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The Billionaire's Rejected Twins Chapter 38
Julian knocked over his orange juice in the kitchen, and didn't even flinch about it."It slipped," he announced, like a press statement.Bella grabbed the dish towel from the counter and tossed it over the spreading orange juice before it could reach the edge. At the same time, Carlos, who was pouring coffee on the other side of the kitchen, reached over and steadied Julian's bowl without a word. Julian didn't even look up, accepting the intervention with a complete lack of concern only a three year old could pull off.Selena, sitting across from her brother, looked at Bella. Then at Carlos and then back at Bella."You're in a good mood mama," she said.Bella kept her face neutral. "Am I.""You're not frowning." She saidBella glanced down at her coffee mug, fighting the urge to smile. "I don't always frown."Selena studied her for a moment with a quiet seriousness before returning to her toast.Bella didn't look at Carlos, and she could feel he wasn't looking at her either. So they
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Bella woke up at five-fourteen and knew immediately she wasn't going back to sleep.She lay there staring at the ceiling, one arm draped across her stomach, while her mind kept circling back to the previous evening. The memories played on a loop she couldn't seem to shut off. Not the meetings. Not Lorenzo's photograph or even Alex's cold ultimatum.Just Carlos's thumb moving once across her cheekbone before he pulled back. She pressed the back of her hand against her mouth and made herself get up.The kitchen was empty when she got downstairs. She stood at the counter making coffee in the dark, not turning the overhead light on yet, and gave herself exactly those five minutes to feel the full weight of what she'd done.She'd kissed him and she'd been the one to move first. And it hadn't felt like a mistake which was exactly what unsettled her most. Because it had felt like the first true thing in weeks.But feelings like that had edges, and they could be used. In fact, everything in h
The Billionaire's Rejected Twins chapter 36
Bella was dressed before six. She stood at the living room window with her coat already on, watching the street below while turning her phone over in one hand. Even without looking at the screen, she couldn't stop thinking about Lorenzo's message from the night before.New information that changes everything.The words had followed her into the morning, and she'd spent half the night running through every possible explanation, trying to decide which one worried her most.Maybe photos of the twins, a witness who had seen too much, or someone who had decided to talk. She didn't know which one was worse.Helena appeared in the hallway, already up, already reading the situation. "They're staying in today. I'll tell them the park's tomorrow.""Thank you." Bella replied "Eat something before you go." Evelyn said"I'm not hungry." Bella replied flatly Helena crossed her arms. "Eat something anyway."Bella turned from the window and forced down half a piece of toast standing over the kitche
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The foundation office smelled of fresh coffee and printer toner, a small mercy after the last two days. Bella sat behind her desk with the Hartwell gala file open on her screen, cross-checking vendor contracts when her phone buzzed with Evelyn's name."Tomorrow by 2pm. Don't be late."She didn't flinch this time. She set the phone face-down and went back to the vendor contracts, reading through the terms with deliberate focus, as if the message had been about catering instead of a threat wrapped in politeness.Marguerite, her board treasurer knocked twice on the open door before stepping in. "You wanted the Hendricks file pulled?""Yes, actually, hold on." Bella waved her in and turned the laptop slightly before leaning back in her chair. "I wanted to ask you something, off the record. Let's say a private family record surfaced publicly. Something old, but serious enough to implicate a prominent figure in misconduct. If it reached the right people, how quickly do you think the press w
The Billionaire's Rejected Twins Chapter 34
The phone sat on the counter, screen dark now, but Bella's mind kept circling back to the message Lorenzo had sent the night before. She'd read it four times before she finally put the phone down and made breakfast she barely touched.Helena came in wrapped in her robe, hair still pinned from the night before. She took one look at Bella's face and didn't bother with good morning."He texted again." Bella said"Last night." Bella turned the mug in a slow circle on the counter. "Demanding to see me."Helena pulled the loaf of bread toward her, more out of habit than hunger. She watched Bella for a moment before speaking. "You know your mother used to look like that."Bella glanced up. "Like what?""Like she'd already worked out every possible outcome and hated all of them." Helena shook her head slightly. "Usually right before Alex decided to push on something."Bella laughed, short and humorless. "I'm tired, Helena. I'm so tired of being something these people decide they're entitled t
The Billionaire's Rejected Twins Chapter 33
The coffee bella was drinking had gone cold again.She didn't realise it until she brought the mug to her lips. She put it back on the table and stared out the sunroom window, watching the morning sunlight slowly move across the floor.She heard Helena before she saw her, the familiar sound of slippers against the floor coming from the hallway. A moment later, she heard the kettle click on in the kitchen."Don't worry Helena," Bella said. "You don't have to make anything.""I know I don't have to." Helena pulled out the chair across from her and lowered herself into it, setting two fresh cups between them. "But you've been staring at that window for twenty minutes now."Bella didn't deny it.Helena wrapped both hands around her own mug and was quiet for a moment. Then said. "You know, sometimes I still think about the night you came here. The way you looked standing at the back door with nothing but that one bag."Bella looked at her."I also remember that one time when you disappeare
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The café terrace was Stephanie's idea, which meant good pastries and at least one topic Bella hadn't agreed to discuss yet. They'd been there forty minutes. Stephanie had done most of the talking, while bella had been listening, or close enough. The coffee was good. The sun was out and for a littl
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They were supposed to leave for the Hargrove dinner at eight.It was seven in the evening and Lorenzo was standing by the window in his jacket, phone in hand, not looking at anything in particular. Valentina was at the mirror finishing the last of her earrings. She watched him in the reflection wit
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The meeting had been running for forty minutes and Alex had controlled every minute of it , the pacing, the questions, the silence after certain numbers were presented. He knew how to hold a room without raising his voice. He'd been doing it long enough that it no longer required effort.Then someo
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Valentina was already seated when Evelyn arrived.Not by much, six or seven minutes maybe. But Evelyn had timed it that way and valentina would have understood.They greeted each other with easy and practiced warmth, then evelyn sat. Opened the menu briefly, then set it down like she'd already de
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