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The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 159
CLARKI had known something was wrong about Sarah Hale's death for about two years.I hadn’t known anything specific though. I hadn't known about the compound, the physician's notes, or Franklin Adler. What I had known waa that there was a gap. During my early research into Richard Hale, research I had done after I reached out to Victoria, I came across a payment made shortly before Sarah's death to a private medical firm that no longer existed by the time I found the record.I flagged it and filed it away. I told myself it was nothing and chasing it wouldn't help Victoria in any immediate or practical way. She was trying to rebuild her life. She was trying to survive. The last thing she needed was me dropping an unanswered question about her mother's death into the middle of all of that.So I said nothing.That was the decision I had to stand behind when Victoria sat across from me in my apartment that night and waited for an answer. The city was dark outside the windows. She hadn't
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 158
VICTORIAHis name was Franklin Adler. He was sixty-eight years old, semi-retired, and he had managed my mother's estate with a level of care that I had always taken, as a newly orphaned twelve-year-old then, to be purely professional.I met him that evening in his office on the Upper West Side. Isabella came with me. I hadn't told Clark. I wasn't entirely sure why, except that whatever I was about to hear, I needed to hear it without his presence in the room. This was something I needed to listen to on my own terms.Franklin Adler's office smelled like old books and printer paper. This was the kind of office that had looked the exact same for decades and had no plans to change. He stood when we walked in, and I could see right away that he was nervous. This wasn’t the polite kind of nervousness people put on when they met someone they'd read about. No, this was the nervousness of a man who had been carrying something heavy for a very long time and was finally being asked to say it ou
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 157
VICTORIAJudge Cole didn't rule right away. She never did. That was actually one of the things that made her decisions so hard to fight.What she did, at four-thirty in the afternoon, was issue an interim ruling. She held the company operations intact while a full review of the evidence was carried out. She also declined the identity challenge without prejudice and ordered a deep digging of the contested founding documents.It wasn't a win. It wasn't a loss either. It was the setup for the next round.Trent's legal team moved fast. The second the ruling came out, they were already huddled in the hallway in a tight circle, voices low. Celestine's lawyers packed up their things slowly, which told me they were watching, taking notes, and filing away whatever they could use later.Clark found me near the doors and stood close. He didn't touch me. "She didn't freeze your operations," he said."She didn't dismiss their case either," I replied."The deep digging will take weeks.""I know," I
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 156
VICTORIAThe second recess came at two in the afternoon, and I used every second of it.I found Isabella in the hallway outside the conference room on the second floor, grabbed her arm, and pulled her inside. She had a coffee in one hand and her phone in the other, but she set both down the moment she saw my face.I closed the door."Celestine Vare is making a play," I said. "And I don't have all the pieces yet. What I know is that she had Sylvie Rhodes ready for this hearing, which means she's been following this case in real time. Someone has been feeding her information.""Inside your team?" Isabella said."Or inside the court itself," I replied. "Someone who knew the hearing date and knew what we were planning to present in front of the judge today."Isabella thought about it for a second. She wasn't the kind of person who rushed to fill silence with noise. "What does she actually want out of this?""The Rhodes trust assets," I said. "Daniel moved money through systems that Celest
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 155
VICTORIAWhen the hearing picked back up, Deena Reyes went after Clark first.She was good at it. Every question was built to make his early involvement look not like an honest mistake he had corrected, but like something he had been deliberately running for a long time. She wanted the judge to see deception. She wanted the word "coordinated" to ring in everyone’s minds.Clark answered every question in the same even tone.He confirmed the framework. He confirmed that he had commissioned it early on. He walked the court through, clearly and without any visible discomfort, the exact moment he understood how it was being used. He described the steps he had taken to remove himself from it. He described everything the way a person did when they were confident in what they'd done and didn't need to hide anything.Deena Reyes tried to make those steps look weak. Clark made them look like exactly what they were: fast, documented, and decisive.I watched from across the table and kept my face
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VICTORIAShe was in a small room off the main hallway. A court officer had taken her there during the recess, and when I pushed the door open, she was sitting alone at a table with a glass of water in front of her and her hands folded in her lap.She looked up the moment I walked in.She had the kind of stillness about her that you could only get from years of being careful. Everything about the way she held herself said she had spent a long time making herself as small as possible. But her eyes were sharp, and the way she looked at me said she had also spent a long time watching, learning faces, and reading rooms.She had been reading mine for a while before today. I could tell."You know who I am," I said."Everyone knows who you are," she replied.Her voice was even. It sounded like the voice of a woman who had stopped being surprised by things.I pulled out the chair across from her and sat down. "I need to know who sent you here today," I said.Her jaw moved slightly. "I sent mys
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 82
VICTORIAMargaret’s kidnapping didn’t end with fire or screams.It ended with my name on every screen.I woke to my phone vibrating like it was alive. It kept buzzing over and over. I didn’t answer at first. I knew what it would be before I even looked. That heavy feeling in my chest told me enough
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ISABELLA Everything felt wrong in the morning.I sat at my desk with cold coffee and three screens open. One showed account trails. One showed legal filings. One showed a smiling photo of Margaret taken two years ago, back when she still pretended she was just a patron of art and not a spider with
Last Updated : 2026-03-31The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 77
TRENTI didn’t sleep.I stared at the ceiling and counted every mistake I’d ever made. By morning, my head hurt and my mouth tasted like regret.A baby.Every time I thought about the word, my chest tightened even more.Not because I didn’t understand what it meant. I understood it all too well. A
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VICTORIAI laughed.It came out of me before I could stop it. It wasn’t soft or polite. This definitely wasn’t the kind you used to smooth things over. The sound filled the air and made Trent flinch like he’d been hit.I didn’t cover my mouth. I didn’t turn away. I laughed right in his face.It sur
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