The Billionaire’s Abandoned Wife
Then he set the phone face down on the table and picked up his water glass and took a slow drink and set it back down, and the control of that, the deliberate measured calm of it, told her more about what it was costing him than any reaction would have.
“What is she saying,” Bianca said.
“Play it,” he said.
She turned the phone back over and pressed play on the link Kemi had sent. The sound was low but the restaurant was quiet enough. Ingrid’s voice came through, steady and carefully broken, the performance of a woman who had practiced this particular register.
“I love my brother,” Ingrid was saying. “And it’s because I love him that I can’t stay silent while I watch someone take advantage o