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Chapter 35: Dark blade
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The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 69: Arthur's Other Children
The plan was underway, and Salma's team had succeeded in blocking almost all of Sovereign and Julian's moves for close to two weeks. They had found gaps in their operations and quietly exploited them. Barrister Dash had succeeded in tying all the loose-end companies into the Wellington Group, while Shane had been able to pick up a few pieces of information before almost every attack, which had helped them anticipate and reverse some of the damage. Salma sat in her underground office, reviewing documents Joyce had sent to her email. She had a board meeting scheduled via Zoom later that day, and her attention would be needed at Wellington Tower the following morning. Major investors were coming in, and she needed to meet them in person. Mr. Gavianno had also been in contact. He was bringing in major winery companies from Italy to close a deal with the Wellington Group, a move he had proposed to her father a decade ago, but Arthur had refused. Now, Salma could see how investing in oth
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 68: Kick back
Salma sat in the study going through files with Barrister Dash about some of her father's offshore accounts and businesses she needed to fully absorb into the Wellington Group.Her twins had started moving around at four months. She could feel their kicks as she listened to Dash talk. She placed her hands on her stomach with a smile.Barrister Dash noticed and stared at her.She noticed his silence and looked up.“What?”“Are you even listening to me?”“Of course I’m listening to you, Dash. Go on,” she said.Barrister Dash looked at her with his eyebrows raised until she huffed and removed her hands from her belly.“Fine. Continue.”Barrister Dash spent the next hour listing the subsidiary companies, accounts, and warehouses under the Wolfe Mafia, and the ones that could be absorbed into the Wellington Group for protection.After the meeting, Salma went down to her office in the underground.She spent another hour working when Devon walked in with a file.“Have a minute?” he asked.“S
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 67: Into Arthur's World
Salma stepped into her father’s library for the first time in weeks. She walked toward one of the built-in bookshelves and pulled down a thick, leather-bound volume on New York maritime law. Behind it was a concealed biometric scanner. She pressed her palm against it, and a sharp hydraulic hiss echoed through the study. Across the room, the massive floor-to-ceiling mirror slowly slid sideways, revealing a reinforced steel door hidden inside the wall. She input a complex, sixteen-digit alphanumeric code. The steel door unlatched with a heavy metallic clank. Salma drew in a slow breath before stepping forward. The staircase descended deep beneath the estate. With every step, the familiar air around the bunker wrapped around her like a blanket. The underground operation was fully active, just as it always had been. Screens glowed along the length of the command hall. Operatives moved between stations with purpose, exchanging short verbal reports, updating digital maps, and checkin
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 66: Home
The estate was quieter than it should have been. Salma stood in the foyer for a long moment after the front doors closed behind her. Aria’s car had already disappeared down the long drive. The sound of it was gone, and the faint scent of her perfume still lingered near the entrance, thin and fading. Salma breathed it in once, then let it go. She walked through the ground-floor corridor toward the sitting room she and Aria had used most often during the final days. A soft scarf, the color of late autumn leaves, lay draped over the back of a chair. Salma picked it up. The fabric was soft, she held it against her palm, her thumb moving once across the edge, then she folded it carefully and set it on the side table. In the quiet that followed, she caught herself listening for the soft sound of Aria’s voice from the next room. The habit was still there. She let the expectation rise and fall without fighting it. Then she turned and walked toward the garden doors. Devon was
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 65:The Second Goodbye
The morning Aria left, it was drizzling.Aria stood in the suite that had been hers for the final stretch of her recovery, looking at the small suitcase beside the door.It was strange seeing it there.For weeks, everything she owned had been reduced to what could fit within reach of a hospital bed. Medication, water, a phone, and a few changes of clothes. Now there was a suitcase again. Something about that made leaving feel real.The cardiac team had given their final clearance the evening before. The specialists were all gone, the last leaving after signing her discharge. The nurses had already thinned to a single quiet presence who would accompany her as far as the car and remain with her through the final departure arrangements.Aria looked around the room one last time. She had never expected to become attached to it.And yet, it had held the last weeks of her life inside the Wellington Estate. It had held the first morning she had walked without assistance. The first time she h
The woman who inherited three husbands Chapter 64: One Last Time
Aria had started finding her way around the estate without thinking about every step. Her body still reminded her when she pushed too far, and some afternoons she needed to sit longer than she wanted to admit. But she no longer needed someone beside her every second. The nurses still checked on her regularly, and the medical team had not completely loosened their grip on her recovery. Still, the estate no longer felt like a place she was trapped inside. It felt like somewhere she was preparing to leave. That realization had been sitting quietly in the back of her mind for weeks. She stood near the window of her suite, watching two gardeners work farther across the grounds. One of them was Elias, the new gardener Devon had hired after weeks of complaining about applications. Even from this distance, Aria could see the difference in the garden. Behind her, someone knocked. Salma stood in the doorway. Salma had changed since the last time Aria had known her intimately eno
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