All Chapters of The Heiress Returns: My Billionaire Ex-Husband's Regret: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

She looked at me. "Mireille," she said. She reached across the table and put her hand over mine. "Don't do what I did." I looked at her. "I loved your father for eleven years before I let myself believe he meant it," she said. "I spent eleven years finding reasons why it couldn't be real. Why

I did not sleep the night before. Not from fear. Fear was the wrong word for what I felt in the forty-eight hours leading into the board session. Fear implied uncertainty and I was not uncertain. I had built this counter-structure brick by brick over forty days and I knew every beam of it and I wa

Stepped back exactly one step. His jaw was set. His hands were at his sides. Everything about him was controlled in the way that control is the only thing running and it is running at capacity. He looked at me. I looked at him. The room was absolutely silent. I said: "Sit down." He sat.

Sebastien arrived at six-fifteen. He came in without knocking — I had texted him the floor, Nikolai's apartment, because the conference room felt exposed and I needed walls I trusted. He walked in and he looked at the document on the desk and he stood there for a long time without saying anything.

Then he pivoted. He said: "The board should be aware of a development this morning that has material relevance to the vote." I kept my face completely still. He said: "A secondary will filed by the late Henri Rousseau has been entered into the public registry. This document establishes a trust