All Chapters of I WON'T MARRY A BILLIONAIRE : Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

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Vivienne's POVThe courtroom emptied around us.Not instantly. The specific gradual process of a space releasing the people it had held for the duration of something significant. The attorneys with their cases and their documents. The court officers completing their functions. The government representatives who had come to oversee a transfer that had not happened and were leaving with the paperwork of a suspension instead.Maria left with her attorney through the side door.She did not look at us on her way out.I understood why.There would be a time for whatever came next between all of the people in this room and what came next would have its own shape and its own timing and today was not the day for it.Today was the day for what was already happening.The room was emptying.And Charles and I were standing in the aisle where Louis had stopped and the officers had paused and the twenty years had reached their ending, and the aisle was ours now, just ours, the two of us in the speci

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Mrs. Kate In The Courtroom

Vivienne's POVI found her when the crying was finished.Charles had held me until I was done and then I had stepped back and looked at him and he had looked at me and we had not said anything because the not saying was the right thing for the moment and the moment understood it.He had a call to make to Richard.I had someone to find.---She was in the gallery.Still in the third row from the front where she had sat through the session. Her coat still on. Her handbag in her lap with both hands around it the way she held things in her lap when she was sitting in a formal space and the formality required a certain management of the body.The courtroom was empty around her.The judge's bench unoccupied. The attorneys tables cleared. The officers gone. The specific atmosphere of a room that had held something significant and had released it and was now simply a room again, waiting for the next significant thing it would be asked to hold.My mother was looking at the bench.Not at anythi

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Charles Addresses The Press

Vivienne's POVI did not stand beside him at the microphone.This had been a decision we made together the previous evening when Richard had told us that the press presence outside the courthouse the following day would be significant and that a statement after the ruling, whatever the ruling was, would be necessary.I had said I would be inside.Charles had said that was right.Not because my presence beside him would have been wrong. Because what he needed to say was something that belonged to him and the space for it needed to be his and standing beside someone while they spoke about you changed the quality of what they could say.I was in the car.Richard's car. Parked on the side street that ran alongside the courthouse entrance where the cameras had assembled in the specific organised density of a press presence that had been building its position since early morning.I had my phone.The livestream was already running.---He came through the courthouse doors at three forty in t

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Kelvin And Maria

Vivienne's POVI was not in the room.This is not my story to tell from the inside. I was not there and was not meant to be there and the account I have of it came to me afterward from Kelvin who told Charles and Charles who told me and I am telling it now with the understanding that what happened in that room belonged to two people and is being shared here only because it is part of the complete picture and the complete picture is what this has always been about.---The room was on the fourth floor of a building that had conference facilities available for private use.Not a courthouse room. Not an attorney's office. A neutral space with a table and chairs and a window and nothing else in particular. The kind of room that existed in the city for exactly this kind of purpose and that had no opinion about what happened in it.Both attorneys had been present for the setup and had then withdrawn.This had been agreed in advance.What needed to happen in that room was not something that

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Louis's Sentencing Hearing

Vivienne's POVCharles had told me he was going to ask for leniency three days before thNot as a discussion. As an informing. He had sat across from me at the kitchen table in the morning before work and had said it clearly and directly and had waited for my response.I had looked at him for a moment.Then I had said, "Okay."He had looked at me."You're not going to argue," he said."Would it change anything," I said.He thought about it honestly. "No," he said."Then I'm not going to argue," I said.He looked at me with the specific expression he wore when I had done something that confirmed something he had already believed.We had finished breakfast and gone to work.---The courtroom was full.Not in the way of the paternity hearing which had been full with the specific audience of a proceeding that had generated significant public interest and had people present from every relevant dimension of it.This was a sentencing hearing and the fullness of it had a different quality. Th

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Charles Asks For Leniency

Vivienne's POVThe judge waited.The room waited with him.Charles stood without notes in the specific way he stood when he was about to say something that had been considered completely and was going to be delivered without the management that incomplete consideration required.He looked at the judge."I am not asking for leniency because what Louis did was small," he said. "It was not small. What he built and what he set in motion cost people who did not deserve to be part of it. Maria Blackwood. My brother. My wife." He paused. "A child who was used as an instrument before it was born."The room was completely still."I know what the cost was," he said. "I am not standing here minimising it or asking this court to minimise it."He was quiet for a moment."I am asking for leniency," he said, "because I have thought carefully about what justice actually requires in this specific situation and I have arrived at a position that I want to explain honestly."---He spoke about forgivenes

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What Louis Says

Vivienne's POVHe stood for a long time before he started.Not from hesitation exactly. The standing itself was part of it. The specific quality of a man arriving at a place he had been avoiding for twenty years and taking the last moment before the arrival to acknowledge that he had been avoiding it.Then he spoke.---He spoke without looking at his attorney.His attorney had the expression of a professional who had resigned themselves to whatever was about to happen and was observing rather than managing. There was nothing to manage. Louis had moved past the territory where management was available.He spoke about the women first.Not their names. The pattern. The specific shape of an experience that had repeated itself six times across twenty years and that he had told himself each time was a separate thing and had known each time was not a separate thing.He said the knowing had been the cost.Not the losing. The knowing that he was losing in the same direction each time and the

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The Sentence

Vivienne's POVThe judge took his time.Not excessively. The specific measured time of a man who had been given significant material across this hearing and intended to demonstrate through the pacing of his response that he had received it properly.He reviewed his notes.He looked at the prosecution's table.He looked at Louis.He looked at Charles.Then he spoke.---He began with the charges.He named each one clearly and attached to each one the specific weight it carried in the context of everything the court had received. Fraud. Conspiracy. Evidence tampering. Witness intimidation.He said the evidence was substantial and the harm was documented and the scheme had been constructed with deliberate care over a significant period of time.He said none of that was in dispute.He said the court took seriously the impact on Maria Blackwood who had been found in a moment of genuine vulnerability and had been used in a way that had compounded that vulnerability rather than addressing it

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Ella Gets Her Moment

Vivienne's POVI did not witness this directly.Charles told me about it that evening at home in the kitchen while he was making tea and I was sitting at the counter and the day was settling into the particular quality of days that had been very large and were now becoming simply evenings.He told me what happened and I am telling it now because Ella deserves to have it told.---She was in the corridor outside the courtroom.Not waiting for anyone specifically. Standing with her laptop bag on her shoulder and her phone in her hand in the way she stood when she was in a space between things, the specific contained quality of someone who had been operating at full capacity for a long time and had arrived at a pause and was not yet sure what the pause was supposed to feel like.The sentencing had just finished.She had been in the gallery.I had seen her there from my seat beside my mother, three rows back on the left side, and I had watched her face through the session with the attenti

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Maya's Celebration

Vivienne's POVShe had been planning it since the verdict.Not since the sentencing. Since the verdict. I know this because Lyla told me afterward that Maya had called her from outside the courtroom while Charles and I were still standing in the aisle and had said we are doing this properly and had begun the logistics before she had fully processed the emotional content of what had just happened.That was Maya.The feeling and the doing occurring simultaneously, the doing not waiting for the feeling to complete before it began.---The venue was a restaurant on the west side that Maya had used before for things that required a space with the right quality of warmth and the right quality of privacy and the right understanding from the people running it that the evening was going to be what it was going to be without requiring management.She had reserved the back room.The whole back room.Not a table. The room.She had sent a list to the kitchen three days in advance.She had a docume

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