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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
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 379
Point of View: Elena"The headline says everything," Alexander said quietly, sliding the newspaper across the breakfast table where CARDENAS OUT sat printed in letters far larger than the story probably deserved.I read the article slowly, watching the careful, clinical language describe a company's emergency restructuring, a board's unanimous vote, a chief executive's quiet, dignified exit from the very industry she had spent two decades dominating. There was no mention of Eleanor. No mention of our family at all, beyond a brief note that Sterling Hospitality's original merger offer had since been formally withdrawn."It is over," I said softly, though the words did not carry the triumph I had expected them to carry."It is," Alexander agreed. "Though I find myself feeling less victorious than I imagined I would."We were not the only ones. Marcus arrived for breakfast quieter than usual, his eyes distant in a way that suggested he was still turning over something from the boardroom
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 378
Point of View: Alexander"There is someone at the gate asking for Rosalind specifically," the housekeeper said, and I saw the color drain slightly from Rosalind's face before the woman had even finished the sentence.Marcus had spent the last several days quietly tracking down any current address connected to Teresa Vance, and none of us had truly believed we would find her this quickly, if at all. I walked with Rosalind to the front hall, uncertain what we were about to face, the two of us exchanging a glance that carried more questions than either of us could put into words in the time it took to reach the door.An elderly woman stood at the gate that afternoon, small and careful in her movements, her eyes scanning the house behind Rosalind like she was afraid it might vanish if she looked away."Are you Rosalind," she asked, her voice trembling slightly, a hesitant quality I recognized instantly from the careful loops in the note Rosalind had shown all of us weeks earlier."Yes," R
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 377
Point of View: Elena"They want a representative from the family in the room," Richard said, and I watched something twist sharply behind Marcus's careful composure, an old, familiar dread wrapped around a feeling he did not immediately seem to recognize as hope.Cardenas's board had requested, through an intermediary, that someone from the Sterling family attend their emergency vote as an outside observer, a strange courtesy extended by a company about to publicly dismantle itself. Alexander suggested Marcus be the one to go, and I asked to go with him, unwilling to let him walk into that room alone."Why insist on coming," Marcus asked me quietly in the car, his eyes fixed on the passing buildings rather than on me. "Surely Alexander would be the more appropriate face for this.""Because I do not think you should have to sit in that room by yourself," I said. "Not after everything you have already survived to get here."He did not answer right away, and I let the silence sit between
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 376
Point of View: Alexander"Her own chief financial officer leaked the rest," Richard said, storming into my office without knocking, a folder clutched in his hand like a live wire he was eager to hand off to someone else.I had expected the story to spread slowly, carefully, the way most financial scandals did, filtering out through press releases and cautious statements from lawyers being paid to say very little. Instead, it had exploded overnight, and the source, apparently, had come from inside Cardenas's own company, which was a kind of ending I had not entirely anticipated."Why would her own team turn on her now," I asked, though I suspected I already knew part of the answer."Because once our numbers hit the papers, her staff realized their pensions, their jobs, their entire futures were tied to a leveraged gamble she never told them about," Richard said. "People forgive a lot of things. They do not easily forgive being lied to about their own livelihoods."By midmorning, three
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 375
Point of View: Elena"You think you have already won," Isabel Cardenas said the moment I stepped into the private dining room, her voice smooth and cold in a way that made the temperature of the whole room seem to drop several degrees.I had agreed to meet her alone, against Alexander's better judgment and Richard's outright objection, because I believed, perhaps foolishly, that some conversations needed to happen without an audience to perform for. The restaurant had cleared the room for us at her request, and the quiet felt less like privacy and more like a held breath."I do not think anyone has won yet," I said, taking the seat across from her without waiting to be invited. "I think we are simply the two people left standing after everyone else stepped back."She studied me for a long moment, something sharp and assessing behind her carefully composed expression, the look of a woman who had spent her entire career learning to read rooms for weakness."Your family's numbers will be
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