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chapter 399
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The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 399
Point of View: Alexander"Mr. Sterling, please sit down. Your wife is asleep and the baby is breathing on her own. But there is something we need to talk about."Dr. Patel took off her surgical cap, and her hair fell loose around her tired face. I had been standing in that waiting room for two hours and forty minutes. My shirt was ruined. My hands would not stop shaking."Something we need to talk about," I repeated. My voice sounded very far away. "What does that mean?""It means you have a daughter," she said, and a small smile broke across her face. "She is small and loud and completely healthy."I heard a strange sound, and realized it was coming from me. My knees gave out, and I dropped into the plastic chair behind me, both hands covering my face."And Elena?" I managed."Exhausted but stable. She lost some blood. We gave her a transfusion and she responded very well. She will need rest, but she will be fine."A hand landed on my shoulder. My father stood beside me, leaning heav
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 398
Point of View: Elena"Do not look at the road, Elena. Look at me. I have never lost a passenger and I am not about to start tonight."Marcus's voice was steady, but his knuckles were white on the steering wheel. The black car tore through the city streets, past shining shop windows and blurred traffic lights. The seats smelled of leather and rain. Every time we hit a bump, a wave of pain rolled up my spine and squeezed the breath out of me."Faster," I gasped."I am going as fast as I safely can.""Marcus, this is not the time to be safe."Rain began to tap the windshield. Streetlights swept over Alexander's face in bars of yellow and shadow. I thought about the nursery at home, still smelling of new paint, and the tiny yellow blanket folded on the crib. I had imagined this night a hundred times. In none of those dreams had there been a wire, a stage, and a man named Cardenas in handcuffs."Talk to me," I begged. "About anything. Say something normal.""The nursery curtains are the wr
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 397
Point of View: Alexander"Do not be afraid, Julian. You look so much like her. You have her eyes, and you are walking straight into my hands, just as she once did."The voice drifted down from the dark balcony of the Delancey Theater, calm and warm and almost kind. I sat in the van outside with Vanessa's headphones pressed to my ears, and every muscle in my body turned to stone.It was not Silas Pryce's voice.It was an older voice. A slower voice. And I knew it the way you know a nightmare after twenty years of dreaming it."Cardenas," Marcus breathed beside me.On the small monitor, the grainy feed from Julian's wire showed the old stage under a single work light. The velvet seats sat in shadows. Dust floated in the beam like slow snow. Julian stood at the center of the stage, alone, holding his hands loosely at his sides. I could see the tension in his shoulders even through the bad picture."You are very brave to come," Cardenas said."You said you had a letter," Julian answered.
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 396
Point of View: Elena"I know that coat. I know the way he holds that glove. Elena, that man stood in Eleanor's doorway twenty years ago, and she never slept a full night after."Teresa's hand pressed against the screen as if she could touch the photograph. Her fingers trembled. The kitchen at the main house was warm and smelled of cinnamon and coffee, but I suddenly felt cold all the way through.It was the morning of the meeting. The whole house moved quietly, like people who had agreed not to make any noise. Rosalind was upstairs helping Julian choose what to wear. Richard sat at the head of the breakfast table, gripping his cane. Alexander stood behind me, one hand resting on my shoulder."Teresa, are you certain?" I asked gently."I would know him anywhere." She lowered herself into a chair, breathing hard. "He came on a rainy night. Eleanor made me hide in the pantry with Julian. Julian was so small then, barely walking. She told me to keep him quiet no matter what I heard.""Wha
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 395
Point of View: Alexander"If this goes wrong, Alexander, tell Julian I never took the deal. Tell him I never wanted it. Promise me that much."Marcus said it in the dim garage behind Vanessa's office, with his back against the hood of a car and the smell of oil and cold concrete around us. It was ten at night. The plan had been laid out for two hours. Everyone else had gone upstairs to rest.I stood across from him with my hands in my pockets and my heart hammering in a way I did not like."Nothing is going to go wrong," I said."You do not believe that.""No," I admitted. "I do not."He laughed, softly, without any humor. "At least you are honest.""Someone in this family should be."The words came out harder than I intended, and I saw them land. Marcus looked at the floor. A long silence passed. Somewhere upstairs a chair scraped across a wooden floor."You still think I might betray you," he said."I think you might get scared," I said. "And when you get scared, you get very quiet.
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 394
Point of View: Elena"Congratulations, Mrs. Sterling. Such a fragile time for a family. I do hope the baby arrives before the next scandal does."Grant Whitlow's smile was perfectly polite. His voice was warm honey. And under the honey, if you listened closely, there was something cold and patient that made every hair on my arms stand up.We were standing at the Sterling Foundation charity luncheon, under a tent of white silk, surrounded by women in soft hats and men in dark suits. Music from a string quartet drifted over the tables. The air smelled of lilies and warm bread and expensive perfume.I lifted my glass of sparkling water and smiled back at him with every ounce of calm I owned."Thank you, Grant," I said. "That is very kind. It means a lot, coming from someone who has always been so concerned for our family.""Of course. We are all family, in a way." He glanced at my stomach, and his eyes lingered just a second too long. "The board has always wanted what is best for the Ste
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