本棚
検索
ホーム / Romance / The Billionaire’s unknown Heir / Chapter 40: Ava Sees It First

共有

Chapter 40: Ava Sees It First

作者: Grandpa preslee
last update 公開日: 2026-03-29 02:48:37

Gerald Sutton.

I said the name in my head three times, the way I always did when I was trying to make something real that still felt impossible. Gerald Sutton, twenty-two year veteran of the Blackwood board. Gerald Sutton, who voted with the majority so reliably you could set a watch by it. Gerald Sutton, who had just walked out of a confidential meeting through the south exit, gotten into a car registered to Richard Ashby’s network, and was somewhere in this city right now, talking.

I was stil
この本を無料で読み続ける
コードをスキャンしてアプリをダウンロード
前のチャプター 次のチャプター
ロックされたチャプター

最新チャプター

  • The Billionaire’s unknown Heir   Chapter 44: Chairman Whitmore Makes Contact

    I was still turning that over when my phone buzzed with a message from the hotel front desk, just before noon, saying a letter had been delivered for me and would I like it sent up. I said yes, mostly out of reflex, still half-inside the conversation with Lucas that had ended an hour ago and left me feeling scraped clean in the way that only honest arguments with people you love can manage.The concierge arrived with a cream envelope, heavy stock, my full name written on the front in the kind of handwriting that belonged to a generation that had learned penmanship as a matter of character rather than convenience. I tipped him. I closed the door. I read it standing in the middle of the room.*Ms. Bennett, I wonder if you might join me for dinner this evening. 7pm. The Aldrich Club, ask for my table. I think it is past time we spoke plainly. H. Whitmore.*I read it twice. Then I called Lucas.“Whitmore just invited me to dinner,” I said, the moment he picked up.A short pause. “Handwrit

  • The Billionaire’s unknown Heir   Chapter 43: Ava and Lucas Fight

    I finally fell asleep somewhere around three in the morning and woke up at six feeling like I had not slept at all, which was approximately accurate. My phone had four messages from Lucas, sent between midnight and six-forty-five, each one progressively shorter, which in Lucas language meant he had started the night with a lot to say and had distilled it down to its essential point by morning.The last message, sent at six-forty-five, was three words: *Coming over. Coffee.*He knocked at seven-fifteen. I opened the door still in yesterday’s clothes, which told him everything he needed to know about how my night had gone. He looked at me. He handed me a coffee. He walked in without being invited, which he had been doing since I was twenty-two years old and had never once required permission for.He had the face on. The one I had seen exactly forty-something times in my life. The carefully constructed argument face. The I have been up thinking about this and I am ready to deliver it fac

  • The Billionaire’s unknown Heir   Chapter 42: Victoria Returns

    I stood in the dark for a long time after I put the phone down.That was the honest truth of it. I had told myself I was going to review the last two pages of the restructuring timeline, just the last two, and then sleep. Instead I was standing at the window with the city spread out below me and Adrian’s name still warm on my recent calls list, and I was thinking about a moment that I had not been present for and could not stop turning over in my head.He had laughed tonight. On the phone, recounting Ethan and the museum placard, recounting the donor wall, recounting “she has a bad face” with the helpless warmth of a man who had been completely disarmed by an eight-year-old. That laugh. I had heard it. And I had filed it very carefully in the part of myself I was still pretending was under control.I went to bed.I did not sleep particularly well.My phone lit up at 11:53. I saw the screen from across the room and was out of bed and across the floor before I had fully decided to move,

  • The Billionaire’s unknown Heir   Chapter 41: A Quiet Evening

    I lay awake for a long time that night.The city hummed below the hotel window the way it always did, low and continuous and completely indifferent to the fact that I was staring at a ceiling with too many thoughts and not enough answers. The question I had been carefully not asking myself had surfaced again, the way it kept doing lately, quiet and patient, slipping through every gap I left unguarded.What happened to all of us, after?I didn’t have an answer. I wasn’t sure I was ready for one. So I did what I always did when a problem didn’t have a solution yet. I filed it away, closed my eyes, and went back to work in the morning.Which was how, three days later, I found myself in a back-to-back restructuring session that ran four hours past when I had promised Ethan we would go to the science museum.He had been lobbying for it since Tuesday. Not asking. Lobbying. There is a difference, and anyone who has spent more than forty-eight hours in my son’s orbit understands it immediatel

  • The Billionaire’s unknown Heir   Chapter 40: Ava Sees It First

    Gerald Sutton.I said the name in my head three times, the way I always did when I was trying to make something real that still felt impossible. Gerald Sutton, twenty-two year veteran of the Blackwood board. Gerald Sutton, who voted with the majority so reliably you could set a watch by it. Gerald Sutton, who had just walked out of a confidential meeting through the south exit, gotten into a car registered to Richard Ashby’s network, and was somewhere in this city right now, talking.I was still standing at the window with my phone in my hand and Lucas’s photograph on the screen when I made the call.Adrian picked up on the second ring. “Ava.”“One of the three people you spoke to this morning is not on your side.”The silence that followed was the particular kind that meant someone was doing rapid, painful arithmetic in their head. I had heard that silence before, across boardrooms and conference calls and the specific quiet of deals going wrong. It never got easier to sit inside.“H

  • The Billionaire’s unknown Heir   Chapter 39: Adrian Makes a Decision

    The problem with knowing too much is that you can never unknow it.Daniel called at eight forty-seven in the morning, before I had finished my first coffee, which told me everything I needed to know about how the night had gone on his end.“He made the call,” Daniel said, without preamble. “Last night. He’s set an off-the-record meeting. Three board members, eleven o’clock this morning. He’s going to lay groundwork before he moves on Victoria and Richard. No names yet, he said. Just the shape of it.”I set my coffee down. “Which three?”He listed them. I moved through the names the way I moved through numbers, looking for the soft spots. Two of them I had built a reasonable picture of over the past weeks. The third one I did not have enough on, and in my experience, not having enough on someone was never a comfortable position.“I’ll have Lucas put eyes on the south exit,” I said.A pause. “You think one of them is a problem.”“I think I’d rather be wrong than unprepared.”He was quie

続きを読む

あなたも気に入るかもしれません

無料で面白い小説を探して読んでみましょう
GoodNovel アプリで人気小説に無料で！お好きな本をダウンロードして、いつでもどこでも読みましょう！
アプリで無料で本を読む
コードをスキャンしてアプリで読む
DMCA.com Protection Status