rs into the top-floor master bedroom of the ancestral house. The room smelled heavily of herbal essentia
held out a trembling hand, clut
eat-grandchild...
er fingers curled inside her sleeves. Just as she opened her mouth to st
pping around Genevra's slender waist with enough
e hand to pull a document stamped with a private clinic's seal from his suit pocket. "Th
had used his privileges to have his private medical team forge a
shaking hands, checked the health seal at t
from the Crosby Family Trust will be offici
der and pressed a heavy Montblanc gold pen into Genevra's
ed her name expressionlessly and set the
eds rest. We'll
Genevra's shoulder, and led her out of the master bedr
second-floor gallery, Genevra shoved his arm awa
critically ill old woman. Bryce, is th
e took a long stride forward, his
dmother, the trust committee would launch a new qu
here is no baby in my stomach. This is fraud, and I will subm
right hand against the pillar beside her ear, his
Genevra, you'd better think ca
?" Genevra met his cold
n last month," Bryce said evenly, his voice striking straight at her weak spot. "Your father's di
invisible hand were squeezing her heart so hard she co
ou are a
"Be a good Mrs. Crosby and keep your mouth shut until the trust lock-up period ends. Otherwise, tomorrow morning, the
od. She closed her eyes for a second. When she opened
ood, Mr.
r of unease crossed Bryce's chest, though his arrogance
my grandmother tonight. Don't
strode away to
der hidden inside her pocket. Pulling out her phone, she typed a complex string of Swiss bank cross-holding codes into an en
aring walls of his multi-billion-dollar empire from the inside. Smoothing the colla
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