The Heiress He UnderestimatedChapter 37
The Heiress He Underestimated
Chapter 37
Chapter 37 The Nethys ManeuverBack in the cold, echoing marble foyer of the Nethys mansion, Kieran Nethys was a different man than the one who had tearfully disowned his daughter just hours before. The performance was over. The cameras were off. The silent, cavernous house felt different now. Emptier, yes, but also crackling with a new kind of energy. Not of grief but of ambition.He paced the length of his study, the same room where he had once patted Elera’s cheek and told her she wasn’t clever. The memory made him pause, but not with regret. With a sharp, recalculating curiosity. He had been wrong. Spectacularly, deliciously wrong.His daughter, his sweet, empty–headed Elera, had not run off with some penniless artist or crumbled under the pressure. She had vanished from the Valdris gala and reappeared, by some miracle he still couldn’t fully comprehend, as the wife of Drakonius Vex.Vex. The name was a monument in the world of true power, it was the kind that operated in whispers and boardrooms darker and deeper than Valdris’s glittering world. Old money, but sharpened with new, cutting–edge influence. Pharmaceutical empires. Biotech holdings that were literally changing the fabric of human life. And private. So intensely, infuriatingly private.
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