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THE CEO's SECRET WIFE IS HIS WORST ENEMY
Chapter 1 The Name on the File
urrounded by decades of her family's business in cardboard boxes stacked like headstones along the walls. The bank had been trying to offload this plac
teen months since Eleanor Hayes dropped
er box. The label: Benjamin Har
, please tell me y
on the table. Chloe
ou're not still
eply with her thumb.
m. You sai
're impossible. Eat som
cards. A coffee stained notebook packed with her father's cramped handwriting: grocery lists, golf scores, nothing dramatic. Still, she flipped thr
chest for a second, let herse
hing left here would get shredded. Every answer he
ll one buried behind the others, la
e manila folder
al, her family's oak tree, proud and serious inside the double ring. Her father had pressed that seal on every contract that
over the raised e
he words, and h
OF TRANSFER
horises the transfer of the sum of $4,200,000 from the Hart Client Tru
ge. Didn't
Even when she was fresh out of school, he would walk her through
Her own heartbea
Hart. She could recognize the swirl of that B, t
the
er father d
be sure. The fluorescent light b
one used her father's seal and signature to mov
er voice tiny in the
ke, or someone had forged it with ski
hadn't died the wa
ure, the date, hands shaking so badly the first few w
rdrail that failed. The police report ran four pages. She had read it enough to qu
le, she realised, had been
tly. Except for one tiny pencil mark in
714.
r just random marks. But after eighteen months in her father's shadow, she didn't s
yn f
e security guard had left at ten. She had watche
er this time. A foo
to her coat. Killed her phone screen. The room slipped i
ove. Didn't
glass across the door - tal
ndle t
ches. A voice cut through t
re in there
ld, every m
d, you just found somethin
