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The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 385
Point of View: ElenaAlexander read the message aloud in a voice I barely recognized, and for a moment nobody in that study moved at all.Then Richard was in the doorway, his face gray, his hand braced against the frame. "Say that again.""They found him," Alexander said. "Marcus found him."Richard sat down heavily on the nearest chair, one trembling hand pressed to his mouth, and I knelt beside him and held his other hand while the phone rang again and Alexander answered on speaker.It was well past midnight when Marcus and Rosalind finally called back with the whole of it, both of them talking over the line together, their voices tired and raw and lit from within."He did not fall apart or brighten the way I braced for," Marcus said. "He went very still, the way a man does when a sentence lands somewhere he has spent his whole life quietly preparing for. He asked one of his older students to take over the piano and said family was not a word strangers usually open with.""He was gu
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 384
Point of View: AlexanderThe doctor confirmed it at ten in the morning, and by noon I still had not stopped smiling like a fool, even while I stood in the driveway watching my brother load a single bag into a rental car."You look strange," Marcus said, slamming the trunk. "Happy, but strange.""Long night," I said, which was true, and gave him nothing else. "Call me the moment you land. Both of you."Rosalind hugged Elena tightly before climbing into the passenger seat, and I watched the car disappear down the long drive with a knot of hope and worry tangled so tightly in my chest I could not have said where one ended.Marcus called that afternoon from the road, his voice tight and strange over the speaker."The city is smaller than I expected," he said. "Quieter. It is nothing like the world I spent my whole life clawing through. It unsettles me more than I want to admit.""You are allowed to be unsettled," I said. "You are walking into someone else's whole life.""Rosalind says I a
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 383
Point of View: ElenaMy hands were shaking so badly I nearly dropped the small white stick twice before I finally made myself look down at what it was trying to tell me.Two lines. Steady, undeniable, impossible to argue with no matter how many times I blinked at them in the dim bathroom light, my heart hammering somewhere high in my throat.I sat down slowly on the edge of the bathtub, pressing one hand flat against my stomach, trying to make the news feel real inside a body that still felt entirely like my own.Alexander knocked softly. "Elena? You have been in there a while. Are you alright?""I am fine," I called back, my voice not quite steady. "Give me one moment."I stood, caught my own reflection in the mirror, and did not recognize the expression staring back at me, somewhere between terror and a joy so large it frightened me almost as much as the fear did.When I opened the door, Alexander was standing there with concern written plainly across his face, and I simply held the
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 382
Point of View: AlexanderThree days into Marcus's search, we had a city, a decades old address, and a silence so complete it felt almost deliberate, as though someone had scrubbed a man's whole life from the record on purpose.I stood in the study watching my brother pace in front of the fireplace with his phone pressed to his ear, his jaw tight with the particular frustration of a man used to solving problems faster than this one was allowing him to."Nothing," Marcus said, ending the call and dropping into the nearest chair. "The address from Teresa's letters belongs to a woman who bought the house eleven years ago. She has never heard the name Julian in her life.""People move," Rosalind offered gently from the doorway. "That does not mean the trail is dead.""It means it is thirty years cold," Marcus said. "People who do not want to be found have a way of disappearing properly.""Or he simply grew up and moved on with an ordinary life," Elena said from the sofa, where she sat with
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 381
Point of View: ElenaI woke before dawn with Teresa's voice still echoing in my chest, a single word she had not yet spoken pressing against my ribs like something waiting to be born.None of us had slept well. I found Alexander already dressed, standing at the window of our bedroom watching the sky turn from black to gray, his hands braced against the sill as though the house itself might tilt if he let go."You did not sleep," I said, coming to stand beside him."I kept thinking about what Richard's face looked like," he said quietly. "A brother or sister he never knew existed. At his age. After everything.""Do you think he is afraid," I asked."I think he is terrified," Alexander said. "And I think he would rather die than admit it."We found the rest of the family already gathered in the kitchen when we came down, Teresa seated at the head of the table now instead of hovering near the door, as though the act of confessing had finally earned her a place among us."I want to say th
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 380
Point of View: Alexander"Eleanor did not leave alone," Teresa said, and the sentence landed in the study like something shattering, quiet and total, the kind of silence that follows a truth no one had thought to prepare for.We had gathered again that evening, all of us, Elena beside me, Richard and Rosalind across the table, Marcus standing near the window with his arms crossed and his expression carefully still. Teresa sat in the center of it all, small and steady now in a way she had not managed the day before, as though finally saying the words out loud had already begun to lighten something inside her."What do you mean, she did not leave alone," Richard asked, his voice tight with a fear I had rarely heard from him."She was pregnant," Teresa said quietly. "That is why she left. Not simply out of fear or shame. She wanted to protect her child from a family she believed would never accept the circumstances."The room went utterly still. I felt Elena's hand find mine beneath the
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