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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
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The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER EIGHTY SIX
LAURA Okay, the silence that followed the click of the disconnected call was more violent than the threats themselves. I could feel Juniper's eyes on me, a mixture of pity and terror, but for the first time in months, I did not feel like crying. I felt cold—the kind of surgical cold that takes over when you are looking at a patient bleeding out on the table. I realized that if you don't stop the hemorrhage right now, there won't be a body left to save. “Laura, speak to me. What did she say?” Juniper gripped my shoulder, trying to ground me. “She wants a trade,” I said, my voice sounding flat even to my own ears. I looked down at the phone in my hand, the device that has been a portal to my own destruction all morning. My silence for Juniper's freedom, my reputation for Xavier's empire. “She’s bluffing,” Juniper hissed. “She’s a desperate woman clinging to a sinking ship.” “No,” I replied, finally meeting Juniper's gaze. My eyes were clear. “She’s not bluffing. Esther doesn’t
The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER EIGHTY FIVE
LAURA "That's the thing you don't know about this life. Everyone is ready to do everything and anything to get what they want. And if manipulating and turning the story around is the only way for him to do it, believe me, he will do it tenfold. I don't know why this is still surprising you. You are supposed to be expecting the negativity. All you have to do is pretend like you don't see it and try to cope with it. That is what matters at this point," she said as I tried calming my nerves down, just as she suggested.But I couldn't fight it. At least one thing I could assure Juniper of was the fact that I would stay away from the media. But I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I couldn't stop worrying and thinking about everyone's negativity towards me. Suddenly, I don’t know. "Why are they suddenly acting like this? Why are they making a big thing out of it? This is not what I wanted. Can't you even see it? This is just the evening of the out, and major outlets are already running differe
The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER EIGHTY FOUR
LAURA I still could not understand what was going on or even how to handle the situation. I was trying all my very best to make Xavier understand me, but yet he didn't and instead caused this little conversation into an angry anger, storming off and leaving me alone, more pissed than ever. I slammed my hands on the counter angrily, trying to control my nerve, but I still could not. How could he? How could he actually look at me and say something such? So bizarre and expect me to stay quiet. All I am trying to do is make him and I have an amicable understanding of the situation. But yet he has. There's a little change to this. I would not be taking any apologies from him. He should go on and act whatever he wants, do anything he likes. Act like he's the only one who is involved in this, even though this is my own mess. I became bored, alone, and I wasn't ready to continue thinking anymore. And of course, I wasn't going to stay alone because the more alone I was, the more everyt
The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE
LAURA I watched Xavier for the first time in such a panic I didn't know how to say or even how to calm the situation down. I was still pissed at him for what he did. And now this. I knew he needed my help. I did not want to even have any conversation with him. I just wanted to keep my distance from him and make him realize his mistakes. But I had to talk. “What is going to happen now? Talk to me. You look like you know what wants to happen, but you are just trying every possible way to avoid it,” I said to him, still trying to show him I was very much angry. “I don’t know. I’m going to find a way, Laura. You don’t have to worry, okay? I don’t know what to say to you at this moment, but your stepdad is just trying to weaponize every trauma you guys face and turn it into a legal nightmare, and he is doing it to destroy the both of us. I am racking my head at the moment to find a possible solution, but I want you to be assured that nothing can go wrong and I just want you to be happy,
The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER EIGHTY TWO
XAVIER I could tell she was just pointing out everything, and I had to give her that chance. “Laura,” I called again, hoping she could calm down, but she scoffed. “Do you even ever tell me the truth? If I don't find out, you don't even try to explain yourself to me, and now I am tired. I am fed up with it. I have tried to trust you, Xavier, with everything. I have always believed in you, but now I don't even know what to say to you anymore,” she said, picking up a coffee as she took a seat beside the counter, a gaze far away from mine. I tried to explain myself, but no words could come out. I knew how the risk assessment made sense to only me, and I believed I was doing what was needed to be done to secure our future. She looked at me again, dropping her coffee. I could tell from just how she panicked that she was not yet satisfied with even her own words. “Don't you understand? Security without agency isn't actually security at all. I would rather struggle together with full kn
The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER EIGHTY ONE
XAVIER The hiss of the espresso machine was the only thing cutting through the suffocating silence of the penthouse. It was a sharp mechanical sound that felt like it was drilling directly into the base of my skull, right where the three fingers of meat scurred from last night and settled into a dull, reddened throat. I stayed in the shadow of the hall before it had been longer than necessary, watching her. Laura was moving with a terrifying and mechanical precision. She didn't hew; she did not scroll through her phone; she just stood there, her back a rigid line of defiance against the floor-to-ceiling windows that displayed the very city I tried to conquer at her expense. Even from behind, I could see the toll the night had taken on this slight slum in her shoulder, the way she gripped her mug like it was the only thing keeping her upright. My chest tightened. I had spent my entire career anticipating moves, calculating risks before they even manifested, yet I had not seen this co
The Billionaire's Ultimatum CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
LAURA “Ughh,” I groaned as I tried to move my limbs but it was no use. Everything hurt.Pain was the first thing I registered as consciousness slowly crept back in—a throbbing sensation that radiated from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. As my eyes slowly opened, my vision swam, blurry
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XAVIER “Right this way sir,” the chauffeur gestured to the elevator and I gave him a slight nod before entering.When the metal doors shifted to a close, I released a breath I hadn’t even realized I was holding.Tonight, I was meeting with the heads of the other families in Chicago at the China tw
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LAURAI blinked slowly as I took in the view through the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room.It was early in the morning, the sun was just beginning to stretch across the sky, pale gold bleeding into blues. I wrapped my robe tighter around me and held onto the coffee I had made for myself.
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LAURAI looked out of the window at the passing buildings as we drove at high speed. The car was relatively silent despite there being four people in it.The driver, Juniper at the front seat, and of course my lovely soon-to-be husband right next to me. The silence was suffocating.It wasn’t helpi
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