Semua Bab Married to My Enemy : Bab 21 - Bab 26

The days that followed were the calm before another storm, though neither of them recognized it for what it was.Nathaniel did not raise his voice after reading the message. Somehow that frightened Sienna more than anger would have.“What did you do?” he asked again, his tone measured, every word carefully controlled.She closed her eyes.“I went to see Marcus.”The silence that followed seemed to swallow the entire study.Nathaniel slowly released her and stood, taking two steps toward the window before stopping. Rain clouds gathered outside, turning the evening sky gray.“You went alone.”“Yes.”“You didn’t tell anyone.”“No.”“You confronted him.”“I asked about his mother’s accountant.”Nathaniel let out a slow breath, his shoulders rising before falling again.“Sienna.”There was disappointment in her name, not accusation.“I know.”“You promised we wouldn’t do anything alone anymore.”“I know.”“And after everything that’s happened, after Thomas, after the break in, after someon

The name on the incorporation papers was Marcus Voss.Nathaniel’s own cousin.Priscilla’s son.A man who had sat across from Nathaniel at family holidays for thirty years, who had offered a stiff, formal handshake at the wedding before disappearing into the crowd, a man so comfortably ordinary that neither Nathaniel nor Sienna had ever thought to look at him twice.Yet there it was.His signature.Faded by time but unmistakably real.For a long moment, nobody spoke.Nathaniel remained frozen, staring at the document as though refusing to blink might somehow change the name written across the page.“He would have been twenty three when this was filed,” he said at last, the words flat and mechanical. “Fresh out of business school. Ambitious. Constantly living in my father’s shadow.”He let out a humorless laugh.“I never thought about what that must have felt like.”Sienna stayed beside him, giving him the silence he needed.“He was always the overlooked one,” Nathaniel continued. “My f

The false lead went out through a source they knew Marcus monitored closely, a junior board member who owed Cole a favor, mentioning offhand at a lunch meeting that new evidence had surfaced pointing toward a different Voss relative entirely, someone with far less to lose than Marcus if the finger of suspicion landed elsewhere. Cole had chosen the source carefully, someone gossip prone enough that the information would travel quickly through the right channels without anyone realizing they’d been deliberately used.It took less than forty eight hours for Marcus to move.He requested an emergency meeting with Nathaniel, framed as concern about the company’s stability given the ongoing scandal, and Sienna watched from the adjoining room, recording equipment carefully hidden, Cole and a discreet security team standing by, her pulse hammering loud enough in her ears that she worried, absurdly, it might somehow be audible through the wall, as her cousin in law sat across from her husband a