All Chapters of I WON'T MARRY A BILLIONAIRE : Chapter 101 - Chapter 104

Vivienne's POVIt went public at nine in the morning.Not leaked. Filed. The formal submission of a legal document through the correct channels produced a public record and public records were findable by people whose job was to find them and the people whose job was to find them had been watching closely since the article published Charles's name.They found it within the hour.....I was at Lumière when it broke.My assistant appeared in my doorway at nine forty with the specific expression she wore when something had arrived that fell outside the established categories of things she was supposed to manage and she was flagging it before proceeding."It's on every major news platform," she said. "The legal filing. They have the document.""How much of it," I said."All of it," she said.I nodded."Close the door," I said.She closed it.....I looked at my screen.The story had found its second wind in the specific way that stories found second winds when new information arrived that

Vivienne's POVThey drove in from outside the city the morning after the filing went public.Not because Charles had asked them to come. Because they were his parents and something significant was happening to their son and the specific instinct of parents who had raised their children with genuine presence rather than managed distance was to be in the room when the room needed them.They arrived at ten.I opened the door and Mrs. Chris Dick looked at me the way she had looked at me at our first dinner, with those steady eyes that took in more than they appeared to, and then she stepped forward and held me briefly and firmly in the way of someone who had decided that the moment called for contact rather than words.Mr. Chris Dick came through behind her.He shook my hand and held it for a moment longer than a handshake required and looked at me with an expression I recognised from Charles's face. The specific quality of a person who had something they wanted to say and had decided the