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CHAPTER NINETEEN
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2026-06-04 17:07:12
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REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
ADRIAN'S POVThe Laurent residence on Marchfield Avenue had not changed in thirty-five years.That was the thing about houses maintained by women like Victoria Laurent, they didn't change because change implied that the original arrangement had been insufficient, and insufficiency was not a condition Victoria acknowledged in anything she controlled. The same pale wallpaper in the entrance hall. The same arrangement of white flowers on the console table replaced weekly by the same florist for two decades. The same smell of the house, something between cedar and expensive candles, that had lived in my memory since childhood as the smell of a place where performance was the primary language.I arrived at few minutes past seven in the morning. Damien was already there, standing near the fireplace in the main sitting room with a drink in his hand, his posture carrying its usual ease. He looked at me when I entered and raised the glass slightly as a greeting that was also a confirmation. *
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
ADRIAN'S POVDamien came to my office unannounced around two in the afternoon, which was unusual enough on its own. These days, he almost never came to Laurent Group headquarters without a reason, he preferred his own territory, the advantage of receiving people rather than going to them.When he walked in he was carrying two cup of coffees, which was the kind of gesture that in anyone else would have read as casual. In Damien it read as prepared."You look like you haven't slept for nights," he said, setting one cup on my desk."I've been sleeping fine." I looked at him. He sat in the chair across from me with the easy unhurried movement of a man who had nowhere more pressing to be. He took the lid off his coffee and looked at it for a moment before speaking."I thought you should know something," he said. "Before you hear it somewhere else."That construction, before you hear it somewhere else, was one of Damien's oldest moves. It positioned whatever was coming as an act of loyalty
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
SELENE'S POVAva looked at me with specific attention of someone whose instincts had just fired on what they couldn't yet name.I had said it and I could not unsay it. What I could do was manage what came next."Miss Bennett," I said. "There’s something I’ll like you to know.”Ava sat still, her full attention on me. "I'm listening."I stood from the desk and walked to the credenza along the far wall, buying myself enough time to reconstruct my words well enough to convince Ava. I poured two glasses of water and carried them back, setting one in front of Ava and keeping the other in my hand. I sat back down."I have been investigating the Westbridge accident personally for two years," I said.Ava's eyes didn't leave my face. "Why?""Because someone I cared about was connected to it." I let that sit for a moment before continuing. "And I had reasons to understand that it predate Arden Corporation's existence."Ava looked at me intensely, her eyes moving in assessment. I knew she was me
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
SELENE'S POVThe security alert came through few minutes to mid-day. It was not an unauthorized access attempt. It was a visitor flag from the Arden Tower lobby, routed to my personal security feed rather than the standard corporate channel, which meant Floyd Quake had made a judgment call about who needed to see it before deciding what to do with it.I was in the middle of a call with some foreign partners when the notification popped on the tablet beside me. I glanced at it once, noted the name and felt the rest of the conversation recede to a significant distance.A woman, Ava Bennett is at lobby level. She’s requesting access, she states that she has information relevant to Arden Corporation’s current market interests. REFERRED BY INTERNAL CONTACT AT THE RECORDS DIVISION, CITY MUNICIPAL OFFICE.I kept my voice completely even for the remaining minutes of the call with the foreign partners. When it ended I picked up the tablet and looked at the notification again.Ava had found a
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
AVA'S POVI couldn’t sleep that night. I sat at the small table in my rental apartment from the moment I got home until the grey light of early morning began pressing through the curtains. The Redwater Holdings document spread open in front of me alongside every page of my notebook that touched the same thread.The third director’s name I saw on that old note was Damien Laurent.It was listed clearly in the ownership section that every other copy I had ever found had blacked out. Like the thoroughness of people who understood exactly what they were hiding and had paid enough to hide it completely.Damien was Serena’s husband, Adrian, younger brother. I had heard Serena mention him maybe a dozen times across the years of her marriage, and each time in the same brief way. Once near the end, when she was already exhausted. “I don't know why but he makes me feel uneasy sometimes.” Those were Serena’s exact words to me one day. I had pushed it away the way I pushed things Serena said abou
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
AVA'S POVI had spent the morning at the city records office going through land registry documents connected to the shell company, the same thread I had been pulling at for four years, and by early afternoon, I was already exhausted.My studio was three streets from the records office. I had found the space few months after arriving in the country, a cheap sublease through a contact.I unlocked the door and stepped inside.The smell hit me first the way it always did, linseed oil and turpentine and the dry-cold smell of a room that held large amounts of canvas. I exhaled slowly as my shoulders dropped half an inch. Then I stopped, I sighted the two chairs at the small table near the window.That was not what surprised me, I knew the chairs were there. But I kept them pushed together against the wall when I wasn't using them, a habit so ingrained I did it without thinking.But the chairs were not pushed together against the wall. They were positioned at opposite ends of the small tabl
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
ADRIAN’s POVWords moved faster inside Laurent Group. By the time I walked into the boardroom, every seat at the long table was already filled, and the quality of silence that greeted me told me the conversation waiting for me was not going to be comfortable.I sat at the head of the table and let
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
SELENE'S POVThe Meridian Capital report got to my desk at eight-forty in the morning. Clara had reported it urgent with a single line of annotation beneath the subject heading.You need to read this before the nine o'clock.Meridian Capital was a mid-tier investment firm with a quiet but consisten
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
ADRIAN’s POVFour years ago, Damien had stood in a conference room and listened to a recording of a voice coordinating the accident that unalived Serena and my son and had said he recognized the voice. And then changed and said he was mistaken.And for four years while I buried my wife, struggled w
REBORN TO BE A BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER THIRTY
SELENE’s POVI almost missed her.It was the kind of almost that lived in the margin between a glance and a look — the difference between eyes passing over something and eyes landing on it. I had been walking toward the private entrance of Arden Tower after a lunch meeting that had run twenty minut
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