The Billionaire Who Stole My Heart

Noel's voice quivered with frustration, "So she knew all along, and I was the only one kept in the dark?"

"I mean, even if my brother doesn't trust me, he should consider that I'm his own flesh and blood. Why wouldn't he tell me?"

"Noel," Mr. Salter has been through a lot. He didn't tell you because he wanted to spare you from getting dragged into it," Nathan tried to explain on Isaac's behalf. "As for Ms. Lynette, she was also in the dark initially." But Noel wasn't having any of it. "I'll be heading to Craneville as soon as possible. I need to talk to my brother, one way or another."

Ignoring Nathan's protests, Noel had his assistant book him a flight, determined to leave his work behind and confront his brother in Craneville.

...

Nathan sighed as he looked at the disconnected call.

Noel was as impulsive as ever.

After a grueling twenty-plus-hour flight, Twila was exhausted, curling up in her leather seat and sleeping soundly.

Hestia sat by the window, her bandaged wounds making her look even more frail and ghostly.

Nathan handed her a cup of warm water. "Ms. Bennett, rest assured, we'll do everything in our power to ensure your safety."

Hestia clutched the cup tightly, her lips trembling slightly as she whispered a barely audible "Thank you."

attendant for a light blanket and draped it over Hestia, who closed her eyes, trying to find

by nightmares, a culmination of years of fear and

Hestia was sweating profusely, especially her forehead, which was dotted with beads of sweat. Instinctively, he reached out to comfort

nightmare, struggling vainly until she suddenly

was murmuring pleas for mercy... clearly, she had

her resemblance to Brittany,

was hard to reconcile the woman before him, who couldn't even find peace in sleep, with

happened to cause such a

the

like an eternity, they

as she was, couldn't carry her

heading straight for the hotel

lavish, a realm Hestia hadn't stepped

place but

her a business

and a

you can rest here for now. If you

the royal family.