All Chapters of Too Late To Love Me, Mr Billionaire : Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

Sophia’s POVNine days!!She wrote it on a Post-it note in the morning and stuck it to the inside of her wardrobe door where Marcus wouldn’t see it. She stood there looking at it for a moment before she finally got dressed.Nine days and the Hartwell account signatory update was sitting in Marcus’s to-do folder waiting for his signature, which he would give her without reading it properly because he never read routine CFO correspondence properly, she knew this because she’d been watching his email habits for three months. The moment he signed it she had spousal standing on the account structure and the transfer pathway was clean and documented and Victor could move within forty-eight hours of the wedding.She closed the wardrobe and went downstairs and made coffee and sat at Marcus’s kitchen table with her laptop and worked through the transfer map for the fourth time, not because it needed checking again but because going through it settled something in her chest that nothing else se

Kira’s POVThe Ashford International annual dinner looked the way it always looked, two hundred people in black tie filling the grand ballroom of the Langham, the kind of room that made everyone inside it feel like they’d earned the right to be there, chandeliers running the length of the ceiling, round tables dressed in white linen, the low hum of important conversations happening at a volume designed to sound casual.Kira took a glass of water from a passing tray and moved through the room.She’d been doing this for forty minutes, a slow calculated circuit, pausing at the right tables, saying the right things to the right people, laughing at the right moments, and always, always keeping the main entrance in her peripheral vision.“Kira.” James Obi, their longest standing hospitality partner, caught her arm near the center of the room. “You look wonderful. How is the Phoenix expansion going?”“Ahead of schedule. The Brooklyn location is fully operational and the second site has brok

Sophia’s POV Mrs. Adeyemi was talking about the Maldives and Sophia was nodding and smiling and saying the right things and watching Marcus from the corner of her eye. He’d come back to the table and sat down and put his arm around her chair and laughed at the right moments and picked up his wine at the right times and everything about him looked exactly right except for the thing underneath it that she couldn’t name precisely but had been feeling since he sat down, a quality of stillness in him that wasn’t his usual stillness, something held rather than something natural. She’d watched Kira cross the room toward him twenty minutes ago. She’d watched them stand together near the pillar by the entrance and she’d watched the way Kira’s body was angled, slightly toward him, slightly away from the room, the positioning of someone having a conversation they didn’t want to read from a distance. She’d watched Marcus’s face do something she couldn’t make out clearly from across the room an

Marcus’s POVHe heard the glass break before he saw anything.A sharp clean sound cutting through the table conversation and Mrs. Adeyemi stopped mid-sentence and looked toward the bar and Marcus looked too, the way everyone near enough looked, and he saw the waiter crouching for the pieces and he saw Elijah standing at the bar and he saw Sophia. He was on his feet before he even decided to stand.“Excuse me,” he said to the table and crossed the room.Sophia hadn’t moved from the bar stool. She was sitting with her bag in both hands and her back straight and her eyes on Elijah and the expression on her face stopped Marcus two steps away because he had never seen it before. Not once since they’ve been together for months. Not at any dinner or argument or difficult conversation or even moment of surprise. He had never seen her face look like that.Like she was calculating the distance to every door in the room, her eyes moving on their own like she’s seen a ghost.“Babe.” He touched h

Kira’s POVKira had been on the phone for the last ten minutes.Not visibly, she had one earbud in and her phone in her clutch and she’d been talking to Adrian in a low voice while she moved through the edges of the room, keeping Marcus and Sophia in her sightline, watching the distance and all the drama between them.“Torres sent everything to the detective this afternoon,” Adrian said. “If Marcus calls tonight they can move.”“He’ll definitely call.”“Are you sure?”“He just stepped back from her, with the way things are escalating, I hope he doesn’t lose his temper.” She stopped near a pillar. “He just closed the folder and stepped back.”A pause on the other end. “How is he.”“Standing very still.” She watched Marcus across the room. “Which is worse than if he was shouting.”“And Sophia.”“Still talking. She won’t stop talking, she’s definitely looking for ways to wiggle out of this.” Kira