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Chapter 9: Feeling Accepted.

作者: TEEZA PEE
last update 公開日: 2026-03-17 01:29:05

“The girls in the laundry room have been whispering about your little visit the other time, Mrs Higgins said suddenly.

My heart skipped a bit. “I hope I was not too harsh on them. I just felt that if I’m going to live here, I can't have them treat me like a ghost that shouldn't be seen.”

“Harsh? Miss Oma, they were terrified. And they should be, because this house has been run like a museum for a decade; cold, quiet, and perfectly preserved. But a house shouldn't be a museum; it should be a hom
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  • 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

  • UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE   Chapter 20: The Escape

    Miller looked around the shop. His eyes lingered on the discarded walking stick, then on a smear of red on the edge of a mahogany table. He walked over to it, touched it with a gloved finger, and looked back at Bonny. The silence stretched, thin and brittle."Seems like a lot of excitement for a Tuesday," Miller said slowly. He looked toward the back room, where Richard was hiding. "You sure there ain't no one else in here, Bonny? Someone in a dark SUV that nearly ran me off the road on the way in?""Tourists, Sheriff," Bonny said, his voice dropping to a confidential conspirator's tone. "They drove in, realized the town was closed for the season, and left in a hurry. You know how they are. No respect for the speed limit or the quiet."The Sheriff sighed, a long, weary sound. He knew Bonny was lying. But in a town like this, a known lie was often safer than an unknown truth. He looked at me again, his gaze softening just a fraction. "Keep an eye on her, Bonny, and fix that door before

  • UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE   Chapter 19: A Humble Realization

    Richard stood alone in the wreckage of the bookshop. He leaned against the heavy oak desk, his lungs burning, his hand shaking as he wiped a smear of blood from his cheek. The silence rushed back in, heavy and thick with the scent of old paper.He walked toward the alcove, his heart hammering against his ribs. He knelt on the rug and felt for the recessed handle of the trapdoor Bonny had pointed out."Oma?" he called out, his voice cracking with the sheer weight of the adrenaline crash. "Bonny? They're gone, it’s over."For a long, agonizing minute, there was no sound. Then, the trapdoor creaked open a few inches. Bonny’s grey, unruly beard appeared first, followed by his sharp, wary eyes. He looked at the chaos of the shop, the broken shelves, the scattered books, the discarded walking stick, and then at Richard.Bonny nodded slowly, a silent mark of respect from one survivor to another. He stepped back, allowing me to climb out of the shadows.I emerged into the dim light of the sho

  • UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE   Chapter 19: A Humble Realization

    Richard stood alone in the wreckage of the bookshop. He leaned against the heavy oak desk, his lungs burning, his hand shaking as he wiped a smear of blood from his cheek. The silence rushed back in, heavy and thick with the scent of old paper.He walked toward the alcove, his heart hammering against his ribs. He knelt on the rug and felt for the recessed handle of the trapdoor Bonny had pointed out."Oma?" he called out, his voice cracking with the sheer weight of the adrenaline crash. "Bonny? They're gone, it’s over."For a long, agonizing minute, there was no sound. Then, the trapdoor creaked open a few inches. Bonny’s grey, unruly beard appeared first, followed by his sharp, wary eyes. He looked at the chaos of the shop, the broken shelves, the scattered books, the discarded walking stick, and then at Richard.Bonny nodded slowly, a silent mark of respect from one survivor to another. He stepped back, allowing me to climb out of the shadows.I emerged into the dim light of the sho

  • UNDESERVED ROMANCE WITH MR. BILLIONAIRE   Chapter 18: Dangerous Confrontation

    Richard didn't flinch. He stood in the center of the room, the dim orange glow of the woodstove casting long, voracious shadows across his face. He looked like a man who had already died once and found the experience liberating. In his right hand, he gripped the silver-headed walking stick Bonny had left behind. In his left, he held nothing but the cold air of a town that didn't know his name.Nora Hayes stepped over the threshold. She was a vision of jagged, expensive fury. Her cream-colored wool coat was spotless, a sharp contrast to the grime of the passageways, and her blonde hair was pinned back so tightly it seemed to pull the skin of her face into a permanent snarl. Behind her stood two men, heavy-set, silent, and wearing the tactical gear of "private security" that usually meant "paid silence.""Look at you, Richie," Nora said, her voice dripping with a poisonous blend of pity and triumph. She glanced around the dusty, cramped shop with a look of profound disgust. "The heir to

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