The Billionaire Who Forgot Our Twins

porary office in Sydney's central business district. Outside, the city stretched endlessly-a river of cars, trams, and people chasing opportunity. She should have

trategies. They were on the two pairs of little feet pattering

all!" she called without tur

le echoed from

observant boy, already displayed uncanny intelligence and a seriousness that reminded her disturbingly of the man who had c

them hidden. Keep them away from the one man who, without

everything was

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tly, dragging her back to reality. Sh

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mooth but edged with author

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onaire, the man she had once met on a night she could barely remember, a night that h

ion remained neutral. "And what exac

s tone-something commanding, possessive, a trace of interest. The k

racing. This was dangerous. Dangerous for her. Dangerous for her

aid finally. "But

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cision of a man used to commanding the world. He was even taller than she remembered, with sh

greet. He simply looked aro

t," he said, voice l

g her tone polite but firm

omething flickered in his expression as though he

now why I

"You just said it was

that made her spine stiffen

bout him... the way he spoke, the way he carried himself, suggested he had underestimat

Cont

ents, terms, numbers-but beneath the corpora

r," he said flatly

inked, p

need a

in appearance, at least, for one year. After that, we negotiate t

n a trope in the stories she had read, but she had

her voice calm. "And what e

ts. Discretion. And..." His eyes locked onto hers, sharp as a

publicly, but she already had two children he didn't know exis

ed. "And if

ut his tone suggested n

rom the very chance to r

Subtle In

y. Liam built a tower of blocks with perfec

ike your dad,"

ed. "Don't

t to speak of him, not even in jest. But she

he stakes. The twins' innocence had t

Deci

th the contract in hand. Ethan was still there, st

asked, calm, con

ed, cons

r empire, protect her twins, an

had cried silently over what she had been forced to

as steady.

ething unspoken passed between them. Tension, r

e than a legal agreement. It was a collision of past s

t Hint o

on the contract, a shadow flic

igure older, calculating, calm-the kind of presence tha

ane, a smile playing at the corner of his lips. Ev

had no idea how tangled