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CHAPTER 188: THE NEWSPAPER UNDER THE DOOR
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The Billionaires Greatest Regret CHAPTER 188: THE NEWSPAPER UNDER THE DOOR
POV: Leo Ashford "Tell me it is not true," Alexei said. "I would like very much for someone in this house to tell me that." He stood in the front hall with the newspaper held out in front of him like something he had found dead on the lawn. He had not taken off his coat. Rain ran from his hair down the side of his face, and he did not wipe it away. The hall was wide and warm, hung with family photographs, and every one of them seemed suddenly to be looking at him. Vivienne came down the last three steps with her sister close behind. Roman had just come in from the garage and stopped with his keys in his hand. At the foot of the stairs, Katya stood very still with her fingers pressed to her lips, because she had read the headline already. GENEVA ARCHIVE REVEALS AMERICAN TEACHER'S ROLE IN VOLKOV BROTHER'S DEATH. "Alexei," Vivienne said. "Let me explain." "Explain what? That my uncle was arrested because of your father?" His voice was dangerously even. "I have read the article four
The Billionaires Greatest Regret CHAPTER 187: THE SECOND SET
POV: Roman Ashford "Read the second line again," Vivienne said. "Out loud. Slowly." "I have read it five times." "Then read it a sixth." Anya sat at the long kitchen table with the white card flat in front of her and her hands folded on either side of it, the way a woman might sit before a verdict. It was nine in the morning. The police had come and gone, leaving fingerprint powder on the study door and a young detective's business card on the refrigerator. Roman had gone to the foundation to pull the security footage. Priya had taken the baby upstairs. For the first time since dawn the house was quiet. "'Ask your sister what her father really did,'" Anya read. Her voice was flat. "It is written on the back, in smaller letters." "My father." "Our father." "Which means whoever wrote it believes you know something I don't." "Or believes I will find out." Anya looked up. "Vivienne. I do not know what it means. I swear this to you on my mother's grave." "I believe you." "Do you
The Billionaires Greatest Regret CHAPTER 186: THE BREAK-IN
POV: Vivienne Ashford "Don't touch anything," Roman said. "Not the drawer, not the lamp. Nothing." "I wasn't going to." "Your hand is on the desk." Vivienne looked down. Her palm lay flat on the edge of the mahogany desk, fingers spread, the way a person steadies herself on the rail of a ship. She lifted it as if the wood had grown hot. It was half past six on a cold December morning, and gray light was only beginning to find the window of her study. The room looked as though a storm had walked through it. Books lay face down on the carpet. Every drawer hung open. The portrait of her mother had been taken from the wall and leaned against the sofa with its back slit open. And the safe behind the portrait stood wide. "They knew the combination," she said. "Or they had a very good drill." "There's no mark on it." "Then they knew the combination." Roman stood in the doorway in his bathrobe with his phone pressed to his ear, listening to a dispatcher explain that a car was on its
The Billionaires Greatest Regret CHAPTER 185: THE SECOND WEDDING
POV: Vivienne Ashford"If you step on my train," Vivienne said, "I will never forgive you.""I do not step on trains," Anya said. "I have excellent balance.""You stepped on Maya's at her wedding.""That was Thomas. Maya's husband. You are confusing us.""I am not confusing you. I was standing right there.""Then you are misremembering, and I think this is a conversation we should have after the ceremony."They stood side by side in a small, sunlit room at the top of the Connecticut house, once Eleanor's sewing room, now the bride's dressing chamber. Autumn light poured through the tall windows. Outside, in the garden, a hundred white chairs stood in rows beneath the bare apple trees, and a string quartet was tuning somewhere near the rosebushes. Vivienne wore a gown the color of old ivory, long-sleeved, simple, cut close at the waist. Her hair was swept up. She wore no veil. She wore a thin gold chain around her neck, and from it hung a tiny key."Is it too much?" she asked."The dre
The Billionaires Greatest Regret CHAPTER 184: FORTY DOLLARS AND A BUS TICKET
POV: Leo Ashford"Mr. Ashford," said Senator Kline, "you will understand if some of us are skeptical.""I would be surprised if you weren't, Senator."The hearing room was vast and paneled in dark walnut, with a high dais at one end and a long, scarred witness table at the other. Cameras ranged along the back wall. Every seat in the gallery was filled. Leo sat alone at the table in a charcoal suit with a single glass of water and a stack of folders, and he could feel the heat of a hundred stares at the back of his neck.Behind him, in the first row, sat his family. His mother, in navy, hands folded. His father, jaw set. Priya with the baby asleep against her shoulder. Beyond them, spilling into the aisle, were forty men and women in borrowed jackets and nervous ties.The senator leaned into his microphone. He was sixty-four, silver-haired, with a face like a disappointed hawk. "The Second Chance Initiative has held a federal reentry contract for six years. In that time, according to o
The Billionaires Greatest Regret CHAPTER 183: JUNE
POV: Oliver Hale"We're having a baby," Grace said. "In June. And before anyone screams, I would like to eat something."The dinner table went completely silent. A fork hung halfway to Maya's mouth. Thomas, mid-pour, held a bottle of wine at a slant while a thin red thread dribbled onto the tablecloth. Leo set down the baby's spoon. At the far end, Gerald Pryce, who had been invited for the first time and had not stopped fidgeting with his napkin, went white as the tablecloth.Then Maya screamed.It was a full-throated shriek of the kind she had last produced at the age of eleven, when a puppy had appeared on her birthday. She hurled herself out of her chair and across the room and flung both arms around her sister's neck, and the two of them rocked back and forth, sobbing and laughing, while the chairs scraped and the glasses rattled and the whole table erupted."A baby!" Maya was shouting. "A *baby!* You're going to be a mother! I'm going to be an aunt for the *second time*!""You w
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