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Chapter 28— Lydia’s Attempt
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The Billionaire’s Vengeful Heiress Chapter 28— Lydia’s Attempt
Lydia stood on the pavement across the street from Eternal Jewelry Designs, her eyes moving slowly up the glass and steel facade.The morning sun hit it at an angle that made the whole structure seem to glow from the inside. Clean. Powerful. The kind of building that told you everything about the person who owned it before you ever stepped through the door.She had done her research. Roberta Alfred was not just a jewelry designer who had returned to town after years abroad. She was connected to every elite circle that mattered in Litsville and beyond. The kind of woman whose name on an invitation made people say yes before they even read the rest of it. The kind of woman whose endorsement could open doors that money alone could not.Lydia wanted those doors open. She had been working toward the kind of life she deserved for years, and she had gotten close through every careful move she had made. But close was not enough anymore. Not when she could see exactly how far she still had to
The Billionaire’s Vengeful Heiress Chapter 27— The workshop
The evening had settled quietly over Litsville. Through the tall windows of my private workshop, the city lights were beginning to flicker on one by one, the streets below shifting from the sharp rush of the afternoon into something slower and softer.My workshop sat inside my office suite on the executive floor, separate from the large communal space downstairs where the craftsmen worked. This one was mine alone. My tools arranged exactly as I liked them. My sketches pinned to the wall in the order they came to me. This has been my space to think without interruption.The half-finished pendant sat under the lamp where I had left it that morning. I picked it up and turned it slowly, checking the center stone setting against the light.I was still examining it when the door opened.Ray came in without knocking. That alone told me everything.He crossed the room, set his phone face up on the bench beside my tools, and stepped back without a word. His arms folded across his chest, waitin
The Billionaire’s Vengeful Heiress Chapter 26
Third person Pov— LEOThe office had not seen sunlight in three days.Leo had kept the blinds shut since Monday, not because the light bothered him but because he did not want to be seen from the building across the street. A small, irrational thing. He knew that. But the past week had made him careful in ways he had not been before.Even after paying the blackmailer off, the unease had not left him. It sat low in his chest like something that had not finished with him yet. What if the blackmailer was still out there, still watching, tracking every move he made from a distance he could not measure?He was standing at the window with his back to the door when he heard the knock. One knock. Firm. The kind that did not ask permission."Come in."Harper entered without hurry. He was the kind of man who never seemed to be in a rush, which was either the sign of someone very calm or someone who had already decided how everything was going to end. He set his briefcase down, placed his thick
The Billionaire’s Vengeful Heiress Chapter 25
Roberta’s PovI set my coffee cup down and read through it once more, slowly, the way you read something you have worked very hard for and want to feel properly.Leo had not pushed back on a single clause. Not the veto power. Not the public acknowledgment. Not even the repayment conditions that gave me full authority to step into Grey Jewelry operations if he defaulted. He had signed all of it. Every word. Every trap I had buried inside.The loan agreement notification came through while I was still at my desk, watching the city ease itself into the late morning outside my window.Every paper signed and countersigned. Every term accepted without a single change.I stared at his signature for a long moment. He had not questioned a single term. Not one.Drowning men really never negotiate. They just reach for whatever hand is extended and hold on to it.Ray came in a few minutes later carrying a thick folder under his arm. He dropped it onto my desk without ceremony and dropped himself
The Billionaire’s Vengeful Heiress Chapter 24
Chapter 24Third person pov Leo stared at his phone. He pinched himself once, then again, just to be sure none of this was a dream he was about to wake up from.Fifty million dollars right there. Sitting in his account as calmly as if it had always belonged there.He read the notification three times before his brain accepted it as real. He exhaled slowly, the kind of breath a man releases when he has been holding it for far too long without realizing.His hands were still trembling as he set the phone face down on the desk. The blackmailer would be paid. The video buried. Everything would go back to the way it had always been. Relief flooded through him.He had barely finished that thought when the office door swung open.Lydia walked in. She did not say a word at first. She simply looked at him, her gaze moving over his face the way it always did, slow and deliberate, like she was reading something written there that he had not meant to leave visible."You look strange," she said,
The Billionaire’s Vengeful Heiress Chapter 23
The Puppet Master The morning light came in thin and pale through my study window. I sat at my desk with both hands wrapped around a mug of coffee that had long gone cold, my eyes fixed on the laptop screen in front of me.Ray sat across from me. His own coffee was untouched. He leaned forward with his elbows resting on his knees, watching the same grainy footage with the kind of focused silence that had always reminded me of our father.I had not slept well.The footage Carlos sent me at five in the morning kept me awake. I kept watching it on repeat until I had every detail memorized.On the screen, a man in dark clothes moved through the corridor outside the Eternal Jewelry vault. His steps were careful and deliberate. He paused at exactly the right corners and avoided exactly the right cameras, making it clear he was not acting on instinct. Someone had trained him, briefed him, or both."Hired muscle," I said quietly.Ray reached over and paused the footage. He tapped the screen.
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