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The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 470
Point of View: Alexander"Alexander, I have been a coward for sixty years in a very comfortable chair. Wheel me to the steps. If my father's name is going to be said, it will be said in my own voice."My father sat in the back of the car on Friday morning with Eleanor's envelope open on his knee. His hands were not steady. Beside him, Nurse Okoye held a thermos and a blanket and a face carved from loyalty. Outside, the sky over the Delancey Theater was the color of wet slate, and it was ten past eleven."Papa," I said. "You do not have to do this. There is another way.""There is not.""Where is Claire?" he asked, abruptly."At home with Mrs. Garza. She is watching on the tablet. She made me promise to tell her every single detail.""Good." His thin face gentled. "She is the only one of us who asked the right question.""We could find...""Alexander." He lifted Eleanor's letter and held it out. "Read it."I took it. My grandmother's handwriting was fine and spidery, slanting uphill. I
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 469
Point of View: Elena"Mommy, the key is warm. It was not warm this morning. I think the lamp is calling it. Can we go and see, please, before the grown ups decide it is too late?"Claire stood in the lobby of the Delancey Theater at nine on Thursday night, in her yellow raincoat over her pajamas. Her small hand was wrapped around the brass key on its ribbon. Behind her, the old lobby glowed gold in the light of a single wall lamp, and the mural above it gleamed with its painted harbor, ships and gulls and a red sun. Alexander, Odette, Beatrice, and Mina stood in a half circle on the carpet. Marcus stood at the door with his back to us, watching the street. Voss was outside somewhere."I should say no," I said."But you will not," said Claire."Where did you hear that, young lady?" Odette demanded."Mrs. Garza says it is not polite to eavesdrop, but it is very educational." "Because you told me last night the truth is better than the nice story. And I think this is the truth."Out of t
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 468
Point of View: Alexander"You want my real name? Thomas Pryce. My grandfather scrubbed your family's floors with one good hand, and you paid him in silence. Today I am collecting every cent, with interest."He stood on the top step of the Delancey Theater with his back to the tall doors, in a charcoal coat, with a black umbrella furled in his hand. Thorne. Pryce. The man from the ballroom, the man behind the memo. In daylight he looked younger than I expected, and more tired. There were gray hairs at his temples and dark rings under his eyes, and a cut on his chin that he had shaved around carelessly.It was three in the afternoon. A fine rain had returned. Elena stood on the pavement below him with her hands in her coat pockets. I stood beside her. Marcus waited by the car, and Voss was somewhere I could not see, which was exactly where I wanted him."You forged my wife's mother," I said."And the gray van on Fenner Street?" I said."Mine." He did not even blink. "I needed to know ho
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 467
Point of View: Elena"I read clause ten the day your mother wrote it, Elena, and I have wept over it for thirty five years. Please sit down. The number at the bottom is not the worst part."Beatrice Lowe's flat on Thursday morning was all lace and photographs. The curtains were drawn against the gray light, and a single lamp burned over a card table where a thick cream document lay open. Margaret Hart's real handwriting crawled across it in blue ink. I stood in the doorway a long moment before I could make myself cross the carpet.Alexander had stayed in the car. At my request. It was the hardest thing I had ever asked him, and the first time he did it without arguing. I could see his shape through the window below, waiting, like a dog told to guard a gate."Read it to me," I said. "All of it. Do not soften it.""Are you certain, child? Some words cannot be unheard.""I have heard worse in the last three days. Read."Beatrice put on her spectacles. Her old hands shook, but her voice d
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 466
Point of View: Alexander"Do not follow me. I am going to Odette's, and I am going alone, because for the first time in my life I do not want to be loved by anyone named Sterling. Not even you."The front door closed. It did not slam. Somehow that was worse.I stood in the hall with the envelope in my hand and listened to her car start, and idle, and pull away. The house made its small night noises around me. Upstairs, a floorboard creaked under Mrs. Garza's slippers. In the living room, a chair scraped. Marcus had stood up."Go after her," he said."She asked me not to.""Since when do you do what you are told?""Since I learned what it costs to be the man who never listens." I turned the receipt over. The back was blank, soft as cloth. "If I follow her tonight, I make this about me. It is about her mother. It is about her."Marcus was quiet for a moment. "That is the smartest thing I have heard you say in ten years.""I am as surprised as you are.""Do not tell anyone," Marcus added
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 465
Point of View: Elena"Elena, a payment from Marcus's old token is not a rumor. It is a crime with a date on it. Give me one reason, just one, why the board should not remove him before breakfast."Helen's voice crackled from the speaker on our coffee table. It was eight at night, and the living room felt like a courtroom that someone had dressed with cushions. Alexander stood at the fireplace like a judge. Marcus sat on the edge of the sofa with his hands clamped between his knees. Priya knelt at the table with her laptop open. Mina had gone to sit with Walter Pryce, and I missed her steady, shaking presence.I had not forgiven Marcus for everything. I want to be honest about that. A small cold part of me still waited for the old flinch, the one he used to wear in the boardroom when he was cornered. I looked for it now. It was not there. He just looked tired and terrified, like a man who has been sleeping in a house he suddenly realizes is on fire."Helen, give us a moment," I said."
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