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The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 190
Chapter 190 — RecognitionThey found themselves alone eventually, almost an hour later, both of them drifting out onto the back porch at roughly the same moment, the noise of the dinner party muffled now behind the closed door, the evening air cool and quiet around them."I really am sorry," Cole said, leaning against the porch railing, not looking directly at her, the specific posture of someone who'd learned, somewhere — it was easier to say hard things when you weren't looking right at the person you were saying them to. "For not reaching out sooner. I keep thinking about it and the excuses all sound thinner every time I say them out loud.""You were a kid when I left," Ravyn said. "You're not responsible for what happened to me, Cole. You don't owe me an apology for being thirteen and far away.""Maybe not," he said. "But I'm not thirteen anymore, and I've been back in the country for weeks now, and I still hadn't called you before tonight. That part's on me."She didn't answer r
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 189
Chapter 189 — Cole Shows UpThe dinner had been Eleanor Hawkins's idea — a small, casual gathering at the family house, nothing formal, just an excuse to have everyone in one room while Cole was still home for the brief window between his academic term abroad and whatever came next. Ravyn had been invited, technically, the way she was always technically invited to these things, with the specific understanding that her attendance was optional and nobody would be especially surprised if she found a reason to decline.She'd nearly declined. She'd told herself, packing R off to Jana's for the evening with the same careful cover story she always used, that there wasn't any real reason to go — except that Eleanor had asked specifically, gently, in the particular tone that meant she actually wanted Ravyn there rather than simply performing the obligation of inviting her, and some small, stubborn part of Ravyn had decided, after the call with Nathan, that she wasn't going to let her family's
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 188
Chapter 188— What Aspen SawAspen was halfway through recounting the King's Race to a friend over lunch — the spectacle of it, the explosion, the absurd, delicious drama of watching a legendary masked driver nearly die in front of two thousand witnesses — when something in her own retelling caught against a detail she hadn't fully examined until she heard herself say it out loud."And there was this woman near the bar," she said, almost as an aside, barely registering the words as they left her mouth. "In green. Something about the way she carried herself looked—" She stopped, frowning slightly, the thought arriving fully formed and uninvited. "Honestly, for a second, I thought it looked like Ravyn."Her friend laughed. "Ravyn Hawkins? At an underground race? I can't imagine anything less likely.""No," Aspen agreed, already shaking her head, dismissing the thought as quickly as it had arrived. "It's not possible. She's far too — careful, I suppose, for something like that. Too corpor
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 187
Chapter 187 — Alyssa's PartyThe venue Alyssa had chosen for her birthday occupied the top floor of a hotel overlooking the river, the kind of space designed specifically to make two hundred guests feel like they were attending something more significant than a birthday — string lights woven through every available surface, a string quartet playing something elegant and unobtrusive near the windows, the specific controlled extravagance of a woman who had spent six weeks ensuring every detail reflected exactly the image she wanted the evening to project.Jayce arrived at eight, as instructed, in the suit she'd specified weeks ago when the party was still attached to an engagement that no longer existed in any meaningful sense, and found her almost immediately, stationed near the entrance greeting guests with the particular bright, performed warmth she'd perfected for exactly this kind of audience."You came," she said, when he reached her, her smile not quite reaching her eyes."I said
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 186
Chapter 186Eleanor was in the garden when Jayce found her, kneeling beside a bed of late-blooming roses with the focused, unhurried attention she brought to most things she cared about, gloves on, secateurs in hand, the particular peace of a woman who used gardening as a place to think rather than simply a place to grow flowers.She looked up when his shadow fell across the bed. "You look tired.""Long week," he said, which was, if anything, an understatement."Sit," she said, nodding toward the bench a few feet away, and continued working while he settled onto it, the silence between them comfortable in the way that only existed between people who'd known each other their whole lives."I wanted to talk to you," he said, after a while."I assumed," she said, not looking up from the rose she was carefully deadheading. "You have a particular way of finding me when you have something to say. You wait until I'm doing something with my hands. Easier to talk to someone who isn't looking di
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 185
Chapter 185Dante woke up feeling like he'd been run through a car wash that used fists instead of brushes. Every muscle he hadn't consciously used in years had apparently decided, sometime overnight, to register a formal complaint, and his shoulders — both of them, the dislocated one and its apparently sympathetic twin — ached with the specific deep, structural soreness that came from holding a steering wheel in a death grip for six miles while expecting, every second, to die.He was fine. He kept reminding himself of that fact as he eased himself upright in bed, wincing at the protest from his lower back. He'd walked away clean. No new injuries, no stitches, nothing broken. Just the body's slow, indignant accounting of everything it had been asked to do under duress.He made it as far as the bathroom mirror before R found him."Papa," R said, appearing in the doorway in his dinosaur pajamas, hair sticking up in three directions, regarding his father with the particular scrutiny of a
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