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Chapter 40: The Confession in the Dark

Penulis: Nenye Mark
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-12 23:55:47

Night settled into the apartment like a held breath.

Lila hadn’t turned on the overhead lights. She didn’t want to. The low lamp by the window cast a dim amber glow across the room, softening edges and blurring angles, enough light to see, not enough to feel exposed. The city murmured outside, distant traffic and wind threading between buildings, a reminder that the world was still moving even as hers felt paused on a knife’s edge.

Eli slept on the narrow bed, curled on his side with one arm tu
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  • The Billionaire’s Erased Love   CHAPTER 47: Dominic’s Breakdown

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  • The Billionaire’s Erased Love   CHAPTER 46: She Wanted the Company

    Serena Vale did not panic.She adjusted.That had always been her greatest strength.While Dominic initiated injunctions and froze subsidiary accounts, Serena sat in the private trust office thirty floors above the city, reviewing the counter-filings with mild interest. The skyline behind her glowed gold against the late evening haze.“He moved faster than expected,” her legal advisor murmured.Serena closed the file slowly.“I trained him,” she said.There was no pride in her voice.Only precision.Six Years AgoDominic had not been weak.That had been the problem.He had been decisive. Brilliant. Too independent.When he informed the family he would not proceed with the Caldwell alliance, Serena understood immediately what that meant.Control would fracture.The Hale Trust operated on predictability—marriages negotiated, heirs vetted, succession guaranteed. Dominic was the linchpin of a twenty-year consolidation strategy. His marriage was meant to merge capital, political insulation

  • The Billionaire’s Erased Love   CHAPTER 45: The Real Enemy Emerges

    “So,” he said to the empty room. “There you are.”The hunt had begun.Dominic didn’t move for a long moment.Serena Vale.Primary authority on the trust activity log.Not a coincidence. Not a proxy. Not a shell.Her name.Clear.Intentional.Meredith stepped closer to the screen. “She just triggered executive trust surveillance.”Dominic’s expression didn’t change. “On me?”“Yes.”He gave a low exhale through his nose. Almost amused.“She’s not hiding anymore.”“No,” Meredith agreed. “She’s escalating.”Dominic tapped the console, pulling Serena’s financial movement history onto the central display. The data cascaded down the screen, fund transfers, asset shifts, encrypted subsidiaries, dormant biotech holdings suddenly active again.“Cross-reference this with six years ago,” he ordered.Meredith obeyed.The overlap was immediate.The same biotech subsidiary.The same off-ledger funding channels.The same neurologist listed under a classified research agreement.Dominic’s jaw tightene

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    The city was still asleep when Lila left.New York was truly asleep, but it was quiet enough that the streets below the penthouse breathed instead of roared. The sky hovered in that fragile space between night and morning, gray-blue and undecided, as if it hadn’t yet chosen what it wanted to become.Lila stood by the window with Eli bundled against her chest, his small fingers curled into the fabric of her coat. He hadn’t woken when she dressed him. He hadn’t stirred when she packed the bare minimum, clothes, documents, and the few toys he couldn’t sleep without.He trusted her.That was the part that hurt the most.Behind her, the penthouse lights were dim, the vast space reduced to shadows and echoes. Everything about it felt temporary now. Like a stage set after the audience had gone home.She heard Dominic before she saw him.Barefoot steps. Careful. As if he already knew that anything too loud might shatter what little was left.“You’re really leaving,” he said.It wasn’t a quest

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