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Chapter 98

Author: Leema Kamal
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-12 23:32:05

VICTORIA

By the time Isabella told us Margaret had secretly returned to the city, the internet had already exploded. Rumors about the identity dispute spread faster than I expected. News sites were running headlines. Fashion blogs were posting side by side photos of me and the duplicate like it was some kind of game.

People online had already chosen sides.

Some believed I was the real one. Others said the duplicate might have a real claim. A few said the entire thing looked fake and that we wer
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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 206

    VICTORIAI had just seven hours.The first thing I did was call Dr. Dale. She picked up on the second ring and I told her exactly what Serena had filed and why it couldn't stand. She didn't waste time asking questions I hadn't answered yet. She just said, "I'll draft the counter-filing tonight. I need your authorization signature in an hour.""You'll have it in thirty minutes," I said.I ended the call and looked at Clark, then said, "I also need a formal misconduct complaint against Serena to the state bar."He nodded and started typing on his laptop.The room had cleared out quickly once everyone understood what had happened. This part of the work wasn't for a group. It was mine alone to handle.I spent the first hour with Jane Dale. We went through Serena's motion line by line, dismantling it, and then we built the counter-filing around the most important point: the motion had been submitted without my knowledge or consent and contradicted the position I had held throughout the cas

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 205

    VICTORIATen days.I drove back with the folder on my lap and the number sitting in my head like a stone.Ten days to do something that would take most people ten months to prepare for. A federal court testimony wasn't something to walk into casually. There were depositions, legal prep sessions, coordination with prosecutors, and the whole process of making sure that what was said on record couldn't be twisted or used against you later.And that wasn't even the hardest part. The hardest part was everything else happening at the same time.I started laying it all out in my head on the drive back.I thought about the court case first. The judge was expected to deliver his ruling within the week. That ruling needed to be clear, without any complications, or the entire trust situation would get messier. If the ruling came back wrong or came back at the wrong time, then everything else would get tangled up in the fallout.Then the probate filing. Dr. Dale was moving as fast as she could, b

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 204

    VICTORIAI didn't sleep.By the time the sun came up, I had read every document attached to Helena Cross's filing at least four times. I had run her name through every database I had access to, pulled her bar records, her case history, and her published legal opinions. I even looked at her pictures for longer than I probably needed to.She was in her mid-thirties. I could see Emmett in her, just slightly. Maybe it was the jaw or the way she carried herself in the one professional photo I found.I set the picture down and looked at the ceiling.Three women, three claims, one dead man, and a network of people who had spent seventeen years making sure none of us ever ended up in the same room.I was Emmett Cross's biological daughter. My mother had told me, and the DNA confirmed it.Diana was his daughter through Margaret, conceived during their affair. She had grown up knowing, or eventually finding out, and had spent years twisting that knowledge into something she could use.And Helen

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 203

    VICTORIAI didn't waste time after Diana said what she said.My mother wasn't in Connecticut anymore. Someone had moved her. And Diana knew exactly where.I kept my voice steady. "Where is she?""I'll tell you," Diana said. "But you need to hear the rest of it first. Because what's coming in the next forty-eight hours is way bigger than just your mother."I didn't like that. I didn't like being told what to hear first. But I stayed quiet and allowed her to talk.Diana had been moved to a safe house. Not a prison or a holding room, but a proper safe house, fully arranged and paid for by Celestine's people. And that, Diana explained, was the part that should worry me."She's not keeping me here because she's afraid of me," Diana said. "She's keeping me here because she thinks I'm useful."That seemed obvious right after Diana explained it to me. Celestine didn't invest in things that weren't going to pay off. If she had moved Diana into protection, it meant she had already decided Diana

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 202

    VICTORIAI hadn't spoken to Diana directly in months.Our last real conversation had been somewhere in the chaos of the Trent situation, back when the duplicate scheme was falling apart and Diana had shown up the way she always did, close enough to be noticed but not close enough to be held accountable. I had given her the benefit of the doubt then. The evidence at the time had pointed elsewhere and I had bigger problems than Diana Carter.But I was done giving her the benefit of the doubt.I sat in that room and reassessed everything from the beginning with this newfound information, and it changed the way I saw things immediately.Nathaniel had told me the rest of it while Clark sat quietly across from us.Margaret Carter, my stepmother, had a relationship with Emmett Cross before he died. According to Nathaniel, that relationship had produced Diana. Which made Diana and me biological half-sisters, not just step sisters. Same father. Different mothers. And apparently, Diana had kno

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 201

    VICTORIAI didn't move.Not a single muscle. Not my hands, my jaw, or my eyes. I kept my face the way I had trained it to be in every boardroom and courtroom I had walked into over the last three years: completely, perfectly neutral.Serena Park.My lead attorney. The woman who had been next to me in courtrooms and meetings. She knew every sensitive conversation about the case. She’d known about Lena before almost anyone else on the team. She’d helped to build our entire legal position from the ground up. She had access to every document, every plan, and every detail of what we were doing and when we were going to do it.I sent the all-clear message to Calloway with a thirty-minute extension. I did it with one hand while looking at Nathaniel, keeping my expression exactly the same while I typed.Then I set my phone down and started thinking.I went back through the last several months in my head, pulling moments like files from a cabinet. There had always been a leak. Preston, the jun

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 95

    TRENTThe message about Victoria meeting the duplicate reached me before the afternoon ended. My assistant sent it quietly through a secure line, the same way most updates came to me these days. It was nothing dramatic. Just information.I sat in my office with the city spread out below the tall wi

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 6

    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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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 10

    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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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 9

    VICTORIAThe scent didn’t fade. It remained in the air like someone had sprayed it just a few minutes before I walked in. My chest tightened, and I stood there for a long moment, staring at the open balcony door. The curtains moved a little from the breeze outside, brushing the frame.I swallowed

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