THE CEO's HIDDEN WIFE

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ad her father's silences the w

eally reading, his reading glasses pushed up into hair that had gone gray far too early. T

ad

ey've been caught doing something they don't wan

s crossed, already bracing herself. "What's

e wh

te dinner." She nodded at the pa

Bennett Textiles from a single warehouse into a company that once employed four hundred people. He had taught Aria that

," he sai

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ke it cost him something. "The bank is calling in a loan I took out two years ago to cover t

ghtly beneath her, though sh

be l

d is it

that I've been meeting with lawyers abou

there since before she was born, who had watched her grow up bringing him lunch on Saturdays. She thought of her mother

she said. "Investors. A loa

Aria heard something close to defeat in her father's voice. "I'm sixty one

and took his hand. It felt

" she said. "I'm not losing this

ue or how dangerous those