All Chapters of The Billionaire They Buried: Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
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Chapter 31: The Man Who Said He was A King
"Tell me everything," I said, my voice steadier than I felt. "What did he look like? Where did he approach you?"Victoria's hands were still trembling around the coffee cup, but she nodded, some of the terror settling into something closer to resolve now that the worst of the confession was out. "My car. Outside a charity gala, of all places. He was just there when I opened the door, sitting in the back seat like he owned it. I should have screamed. I didn't. Something about him made screaming feel like the wrong instinct.""What did he say his name was?""Alexander King." She said it carefully, like she was still testing whether the name itself might summon him back. "He knew things about our family no stranger should have known. Account numbers. Private conversations Ryan and I had at home, word for word, like he'd been in the room. He told me Charles owed him something that had never been repaid, and that the debt was about to come due whether Charles wanted to pay it or not.""Did
Chapter 32: The Broker
Isabella's sketch artist met with Victoria the next afternoon, in a quiet room above Isabella's office that I hadn't known existed until that day — soundproofed, she told me, for exactly this kind of work. I waited outside while they talked, pacing a hallway that felt too small for everything crowding my head, and when Victoria finally emerged, pale and drained in a way that told me the session had cost her more than she'd expected, she handed me the finished sketch without a word.The face staring back at me meant nothing on its own — an older man, sharp-featured, the thin scar along his jaw rendered in careful pencil strokes. A stranger. I studied it anyway, hoping something might surface, some flicker of recognition that never came."I've seen this face before," Isabella said, taking the sketch from my hands and studying it with an intensity that made both Victoria and me go still. "Not personally. In case files. Give me a day."It took her less than that.She called us back to her