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Chapter 13: Seeking Shelter
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UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 26: The Paper War
They came for me on a Tuesday.I was still in the hospital, forty-eight hours after my baby was born. Richard was with his coffee and whatever Bonny brought twice a day in a paper bag for him. Our daughter slept in the bassinet beside my bed, her chest rising and falling, completely unbothered by the world.The nurse who came to check my blood pressure that morning had a tablet tucked under her arm. She set it on the counter, reached for the pressure cuff, and I saw the screen.I saw the headline.‘A billionaire’s baby has just been delivered’The nurse noticed me reading through her phone screen as she deliberately dropped the phone feeling embarrassed of my intrusion."I need to see that," I said."Miss Johnson…""Please. I need to see it."She handed the phone over to me.I held it and read the news twice.The news appeared from two exclusive sources. I read their brand’s name in the third paragraph and felt triggered.‘Tasha Davies and Franklin Miller?In the report she talked abo
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 25: The Night Does Not End
When we walked out of the courtroom. The flashbulbs and the reporters hampered around Richard and I, calling his name. His hand was on my back, steering me forward through the small crowd of news reporters.Thank God we were at the winning side in the courtroom.While we moved towards our car. Immediately, I felt a slight pain below my abdomen, like a fist closing around something. I had been feeling it a bit since the recess, breathing through it on the witness stand.My pregnancy was barely nine months. So, I never felt this pain could be labor.I pressed my palm flat against my stomach and ignored it, saying it was nothing as we continued walking.The drive back to Bonny's brownstone was calm. Richard was on the phone with Ned, already moving to the next problem. That was Richard, he simply processed things by moving forward. I used to think it was cold of him, but now I know better. It was how he kept from falling apart.Boston the driver, drove with both hands on the wheel. His
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 24: The Proposal
“Don’t panic, you are in control,” Richard said squeezing my hand.“I know but I can’t help but feel a little bit scared.” I respondedHe patted my shoulder and said softly, “I understand but there is not much to worry about. My father is going to understand today that I was properly trained for the courtroom, and since he has decided to defy family for status, he is going in for it pronto.When the court reassembled, Judge Halloway looked at me for a long time. Then, she looked at the folder Richard had placed on her desk, the evidence of the fraud, the drugging, and the Hayes family’s corruption."The petition for conservatorship," Judge Halloway said, her gavel hovering, "is denied. Furthermore, in light of the evidence presented by Mr. Hamman and Mr. Jones, I am referring the Hayes and Jones merger to the District Attorney for a full criminal investigation into corporate racketeering and crime assault."Crack.The gavel came down like the hammer of God.The courtroom exploded into
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 23: The Clean Sweep
"Are you ready?" Richard asked.I’ve been a soldier’s daughter my whole life, Richard, I said with determination, my eyes meeting his with a newfound steel. It’s time I started acting like the commander. Richard smiled once again, and planted a light kiss on my forehead. “Then let’s go”.The Hall of Justice was a monolith of grey granite and glass, a cathedral of cold, unyielding authority. By 8:30 AM, the perimeter was already choked with news vans, their telescopic antennas reaching into the pale blue sky like the feelers of giant insects.Richard walked at my side, his stride long and certain. He had found a discarded suit in the back of Bonny’s office, a vintage, charcoal-grey wool that fit him with an almost spectral precision. He had shaved the beard, leaving only the sharp, lethal lines of his jaw and those steel-blue eyes that seemed to cut through the very marble of the hallway.I walked beside him, my hand resting on the swell of my eight-month-pregnant stomach. I wore a si
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 22: Fighting Back
"If we lose tomorrow, Richard," I mumbled into his chest, "I want you to know... I don't regret the diner. I don't regret the cabin."Richard pulled back just enough to look me in the eye, his expression fierce. "We aren't losing, Oma. I’m going to walk into that courtroom and I’m going to dismantle my father’s legacy brick by brick. I’m going to show the world exactly what a 'Jones' is capable of when he has something worth fighting for."The brownstone office was a tomb of forgotten grievances, filled with the scent of floor wax and the flickers of old litigation. Outside the tall, narrow windows, San Diego hummed with a grasping energy, the city lights flaming like the eyes of a beast waiting for dawn.Bonny had retreated to a small back alcove, ostensibly to check the boiler, but I knew he was giving us space. The silence between Richard and me was no longer the comfortable, salt-sprayed quiet of the cabin. It was charged, heavy with the electricity of the coming storm.I stood by
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 21: The Ghost Flight
We didn't take a private jet. We didn't take a town car.Bonny used his old connections to secure three tickets on a red-eye budget flight out of a tiny regional airport two hours north. We looked like any other family of travellers: an old man in a flannel shirt, a tired-looking pregnant woman in an oversized hoodie, and a man in a baseball cap with a three-month beard and a cheap duffel bag.As the small prop plane climbed into the dark sky, leaving the safety of the coast behind, the hum of the engines felt like a countdown.Richard sat next to me; his long legs cramped in the narrow seat. He had a legal pad on his tray table, covered in his sharp, slanted handwriting. He was drafting a counter-suit, a RICO filing that would tie the Hayes merger to a decade of systematic corporate fraud."They think I’m coming back to beg," Richard said, not looking up from the page. "They think I’m coming back to negotiate for a piece of the inheritance. They have no idea I’m coming back to burn t
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