All Chapters of THE BILLIONAIRE'S FORGOTTEN NIGHT: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Arthur’s POVMy mind has been clouded since I made a DNA request to Raymond. And the question still sits at, how do I get the lab requirements from Xavier. To get Bryan’s is quite easy.So, I think like an old man I was and I got a solution… so easy… do not test the intelligence quotient of an old one.The solution is a dinner setting, and I arranged one.***The dinner with Xavier required no elaborate staging, that was the convenient thing about being the family patriarch. It all went about an old grandpa inviting his grandson to dinner. No questions, everyone knows old men like me loves company a lot and my grandson not showing up will make him look like a bad and ungrateful grandson, which my sweet boy doesn’t want… haha.I called Xavier the next morning which was a Wednesday and told him I’ll be expecting him for dinner on Friday. He reluctantly agreed after making a fuss about a board summary he had to finish. “Well, the board summary would still be sitting there on Saturday

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Xavier’s POVIvanna had been unusually witty these past two weeks. That was the first warning sign and I had missed it completely. Ivanna suddenly stopped pushing for dinner dates. She stopped nagging at every little thing like she always did. She stopped doing a lot that actually cross-referenced the real her, and I stupidly missed it. She became warm, accommodating, and occasionally funny in a dry way, which clearly says… that wasn’t the real her.I had interpreted this new version of her as the natural settling of a tension that had peaked and was now finding a ground level.I should have known better.Ivanna Sinclair did not find her own level. She recalibrated. And recalibration, in her own kind of vocabulary, always preceded a move.I was in my office on Thursday afternoon, midway through a call with the company’s legal team about the property acquisition, when my EA knocked and entered with the expression that goes with information she wasn’t sure how to deliver.I held up a

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

Aria’s POVI heard boss’s engagement party from Priya. She had told me that morning in her teasingly manner.Priya was the accounts floor’s most reliable source of information about everything and anything that happened above the fourth floor, and the company at large. Feel free to call her the office blogger. It was on a Friday, around ten forty-something in the morning, I was midway through a secondary reconciliation Marcus had assigned me when Priya suddenly appeared at the edge of my desk, a file was in one hand, her tablet in another, but the look she gave me instantly told me that that wasn’t the bone of contention.“Have you seen the internal memo?” she asked.“Which one?”She turned her tablet toward me.It was a brief, formally worded notice from the Beaumont Group communications office. The kind of internal memo that dressed itself as informational while being, in substance, an announcement. The information was to inform staff that the company would be hosting a private ce

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

Arthur’s POVI was having my breakfast when I got Raymond call. He has the result from the DNA test, the one I was almost dying to have.I picked the call immediately my phone vibrated against the dining table, my heart leaped for the next words I’ll hear from Raymond. Depending on what the result says, I know it will change my view on a lot of events happening around me lately.“The results are in,” he said. “Shall I read them or send the document?”“Read them first,” I said. That’s what I wanted for now, let me hear a third person read it to me first. I may collapse under anxiety in the next few seconds of waiting for the file. Raymond’s voice was calm and calculated as he read the result, knowing fully well how the burden of what he was reading may affect an old man if not read with care.“The DNA analysis confirms a biological relationship between Sample A and Sample B consistent with”“Say it plainly, Raymond,” I cut him abruptly. “No laboratory terms please, I’m too old for tha

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

Xavier’s POVI was at my office in the company headquarters when I got a call from Ivanna’s events coordinator, a woman named Pamela. She was one of the A-list events coordinator in the city, her clients are mostly top personalities in the elite circle. I had met her at a couple of social events I attended. So, I wasn’t that surprised when my personal assistant told me Pamela asked to schedule a call with me, I knew it was Ivanna’s doing.“Hello, Mr. Beaumont. I am Pamela James, your event coordinator. I’m calling to confirm your engagement checklist and when you will be available for an appointment with the fashion stylist.I told her to go through Ivanna for every appointments and other things to do, she’ll handle it better.She answered in affirmative and I ended the call.My assistant came in with a cup of coffee I requested few minutes ago. I told her some other things she needed to do before I dismissed her.I was half way through with my coffee when I got a call from Ivanna.“P

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

XAVIER’S POVBy Friday of that week, my calendar had accumulated four additional engagement-related items without my active participation, a menu tasting Celeste had booked on my behalf for Saturday morning, a call with the Alderton Hall events manager that had appeared in my schedule overnight, a reminder about confirming the final guest list, and a note from Ivanna asking whether I preferred the champagne toast before or after the dinner service.I stared at the calendar for a moment before I closed it.My grandfather also had called twice this week. Both times I had been in the middle of meeting that couldn’t be interrupted, once a call with the legal team, the second time, a board meeting that had been rescheduled once and I couldn’t afford to disrupt. I had called back both times after I was done but my calls only reached his voicemail. I hadn’t called again after then.I had thought what he wanted to discuss couldn’t be anything other than the planning of the engagement party, s

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

Xavier’s POVI drove to the estate the next day around midday.I saw Pamela’s call few minutes after I left the penthouse. I silenced her call angrily, I can’t deal with that for now. Ivanna’s call came into my phone barely two minutes after I ignored Pamela’s. I silenced it too, put my phone on silent mode and dropped it in the drawer.I knew Pamela had already communicated with her and whatever Pamela was calling about earlier had already been relayed.The drive took almost an hour in light weekend morning traffic, the land slimmed gradually into the kind of landscape that made you understand why someone had bought twelve acres of it fifty years ago had decided not to sell.The estate gates opened immediately my car got there on recognition of my plate. ***Margaret met me in the entrance hall with a wild smile.“You’re welcome, Mr. Xavier,” she said with a little smile tugged on her lips before it disappeared, the kind that clearly says these kind of visits are rare. “Mr. Beaumon

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

Ivanna’s POVThe truth about my visit to the estate wasn’t because I had a genuine reason for going.For some reason I couldn’t phantom, Xavier was acting weird lately. I mean so weird, and it’s less than two weeks to our engagement already, I can’t afford to condone any lapses at this point. I went to check on him at his penthouse but he wasn’t there. I called him and he wasn’t picking either, so, I had to add one plus one and I guessed he could be at his grandfather’s estate.Though, going to the Beaumont’s estate means killing two birds with one stone. I know Xavier’s grandfather, Arthur had always had strong opinions about table positioning at formal events, an old habit developed across decades of hosting quite a number of it. Pamela had listed it out specifically that getting his input early would save at least two rounds of revision later. So, you can say I had a genuine reason also. Nevertheless, I’m already at the estate ground.The house was calm when I entered, on one of

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

Ivanna’s POVTo be honest, I wasn’t suspecting anything asides the normal. All four of us had moved back to the sitting room when Bryan all of a sudden got bored with the books and want to go back to his cartoon.I suddenly felt the urge to use the bathroom and the one closest to the sitting room was down the corridor past Arthur’s study. Arthur had excused himself few minutes earlier to take a phone call down the corridor, Xavier was engrossed in his phone too, totally ignoring me, and Bryan had fallen asleep on the couch with the cartoon still running on the television, his small chest rising and falling with the unbothered rhythmic peace of a child who could sleep anywhere and everywhere.The corridor was gravely quiet.I walked down the corridor, my heels clicked noiselessly against the red carpet runner that lined the center of the hallway, passing the framed Beaumont portraits that had always made me feel, in the best possible way, like I was walking through a history I was ab

CHAPTER FORTY

Arthur’s POVThe phone call from the foundation’s legal counsel, Austin Theodore, lasted for quite a couple of minutes.I excused myself from the sitting room the moment the call came in because I had developed this habit of putting calls on speakerphone, and the last thing I needed on was an outsider overhearing a conversation on the intending grant disbursements. I feel like it’s not healthy for personal conversations to mingle with business conversations, most especially with those not outrightly concerned.By the time I was done with Austin on phone I had already developed a stiff neck from being glued to the phone for almost an hour. When I walked back into the sitting room, it was quieter than I left it. Bryan was curled on the couch, Ivanna and Diana were nowhere to be found also.“Where did those two went to?” I asked myself as I made my way to Xavier’s room, it’s funny how Xavier doesn’t leave in the estate anymore, but somehow I kept his room and instructed Margaret to alw

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