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The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 390
Point of View: AlexanderTeresa did not answer right away, and the silence stretched long enough that I watched Julian's face brace itself for something painful, as though he had already decided the worst answer was the likely one."No," Teresa finally said, her voice steady despite the tears gathering in her eyes. "Not once, in twenty years, did she ever say she regretted you. She grieved this family. She missed them terribly, in ways she never fully let me see. But she never, not for a single moment, regretted choosing to protect you."Julian's shoulders dropped slightly, some tension I had not fully registered finally releasing from his posture, and my father reached out to grip his arm gently, steadying him the way he had been steadying all of us for weeks."She used to say," Teresa continued softly, "that some choices cost you one kind of happiness to buy another kind, and that she would make the same trade a thousand times over if it meant keeping you safe.""I wish I could have
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 389
Point of View: ElenaThe statement went out on a Thursday morning, careful and dignified exactly as Alexander had promised, and for two full days it seemed as though the family might actually be allowed a private, gentle ending to Julian's story.Then, on Saturday, Alexander's phone would not stop ringing, and I knew before he even answered it that whatever calm we had managed to buy had just quietly run out."Someone leaked the letters," he said grimly, ending the call and pressing his fingers hard against his temples. "Not the statement. The actual letters. Eleanor's own handwriting, photographed and sent to three different outlets overnight.""How," I demanded, feeling something cold settle low in my stomach that had nothing to do with the baby growing there."I do not know yet," Alexander said. "But someone in this house, or close enough to it, had access to something they should never have touched."Richard's face went pale when we told him, his hands curling into fists at his si
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 388
Point of View: AlexanderJulian had been with us three weeks when the first uneasy whisper reached the boardroom, and I felt my own face tighten the moment I read the message on my phone at breakfast."What is it," Elena asked, though something in my expression must have already told her the answer would not be good."Someone on the board heard a rumor," I said quietly. "An unknown relative suddenly living at the family estate. They want to know who he is, and more importantly, whether he has any claim to company shares.""He has not asked for a single thing," Elena said, a flash of protective anger sharpening her voice. "He came for family, not for money.""I know that," I said. "You know that. The board does not know that, and they are far more interested in liability than in love."Father, overhearing from the next room, appeared in the doorway with a look on his face I had not seen since the worst days of the Cardenas scandal, sharp and immovable."Let them ask," he said firmly. "
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 387
Point of View: ElenaThe week before Julian arrived felt longer than the thirty years it had taken to find him, every hour stretched thin with a nervous, hopeful energy that made the whole house feel like it was holding its breath.Richard had insisted on preparing a room himself, something he had not done for a guest in decades, and I found him twice folding and refolding the same set of towels as though the smallest imperfection might undo everything."He is not coming to judge the linens, Richard," I said gently, catching him at it a third time."I know that," Richard said, not looking up. "I simply do not know what else to do with my hands right now."Marcus had flown back ahead of Julian to help prepare the family, quieter than usual, carrying himself with the careful weight of a man who understood exactly how fragile this moment was for everyone involved."He is nervous," Marcus told us the night before, gathered in the study the way we always seemed to gather for the things tha
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 386
Point of View: AlexanderMy father had not left the study in two days, and watching him wait for a phone call that might never come was harder, somehow, than watching him grieve for Eleanor had ever been."He has the card," I said gently, sitting across from him. "He knows how to reach us. Sometimes waiting is the kindest thing we can offer someone.""I am seventy three years old," Father said quietly, not looking up from the window. "I do not have unlimited time to wait gently for anything anymore."Something painful moved through my chest at that, the particular helplessness of a son who cannot fix the one thing his father actually needs fixed."You found him once already, decades too late to raise him," Elena said carefully, sitting beside him. "Do not let fear rush the only part of this you still have control over. Let him come to you in his own time."Father turned to look at her then, his eyes tired but sharp, still every bit the man who had built an empire from nothing before l
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 385
Point of View: ElenaAlexander read the message aloud in a voice I barely recognized, and for a moment nobody in that study moved at all.Then Richard was in the doorway, his face gray, his hand braced against the frame. "Say that again.""They found him," Alexander said. "Marcus found him."Richard sat down heavily on the nearest chair, one trembling hand pressed to his mouth, and I knelt beside him and held his other hand while the phone rang again and Alexander answered on speaker.It was well past midnight when Marcus and Rosalind finally called back with the whole of it, both of them talking over the line together, their voices tired and raw and lit from within."He did not fall apart or brighten the way I braced for," Marcus said. "He went very still, the way a man does when a sentence lands somewhere he has spent his whole life quietly preparing for. He asked one of his older students to take over the piano and said family was not a word strangers usually open with.""He was gu
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