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Chapter Thirteen: What She Built
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BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Twenty Two: The Article
Tuesday evening I had stood in my kitchen doorway long after Cyrus disappeared around the corner.Wednesday I made Eli's breakfast and did the school run and worked through two hems and told myself I was not thinking about ankylosaurs in coat pockets or batteries in third drawers.I was thinking about both of those things continuously.Thursday morning my phone buzzed at six forty three.I was already awake.A news alert from an app I had set up years ago and completely forgotten about.The headline filled the screen.DYING BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET ILLEGITIMATE SON — The woman who hid his heir for five years.I read it once.There was a photograph of me outside the school gates. Taken without my knowledge from a distance, slightly blurred at the edges but unmistakably me. There was one of Cyrus — gaunt, expensive, coat right, the particular look of a man being photographed without knowing it. The article was eight paragraphs long.It called me calculating. Deliberate. Strategic. It said I
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Twenty One: Cyrus Tries
Talia sat down beside me without asking.She didn't say anything about what she had watched from three stalls away. Didn't ask about Alden or what he said or why I was sitting on a bench in the middle of a packed-down market like someone who had lost the thread of the afternoon.She handed me the rest of her coffee and waited.Eli climbed into her lap within thirty seconds. Second tart in hand. She didn't ask where he got it."You alright?" she said. To me. Quietly."I don't know yet," I said.She nodded. That was the right answer and she knew it.We walked home together and I spent the rest of Saturday with the information Alden had given me sitting in my chest like a stone I had picked up and couldn't put down.He came looking. One morning. Empty rooms. And then he left.Sunday I made Eli pancakes and fixed a hem and walked to the end of the garden and back twice for no reason I could explain. I did not call anyone. I did not decide anything.I just carried it.I didn't tell Cyrus I
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Twenty: The Night He Came Looking
He replied in four minutes."Thank you. Ten o'clock."I sat with the phone in my hand and the kitchen quiet around me and thought about what I had just agreed to. Not the visit itself. What it meant that I had agreed without hesitation. That the yes had come before I had consciously decided to say it.I put the phone down. Made Eli's dinner. Did not think about it any further because thinking about it further was not something I could afford on a Thursday evening with a five year old asking about the relative merits of broccoli versus carrots with great seriousness.Saturday morning Eli wanted the tarts.He had been raising the subject since Thursday with the patient persistence of a child who understood that repetition was a legitimate negotiation strategy. He mentioned it at breakfast. He mentioned it to the ankylosaur at breakfast. He mentioned it on the walk there twice."I know," I said. "We're going.""The sugar ones specifically.""I know, Eli.""Not the jam ones. The sugar one
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Nineteen: Mira Flint Does Not Do Soft
"I need to call Fenne," I said.Talia moved to the far end of the counter without a word.Fenne answered on the second ring."A woman was outside this morning," I said. "Platinum hair. Pale coat. Standing at the end of your street looking at the school before you arrived."A pause. "I didn't see her.""She was gone before you came out." The same voice I used for Eli when I needed him not to feel what I was feeling. "If she comes near the gate. If she approaches any of the children. If she slows down on that street at pickup time—""I call you first," Fenne said. "Nothing else. I call you.""Yes."Her voice went careful. "Ivy. Is Eli safe right now?"I looked at the clock on the bakery wall. One twenty. School out at three fifteen."He's safe right now," I said. "Keep it that way."I hung up.Talia put a piece of cake on the counter in front of me without saying anything about it.I didn't eat it. But knowing it was there was something. Some things you need to know are available even w
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Eighteen: What Talia Does With Fury
She went to Cyrus.I stood at the sink with my hands still wet and read those three words and thought about what the evening had actually looked like as a sequence of events.Sola arriving at my door. Her hand on my frame. The sentence she delivered like someone doing me a favour. Walking away down my garden path with the ease of a woman who had finished something.And then going directly to the house four streets away where the man who had chosen her over me for years of my marriage was quietly trying to become someone different.She wanted him to know she had been here.She wanted to stand in the middle of whatever was beginning to shift in this town and make sure it stopped shifting.I dried my hands. Called Talia."Come over," I said. "I need to tell you everything."She was at my door in eight minutes.I told her all of it. The phone call to the workroom. The specific flat quality of the man's voice when he used Eli's name like it was a piece of information he'd had for a while.
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Seventeen: Platinum and Poison
He didn't tell me about Orin's call.I found out from Rhys on Thursday morning. He came to the workroom before I opened and stood in the doorway with the careful look of a man who had been instructed not to say something and had decided that the instruction was wrong.He told me about the call. What Orin said. The if you come home.I listened without speaking.Then I picked up my scissors and went back to the hem I had been pinning and Rhys left without being thanked because I was using everything I had to keep my hands steady and I had nothing left for courtesy.Cyrus had sat at my kitchen table the same night that call happened. He had told me about Orin. About the arrangements. About Eli being protected. He had looked at me across the table with that stripped back honesty he had been building slowly over weeks and he had left out the part where his brother had called him directly and told him to come home.I was still holding that when Tuesday morning arrived.Talia texted at nine.
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Sixteen: She Laughed Once
I was still looking toward the stairs when headlights swept across the kitchen window.Cyrus didn't knock straight away. He stood at the door and waited until I opened it, which was somehow worse than knocking — the patience of a man who understood he had no right to walk into this house uninvited
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Fifteen: Eli's Drawings
I didn't know two things were already in motion.I knew about the phone call. I knew about the stranger at Vale's practice. What I didn't know — what nobody in Maplewood Hollow knew yet — was that two hundred miles south a man I had never met had spent an evening deciding exactly what my son was wo
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter Fourteen: Orin Counts His Losses
Forty three seconds.That was how long the call to the woman in Maplewood Hollow had lasted.Orin Vane set his phone on the cabinet and poured himself a drink and thought about forty three seconds. About a woman standing in a small workroom two hundred miles north with a dead phone in her hand and
BEG FOR ME, BILLIONAIRE Chapter One: The Question She Always Knew Was Coming
"Mama."I kept my hands in the warm soapy water. Eyes on the window above the sink, watching the last of the evening light disappear behind the maple trees."Mama.""Mm.""Do I have a dad?"My hands went still.I didn't move. Didn't turn around. Just stood there with soap running between my fingers
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