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Chapter 25: Behind Every Smile
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"How does he already know about Marcus?" Ryan asked, reading the message over Amelia's shoulder. "We only just walked back inside.""I don't know," Amelia said, her thumb hovering over the reply button. "But I need to find out."She typed back quickly. *Where are you?*The reply came almost instantly. *Coat check hallway. Alone.*Amelia glanced at Ryan, then at Gregory, who had joined them by now, his expression tightening the moment he read the exchange over her shoulder."I'll come with you," Ryan said."No," Amelia said. "He said alone. If I bring anyone, he might close up again, the way he almost did at the café.""After everything that just happened on that terrace," Gregory said, "I don't think you should be meeting anyone alone tonight.""I'll be thirty feet from the ballroom," Amelia said. "Watch the hallway from the doors if it makes you feel better. But I need him to actually talk to me, and that means going without an audience."Ryan's jaw tightened, but he nodded eventuall
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"You look like someone who just survived something," Selene said, sliding closer as Amelia crossed the ballroom, her voice pitched low enough to stay between them. "Terrace air must be refreshing this time of year."Amelia kept her expression carefully neutral. "I needed air. That's all.""Of course you did." Selene's smile stayed fixed, sharp at the edges. "Though I have to say, it's quite the coincidence, you disappearing at the exact same time as Victor Hale and a man I don't recognize at all. Should I know him?"Amelia's chest tightened, though she kept her voice steady. "I don't know what you think you saw.""I saw enough," Selene said, stepping closer, her voice dropping further. "Enough to make me very curious about who that man was, and why Gregory Whitmore looked like he'd seen a ghost the moment he followed you out there."Ryan appeared at Amelia's side then, his presence cutting the tension slightly, though Selene's attention barely shifted toward him. "Selene, whatever you
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"Don't," Marcus said, stepping forward, his hand raised carefully. "Victor, think about this. Whatever you play in that ballroom, it exposes you just as much as it exposes us.""I don't care anymore," Victor said, his thumb still pressed against the recorder. "I've lost everything already. The board, my reputation, the investigation the district attorney's office is building against me. There's nothing left to protect."Amelia studied him carefully, searching for the calculated man from the boardroom and finding instead someone unraveling in real time, desperation replacing every trace of his usual composure. "What exactly did you record, Victor?""Enough," Victor said. "Marcus admitting his involvement in your grandmother's death. Enough to destroy whatever fragile redemption he's trying to build tonight. And enough to remind everyone in that ballroom that the Whitmore legacy is built on secrets far uglier than anything Whitmore Global's investors realize."Gregory emerged from behin
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The cold air hit Amelia the moment she stepped through the terrace doors, sharp and clean after the crowded warmth of the ballroom. Marcus stood near the railing, his back to her, city lights stretching endlessly behind him like a backdrop he'd chosen deliberately."You came," he said, not turning around. "I wasn't entirely certain you would.""You didn't give me much choice," Amelia said, stopping a careful distance away.Marcus finally turned, his expression calm, almost gentle, nothing like the cold voice she'd heard through the phone moments earlier. "There's always a choice, Miss Hart. You simply chose the one that ends this fastest.""Tell me why you're really here," Amelia said. "Not the company. Not revenge. The truth."Something flickered behind his eyes, brief enough that she almost missed it. "You want the truth. Very well." He set his glass down on the railing. "I watched my father build an empire while treating me like an embarrassment he needed to hide. Arthur got everyt
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"Explain now," Amelia said, gripping Gregory's arm before he could steer her toward the exit. "Not later. Not after whatever he's planning happens. Now."Gregory glanced across the room, where Marcus Whitmore still stood beside Damian Cross, unbothered, sipping his drink like he had all the time in the world. "Not here. Too many people are watching.""Then somewhere private," Ryan said, appearing at Amelia's side, his eyes tracking the same terrace, the same tension building beneath the surface of the room. "There's a study off the east hallway. Private, quiet."Gregory hesitated only a moment before nodding, and the three of them moved quickly through the crowd, weaving past conversations that barely registered their passing. Behind them, Amelia caught one last glimpse of Marcus watching her go, his expression unreadable, patient in a way that unsettled her more than open hostility would have.The study door clicked shut behind them, muffling the noise of the gala to a distant hum. G
DIVORCE ME, MR. BILLIONAIRE Chapter 25: Behind Every Smile
"You look terrified," Lillian said, adjusting the clasp on Amelia's necklace with careful fingers, "and also incredible. Both things can be true tonight."Amelia studied her reflection in the mirror, the deep emerald gown catching the light, her hair swept back in a way that made her feel like someone else entirely, someone stronger than the woman who'd once waited alone in a penthouse for a husband who never came home."I keep thinking about what he said," Amelia admitted. "That I'll know them the moment I see their face. What if I don't? What if I'm standing in that room tonight next to the person responsible for my grandmother's death, and I have no idea?""Then you'll figure it out," Lillian said firmly. "The same way you figured out Victor. The same way you've figured out everything else since this whole mess started."Amelia's phone buzzed against the vanity. Ryan.Outside in ten minutes. Gregory's already there with extra security. You don't have to do this alone tonight.She r
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