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The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 29: It was about time
Alexander POV Martin picked up on the first ring, which was not like him, and I understood from the speed of the answer that some part of him had been braced for a call like this since the moment he'd handed over the box in the sitting room three days ago."Lyra," he said. "What's wrong?""Where are you right now," she asked. It was an immediate question. A command wearing the shape of one."Work," he said. "Why…""I need you to leave. Now. Don't go home first. Go straight to the mansion, and call me the second you're in the car so I know you're moving." Her voice was tight but controlled, the same control I'd watched her hold together through every crisis since the night of the gala. "Sylvester knows who you are. He was as good as said it was an hour ago."There was a silence on the line, and then the sound of a chair rolling back, fast, urgent."Moving," Martin said. "Talk to me. What happened?"She told him, quickly, and efficiently, while Christopher was already on a second line
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 28: The Trap
Alexander POV Sylvester Cane called me directly at nine the next morning, which told me everything I needed to know about how frightened he actually was, because Sylvester Cane did not make his own calls. He had spent thirty years constructing layers of people specifically so that his own voice never had to touch anything that might later be used against him. The fact that his name appeared on my screen, unfiltered, meant the architecture he'd spent three decades building was already coming apart faster than he could patch it."Alexander." His voice was exactly as I remembered it from the one time we had been in a room together, at a fundraiser eight years ago, before I understood what he was. Warm on the surface. Something colder running underneath it, like a current beneath still water. "I think it's time we spoke properly. Just the two of us.""We're speaking now," I said."In person," he said. "There are things that shouldn't travel over a line, even one you believe is secure."I
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 27: The Night Before
Lyra's POVMy Mother stayed until early evening, working through the timeline with Christopher at the dining table with a precision that reminded me, uncomfortably and then with something closer to pride, of exactly where I'd inherited my own instinct for finding the load-bearing detail in a mess of information. By the time the security team returned her to the facility, the plan for the next day had taken a shape that felt, for the first time since Harlan's death, less like scrambling and more like a structure someone had actually built on purpose.I found Alexander alone on the terrace afterward, his jacket off for once, sleeves rolled, a glass of something amber and untouched on the railing beside him, looking out at a city that had no idea yet what was about to happen to one of its quieter, more dangerous residents."You've been out here a while," I said, coming to stand beside him."I have," he agreed. "I find I think more clearly with fewer walls around me. An old habit. My fath
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 26: The Shape of the Truth Season 2
Lyra POVMorgan Cole arrived at the mansion at eleven that morning in a wheelchair she insisted, within ten minutes, on abandoning for a cane instead, over the strenuous objection of the private nurse Alexander had assigned to her. She was thinner than I remembered, and greyer, but her eyes when she found mine across the entrance hall were entirely, fiercely present in a way I hadn't seen in months."Lyra." Her voice cracked on my name.I crossed the hall and folded into her, careful of the IV port still taped at the crook of her arm, careful of everything about her that felt fragile and permanent at once, and she held onto me with a strength that surprised us both."I read your letter Mom," I said into her shoulder."I know," she said. "Martin told me. On the phone. He said you both… " her voice caught, for a bit then she continued, “he said you both know everything now.""Yes.” I nodded. “Everything," She pulled back to look at me, her hands still on my arms, her eyes moving over m
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 25: The Shape of the Truth
Lyra's POVI worked for eighteen hours with three breaks, all of them enforced by Alexander, who appeared at intervals with food I didn't remember asking for and stood in the doorway of the dining room until I ate at least half of it before he'd leave again. The dining table had become a war room in miniature, with printed documents in careful piles, sticky notes color-coded by name and year, my tablet propped against a stack of books with three different draft layouts open at once. The problem, once I actually sat with the material, wasn't a lack of information. It was the opposite. Thirty years of transactions, names, dates, wire transfers routed through four countries and back, medical records, a mother's handwriting on twenty-year-old paper. The temptation was to show all of it, to prove the scale of the thing by drowning people in it. I knew, the way I knew color and composition the way other people knew language, that scale was not what would move anyone. A single, precise, unbe
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 24: Time for a Downfall
Lyra POVChristopher arrived within the hour with a laptop bag and the particular grim efficiency of a man who had clearly not slept either. He set up in the study without being asked, cables and screens multiplying across the desk that had, less than twelve hours earlier, been the site of a considerably different kind of activity, a fact I chose not to examine too closely while he was in the room."The data transfer from Harlan is clean," he said, pulling up a directory tree on the main screen. "Thirty years of financial records cross-referenced with the documentation Morgan Cole kept. Between the two data sets we have transaction trails connecting Sylvester Cane to four judges, two sitting congressmen, an EPA regional director, and… " he paused, glancing at Alexander, "... Renova Holdings."I looked between them. "What's Renova?""A shell structure," Alexander said. "Real estate holding company on paper. In practice it's been laundering capital for Sylvester's operation for the bett
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 6: Where it all Begins
Alexander POVI watched how she sat close to me, but silently, I admit that she looked so beautiful and gorgeous in her glamorous outfit. Captivated by her grace and charm. My eyes lingered on her, admiring features that seemed to glow with an inner light. I hoped she wouldn't catch me staring, wan
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 5: The Woman He Chose
Lyra POV I woke up feeling unfamiliar with where I was. My eyes fluttered open slowly, blinking against the soft glow of light filtering through tall glass windows. For a moment, I just lay there, staring at the ceiling, my mind blank, my body feeling heavy, like I had been dropped into someone els
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 4: The Rules of Being His Wife
Lyra POV I didn't remember how I got out of the restaurant. The first thing I felt was relief. The evening air was hitting my face like a slap. I tightened my grip on my bag and went to the hospital. That was all that mattered. The moment I stepped into the hospital, only one thing mattered to me
The Billionaire's Hidden Price Chapter 3: The Choice That Broke me
Lyra POVCustomers began to come into the restaurant, and that diverted the attention between the stranger and me. Before I could settle my mind, he talked."I don't stay in crowded places, and as you can see, the restaurant is getting full. Come with me to the VIP room." He said with a firm voice,
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