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Chapter 29. The Vindication.
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The Billionaire's Secret Baby. Chapter 31: Alex POV.
For a moment, guilt caught me off guard, creeping in like a shadow he hadn’t invited. The press on the ground floor knew me as a ruthless billionaire — the cold strategist who crushed opponents without blinking. How I hated that image not because it wasn’t true once, but because it was the exact man I had sworn never to become. The man my father had tried to mold me into. At age sixteen, my father had dragged me into a room thick with cigarette smoke and the scent of fear. Making me watch, men knelt in chains, trembling under harsh lights. "I never forget the metallic tang of blood in those rooms, the muffled sobs, the moments when screams cut off too suddenly. I’d fidgeted and flinched — only to feel my father’s hand clamp down on my shoulder. “Stand straight, boy!. Weakness is death. To keep what I have built you must be strong and make your enemies fear you.” My mother’s constant tear-stained face and her warmth built the small, stubborn part of me that resisted becoming my
The Billionaire's Secret Baby. Chapter 30: A Coup in Ashes.
McKinley dragged his guilty self to Eric’s private suite, every step heavier than the last, not knowing what awaited him — a handshake or a noose.The moment he stepped inside, his gut twisted. Eric got company with his other two board accomplices Donovan and Thompson; lounged in the leather armchairs, the three were eager to know what he told Alex.“Well?” Thompson’s tone was casual, but his gaze was like a blade. “What’d you spill to Alex last night?”McKinley forced a casual shrug. “I was at the spa and not with Alex.”Eric laughed a short and humorless laugh. “James McKinley… Don't play dumb with me.” He rose slowly from his chair, every movement coiled with menace. “I’m not Alex. I don’t negotiate, and I don’t forgive. I will strangle you and go to jail for it. Look around you…” he spinned gesturing around “I’ve got nothing to lose, no wife, no family. So, ask yourself — if you have the balls to do this?”His hot whiskey breath hitting McKinley’s face. McKinley’s throat tightened
The Billionaire's Secret Baby. Chapter 29. The Vindication.
The storm in McKinley’s guest room hadn’t fully passed. Shadows still clung to the walls, heavy with the unspoken weight between him and Claire. But miles away, in the top floors of Knight Enterprises, another storm was about to break—this one with a smile sharp enough to cut glass.Anna had been restless ever since she learned that the real threat to Eric wasn’t a rival board member, but his “small man” Noah.She wasn’t about to take chances. The sooner she put Eric behind bars, the sooner she and Alex could breathe again.‘But why is Alex so reluctant to investigate him?’ she thought, pacing her living room. ‘If he really dug, he’d find something that would keep Eric locked up for a long time.”Her phone lit up—Maya calling (FaceTime). Anna let it ring until it cut off.It rang again, he still ignored it.On the third try, she sighed and answered.“Hey, girl,” she forced a smile into her face.“Are you alright, Anna? Something seems… off with you.” Maya’s tone was warm but probing.
The Billionaire's Secret Baby. Chapter 28. Between Blades.
‘The betrayal of Alex had been a sin of desperation but betraying Eric…would be suicidal.’McKINLEYS HOUSE.– Morning AfterThe first thing McKinley noticed when he opened his eyes was the throbbing in his jaw. A deep, pulsing reminder of last night’s “conversation” with Alexander Knight.His guest room was very quiet, and that was somehow worse than hearing Alex’s barking last night. He pushed himself up, every one of his muscles were stiff, his ribs sore from where Alex’s men had “hit him.” It's obvious they didn't listen to Alex's order of “drive him to his apartment uncuffed.” or maybe he spoke ironically. The curtains were half-drawn, letting in a cold shaft of morning light that cut across the floor like a spotlight.He’d thought he’d buried his first betrayal of Alex deep enough that no one would dig it up. A little thing then as little as slipping confidential figures to Holden Vaughn in exchange for a payout that barely covered his secret gambling debt. Alex never noticed b
The Billionaire's Secret Baby. CHAPTER 27 BETWEEN TWO DEVILS
McKinley sped out of Eric’s private suite, the tires of his Mercedes hissing against the asphalt. Just a few meters behind, a familiar black SUV slipped into the street quietly.His fingers tightened around the wheel. “Damn.” He punched the accelerator. He took a Sharp right turn, a left and yet another right — tires screeching now. But the SUV held steady in his rearview, gaining ground. His pulse spiked, his breath shortened, he was being followed. The SUV speeds up behind him, accelerates past and swerves hard, blocking his path. His tires screeched as he slammed the brake.Doors open two Knight Security operatives (ex-Special Forces swarm him, He grabs the handle, but too late they've gotten him already.One pushed a silent needle to his neck before he could scream he blacked out.KNIGHT ENTERPRISES – SECURE SERVER ROOM – NIGHT.The hum of servers fills the dark room. A single monitor glows, casting blue light over Lucia’s face as her fingers fly across the keyboard. Lucia spo
The Billionaire's Secret Baby. Chapter 26. Entangled.
ERIC’S PENTHOUSE SUITE – NIGHTERIC pours himself a drink as city lights blaze through the glass. The door clicks, McKinley storms in, pale, sweating.McKinley panicking said “Holden’s dead, Eric! You said this would be a boardroom coup, not a goddamn body count!”Eric didn't turn. He lifts the glass to his lips, slow and unbothered.Eric spoke calmly, sipping his whiskey intently “And yet... here you are. Breathing. Wearing a ten-thousand-dollar watch. Still on Knight’s board. You’re welcome.” he scoffed.McKinley: “That wasn’t part of the deal. You said we’d push Alex out — not bury people!. We already had seventy percent of the board. We were winning — we offered them stock incentives, buy-ins, future chair seats. They were biting. His voice lowers in disgust. “Alex's holier-than-thou morality was pissing everyone off. He is too clean, too rigid and that's not good for business.”Eric finally turns, his expression razor-sharp.“Exactly my point. There's no room for ambition. No b
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