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chapter 21

Ethan's POVI had the same dream again.I was walking in a long hallway, the kind that stretches further the more you walk it, the walls on either side close enough to touch if you reached out both arms. I didn't know what I was walking toward in the dream, only that there was something at the end of it that I needed to reach before something else happened.And then came a high sound.The sound of a child crying.I started walking faster.Then the crying stopped suddenly, mid-breath.I reached the end of the hallway. There was nothing at the end of it but a door, closed, with light coming through the gap at the bottom. Warm light. The specific warm gold of morning light in a room where someone has left a lamp on.I reached for the handle.Then suddenly woke up in my bed.I sat upright in the dark of the bedroom with my heart doing something unreasonable against my ribs.Beside me, Samantha was asleep.Her breathing was even and undisturbed.Then I got up.The city outside the window w

Chapter 22

Rebecca's POVI was searching for a company announcement in the archived press folder when the photograph stopped me.It was from the charity gala three years ago.Ethan stood in the center, shaking someone’s hand, his attention focused on the man. And to his left, slightly behind him, almost slipping out of the frame, was Bella.She wore a simple dark blue dress. Her face was turned toward Ethan with an expression so unguarded it made my chest tighten — pale, soft, devoted, quietly luminous. She was looking at my brother with her face very pale.I stared at her face for a long time.The paleness I had seen in her cheeks that last evening at the family dinner came back to me with sudden, painful clarity. That same fragile pallor. The way she had stood so still while I called her useless, an orphan, a burden and many more names. I had thrown those words at her like stones, convinced her silence meant weakness. Now I wondered if it had been the stillness of someone who had already decid

Chapter 23

Bella's POVToday marks one year since I gave birth to them.I don't know how the day moved so quickly. I just woke up, took care of myself and the babies, planned and worked for the day, watched the morning come in through the window... and now it's night already.Zara walked first.She had been threatening to for two weeks—pulling herself up on the edge of the sofa, standing for a few seconds, then sitting down hard on her bottom.Then one Tuesday morning, while I was on the floor folding laundry, she simply stood up and walked to me.Her steps were unsteady but determined. Her arms were out at her sides like small wings.I caught her when she reached me, and she grabbed my shirt in both fists and looked up at me with an expression that was so completely her father's that my breath left my body for a moment.I held her against my chest and pressed my lips to the top of her head.Her brother, Zion, was across the room, watching his sister with an expression of deep personal offense,

Chapter 24

Williams' POV Henderson barged into my office without knocking on a Monday morning. His fist was clenched at his side, and anger was etched deep into his face. He walked straight to my desk, slapped a sheet of paper down in front of me, and dropped into the chair across from me like a man who had been holding onto bad news for far too long. "Someone is buying us," he said bluntly. I picked up the paper. The report showed someone had been purchasing small pieces of Hayes Holdings quietly and consistently for over a year. Each transaction was small enough not to raise alarms on its own. But added together, the numbers made me sit forward in my chair. "How long has this been going on?" I asked. "At least fourteen months based on what we can trace," Henderson replied, crossing one leg over the other. "Possibly longer." I scanned the figures again, my stomach tightening. "Who is it?" Henderson’s expression didn’t change. "That’s the problem. We don’t know." "Okay thank you, I tol

Chapter 25

Ethans' POVSunday morning was almost a battlefield disguised as breakfast.Samantha waited until I had taken my first sip of coffee before she struck.“I think we should set a wedding date,” she said calmly, her eyes fixed on her phone.The words landed between us like a gauntlet.I turned my coffee cup slowly in my hands."We'll do so when we have time," I said."We've had time for three months." Now she looked up. Her eyes were steady and warm, and behind the warmth was something else—the particular patience of a woman who had been waiting for something and had decided she was done waiting. "The engagement announcement ran everywhere, Ethan. People are waiting for the date.""Okay.""I don't want to keep making them wait." She set her phone down.The morning moved around us. Outside the window, the garden was quiet and grey, the kind of late morning that hadn't yet decided whether it wanted to become a proper day."I have a lot going on with the company right now," I said. "The sha

Chapter 26

Ethan's' PpOVI called Marcus that night.I stood in my study with the share certificate on the desk in front of me, Samantha asleep upstairs, and the house quiet.Marcus picked up on the fourth ring."Is the shareholder structure legitimate?" I asked.He knew what I meant. I hadn't spoken to him about it, and that was one of the reasons I liked him and considered him an exceptional lawyer.I heard him typing.The silence stretched for two minutes. I stood at my desk and looked at Bella's name on the document, listening to the sound of Marcus moving through databases on the other end of the line."It's legitimate," he said finally.Something in my chest moved."All of it?" I asked."All of it." More typing. "She started with the shares you gave her in the settlement. Used them as the base. Then she began purchasing additional shares—small amounts, consistently." A pause. "Williams, she has been doing this for over a year. Every purchase is clean. Every transfer is documented. There is

Chapter 27

Bella's POVThe twins were not ideal boardroom companions.I had arranged for a sitter — a woman from the building who was warm and reliable. But Zion had woken up that morning with a grip on my shirt that he refused to release, and Zara had taken a look at the sitter and started crying.So they came with me.Nathan's headquarters was a glass building ten minutes from my apartment — clean lines, a lobby that was trying slightly too hard, staff who smiled.The receptionist looked at the twins."Mr. Nathan is expecting you," the receptionist said, recovering smoothly from her surprise."I know," I said.Nathan was standing when I walked in.He was at the window with his coffee, and he turned when the door opened. His eyes went immediately to the twins, his expression moving through surprise before settling somewhere that looked genuinely warm."You brought reinforcements," he said."They insisted."I set Zara down on the conference table. Zion remained in the stroller, still occupied wi

Chapter 28

Bella's POVThe marketing department was the first thing I fixed. Although three other departments were bleeding worse, but I decided to tackle marketing first because it was the most visible and whatever a company puts out into the world is what the world believes. Nathan Holdings had been putting out the wrong thing, and the world had responded accordingly.I called the department head on Monday morning.His name was Felix. He looked like he was in his mid-forties, confident in the particular way of someone who had spent years believing he is the smartest person in every room.He came into the meeting room with a folder and an expression that said he had already decided this conversation would be about things he was supposed to do but hadn't.I let him talk first.He talked about brand visibility, market positioning, and several other things.Then I opened my own folder."Your biggest client," I said. "How long has it been since someone from this company called to check on them?"F

Chapter 29

Ethan's POV The shareholder meeting was set for Thursday. Clara’s memo sat open on my screen, every registered name listed in neat black text. I decided to scroll through everything, that was when I spotted her name. Bella Hayes. My finger hovered, then clicked. Her profile filled the monitor—stake percentage, transfer records, purchase dates. I stared at the numbers until they blurred. It's just 15 months since the divorce, and Bella has been able to come up with this much. Because I was pretty sure that in our three years of marriage, I had never known she held shares. Or maybe I had stopped noticing details about her long before the divorce. I forced myself to close the tab, telling myself I had other things to do that were more important than an ex-wife. I opened Marcus’s counter-strategy file instead and scrolled through legal angles. Procedural blocks. Ways to neutralize a shareholder who might demand more than the board wanted to give. But nothing was entering my brai

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