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Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 12

Penulis: Janne Vellamour
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-06 03:46:29

The DuarteTech headquarters, during times of crisis, transformed into a silent bunker where the only permitted sound was the constant hum of the servers and the methodical click of Helena's keys. She wasn't just a CEO with strategic vision; deep down, beneath the layers of silk and her leadership posture, she remained the brilliant programmer who could see patterns where others saw only noise. That night, while the city of São Paulo slept under a thick fog, Helena was immersed in the digital bo
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    Helena's return to São Paulo after the technology forum was not the triumphant homecoming that the society columns had anticipated, but rather a plunge into deep analytical observation. While Duarte Phoenix was gaining traction and international investors were knocking at its door, she found herself in a dilemma that no audit log could resolve: the weight of trust. Caio Moretti’s request for forgiveness still echoed off the walls of her new office—not as a threat anymore, but as a vibration that disturbed her because of its apparent sincerity. She felt like an expert examining a work of art that could be a perfect forgery or the long-lost original.Helena spent her nights reviewing not only the balance sheets of her reconstruction but also the news about the Moretti Group. She saw the exodus of Caio’s former allies, the market’s resistance to his new transparency policies, and his growing isolation within the Iron Circle. The “cleaning” he had begun was costing him dearly in terms of

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 24

    The frenetic noise of the auditorium, with its blinding lights and the muffled voices of investors, seemed to silence instantly when the door to Helena's private dressing room closed. She was facing away, still feeling the adrenaline from the panel pulsing under her skin, when she heard the soft sound of Caio's breathing in the hallway. She didn't need to turn around to know he was there; his presence now had a different signature, less like a military siege and more like a contained gravity."Helena," his voice sounded low, stripped of any oratorical artifice. "Do you have a minute for the man who didn't come to propose a merger?"She turned slowly. Caio remained at the threshold of the door, his hands in the pockets of his jacket, maintaining a distance that not only respected her physical space but acknowledged the emotional boundary he himself had helped to build. He seemed vulnerable, a word Helena never thought she would associate with the CEO of Moretti Capital. It wasn't the v

  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 23

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  • The CEO’s Fake Bride   Bought by the Billionaire - Chapter 22

    In the following weeks, the headquarters of Moretti Capital became the epicenter of a purge that the financial market watched with a mixture of astonishment and dread. Caio Moretti, the man who had always been the architect of aggressive expansion, had transformed into the executioner of his own structure. He didn’t schedule meetings; he carried out sentences. The “Power Cleanse,” as it came to be called in the whispers of the corridors, began in the Special Operations and Strategic Partnerships sector. Armed with the evidence that Helena had, ironically, helped him see without knowing it, Caio sat at the head of the boardroom table with the coldness of a judge who no longer sought explanations, only the enforcement of the sentence.“André, you have five minutes to gather what’s left of your dignity and get out of this building,” Caio said, his voice stripped of the usual warmth of their boisterous friendship. “Your accounts have been frozen preventively for auditing. Every fake invoi

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    The silence that followed his friends’ departure didn’t bring the intended peace, but an oppressive weight that seemed to pulse against the glass walls of Moretti Capital. Caio was alone, confronted with the residue of his own immaturity, but the real fall was still to come. He sought refuge in work, diving into the internal audit logs of the Special Operations division—the operational arm he had authorized to “be aggressive” with DuarteTech. In his mind, he expected to find market-pressure spreadsheets, records of bank lobbying, and legal strangulation maneuvers. What he found instead was the stench of a cursed empire.Seated at the high-priority security terminal, Caio began deciphering a series of encrypted communications that should never have been there. They were messages exchanged between his logistics director and a network of shadowy customs brokers operating out of the Port of Santos. As the lines of code translated into words, Caio’s stomach churned. His subordinates hadn’t

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    The silence in the penthouse on Avenida Faria Lima was absolute, broken only by the metallic clink of ice cubes against the walls of a crystal glass. Caio Moretti sat in his leather armchair, but he wasn’t watching the financial indicators flashing on his monitors. His eyes were fixed on the trash in the room, where the torn pieces of the merger contract—the document he had believed would be the final link in his victory—lay like confetti from a funeral. He had sent flowers, sent billions in guarantees, and finally sent his lawyers. Nothing had worked. Helena Duarte had simply vanished from the map, leaving behind an empty corporate skeleton and a void in Caio’s chest that no acquisition could fill.He felt like a king in a sandcastle that the tide had begun to lap at. Money, his master tool, had proven useless against absence. He could buy every server DuarteTech owned, bribe every supplier, but he could not buy the sound of Helena’s voice challenging his authority. The loneliness he

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    The lust that set Lorenzo’s office ablaze in the late hours was an intoxicating fuel, but as the Milan sun rose and illuminated the Moretti Tower, Sofia realized that desire alone would not be enough to sustain the woman she had seen in the mirror her entire life. The pleasure of being Lorenzo’s st

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    The grand hall of Palazzo Mezzanotte, headquarters of the Milan Stock Exchange, buzzed with Europe’s financial elite, but to Lorenzo Moretti, the scene felt more like a modern-day Colosseum. The annual Moretti Holdings event was the critical moment that Vincenzo and the Valenti Group had been waiti

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    The night in Milan after the triumph at Palazzo Mezzanotte did not carry the usual chill; there was a dense calm and anticipation in the air of the penthouse, as if the glass walls had finally stopped being a protective dome and were becoming a home. Lorenzo entered the east suite, where Sofia was

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    Milan seemed to have lost its symmetry for Lorenzo Moretti. The man who once found pleasure in the exactness of numbers and the coldness of balance sheets now wandered through his own empire like a stranger. Three days had passed since the silence of the penthouse had become unbearable, and Lorenzo

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