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HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 59
DamienEvery major investor, league official, and city politician was packed into the room for the pre-season gala. I stood near the bar on the east side of the room, trapped in a circle of four heavy-hitting team investors."The payroll clearance this morning was a smooth move, Damien," Arthur Vance said, swirling the dark amber liquid in his glass. He was one of our oldest board members, a guy who usually backed Marcus until the money started moving. "Converting the ownership shares to Anastasia's trust kept the team on the ice tonight, I'll give you that. But people are talking about the court order. The rumors about your health aren't good for season ticket sales.""My health is fine, Arthur," I said, my voice low, flat, and calm. I kept my hands in the pockets of my tailored black trousers, my eyes scanning the crowd over his shoulder. "And the ticket sales are already sold out for the first three months. You got your quarterly dividend check this morning, didn't you?""That's n
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 58
ANASTASIA"Don't bother pouring coffee," Harrison said, slamming his heavy leather bag onto the table so hard it rattled my cup. "We don't have time for coffee."I kept my hands wrapped around my mug, watching him pace back and forth. "It's seven in the morning, Harrison. The court doesn't open for two hours.""They opened at midnight just for Marcus," Harrison said, reaching into his bag and pulling out a fat stack of papers with a bright blue cover. He threw them into the middle of the table, his tie crooked and his eyes bloodshot. "Marcus didn't sue us through the front door. He went straight to a judge's house at midnight and walked out with a emergency order."Across the table, Damien sat back in his chair. He didn't jump, and he didn't look worried. He was just spinning a dark metal pen between his fingers, his suit jacket unbuttoned, looking totally calm."What kind of order?" Damien asked, his voice low and flat."They are saying you aren't mentally fit to run the team," Harri
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 57
DAMIENThe clock on the wall read past three in the morning The rest of the penthouse was dead quiet, but a single strip of warm yellow light spilled out from under the cracked door of the study. I pushed it open without making a sound.Anastasia was slouched sideways in my heavy leather armchair, her head resting flat against the edge of the mahogany desk. Her left arm was stretched out over a pile of printed financial audits, her fingers still holding a black pen that had leaked a tiny dot of ink onto the corner of a page. Her breathing was slow, heavy, and completely exhausted.I stood in the doorway for a long moment, my jaw tight.She had been running on three hours of sleep a night for a week straight, fighting Marcus's legal team line by line, burning herself out to keep her father's name on the front of the building. Seeing her like this—tiny, pale, and completely drained, lying in the dark under a single desk lamp—made a dark, restless anger churn in my chest.I walked acros
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 56
ANASTASIAThe light from the double monitors was burning holes straight into the back of my eyes.It was one in the morning. The main office on the fifth floor was completely dead, except for the server room where five of us were crammed around a folding table littered with empty energy drink cans, stale coffee cups, and printouts of system error logs.My phone vibrated against the desk for the twentieth time in two hours. I didn't even pick it up to check the screen. I knew who it was. Marcus. Or one of his stooges on the board trying to act like they were deeply concerned about the "technical difficulties" suddenly breaking our main network."Talk to me, Leo," I said, rubbing my temples with the heels of my hands. "Tell me we have something."Leo, our lead systems administrator, slammed his hand down on his mechanical keyboard and let out a long, frustrated breath. He was wearing the same grey hoodie he’d been in since yesterday morning, his eyes bloodshot and raw."It’s not a reg
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 55
DAMIENMy phone was buzzing against my leg before I even reached the top of the stairwell. I yanked it out and put it to my ear, my boots pounding hard against the concrete steps."Talk to me, Viktor," I growled into the mic."The garage is cleared out," Viktor said, his heavy voice breaking through static. "We towed the last civilian car out five minutes ago. The city parking authority is blowing my phone up. They say we're breaking the stadium lease agreement.""Fuck the city," I said, hitting the heavy push bar on the door and tearing into the main executive hallway. "Cancel the contract right now. Tear the lease up. Effective five seconds ago, the lower levels belong to us. Tell the gate guards if any car comes down that ramp without my personal clearance, put a bullet through the engine block.""Understood," Viktor said. "What about the stadium parking staff? The guys working the booths?""Fire every single one of them. Right now," I said, pacing fast down the carpeted hallway. "
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 54
ANASTASIA "The hard copies are locked in the trunk," Viktor said, his heavy voice echoing in the quiet, concrete expanse of the executive underground garage. "Damien is finishing up with the auditors on the fourth floor. He wants you waiting in the armored SUV, Ms. Black.""I can walk twenty feet to my own car, Viktor," I said, sliding my key fob out of my suit jacket. The sharp heel of my boots clicked against the polished concrete floor. "The garage is locked down. You have guards at every gate.""Doesn't matter," Viktor grunted, stepping two paces ahead of me with his right hand resting inside his tailored coat. "After what we found on Marcus's ledger tonight, nobody moves alone. Not even for twenty feet."I let out a slow breath, my thumb tracing the smooth metal of my key fob. The cold, damp air of the lower level made me shiver, but the adrenaline from the audit was still humming through my veins. We had Marcus trapped. The paper trail connecting his Swiss accounts to Brandon M
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 2
Anastasia My knees hit the tiled floor before I even realized what was going on.The sound of Brandon kissing Rosalie rang in my head as my fingers dug into the cold ground beneath me.No.No, this couldn't be happening.I stared at them from behind the pillar with blurry eyes, my entire body trem
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 1
Anastasia The two pink lines on the pregnancy test strip stared back at me as I held it with trembling hands.For a moment, I just knelt there, staring at them, unable to breathe properly, afraid that if I blinked too hard they would disappear like an illusion.I was pregnant, I couldn’t believe t
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 5
Anastasia I stared blankly at the divorce papers for a long time after signing them.The papers rested limply in my hands while silence swallowed the hospital room whole. My chest still hurt unbearably, but strangely enough, I couldn't cry anymore.It was as though I had exhausted every tear insid
HIS FORBIDDEN SURROGATE BRIDE CHAPTER 3
Anastasia Pain was the first thing I felt when my consciousness slowly returned.A sharp, unbearable pain that seemed to spread through every inch of my body.My head throbbed heavily, like someone had split it open, while a dull ache pulsed violently through my stomach.A weak groan escaped my li
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