Chapter 96 The Board Votes
Ethan's POV
The room was different this time.
Same table. Same chairs. Same formal arrangement that board meetings had always required. But the people sitting in them had shifted in the way people shifted when the ground changed underneath a situation and everyone recalibrated to where they actual...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Cold Transaction
2. Chapter 2 The Contracted Bride
3. Chapter 3 The Empty Bed
4. Chapter 4 The Patriarch
5. Chapter 5 The Return
6. Chapter 6 Thr Weight Of Silence
7. Chapter 7 Masks At Breakfast
8. Chapter 8 The Locket
9. Chapter 9 Richard's Game Begins
10. Chapter 10 Deleted
11. Chapter 11 Lucas Appears
12. Chapter 12 The Press Attacks
13. Chapter 13 Public Armor
14. Chapter 14 The Ghost of Ryan
15. Chapter 15 Ethan's Softness
16. Chapter 16 Erica Strikes
17. Chapter 17 The Other Woman
18. Chapter 18 The Mother's Ghost
19. Chapter 19 Lucas Turns Up the Heat
20. Chapter 20 The Pregnancy Test
21. Chapter 21 The Dinner Performance
22. Chapter 22 Cracks in the Armor
23. Chapter 23 What the Camera Saw
24. Chapter 24 Holly's Voice
25. Chapter 25 The Doctor's Warning
26. Chapter 26 Lucas's Slow Move
27. Chapter 27 Ethan's Jealousy
28. Chapter 28 Missing
29. Chapter 29 Someone Knows
30. Chapter 30 Richard's Threat Upgrades
31. Chapter 31 On The Floor
32. Chapter 32 The Lie She Tells Herself
33. Chapter 33 Erica's Move
34. Chapter 34 Reluctant Ally
35. Chapter 35 Ethan Sees The Photo
36. Chapter 36 The Confrontation That Isn't
37. Chapter 37 Holly's Crisis
38. Chapter 38 The Thing Neither Says
39. Chapter 39 The Audio
40. Chapter 40 Silas's Announcement
41. Chapter 41 Counting Days
42. Chapter 42 Coming Clean (Halfway)
43. Chapter 43 Almost
44. Chapter 44 Lucas Gets Closer
45. Chapter 45 The Setup
46. Chapter 46 Tbe Pattern
47. Chapter 47 Clara
48. Chapter 48 Ethan Comes Running
49. Chapter 49 The Almost Truth
50. Chapter 50 The Weight
51. Chapter 51 The Contract She Didn't Sign
52. Chapter 52 What Lucas Knows
53. Chapter 53 The Explanation He Owes Her
54. Chapter 54 The Morning After the Signing
55. Chapter 55 Holly's Worst Night
56. Chapter 56 By Her Bedside
57. Chapter 57 The Blood Test
58. Chapter 58 The Flight Home
59. Chapter 59 The Conversation
60. Chapter 60 Ethan's Lawyer Calls
61. Chapter 61 Richard Faces Ethan
62. Chapter 62 The Morning He Touches Her
63. Chapter 63 Lucas's Slow Poison
64. Chapter 64 She Asks Him Directly
65. Chapter 65 Clara's Double Game
66. Chapter 66 Who Is The Architect
67. Chapter 67 What Lucas Actually Wants
68. Chapter 68 Silas Is Fading
69. Chapter 69 Richard Calls
70. Chapter 70 Lucas Leaks a Lie
71. Chapter 71 The Complication
72. Chapter 72 Lucas Makes His Move on Ginny
73. Chapter 73 Before the Headline
74. Chapter 74 The Story That Isn't True Yet
75. Chapter 75 Silas Wants the Truth
76. Chapter 76 Something Shifts
77. Chapter 77 Lucas Confesses
78. Chapter 78 The Medical Conspiracy
79. Chapter 79 Silas Wakes Up*
80. Chapter 80 Ethan Sees Everything
81. Chapter 81 The Lie Richard Will Tell
82. Chapter 82 Ethan Meets Holly Holly's POV
83. Chapter 83 What Almost Was
84. Chapter 84 Erica's Surrender
85. Chapter 85 Four Days
86. Chapter 86 The Choice
87. Chapter 87 Holly Goes In
88. Chapter 88 While They Wait
89. Chapter 89 Lucas's Last Card
90. Chapter 90 The Statement Breaks
91. Chapter 91 Silas Tells All
92. Chapter 92 The Safety Deposit Box
93. Chapter 93 Lucas Is Found
94. Chapter 94 Silas Takes a Turn
95. Chapter 95 Richard's Endgame
96. Chapter 96 The Board Votes
97. Chapter 97 Silas's Last Good Day
98. Chapter 98 Silas Is Gone
99. Chapter 99 The Funeral
100. Chapter 100 What Comes After
101. Chapter 101 The Morning Everything Feels Possible
102. Chapter 102 WATCHED
103. Chapter 103 LUCAS UNDER WATCH
104. Chapter 104 ETHAN'S ANGER
105. Chapter 105 The Schedule
106. Chapter 106 The Mole
107. Chapter 107 What Phase Two Means
108. Chapter 108 Switzerland Emergency
109. Chapter 109 The Woman From Before
110. Chapter 110 The Second Tanker
111. Chapter 111 Security, Redirected
112. Chapter 112 The Fourth Element
113. Chapter 113 The Interview
114. Chapter 114 Bringing Holly Home
115. Chapter 115 Lucas Escapes
116. Chapter 116 Running Quietly
117. Chapter 117 The Plan
118. Chapter 118 The Charity Gala (Repositioned)
119. Chapter 119 The Recording
120. Chapter 120 Ginny Takes the Mic
121. Chapter 121 The Accident
122. Chapter 122 The Weight of It
123. Chapter 123 Holly's Bad Night
124. Chapter 124 The Gala Fallout Ginny's POV
125. Chapter 125 The Orphanage Connection
126. Chapter 126 Ginny Alone
127. Chapter 127 Lucas and Ginny, Final
128. Chapter 128 The Shot
129. Chapter 129 Holly
130. Chapter 130 After
131. Chapter 131 The First Days Without Her
132. Chapter 132 Her Father
133. Chapter 133 Holly's Funeral
134. Chapter 134 Holly's Letter
135. Chapter 135 The Pregnancy Complication
136. Chapter 136 The Hardest Conversation
137. Chapter 137 Rest
138. Chapter 138 Lucas On Trial
139. Chapter 139 Richard in the Witness Box
140. Chapter 140 The Verdict
141. Chapter 141 The Weight Lifts
142. Chapter 142 Small Moments, Large Weight
143. Chapter 143 Richard's Reckoning
144. Chapter 144 Planning a Wedding
145. Chapter 145 Holly Arrives Early
146. Chapter 146 After the Arrival
147. Chapter 147 The Coast
148. Chapter 148 The Holly Foundation
149. Chapter 149 A Year On
150. Chapter 150 Diane
151. Chapter 151 The Adoption
152. Chapter 152 The Newborn
153. Chapter 153 Three Seasons After
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