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The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 152
VICTORIAThe courtroom was the kind of room that made you feel the weight of everything the moment you walked in.It had high ceilings, bright lights, and the kind of silence that wasn't really silence, just the sound of people holding themselves very still because the room demanded it. I had been in a lot of important rooms over the past two years but this one was different. This one had consequences that would outlast the morning.I walked in with Serena beside me. Three years of work in folders on the table in front of us. I sat down, straightened my back, and placed my hands on the surface.Serena had the case materials arranged and was already going through her notes. She was focused. Whatever she had done about Priya in the hours since our call, she had set it aside and was fully here now. That was what made her good.Trent's team was across from us. He came in without looking at me. His lead counsel, Deena Reyes, looked at me the moment she sat down and kept looking. She was tr
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VICTORIAI didn't try to sleep that night. There wasn't any point.I worked until midnight, going through case files, checking every detail, making sure I hadn't missed anything. Then I put everything down, showered, changed into clean clothes, and sat by the window with a glass of wine I poured and barely touched.The city looked normal at this hour. Moving. Lit up. Loud in some places and quiet in others. I had spent a lot of late nights looking at it over the past two years and I had stopped trying to find something comforting in it. It was just the city. It didn't care about me and I didn't need it to.I thought about the woman I had been four years ago.She had worn long sleeves in summer. She had apologized for things that weren't her fault. She had stood in a restaurant in a dress she'd spent too long picking out, holding a card she'd spent too long writing, waiting for a man who had been planning to leave her the whole time.She had believed, right up until the moment she coul
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 150
VICTORIAThe name Trent gave me was Celestine Vare.I didn't know it. I had never heard it, and I had spent two years learning the name of every person who had ever stood between me and what I was building. That was what made it worse. This woman had been operating close enough to damage me without ever appearing on any radar I had access to.I called Elio that same afternoon."I need everything you can find on a woman named Celestine Vare," I said. "She’s seventy-one years old. Used to be in luxury holdings. Stepped back from public view fifteen years ago.""Timeline?" he asked."Forty-eight hours," I said.He came back with something in less than that.What he sent me was thin in the places that actually mattered. There were no public filings or any recent interviews. No board seats or company names she was currently attached to. On paper, Celestine Vare was a retired woman living quietly somewhere in the northeast with a portfolio that had been gradually wound down over the past de
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 149
VICTORIAI didn't go straight to Serena after what Trent told me. That would have been the wrong move. I had learned a long time ago that the worst thing you could do when you suspected someone was to tip them off before you had proof. So I went back to my office, closed the door, and called Elio."I need a full audit on Serena's team," I said. "Not just Serena. Everyone who had access to the case files. Communications, transfers, the whole thing.""How discreet are we talking?" he asked."Completely," I said. "Nobody should hear about this.""I'll need to call in a favor," he said."Call it in," I told him.He called me back eighteen hours later.I was still at my desk when my phone rang, still going through documents I'd already read three times because I needed something to do with my hands. I picked up on the first ring."Serena's clean," Elio said.I let out a breath. "But?""But one of her junior associates isn't," he said. "A girl named Priya. Twenty-six. She's been on the team
The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire Chapter 148
VICTORIAI stared at the screen for a long time without moving.Serena.I had known her for two years. She had been my lawyer before she became my friend, and at some point, the line between those two things had blurred and I hadn’t cared too much about that.She was the one who had walked through my office door when things were still fragile and told me she knew exactly how to build a case that would hold. She had been right. She had filed the first documents, drafted the first strategy, stood in rooms, and argued for me when I wasn’t always around to argue for myself.She also knew everything.Every piece of evidence. Every witness. Every move I was planning to make in that courtroom in four days. If she had been feeding information to someone this whole time, then it wasn't just Lena who was exposed. It was all of it. Every card I had been holding.I put the phone down on the table. Then I made myself think slowly and carefully. It was late. I hadn't slept much. The last two days h
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VICTORIA"I didn't leak her name," he said. No greeting, no lead-up, no warmup. Just that, straight out, like he had been holding it in for a long while and just had to say it.I didn't respond immediately. I let the silence stretch and do its work."Victoria," he said."I heard you," I replied.There was another short pause. "I need you to believe me.""You need a lot of things from me, Trent. That doesn't mean you get them."He let out a slow breath. I could hear movement on his end; the soft sound of a door closing, like he had stepped somewhere private to make this call. That small detail stayed with me."I know how it looks," he said. "The timing is as bad as it gets. The hearing gets pushed up, Lena's name goes out the same night, and I'm the first person everyone points at. I get it. But it wasn't me. And whoever did it wasn't acting on anything I said."I leaned back in my chair. "You've been working against me for months," I said. "You hired people to go through my past. You
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VICTORIAI couldn’t see anything. Not even my own hands. Gasps broke out everywhere. A couple of people screamed. Someone ran into a table, and it made a loud crashing sound that echoed through the huge space.“Stay close to me,” Clark said. His hand grabbed my arm firmly right away. I didn’t eve
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VICTORIAFor a second, I couldn’t move. The photo on Clark’s phone was burned into my memory so clearly that it felt like the shadowy figure was still standing behind me. I tried to breathe, but it came out harshly. The room felt too bright, too small, and too crowded. Clark didn’t waste any time.
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VICTORIA“Clark…” My voice sounded too small.He grabbed the phone right out of my hand before I could even show him the screen. His eyes scanned it once, twice, and then his jaw clenched. I watched the muscle jump near his ear. He almost looked like he wanted to put a fist through a wall.I didn’t
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VICTORIAAn hour later I was sitting alone at my desk with the USB drive in front of me.It was small and simple, but it made my stomach clench. Clark and Isabella were outside my office door, whispering about whether or not to let me watch it alone. I could hear Clark telling her no, and Isabella
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