All Chapters of The Billionaire's only exception : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

That evening,the sky was clear.No rain,No wind. James had come home at his usual closing time from work.His car had been parked.His kitchen light came on at the usual hour.He had stopped at the small shop at the corner on his way back from home.Nothing unusual.Nothing at all.The man who came to James's door that evening had been waiting.Not outside the building. Just atca corner where the camera can't get a video footage of his face.He knew James's routine already.He had monitored it for few days.He knew what time James came home. He knew that the hallway camera on the second floor had a blind spot on the left side of the corridor, a blind spot he had identified on his first pass through the building two days ago, dressed as a maintenance worker with a clipboard and a calm manner.He was not a tall man. He wore a dark jacket.Plain trousers. A cap pulled low to cover his face.Thin gloves, the kind that looked like ordinary cold-weather gloves to anyone.At eight fourte

Elara was in the kitchen making breakfast with the chef when Adrian came in.She heard his footsteps .She looked up from the pan.He was already dressed,shirt tucked in, sleeves rolled to his forearms, phone in one hand. He had been up before her."What's that look on your face," she asked."What look?""Are you about to tell me something?He set his phone on the counter and looked at her directly."I spoke to Dr Mensah this morning," he said.“And?Dr Mensah was her brother Jeremy's doctor.The specialist who had been overseeing his treatment abroad for the past several months. Adrian had taken over the arrangements early onas he had promised,handling the financial side and maintaining communication with the medical team."Is he okay?" she asked.Her voice was steady but her hands had stopped moving."He's better than okay," Adrian said. "His last round of treatment is finished. Dr Mensah says his recovery has been stronger than they had expected." A pause. "He's coming home, El

Elara chose a café.She chose a busy one,a wide,well lit café in the middle of the city that was full of people even on weekday afternoons. Lydia had known she would choose something like this.She arrived ten minutes early anyway.She wanted to be seated before Elara arrived. She found the table Elara had described in her text message.Lydia sat down carefully, the way she sat down now in these final weeks of her pregnancy slowly, with one hand on the table for balance. She ordered a glass of warm water with lemon from the waitress who appeared immediately and then settled herself and looked around the room.Elara arrived at exactly the agreed time.Not a minute early,not a minute late.She came through the main entrance and found Lydia's table without looking around for it, which meant she had already identified it from the description and knew exactly where she was going. She was wearing a dark coat over a simple outfit. Her face was composed. Her eyes, when they found Lydia ac

Denver hadn't eaten in the past two days now.He actually didn't notice it until he stood at the kitchen counter and realized the only thing he had eaten the last two days was black coffee and bourbon with his guilty conscience eating him up.He sat down on the floor.The television was on in the sitting room and he could still hear it.The news that had been on since Monday and had refused to stop ringing in his ear even if he turned off the television.He had tried convincing himself that he's fine and that it was actually a good news that officer James was gone.The investigation about them has lost its sharpest point and Lydia had told him to rest and sleep,but he still couldn't sleep.He was not fine.James was gone.And he knew for sure that Lydia had a hand in this.“Is she going to dispose of me too if I become a threat to her?He asked himself this question with only one answer sitting right in front of him,which he finds difficult to believe.Denver put his face in his hand

Elara was at the airport two hours early to welcome Jeremy . She stood at the entrance arrival gate with her coat still on and her hands not entirely steady with her eyes fixed on the door.Adrain stood beside her,he had insisted on going with her.He stood beside her calm and steady and every minute his hands would reach out her unsteady hands,just a little way of saying calm down.The door finally opened and there he was.Jeremy walked in looking thinner than she can remember with tired eyes but looked fine with his eyes scanning the crowd and his bag over his shoulder.He found her not too long,his face lit up. She was already running towards him.His arms flared open and she landed on his body hitting him harder than she had intended to. His arms came around her and she pressed her face into his chest.“Hey”he said into her hair,his voice was rough.”hey I'm here okay”.“ I know” her voice was trembling.He held her for a long time before pulling away, putting his hands on her shou