Stand Aside, the Billionaire Is Here novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Gold Digger
I did not touch the photograph.
"Say what you came to say," I told my uncle.
Lionel turned the whiskey glass a quarter turn on the marble.
"Your husband landed in Houston eleven days ago on a private jet."
"I did not know that until Friday night, like the rest of the ballroom."
"Neither did I, and it cost me a good investigator's weekend."
"But now I know exactly who is sleeping in my brother's house."
"His name is Joaquin Medrano, he owns forty billion dollars of other people's ports, and his father died on my dock."
"Then he has more reason to hate you than anyone alive," I said.
"Yes." Lionel smiled. "That is the story I am going to tell."
I stared at him.
"A grieving employee's son returns rich, finds the owner's daughter alone and grieving, and marries her in fifteen hours."
"A contract, a courthouse, a coup."
"He did not come for love, Daphne. He came for the company, and you handed it to him with a bow."
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