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The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 330
Point of View: Alexander"Preston Cole withdrew his funding this morning. Reyes is gone. Mrs. Whitfield doubled her pledge. The board's quiet for the first time in a month."I said it softly, sitting beside Elena's bed at home, the room dim and warm in the late afternoon light, watching her fight the particular restless boredom of a woman who had never once in her life been comfortable doing nothing. She had been flat for four days, exactly as ordered, and the doctor's morning call had brought the first genuinely reassuring news since the false labor scare, her numbers stabilizing, the fluid levels finally holding steady instead of slipping the wrong direction."So we won," she said, though there was no real triumph in it, only tired relief, her hand resting on the small curve of her stomach."We didn't win anything," I said, taking her free hand in both of mine. "We survived one more season of this family's past catching up with its present. I'm starting to think that's simply what t
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Point of View: Elena"Elena. Elena, look at me."Alexander's voice found me through a haze of sudden, sharp pain low in my abdomen, entirely unlike the mild tightening I'd grown used to over the past two weeks, and I realized dimly that I was gripping the arm of the gallery chair hard enough to leave marks in the wood. Mrs. Whitfield's confrontation had resolved itself an hour earlier, gracefully, with a promise to donate double what she'd originally pledged out of what she called guilt for ever doubting me, and I had allowed myself, foolishly, to relax for the first time in days."Something's wrong," I said, echoing the exact words I'd used two weeks earlier, except this time the fear in my own voice frightened me more than the pain did."Stay with me," Alexander said, already lifting me carefully, his voice steady even as his hands weren't. "Marcus, call ahead, tell them we're coming."The drive to the hospital happened in the same fractured pieces as the first time, Alexander's han
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Point of View: Alexander"You have no right to bring me into this house and treat me like I'm on trial, Mr. Sterling."I hadn't invited him. Marcus had, quietly, the moment the box of Vincent Cole's files revealed enough of the old story to make a direct conversation the only honest option left, and I walked into my study to find a man roughly my own age, sharp featured and visibly tense, seated exactly where his father used to sit decades ago when Vincent still came to this house as family instead of as a stranger's inheritance."You've been busy," I said, closing the door behind me, refusing to let his tone set the temperature of the room. "A consultant, three donor lunches, and my wife's school caught in the middle of whatever your father never told you the truth about."Preston's composure cracked slightly at that, his hands tightening on the arms of the chair. "My father told me plenty. He told me your family destroyed his reputation over a business disagreement that should have
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Point of View: Elena"Absolutely not. You are not walking into that school today."Alexander's voice carried the particular flat finality he rarely used with me, and under any other circumstance I might have laughed at how thoroughly the tables had turned since the early days of our marriage, when I was the one enforcing boundaries against a man who barely understood what they were. But Grace had just called to say Mrs. Whitfield herself was at the school, unannounced, asking pointed questions of the staff, and every instinct I had was screaming that this was the moment someone needed to be there who actually understood what was happening well enough to answer them honestly."I'm not asking your permission," I said, already reaching for my coat despite the twinge in my back that had become a familiar, low background hum over the past week. "I built that school out of nothing. I am not going to let a dead man's grudge burn it down while I sit on a couch memorizing the ceiling.""You ar
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Point of View: Alexander"Daniel Reyes is being paid through a shell account, and the account traces back to a name I genuinely did not expect to see again."Marcus laid the printout on my desk without preamble, and I could tell from the set of his jaw that whatever name sat beneath his finger had cost him something to confirm. I braced myself for almost anyone, an old rival, a disgruntled former board member, some ghost from Isabel's past finally surfacing to make trouble."Say it," I told him, bracing both hands flat on the desk."Vincent Cole," Marcus said.The name landed like a weight dropping through my chest. Vincent Cole had been my father's closest friend for thirty years, a man I'd called uncle as a child, right up until the year he quietly liquidated his stake in Sterling Hospitality after a disagreement with my father so bitter neither of them ever spoke of it again before he died. I had assumed, when Vincent passed two years ago, that whatever grudge he'd carried had simp
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Point of View: Elena"I know that name."Isabel said it quietly, staring down at the single page Grace had finally managed to pull together, a consultant's name attached to three different donor lunches across the past month, each one followed within days by a letter expressing sudden concern about the school's finances. I had insisted on being there when Grace brought the findings, over both Grace's and Alexander's objections, on the condition that I stayed seated the entire time and let someone else do the talking if my back started acting up."Where from?" I asked, watching Isabel's face carefully."Daniel Reyes worked for my family's firm four years ago," Isabel said slowly, something hard and unreadable moving behind her eyes. "Before I forced him out for exactly this kind of thing. Quiet pressure campaigns against organizations connected to people he considered enemies. He's very good at making something look like due diligence when it's actually sabotage dressed up in a suit."
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