Chapter 76

Victoria didn't spare them another glance as she headed upstairs.

Yulia, shaken and angry, waited until Victoria's figure disappeared before shooting a venomous glare at Simms.

"Do you think Victoria already knows about us?"

"Absolutely not," Simms replied with certainty. There was no way Victoria could know about his affair with Yulia.

After the Turner family's demise, he'd rewritten his entire past. He'd hidden Yulia away for years; the fact that Victoria had discovered Yulia's existence was already a freak accident-there was no way Mann and Edith had known about her before they died.

The only explanation was that Victoria was a true Turner through and through- arrogant, untouchable, unable to tolerate even the smallest imperfection.

"I'm not worried about anything else," Yulia pressed on. "But if Victoria finds out about our daughter, we're in real trouble. Sure, you've got those old-timers backing you at Golden Era Enterprises, but you only control fifteen percent of the company. Simms, if I can't marry you soon and give our daughter a proper family name, she'll end up an illegitimate child. How will she ever marry well? You know perfectly well how snobbish that boy's family is..."

"Enough. I know what I'm doing," Simms snapped, yanking off his tie in frustration.

lay low for a while-go back to your old place,"

like ghosts again, hiding from the world? We've come this far, Simms. Maybe it's time to just risk everything

study to keep working on Gwyneth's

several all-nighters, but if she kept up the pace, she

profile picture flashed on her screen, and since she'd set his messages to priority, the chime startled her in the quiet of

tricky bit of code, so she ignored him until she could finish her thought. Only after she wrapped up did she pick up the phone

the car?" she

something else," Teague shot back immediately. "You wreck my car and expect me to figure out what's broken?

you could fix

impossible to find. If you can't fix it, you and that friend of yours can plan

Green isn't my husband," Victoria replied coolly. "I was just passing by

far, there hadn't been a

one was a special case. She might have to call in

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