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Point of View: Elena"Breathe. The ambulance is four minutes out, Elena. Just breathe through it."Grace's voice was steady even though her hands weren't quite, kneeling beside the couch where I'd collapsed the moment the first wave hit, and I clung to the sound of her more than the words themselves, some anchor in a room that had suddenly tilted sideways without warning.The pain arrived without any warning this time, nothing like the false alarm three weeks earlier, a tightening so total and so real that I knew, before Grace had even finished dialing for help, that this was the thing the doctor had been trying so carefully to prevent all along."It's too soon," I said, gripping her hand hard enough to bruise, the words coming out more like a plea than a statement of fact. "Thirty days, the doctor said thirty days, it's only been three weeks, not even four.""Babies don't always read the schedule we give them," Grace said, trying for calm and mostly managing it, one hand smoothing th
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 339
Point of View: Alexander"I believe you're familiar with this holding company, Ms. Cardenas."Richard's voice was mild, almost gentle, but the effect landed like a dropped glass in a silent room, and I watched Isabel's carefully constructed calm falter for the very first time since I'd met her, a hairline crack spreading through porcelain that had never once shown a flaw.Friday's boardroom had felt different before anyone said a single word, the air thick with the particular tension of a room full of people who suspected, correctly, that something was about to come apart in front of them in real time. Isabel had arrived last, deliberately, in a dress the color of old blood, and taken her seat with a composure so complete I'd almost admired it, right up until Richard slid the Ferrow Assets documents across the table."Dormant for decades," Richard continued, folding his hands calmly. "Reactivated eighteen months ago to help finance your expansion into Sterling territory. Care to expla
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 338
Point of View: Elena"He says he's the girl's son."Alexander said it the moment he sat down on the edge of the bed that night, before he'd even set down the manila envelope he'd been carrying since the empty house, and I understood immediately, from the flatness in his voice, exactly how much that single sentence had cost him to say aloud.The voice on his phone had belonged, it turned out, to a man named Daniel Reyes, no relation to the board member of the same name who'd left the family's orbit months earlier, and when Alexander finally came home and repeated the conversation to me word for word, I understood immediately why Rosalind had run rather than finish the story herself, why fear had won out over three decades of quiet resolve."My sister's son," Alexander clarified, the envelope still clutched in one hand like he couldn't quite bring himself to set it down even now, hours later. "He says his mother died two years ago, never knowing where she came from, and he only found th
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 337
Point of View: Alexander"Let me."Marcus's hand shot out before I could step through the unlocked door ahead of him, some old instinct from a more dangerous version of himself surfacing at exactly the right moment, and for once I didn't argue with him, didn't even try.Rosalind Ferris hadn't answered her phone that night, or the next morning, and by the time we stood on the porch of the small rented house Marcus had tracked down through an address buried in decades old staff records, I already knew, with a cold certainty I couldn't fully explain, that something had gone badly wrong behind that door.The house was empty, not ransacked, not disturbed in any way that would suggest violence had touched it, just carefully, deliberately empty, drawers left open, closets cleared, the particular emptiness of someone who had packed in a hurry rather than been taken by force against her will."She ran," Marcus said, standing in the center of what had clearly been her bedroom, a single forgotte
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 336
Point of View: Elena"Sit all the way down. This is going to take longer than a minute."I said it as gently as I could manage, but I watched Alexander's face brace for impact anyway the moment he crossed the threshold of our bedroom, still in his suit from the boardroom, exhaustion and something like dread already fighting for space on his features before I'd told him a single word of it.I had rehearsed the rest a dozen times before he walked through the door that night, and every version of it still felt like handing someone a wound instead of an explanation, no matter how carefully I arranged the sentences in my head beforehand."Marcus said you needed to talk to me," he said, sitting carefully on the edge of the bed. "He wouldn't tell me anything else. He looked like a man delivering bad news he hadn't finished reading himself.""He probably felt like one." I took his hand before I began, needing the contact more than he did, maybe, though neither of us said so. I told him everyt
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 335
Point of View: Alexander"I'm curious about the second lien, Ms. Cardenas."Richard's voice cut through Isabel's presentation so mildly that it took the room a full second to register what had just happened, and I watched two board members exchange a glance before they even understood why the temperature had dropped.Thursday's board meeting had started the way all the worst ones did, with everyone smiling too widely and no one saying what they actually meant, and I'd sat through the first twenty minutes of Isabel's presentation feeling like a man watching a beautifully built house with no idea what was holding up the foundation underneath it."The synergies alone justify the valuation," she'd been saying, gesturing at a slide full of numbers that looked, as they had all week, entirely too convenient for a deal this size. "I'd like a vote by Friday, gentlemen. Markets don't wait for due diligence to catch up to opportunity, and neither should this board."Then Richard had spoken, from
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