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Chapter 35
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The Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake Chapter 35
"What does that mean?" Julian's voice had gone quiet, dangerous. "Someone who looks exactly like me. Say what you're actually implying, Marcus.""I'm not implying anything." Marcus didn't blink. "I'm telling you what the footage shows. Whether you believe it is your business.""That's not an answer.""It's the only one I'm giving you tonight.""That's convenient," Julian said. "You've had thirty years of convenient answers, Marcus. I used to think that was because you were thorough. Now I think it's because you rehearsed it."A muscle ticked once at Marcus's jaw.Damien had already opened the thin folder Marcus had slid across the table. A family tree sketched in fading ink, most of the branches crossed out, names blacked out with heavy marker. Only two remained untouched.Julian Vance II.Beside it, a name scratched out so thoroughly it was unreadable."What is that?" Ellie leaned in, her shoulder brushing Damien's arm.Marcus's jaw tightened. "Julian has spent his whole life believi
The Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake Chapter 34
The car sat in the driveway for eleven seconds before its headlights cut out and it reversed, tires screeching against wet gravel, and vanished down the tree lined road.Nobody spoke until the sound of the engine faded completely."Someone wants us rattled," Ellie said. "Not dead. Rattled.""It's working," Julian muttered.Damien's phone buzzed before anyone could say more, three missed calls stacked on the screen, then a text from Sterling Industries' head of communications.CALL ME NOW. Board called emergency session. Marcus is moving to freeze your shares before midnight."He knows," Julian said, reading over his shoulder."He's known longer than that." Ellie was already moving toward the car. "Move."They made the downtown tower in eighteen minutes. The lobby was already loud, security pushing back a solid line of press vans at the curb, phones raised, flashes catching against the glass doors."How did they get here this fast," Damien said, jaw tight."Someone tipped them." Ellie'
The Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake Chapter 33
The car sat in the driveway for eleven seconds before its headlights cut out and it reversed, tires screeching against wet gravel, and vanished down the tree lined road.Nobody spoke until the sound of the engine faded completely."Someone wants us rattled," Ellie said. "Not dead. Rattled.""It's working," Julian muttered.They didn't wait for morning. Damien drove, Ellie beside him this time, Julian in the back scrolling through the facility's public records on his phone, hands still unsteady."Meadowbrook Residential Care," Julian read aloud. "Licensed, inspected, nothing flagged. It looks completely ordinary.""That's the point," Ellie said. "Nobody hides a secret in a place that looks suspicious."Nobody spoke for a while after that. The wipers beat a slow rhythm against the windshield, and Damien's knuckles whitened around the wheel every time his mind drifted toward what waited at the end of the drive. Ellie noticed and said nothing, just let her hand rest lightly against the co
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"That's impossible." Damien's voice was hoarse. "My mother died when I was three. There's a grave. There's a headstone. I've stood in front of it.""I know," Julian said. "I stood in front of it too, at your father's insistence, every year on her birthday. He made a ritual out of it.""So either the registry is wrong," Ellie said, "or the grave is."Julian's phone screen dimmed in his hand. He didn't reach to wake it back up. "There's one way to know for sure. My father kept a private registry, separate from the estate's official guest log. Locked in his study. I've never opened it. I told myself it was because I respected his privacy.""And now?" Damien said."Now I think I was afraid of exactly this."They drove to the old Vance house in silence, rain sluicing off the windshield faster than the wipers could clear it. Ellie sat in the back, watching the two men in front, Julian's hands locked on the wheel at ten and two, Damien staring out the window like the passing dark held answer
The Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake Chapter 31
Rain hammered the windows of the old carriage house behind the Vance estate. Damien stood with his back to the door, gun metal eyes fixed on the man in the doorway, soaked, gray haired, hands raised like he'd expected to be shot."Who are you?" Damien said."Someone who's been watching you since you were six years old."Ellie stepped closer to Damien, close enough that her shoulder brushed his arm. "That's not an answer.""It's the only one that matters tonight." The stranger lowered his hands slowly. "My name won't mean anything to you. But I've spent thirty years protecting Damien."Silence. Water dripping from the stranger's coat onto the concrete floor."Protecting me," Damien repeated. "From what?""From the truth. From your father. From what your father almost did to you."Damien's jaw tightened. "My father built an empire on lies. I know exactly what he did.""No." The stranger's voice cracked, not with fear, with something older. Grief, maybe. "You know what he let people beli
The Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake Chapter 30
The Sterling family estate hadn't been opened in years, Damien's childhood home, sold to a holding company after his father's death, sitting empty ever since except for a caretaker who visited twice a month to keep the pipes from freezing. The gates were already open when they arrived at noon, exactly as promised. "Marcus is two minutes out," Damien said, checking his phone one final time before they walked up the long drive. "Security team's in position. If this goes wrong." "It won't," Ellie said, though she wasn't entirely certain she believed it. "We've come this far. We need to see it." The front door was unlocked. Inside, dust sheets covered most of the furniture, the house frozen in the exact moment it had been abandoned a decade earlier, the air thick with the particular stillness of a place nobody had lived in for years. Their footsteps sounded too loud against the bare floors. And standing in the center of what had once been Damien's father's study, the same study, Ellie
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The marble counter was cold. It was always cold at five in the morning, but it felt different today. It felt empty.I kept my hand flat against the stone, right next to the stool where she’d been sitting hours ago. The wood of the stool was still turned slightly outward. I hadn't moved it back. I
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The flashing lights from the gala still burned behind my eyelids, sharp and relentless. I stood in the center of the penthouse foyer, the heavy diamond necklace Damien had fastened around my throat three hours earlier now dangling from my fingers. Its weight felt symbolic. Beautiful, expensive, and
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"You are late, Damien."The voice was crisp, dry, and carried the weight of someone who had never had to ask for anything twice in her seventy-five years. Victoria Vance sat in the high-backed armchair by the fireplace, her back perfectly straight, not even touching the cushions. She wore a sharp,
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"You are not listening to me, Damien."Marcus did not drop his hand from the glass door after Ellie left the room. He stood there, holding it open just enough for the cool hallway air to cut through the quiet of the penthouse. His face was still pale, but the panic from five minutes ago had turne
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