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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
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 374
Point of View: Alexander"I found her," Rosalind said, her voice shaking before she even finished the sentence, and Richard's face went pale in a way I had never seen from him before.She had spent three weeks quietly searching through her father's old business records, comparing handwriting samples she had gathered from every old memo, every guest book signature, every scrap of paper she could find without drawing attention to what she was actually doing. That evening she brought an old household ledger into the study and set it on the table like evidence in a trial none of us had agreed to attend, her hands trembling slightly as she opened it to the marked page."Teresa Vance," she read aloud, tracing the careful, hesitant slant of the letters with her finger. "She worked as a housekeeper for the Sterling family for almost fifteen years. She left abruptly, according to this ledger, the same year Eleanor disappeared."Richard took the ledger from her with a care that bordered on reve
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 373
Point of View: Elena"You could destroy her career and no one would ever trace it back to him," I said, staring at the folder on Marcus's desk, and I understood in that instant exactly what he had been offered and exactly how close he had come to taking it.I had gone looking for him after midnight, unable to sleep, and found his study light still burning. He was sitting very still, the phone already set down beside him, a folder in front of him that he had not yet closed, and something in the careful way he held himself told me I had walked into the middle of a decision that had not fully resolved itself yet."An old contact called," Marcus said, not looking up. "Someone from a life I promised myself I was finished living. He offered me exactly the kind of leverage that used to feel like oxygen to me. One quiet call. One anonymous leak to the right journalist. Isabel Cardenas would be finished within a week, and no one would ever know it came from me.""What did you tell him?""That
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 372
Point of View: Alexander"She is going to lose the board before we even have to say a word," Richard said, sliding a folder across the table with the quiet satisfaction of a man who had spent thirty years learning exactly how to read a balance sheet like a battlefield.I had called the emergency board meeting expecting a fight over Elena's press conference, over the optics of a Sterling standing on theater steps defending a family scandal in front of every camera in the city. Instead, I found myself staring at numbers that mattered more than any headline, the kind of numbers that had a way of quieting even the loudest room."Cardenas Hospitality is leveraged at nearly four times what their public filings suggest," Richard said. "The merger offer was never about growth. It was about survival. She needed our balance sheet to hide behind before her own creditors noticed hers.""And the scandal," I asked, though I already suspected the answer, "was the distraction to buy her time.""Exact
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 371
Point of View: Elena"They are saying you paid for silence," my assistant whispered before I had even set down my coffee, and the words hit me harder than any headline I had braced myself for all week.I had known the story would grow teeth eventually. Isabel Cardenas had lost the boardroom, so she had gone looking for a stage she could still control, and she had found one in the oldest wound our family carried. The article did not use Eleanor's real name, but it did not need to. Anyone who had followed the Sterling family closely enough could read between the careful, cowardly lines, and by the time I finished scrolling through the third version of the story, three different outlets had already reworded the same insinuation into something that sounded almost like fact."It is not true," I said, though I was really saying it to myself. "None of it is true.""It does not have to be true," Alexander said, standing in the doorway with his tie already loosened and his jaw already set the
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