Todos los capítulos de The Billion Dollar Revenge For Lucia Hale: Capítulo 131 - Capítulo 140

Victoria had given them the library, and by noon the long oak table was covered in paper.Atlas had never laid it all out before. Dean’s folder, Bauer’s reports, the old invoice with Vane’s name, the sweep results, a stack of screenshots.For weeks he had held each piece separately, handing over the safe one and keeping the rest. Now they lay side by side, looking very small. Spread out like this, they looked less like protection and more like a case he had been quietly building against her trust.Elara sat across from him with her bandaged feet tucked under her. Tony had taken the end of the table with his tablet, and she had asked him to stay. She hadn’t said a word since they sat down.“I’m going to tell you all of it,” Atlas said. “In order, and you can stop me whenever you want.”“Start.”He began with the shell company behind the shipment theft and the name that had surfaced there, repeating what he had told her in the study. She nodded at each one, like someone checking a lis

Loud, fast footsteps echoed all over the space, then reduced to slow, patient ones as though they were climbling one stair at a time.Elara ran as fast as she could, her breathing drowning out the surrounding sounds. However, the hallway stretched, and just kept stretching.Just when she realized her legs were slowing down, a hand closed in her hair and pulled. A scream tore out of her throat as white light flooded everything and she sat up. Her chest rose and fell fast as she felt a cry stuck in a throat. For a moment she didn’t know where she was. The ceiling was too high, the sheets looked extremely unfamiliar, and her heart slammed against her ribs. “Elara, are you okay?” The voice sounding like it was underwater drifted into her ears.It took a while to realize that she was being shaken by the shoulders.She turned to the side to see Atlas next to her, a worried expression on his face which seemed particularly foreign.Then she remembered.“You’re safe,” Atlas patted her shou

By Thursday the doctor had cleared her for light work, and the Harrington studio still had a week of new locks and cameras ahead of it.Atlas brought it up over breakfast. “There’s an empty office near mine at Steele Tower.” He paused. “It has a good window, a door that locks, and it’s yours for as long as the studio is being rebuilt, if you want it that is.”She had braced for the other version, the one where a key card arrived with her name already printed on it. She looked at him over her coffee.“I want it.” A smile played on her lips as the words came out.“Good.” Something eased in his shoulders and the corner of his lips pulled in a small smile. “Then, let’s go to the office this afternoon, I have a meeting and before it, we can go over the security schedule.”“Sounds good to me.”So at three o’clock she rode up to the fifty-second floor with Atlas and Curt a step behind. She had a tote of sketchbooks on her shoulder and her cane tapping softly on the marble. “Good afternoon,

When they had gotten back to the house, Victoria Steele summoned her son by sending a car, which Atlas said was how you knew it was serious.“She could text him,” Elara said as they waited in the drawing room.“She has never sent a text in her life.” Atlas straightened a cufflink he had already straightened twice. “She believes a message should arrive on paper or not at all.”Elara hid a smile. Across from her, Tony sat with his tablet on his knee, looking like a man who had been invited to an execution and wasn’t sure whose.Victoria sat in a high-backed chair by the fireplace, silver-haired and perfectly upright, with a single folder on the table beside her. She hadn’t spoken since they arrived, and Elara was beginning to understand that this was a technique.Raphael arrived ten minutes late, which was also a technique of his.Amelia walked beside him in a pale gray dress, one hand resting lightly on his arm, her face arranged into something soft and slightly worried.“Mother,” Raph

“Someone connected to Halberd?” Elara repeated.Just a few meters away from her, Atlas lifted his head. Whatever had been lingering between them moments ago disappeared at the mention of that name.“How connected?” she asked.“She worked there,” Tony replied. “Kept their books for four years before the company shut down, her name is Ruth Alder.”Elara glanced at Atlas, then switched the call to speaker.“What does she know?” Atlas asked, stepping closer.“That's what we're going to find out, and I spoke to her briefly, but she became rather uncomfortable when I mentioned the payments from San Francisco.” Tony shook his head. “She wouldn't discuss anything else over the phone.”Elara frowned. “Why?”“Apparently, she has reasons to be careful, yet she agreed to speak to us, but only if Elara comes in person.”“Where?”“Tacoma, she insists we meet at her house.”Elara looked down at herself.Less than five minutes ago, she had been admiring a dress that represented everything she was try