Todos los capítulos de The Billionaire’s Hidden Heir : Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 24

NADIA’S POVI stare at the words until they stop looking like a sentence and just look like a threat sitting flat on a screen.I’ll be there too.“Who is that from,” I ask, though some tired, worn-down part of me already suspects I know the shape of the answer even without a name attached.“No number I recognize.” Ezra’s thumb hovers over the screen, like touching it again might make the message worse somehow. “It could be Victor. About the hearing. It could be Cassandra, about the gala. I genuinely can’t tell, and I hate that I can’t tell.”“Does it matter which one it is?” I wrap my arms around myself, suddenly cold in a kitchen that felt warm two minutes ago. “Either way it means someone’s watching. Either way it means Saturday and tomorrow morning both just turned into something we have to survive instead of something we get to have.”He sets the phone down and reaches for me instead, pulling me gently against him, and I let him, even though some old stubborn part of me wants to k

NADIA’S POVTen minutes. I look at Ezra and he looks at me, and for a second neither of us says anything, because there isn’t time left for anything except moving.“I have to put Patrice away for now,” I say, sliding my phone into my coat pocket with hands that won’t stop shaking. “I can’t think about Marcus and a hearing at the same time. I don’t have that much room left in me this morning.”“You don’t have to think about any of it right now,” Ezra says, taking my hand and squeezing it once, firm and certain. “You just have to walk into that room and be exactly who you already are. That’s all a judge needs to see.”“That’s easy for you to say. You’ve spent your whole life walking into rooms like that one.”“I’ve spent my whole life walking into rooms pretending I belong there,” he says quietly, opening the conference room door for me. “You don’t have to pretend anything. You’ve already earned every bit of the room you’re about to walk into.”Something in his voice steadies me more th