with a calm expression that I had come to understand meant she was completely in control and enjoying it slightly more than she would eve
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Bella POVThe International Business Summit was being held at the at a grand Hotel, a gleaming palace of marble and glass where I'd once cleaned toilets during my desperate days at the shelter. The irony wasn't lost on me as my driver pulled up to the VIP entrance and hotel staff rushed to open my
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