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The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 281
Chapter 281Rhys stood in the middle of the ER hallway and the whole world began to tilt. He couldn't breathe. He'd never had a panic attack in his life, but he thought this might be one. His chest was too tight. His hands were cold. There was a roaring in his ears."I'll take this place apart," he said, to no one, to the guard, to the ceiling. His voice was cracking now. "Brick by brick. I'll shut it down. I'll sue every—""Papa?"---Rhys stopped.It was a small voice. Very small. Almost lost under the noise. But he would have heard it under anything. He would have heard it under a storm.He turned around.At the far end of the hallway, by the double doors that led to the elevators, stood a little boy.The boy's hair was sticking up on one side. His feet were in socks, no shoes. He looked pale and tired and very small in the big busy hallway, with grown-ups rushing past him like he wasn't there."Papa," the boy said again. His lip wobbled. "I was looking for you."Rhys's knees hit t
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 280
Chapter 280The forms took forty minutes.Rhys had signed them all once already, in the ER, with his hand shaking so hard the signature looked like a child's drawing. Now a woman at the admin desk on the ground floor wanted them done again. Something about the insurance. Something about a box he'd missed. She was polite and slow and kept saying "almost done, Mr. Larsen," and every time she said it, Rhys looked at the clock.He didn't like being away from the boy. Not for forty minutes. Not for four.But the boy had been asleep when he left. Breathing easy. Color good. The nurse had promised to look in on him. And Rhys had told himself, *it's a hospital. It's the safest building in the city. Sign the papers and go back up.*So he signed. Again and again. His hand was steadier this time. When the woman finally smiled and said "that's everything," he was already standing.He took the stairs instead of the elevator, two at a time. He didn't know why he was hurrying. Nothing was wrong. He
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 279
Chapter 279Papa didn't move."I'm okay," Rael said again, louder, so Papa would really hear it. "I'm here. See? I'm right here."And Papa made a sound. A small, broken sound, like something giving way. His arms came up around Rael, slow at first, careful of the tube and the bed and his own sore ribs. Then not careful at all. He held Rael so tight it almost hurt. He bent his head down over Rael's head and his shoulders started to shake."I've got you," Papa whispered. "Oh, baby. I've got you.""No," Rael said. He leaned back just enough to look at Papa's face. He put both his small hands on Papa's wet cheeks, the way Mama did sometimes when Papa was sad. "*I* got *you*, Papa."Papa stared at him.Then he laughed. It was a wet, cracked, crying laugh, but it was a laugh. He shut his eyes and pressed his forehead to Rael's forehead and just breathed."Yeah," Papa said. "Yeah, you do. You've got me."Rael patted his face. Pat, pat. The way you'd pat a puppy."Don't be sad," he said. "It's
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 278
Chapter 278 The bed was still warm.Rael noticed that first. He climbed up into it and pulled the blanket over his knees, and it was warm where Rhysian had been lying only a minute ago. The pillow still had a dip in it. The little oxygen tube was lying on top, and Rael picked it up and put it on his nose the way Rhysian had shown him in the hallway, with quick careful fingers. *Over the ears. Like glasses.*Then he lay back and looked at the door.Room 7.He could see the number from here. A 7 in a little metal frame. And on his wrist, the plastic hospital band said RAEL ARCHER in black letters. Rhysian had been wearing it for a whole day, and it had been a lie the whole time. Now it was on the right boy. Now it was true.Rael held his wrist up and looked at his own name for a long time.It had been so fast. That was the thing he kept thinking. Days and days of being the wrong boy, in the wrong house, in the big cold rooms with the shiny floors, and then it took less than five minute
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 277
Chapter 277It was the cruelest thought he'd ever had, because it attacked the one thing that had made his whole life make sense. For five years, being R's papa had been the meaning of everything. He'd thrown away his family, his money, his name, his future, Jayce — he'd thrown away *all of it* to be this boy's father, and he had never once regretted it, because it was the truest and best thing he had ever done. And now, sitting in a hard chair in a hospital with his son's hand in his and his son breathing because they'd caught it just in time, Dante looked at the list of everything that had gone wrong and wondered if the best thing he'd ever done was actually the thing hurting his son most. If loving R was the same as endangering him. If the kindest thing a man who brought this much trouble could do for the child he loved was to take the trouble and go.He didn't decide anything. He was too tired and too broken to decide anything. But the thought was in him now, lodged deep, cold and
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 276
Chapter 276*im in room 7*, he tapped. He thought about it, then added the thing he wanted Rael to know most, the thing that would make his brother less scared the way reading *Rael is close* had made Rhysian less scared. *dont worry. i have a plan.*He didn't actually have a plan. Not yet. But saying it made it feel true, and Rhysian understood — in the wordless way he understood things — that his brother needed to hear that someone had one. That somebody was going to make this right. And since nobody else knew the secret, since all the grown-ups were loving the wrong boys and getting everything wrong, it was going to have to be the two of them. The two boys who knew. They had started this, the two of them, with their quiet game and their matching faces, and Rhysian understood now that they were the only ones who could finish it.He didn't know yet how. But he would think of something. He was good at thinking.*i have a plan*, he sent. And then, because it was true: *im happy ur here
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