All Chapters of The Bill‍ionaire’​s Muse: Chapter 41 - Chapter 43

Adrian’s POVOnce the police were gone, the house seemed to settle into an uneasy quiet.Dad lasted only a few more minutes before leaving too, carrying the officers’ questions—and whatever answers he had managed to give them—out with him. I watched him disappear down the hallway, then turned back to Meghan and Sophie. Sophie hadn’t moved much. She was still beside Meghan, one hand covering hers, while Meghan kept staring at the floor as if the right explanation might somehow be hiding there.I couldn’t sit around waiting for one.My phone was already in my hand by the time I stepped away from the table. I found Naomi’s number, glanced once at Meghan, and moved toward the other side of the room. “I need to make a call,” I told them, not waiting for either of them to respond.Naomi answered on the second ring. “Adrian?”I leaned my shoulder against the wall and lowered my voice. “You’ve heard about the collapse, right?” There was no point dressing this up as a casual call. I needed to

(Meghan’s POV)The morning came too quietly.I opened my eyes and immediately remembered the building.The news from the night before returned in pieces, starting with haran telling me that five people had died, then the police sitting in the living room, and finally the words that had left me too stunned to properly respond. I stayed in bed, staring at the ceiling while I tried to convince myself that the investigation would clear everything up.I knew what I had recommended at the site. I had pointed out the problem with the support and told Naomi that the engineers needed to check it before anything was closed up. I hadn’t told anyone to use an unsafe method, and I certainly hadn’t done anything that should have brought a building down.Once they went through the plans and spoke to everyone who had worked on the site, they would understand that.At least, that was what I needed to believe.I reached for my phone from the nightstand, expecting to see a few missed calls from Imogen o