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The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 182
VICTORIAI made him wait for thirty more minutes.It wasn’t out of cruelty though. I just needed the time to decide who I was going to be when I walked off that elevator. Because the version of me that still had a child's feelings about Richard Hale and the version of me that ran a company could not both walk into that lobby at the same time. One of them had to wait upstairs.When I finally came down, he was standing near the far wall of the lobby, with the stillness of a man who had made a decision he understood could not be undone.He looked older and smaller, somehow. The last time I had seen my father, he had been in a room that made him look powerful. Now he was standing under lobby lighting at five in the morning and he just looked like an old man who hadn't slept.He was holding an envelope.I crossed the lobby and stopped in front of him. I didn't hug him. I didn't say anything for a moment."Victoria," he said."Dad." I didn’t say anything else.He held out the envelope. I t
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
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VICTORIAI didn’t move at first. I just stared at the red lipstick message on my bathroom mirror. My mind was loud, but my body felt strangely still, like it was trying to catch up with what I was seeing.I swallowed hard and stepped back. My legs felt a little strange, almost weak. It took me a fe
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VICTORIAThe moment I walked into the ballroom, I felt the air change. I could feel hundreds of eyes turning toward me at once. The whole place went quiet for a few seconds, almost like someone had pressed pause on a movie.My heels clicked softly on the marble floor, and the sound traveled further
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VICTORIAI froze when Diana withdrew her hand from her bag. For a second, I thought she would be holding a knife or something crazy like that, because her hands were shaking so hard. But it wasn’t a weapon. It was a stack of papers, messy and folded a thousand times. She threw them at me, and they
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