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Chapter 29: The Woman Behind the Curtain
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2026-03-26 21:41:05
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UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 35: A Mother's War
The baby was asleep. Richard was on a client call in the living room. My brain needed something physical to do, so I put on rubber gloves and got ready to work.Immediately, my phone rang against the tile and it was Ned, I picked.Without greeting, he answered from the dialer's number. “Turn to Channel 7.”"What?""Right now, Oma."Immediately, I dropped the brush I was holding, as it clattered on the floor and got up.Richard was still on his call when I walked in. He was at the window with his back to me, talking through a contract clause. He glanced back, saw my face, and said to the client, "Let me call you back," and hung up before the man could respond."What is it?" he asked.I turned on the television.Elizabeth Jones, his mother was already mid-sentence.She was sitting across from a news anchor in a hotel suite, looking composed and comported. Well, thirty years of sitting in rooms full of powerful people had made composure look effortless on her.The anchor asked about the
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 34: Legal Claims
Two attorneys Richard considered as friends from his Jones and Associates days had stopped returning calls.Richard noticed all of it and didn't comment, but clearly understood that this is putting him off guard now and getting him worried too since this week.While I was preparing eggs for breakfast, I felt this was the right time to talk to him about his worries and about the old allies."Richard, I need you to keep calm about your old allies.” I said. He looked at me.“They're waiting to see if you're going to hold on. I mean your old colleagues. They're not against you, neither are they with you. They're just watching to see whether the firm survives the first one year before they decide which side of the fence is safer."He watched me speak with so much assurance and was astonished with my unique cleverness. He turned back to the eggs as he took the plate from me, then responded calmly. “I know.”He divided the eggs into two plates and set one in front of me. He sat down across
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 33: The Price of Victory
In the morning after the discussion with Richard last night, I woke up seeing my face was all over on the internet.On the front page of three major California news sites.Two national legal blogs, and a gossip platform that had over seventeen million followersThe headline that got shared the most read: From a waitress to the courtroom, the woman who brought down the Jones empire.I read it sitting at the sofa in the living room at six in the morning with the baby on my lap. Then I put my phone face down and sat there for a while as I pondered.Why did it feel like something had just started rather than something ending after the courtroom victory?Richard's phone did not stop ringing. He had two phones, one for the firm and one for his personal use.From the moment he woke up that morning it was ringing, buzzing, lighting up with both names I recognized and names I didn't. The clients, the journalists and former colleagues from Jones and associates who had watched the courtroom fo
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 32: The Paralegal's Betrayal Uncovered
I stood in the open doorway and listened to her footsteps go down the corridor, and she was gone.I stood there for another moment. The hallway was empty and quiet, the kind of quiet that feels louder than noise because something has just happened in it that hasn't finished happening yet.I went back inside.I picked my daughter up. She had lost the sock somewhere and was unbothered about it. I held her against my chest and stood in the middle of the living room deeply confused.Tasha had come here scared. With someone facing consequences for a wrong thing they did and someone who knows something they were never supposed to know and has been living with that knowledge long enough for it to change how they react to situations now. She had told me two things clearly beneath everything she hadn't said directly.So, I had been in the wrong place that night. Someone else had been intended for that room and when I mentioned V. Caldwell, that scared her out of my apartment.The same name I
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 31: The Apology That Bleeds
It was 8am in the morning.Richard had left an hour earlier to meet Ned at the office. The baby was in her bouncer on the living room floor working very hard at grabbing her own feet. I was at the kitchen table with the Caldwell documents and going in circles on the same question. ‘Who is this person that had access to this three years ago?’The question had followed me into my sleep last night.Suddenly I heard a knock at the door.I wasn't expecting anyone. Ned always called ahead before coming to the house, and lawyer Bonny always texted too, Richard would go with his key. So, who could be knocking at the door this early?I picked the baby up from her bouncer and went to the door.I looked through the peephole and stepped back.I looked again, because my brain needed a second pass to confirm what I was seeing.Tasha Davies… my friend was standing at my door.“What the hell is she doing in my house? Who allowed her in without letting me know? How did she even get the address to
UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 30: The Name That Shouldn't Exist
First, it started with the documents.This is three days after Richard met with his mother Mrs. Elizabeth. I spread the file across the kitchen table while the baby slept and Richard was in the shower. I wasn't looking for anything specific but I just wanted to read through it myself, with my own eyes, without anyone explaining it to me or summarizing it.I had learned that about legal documents. The thing that matters is almost never in the section everyone points you to. I made a fresh coffee, sat down, and started reading.The correspondence between Arthur and Hayes was something else. Two men who knew exactly what they were doing. I worked through it slowly, highlighting as I went, building a picture in my head of how the illegal structure of the merger had been assembled piece by piece over three years.Then I got to the records on the documents.They were attached to the back of the third document, eight pages of transaction logs.Financial records showing every payment made
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