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The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 269
Chapter 269- Jayce 2"I didn't do anything wrong." His voice was steady, which surprised him; he'd expected it to shake. "I need you to hear that part, Dad, because it's the only part I can actually give you. I didn't do anything wrong. Rhys and I had a — a fight, yes. A bad one. And in that fight Rhys said things to me — about me, to my face — that he knew would hurt, and he said them because he knew they'd hurt, and I called him on it, and he didn't deny it, and then he told me to stay out of his way. That's what happened. That's the shape of it." He held his father's eyes. "So no. I'm not calling him to say I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for a thing I didn't do just to un-freeze a business deal. I won't. I can't. If that costs the family money, then I am sorry about the money, I genuinely am, but I'm not buying it back with a lie."Lawrence stared at his son for a long moment.Something was working behind his face — anger, still, but also a dawning recalculation, the look of
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 268
Chapter 268 — Jayce's FatherThe door banged open without a knock, which was how Jayce knew, before he even looked up, that something was very wrong.His father never banged. His father strolled. Lawrence Whitmore moved through the world at the unhurried pace of a man who had never once in his life needed to rush, who had people for the rushing. In Jayce's whole memory he could not recall his father raising his voice, not really — that had always been his mother's department. Eleanor was the one who laid down the law, who checked the report cards and set the curfews and delivered the lectures. Lawrence was the soft one, the easy one, the one who was always just back from the golf course or just heading to the club, tanned and relaxed and faintly amused by everything, who let his sons get away with murder because confrontation was simply beneath his energy level.So when the door banged open and his father came through it with his face gray and his tablet in his hand like a weapon, Jay
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 267
Chapter 267 - JayceIt was uncanny, how they saw things. People underestimated teenagers. People thought because teenagers were self-absorbed they weren't observant, but it was the opposite — they were observant *because* they were watching everyone for threats and shifts and changes, cataloguing the adults around them, and Jayden had clocked the Rhys-shaped hole in the household just as surely as Jayce kept bumping into it himself."We're just — we're taking a break," Jayce said. "Friends do that. It's not a big deal.""Friends don't take breaks," Jay said flatly. "That's a relationship thing. You and Rhys aren't — " He stopped, and his face did something, a flicker of alarm and awkwardness. "Wait. Are you? Is that — did you two—""No," Jayce said. "God. No. It's not — we're not—" And then he stopped, because the denial had come out too fast and too hard, and the twins, who missed nothing, both caught it, and he saw them catch it, and he felt his face go hot. "It's not like that. It'
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 266
Chapter 266 — JayceJayce had been in his room all day, and most of the day before, and the curtains were shut so he genuinely didn't know what time it was.The only light came from the screen. He was on the couch with a controller in his hands, playing something he'd played a hundred times, and he was losing. He'd been losing for hours. That was the point. If he played well he'd have to think, and thinking led, every single time, back to the same place, so instead he played badly on purpose — threw matches, walked into obvious traps, let himself get picked off in stupid ways — so that when the screen flashed its red DEFEATED at him he'd have something small and clean to be angry about. Something that wasn't Rhys.It wasn't working very well. Nothing had been working very well.He hadn't showered. He was wearing the same clothes he'd slept in, or not-slept in, because sleep had become a thing that happened to other people. He hadn't eaten anything that counted — some crackers from a s
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 265
Chapter 265-Orion "Who, then," Orion said.But he already knew. There was only one answer. There had only ever been one person in the world Rhys Larsen leaned on, one person who'd known him since they were boys, one person who could walk into a room and get past all of Rhys's walls because he'd been there before the walls went up."Jayce," Phoenix said."Jayce," Orion agreed.And then both of them were quiet for a different reason, because they both knew the other thing too, the thing that made it complicated. Jayce and Rhys weren't speaking. Hadn't been for weeks. There'd been a blowup — something ugly, something personal, something neither Orion nor Phoenix had the full shape of but both had felt the aftermath of, the two oldest friends in the world suddenly circling each other like strangers. Orion had carried his own private unease about the whole thing, had wondered more than once whether it touched on matters he and Phoenix had their own careful reasons not to speak about. But
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 264
Chapter 264 — OrionThey got to St. Catherine's in twenty minutes, which should have taken forty, because Orion drove the way he'd driven exactly once before — the day of the market — and Phoenix didn't say a word about it.They came up to the children's floor and found it the way those floors always are: too bright, too quiet, cartoon animals painted along the baseboards, the hush of a place where frightened people are trying to be calm. The nurse at the station looked up at the two big men coming off the elevator and started to say something, and then thought better of it, the way people usually did with Orion and Phoenix.Rhys was in the hallway outside Room 4.He'd come out, maybe to make a call, maybe just to stand up and move, and he was leaning against the wall with his phone in one hand and his tie gone and his sleeves shoved up his forearms, and he looked — Orion had known this man for years and had never seen him look like this. Hollowed. Scraped out. Ten years older than he
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