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Chapter 175

Penulis: Leema Kamal
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-25 23:02:14
VICTORIA

It started with an iPad.

Clark had pulled up the updated financial trail Elio sent over and was walking me through it. He was standing close, close enough that when I turned my head to look at the screen, we were about six inches apart.

Neither of us moved.

He looked at me. I looked at him. The room was quiet. The city outside was doing its usual late-night thing—low traffic, the occasional far-off siren—but in this room, right now, everything was very still.

I said his name, not a
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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 181

    VICTORIAElio talked fast.The filing had come in at 11:17 PM, pushed through using Clark's digital credentials. The Syndicate had been holding onto this move and waiting for the right time to use it.I understood immediately why they had chosen tonight.My court case was at the mid stage. My emotional state was compromised. Clark was in my apartment in a position that created both personal and professional exposure. And the filing itself, which was a hostile acquisition started under his name, immediately created a legal conflict of interest that could be used to pull him out of anything connected to my court defense. One move; multiple problems opened at once.It was a brilliant move. I almost had to respect it. Almost…"Elio, listen to me," I said into the phone. "I need two things from you right now. I need you to start the challenge process on the filing, and I need a separate corporate attorney who has no existing connection to any of our current cases. Someone new.""I’m alread

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 180

    CLARKI told her everything.I didn't try to make it sound better than it was. I didn't build up to the hard parts slowly. I just sat down and started talking, and I didn't stop until I had said all of it.The Hawthorne Syndicate approached me eighteen months before I ever reached out to Victoria after her divorce. That was the first thing I told her. I wanted her to know the timeline because it was important.Their pitch had seemed simple enough at the time. They told me Victoria Hale would soon be a rising force in the fashion market. That she would move fast and build something that could be disruptive to a number of already established players. They said they wanted to get ahead of it by positioning my investment firm to take an early stake as a protective move, making sure the right people had a seat at the table before she got big enough to be difficult.I believed that version of it. Or maybe I half-believed it. That was the honest answer.Because even then, there were things I

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 179

    VICTORIAI got home and went straight to my office. I didn't turn on all the lights, just the desk lamp. I sat down and put the folder on the desk in front of me and left it there, closed.I didn't open it again. I didn't need to. I had already read it enough times in my head on the way home. Clark Sterling was the name of the registered agent. His signature and his handwriting were there too.I sat there for a long time and just let my mind go back through everything.Every meeting we had ever been in together. Every time something important happened in a room and Clark happened to be there when it did. Every time a deal came through that I hadn't expected, or a threat backed off a little faster than it should have. Every time I had looked at him and thought, this person is on my side.I thought about the last night we spent together. Not with regret, exactly. Regret wasn't the right word. It was more like I had opened a door I didn't usually open, and now that door was wide and the

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 178

    VICTORIAI chose the restaurant three days before the meeting and I chose it carefully.It was a private dining room at the back of the building, with no cameras in the hallway leading to it, and a corner entrance with a clear line of sight to the main door. I sent someone in two hours ahead of time to sweep the room. It came back clean. I arrived first, ordered water, and sat with my back to the wall.Senator Vance walked in exactly on time.He came alone, which told me either he was confident or he was frightened, and one look at his eyes told me which. He was silver-haired, in an expensive suit, with the kind of face that had been held in a composed expression in front of cameras for so long that it had become a permanent feature. But his eyes moved around the room once, then again, and when they settled on me they had the look of a man who had just finished doing some math in his head and didn't like the answer.He was scared. He was just very well-trained at passing it off as st

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 177

    VICTORIAI closed the file and set my phone face down on the desk. Clark was still working on the other side of the table. He hadn't looked up.I picked up my coffee, took a sip even though it had gone cold, and kept my face exactly as it was.The first reaction was almost never the right one. I had learned that the hard way more than once. When Trent first hit me, my first reaction was to go quiet and make myself smaller and pretend it hadn't happened. It happened again anyway. When I found out about Diana, my first reaction was immediate grief, which had been raw but completely useless at the moment. Neither of those reactions had helped me. What helped me was waiting, letting the first wave of emotions pass, and then deciding, with a clear head and actual information in front of me, on what I wanted to do.So I sat there, said nothing, and kept working.At 8 AM, I got up, showered, and put on the grey blazer I had set out the night before. I went to the kitchen and started making

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 176

    VICTORIA Clark was still on the phone when I got up and walked to the window. I stood with my arms crossed and looked out. At 3 AM, New York wasn’t quiet; it just changed pace. The streets below looked ordinary. Everything outside the glass looked exactly the same as it always did. I kept my eyes on it while I waited. He wrapped up the call and came to stand near me. "Someone cloned my access codes," he said. "The trace puts the origin at a server I've never connected from, not even once. This wasn't random. Someone targeted my login credentials specifically and they had the technical ability to do it cleanly." "Yes," I said. "They did." We looked at each other for a moment. Cloning authentication credentials was not a casual thing. It took specific technical knowledge, preparation, and access to tech gadgets that most people simply didn’t have. It wasn’t Trent. Trent was dangerous in a personal and direct way. He was controlling, cruel, and very good at hurting people who were

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 79

    CLARKI watched Victoria from across the room while the takeover went ahead slowly. Phones buzzed. Screens glowed. Voices stayed low and careful. Everyone moved the way people did when they knew something big was happening and they didn’t want to get in the way.Victoria didn’t pace. She didn’t rai

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 72

    ISABELLABy the time the sun came up, the story was already moving.That was how I knew I did it right.I sat at my kitchen table with my laptop open, a mug of cold coffee untouched beside me, watching the headlines in real time like a chess piece moved one square forward and suddenly the whole boa

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 76

    VICTORIA I didn’t react when she said it.Not because I didn’t hear her, but because reacting would have given her some kind of leverage.“I’m pregnant.”The words hung between us, but my face stayed calm. I took my time to study her for a while. I did it slowly and carefully, without any emotion.

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 73

    VICTORIAThe room was full before I even walked in.That was how I knew this panel was important.Cameras lined the walls. Phones were already raised. Investors, editors, and designers filled every seat, dressed like they wanted to be noticed but not remembered. The air buzzed with quiet excitement

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