All Chapters of The Wife He Divorced Became A Billionaire Heiress : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Damian's POVI set the newspaper down slowly,my hands, I noticed distantly, were not entirely steady."Marcus." I said. "This has to be some kind of error. A misidentification, a coincidence of appearance…""It's not an error, sir." Marcus said. "I already checked."I looked up at him. "Checked what?""The corporate filings." He said. "Hart Global updated their executive records yesterday afternoon. The Acting President listed is Amelia Hart." He paused. "Public divorce records confirm the finalized separation from you was processed three days ago. The timeline lines up exactly with the article."I stared at him. "Say that again." I said."The timeline lines up." He repeated, slower this time, I might have missed something in the wording. "She was already Hart Global's heir before any of this happened. The company filing yesterday just made it official."I stood up from my desk and walked toward the window, needing the distance, needing something else to look at besides that photogra

Amelia's POVThe official announcement went out at nine in the morning.I stood near the window of my new office, the same corner suite my father had once occupied, watching the city below while a company-wide email circulated informing every Hart Global employee that Amelia Hart had been appointed Acting President, effective immediately.I hadn't slept well the night before because of the particular alertness that came with knowing thousands of people were about to form opinions about me based on nothing but a headline and a boardroom vote they hadn't witnessed.My assistant, a composed young woman named Priya who had been reassigned to me that morning from the executive pool, knocked lightly and stepped inside."The announcement went out fifteen minutes ago." She said, "I thought you'd want to know if reactions are already starting to come in.""Define reactions." I said, turning from the window.She hesitated. "Mixed, ma'am. Some employees are excited. There's a lot of talk on the

Amelia's POVThe seventy-two hour window left no room for hesitation.I spent the following two days moving between departments with a focus I hadn't felt in years, coordinating with Asante on the Singapore terms, reviewing the Whitmore follow-up documents line by line with legal, and personally overseeing the operational consolidation project that had been draining four point two million dollars annually from departments that had simply been left to duplicate their own work.The consolidation project was where I found it.I asked for direct access to the raw operational expenditure records rather than the summarized reports that had circulated through the board for the past year, wanting to verify the four point two million figure myself before committing to the full migration timeline. Priya arranged for the finance team to grant me temporary access to the underlying ledgers late Tuesday afternoon.I sat in my office long after most of the floor emptied, scrolling through months of

Amelia's POVGrace Halloway's forensic team recovered everything within five days.She arrived at my office Thursday morning carrying a tablet loaded with server logs, recovered file fragments, and a timeline reconstruction detailed to satisfy any court proceeding that might eventually follow."We have him." She said, setting the tablet on my desk.I leaned forward. "Show me."She pulled up the reconstructed evidence. Server access logs confirmed Colin Ashby's credentials had authorized the deletion command at eleven-forty the night I had ordered the audit. A secondary log, one Colin apparently hadn't known existed, had captured a backup snapshot of the financial system twenty minutes before the deletion occurred, preserving every transaction record he believed he had erased permanently."The four original payments to Ferrow Logistics Solutions total one point six million." Grace continued. "But once we recovered full access, we found six additional payments spanning back nearly two y

Damian's POVI switched the television off entirely, the screen going dark, and set the remote down "I keep up with major business coverage." I said, reaching for the folder on my desk as if the conversation required no further explanation. "Hart Global is a significant player in several markets Blackwood Group tracks. Her handling of that embezzlement case is relevant to our own internal risk assessment practices."Sophia studied me for a moment, the garment bag still draped over her arm, her earlier amusement fully replaced now by something more careful."That's a very thorough explanation for something so simple." She said,"You asked." I said evenly.She crossed the office slowly and hung the garment bag over the back of one of the guest chairs, buying herself a moment before responding. "I brought your suit for tonight's gala. I assumed you'd forgotten, given how the week has gone.""I hadn't forgotten." I said, but in truth, I had."Of course you hadn't." She said, her tone lig