All Chapters of MARRIED MY BILLIONAIRE EX AFTER HIS FUNERAL : Chapter 31 - Chapter 36

The house was small, tucked at the end of a quiet street two states away. Sophie stood on the porch, her hand raised to knock, unable to move for almost a full minute. Adrian stood beside her, steady, silent, letting her take the time she needed. "You can do this," he said softly. Sophie knocked. The door opened slowly. A woman stood there — older, thinner than Sophie remembered, gray threaded heavily through hair that had once been dark brown. But the eyes were exactly the same. "Sophie," the woman whispered, her hand flying to her mouth. "Mom," Sophie breathed, the word feeling foreign and impossible on her tongue after thirteen years of silence. They stood frozen for a moment, both of them, before Sophie finally closed the distance and pulled her mother into her arms, sobbing into her shoulder. Inside, over tea neither of them touched, Grace Whitfield-Sanders told her sto

Monday morning arrived heavy with tension neither the trial's conclusion nor Vivian's mysterious connection to Eleanor could fully explain away. Sophie sat in the front row of the courtroom, nine months pregnant now, exhaustion pulling at every part of her body, but resolve keeping her upright. "Are you sure you're okay to be here?" Adrian asked quietly, watching her carefully. "I need to see this through," Sophie said. "I've come this far. I'm not missing the ending." The prosecution's closing argument was methodical, devastating in its precision — a timeline stretching back forty years, connecting every piece of evidence into an undeniable pattern of calculated cruelty. "The defendant did not act out of desperation," the prosecutor said, addressing the jury directly. "She did not act out of a single moment of poor judgment. Over four decades, Eleanor Cross meticulously planned, funded, and executed a campaign of fraud, manipulation

Vivian Chase requested a private meeting exactly nine days after the merger discussions officially collapsed. "Just me," she specified in her email to Adrian. "No lawyers, no board members. I think we're overdue for an honest conversation." Sophie read the email over his shoulder, unease settling into her chest immediately. "You're not going alone," she said. "I wasn't planning to," Adrian said. "But she specifically requested—" "I don't care what she requested," Sophie said firmly. "Given everything we now know, meeting her alone isn't a risk worth taking." They compromised. Adrian would meet Vivian at a public restaurant, security discreetly positioned nearby, Whitlock's team monitoring the meeting through a wire Adrian agreed to wear. "If she says anything incriminating," Whitlock explained during the briefing, "we need it documented properly. This could be the piece that finally connects her directly to Eleano