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Chapter One Hundred-Fifteen–Valorie’s Birthday
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“I don’t understand, Leon. I apologized. Why didn’t she accept it? Is she that mean?” Aria wallowed in her coffee after Michael and Julie left. Leon could see she didn’t understand that unspoken rule. You can apologize to someone for anything, but there’s nothing that says the other person must accept the apology. Leon blamed her father and his cover-ups. Money moved his world. In his world, everything and everyone revolved around the sun. Of course, he’s the sun, so no one else mattered. Leon had grown over the last year after walking away from the plans for him to enter politics on Aria’s father’s coattails. The final nails in his coffin of his political career were when Leon realized Aria’s father could pin his dirty deeds on Leon, his grandfather’s involvement in the mafia back home in Italy. Leon walked away from politics, and he turned the tables on Senator Cain. The senator and his political career could sink or swim. Leon wouldn’t think twice of letting a few secre
Last Updated : 2023-09-27The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Seventeen–Book Release Day
This was Julie’s fifth book release, but the first release Michael was aware of and present for. Julie wasn’t sure how he’d respond to all the craziness. Gathering and shipping everything. Julie spent weeks with Beckett and Stephen, ensuring everything was perfect and it stayed within a firm schedule. Not something Julie liked to do, but she at least had helped. What Michael didn’t realize when she set up her apartment that’s where she stored everything. He never saw the boxes and boxes of books and merchandise. The bookmarks, stickers, postcards, and the boxes of books for her book signing needed her signature. Then there were the giveaway packages Beckett and Julie packed with the help this time of Ms. Higgins. These went out to almost fifty readers and Julie didn’t want anyone thinking they’d received a raw deal, so she researched packaging and ways to pack the boxes decoratively to survive the mail system, look good and impress her readers without being overly bulky. B
Last Updated : 2023-09-27The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Eighteen–Leon Plans a Wedding
Leon hired a wedding planner after he’d received Aria’s ideas for their wedding. She wouldn’t deal with any of the vendors this time. Her name wouldn’t be on any of the wedding and her father wouldn’t have a word in its planning or contribute a single cent to the wedding, reception, or honeymoon. He knew where Aria wanted to go for her honeymoon and Leon figured it was a good start, but he’d add to her idea. When he finished with it, she’d have a honeymoon to remember and something valuable from each location that would remind her of their time there. He took techniques from Michael’s courting of Julie. They went for drinks several times together. They’d discussed the changes in their relationships. He’d shared what he’d learned about Aria’s situation and the help he’d struggled to find. It hadn’t been easy. Without his money and influence, he’d probably still be looking for help. Michael admitted they were looking for help from a specialist with
Last Updated : 2023-09-27The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Nineteen–Moving Day
Julie gladly allowed the movers to take her things and pack them for her. They moved everything to the house and helped with placing many items they took with them. She didn’t have the strength or will to do any of it. If it’d been up to her, they’d be living from the boxes for months. Her recent novel and trying to remember to care for herself took up everything she had to get through the day. Michael seemed fine with this and pushed nothing with her. However, there were things they must unpack personally. One of those things was their clothing, and another was their offices. Copyright issues and risks of piracy or theft of her manuscripts kept her office unpacking for Beckett and Julie. Michael and Albert worked to unpack his office. However, Michael’s home office didn’t have the same level of complexity as Julie’s, with her stock of books and marketing merchandise. Julie now stored her work in various formats to prove her work from beginning to
Last Updated : 2023-09-29The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Twenty–Doctor’s Visit
Michael spent most of the afternoon getting Julie a faster appointment and succeeded before the business day ended. Finally, an appointment opened first thing in the morning. Michael spent a sleepless night. He was too concerned about Julie to sleep. Michael ended up sitting in bed staring at his wife, worried if he slept, he wouldn’t wake up to help her if she needed him. How had he ended up like this? He’d never missed sleep over anyone before this. Michael thought about how he waited a lot longer than he’d expected for Julie to become pregnant. He’d put a lot of effort into making it possible. His concern moved from impregnating Julie to her concerns about receiving decent care while pregnant and not suffering through the subjective opinions of the doctors and nurses masquerading as professional opinions. He understood Julie’s concerns. The entire medical system bogged down with opinions, blaming or belittling women, and he had los
Last Updated : 2023-10-01The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Twenty-One–Country Club Apologies
Julie entered the country club again. Why she returned here, other than she missed being abused by other people. Not likely. Michael claimed that Edward Phillips wanted to pay for their dinner and apologize to them for his embarrassing behaviour. After Julie agreed to attend reluctantly, Michael told her what he thought happened to cause this. “I have a feeling the other members of the board of governors found out about your success and believe he’s made a mistake driving you from the club. I suspect they’ll try to encourage you to use their facilities to entertain business contacts and it’ll be lucrative for them in the long run. You’re a minor celebrity, but one who’s rising. They’d be foolish not to cultivate your membership.” “Michael, I only have a membership because I’m riding on your coattails. I think it’s more they are worried about you leaving and taking your business with you. Leon’s too, for that matter, and with his connection to Aria. Y
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“You’re sure you want to confront your father? What if his security won’t allow you in to see him?” “Then I’ll have my answer. If he’s not willing to speak to me in person and it’s not his staff being jerks to me, then he won’t receive an invitation to our wedding and won’t be walking me down the aisle.” “Who will walk you down the aisle then, Aria?” “I think I’ll carry on how I’ve been living my life. I’ll walk myself down the aisle to the only man who cared about me for who I am, and now what I could do for him.” Leon had to admit Aria had come a long way in the last three months. He’d not expected it to happen this fast or at all. The rehabilitation centre was a last-ditch effort, and so far, it worked. Even meeting Juliette a few times wasn’t so bad. Each time they were in each other’s presence, it took longer for them to confront each other and get their backs up. Michael hoped to attend Leon and Aria’s wedding as a show of suppo
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Edward Phillips blathered on now and in Michael’s opinion acted offended, as if it was his wife Michael gave an apology to but ignored her as he’d said this. “Michael, we’re all friends here and I thought I was giving both of you an apology right now.” “I’m surprised your marriage has lasted this long, Edward. Because the apology you just gave me would be what you would give me if you were apologizing to me and my pet cat for accidentally tripping over it. Is that how you see your wife? As a pet or an object? That might have flown six months ago with me, but here’s the rub. I’ve learned a hell of a lot of things in those six months and the months building up to it about my wife and myself. I’m sure many of you will agree I can be an ass, and I still am an ass. But I’m that ass who realized his mistake about his wife. You sir, I think you need to wake up and see I’m not like that anymore, but you still are. Aria has done a lot of damage to Juliette’s reputation before she e
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Julie removed her earbuds as she sat at her desk. She’d just listened to the ready-to-print version of her fifteenth novel. It was survivable, at least. She felt Stephen and her publisher would love it. She could hear everyone out at the pool having fun. Michael entertained the early bird parents and kids as they slowly arrived for Johnathan’s birthday pool party. Their children’s parties seemed to be an event where people wanted invitations and their presence recognized by their peers. Julie couldn’t believe the changes that had happened over the last few years. Johnathan’s birth shone in her brain as the mark when Julie knew Michael was hers. He’d not settled, but he’d found a different direction for his life that made him happier. Michael had help from the parents, nannies, and several staff members minding the chaos of children everywhere. They’d long ago child proofed the house, and currently Michael hid his genuine prized items in a series of locked rooms away from t
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Aria’s honeymoon was so much more than she had expected, and she used her social media accounts to poke the bear that was her father. She posted teasing photos of the place where she got married. Sold a few of her wedding photos to a couple of magazines with an interview hinting at why her father really wasn’t at her wedding and how disappointed she was at his betrayal of family ties. At the end of the interview, Aria made it good and clear that she’d broken off all ties with her father and she wasn’t interested in ever reconciling at any time in the future. He and his staff burned those bridges. As she went around Europe and saw the unique way of life there, some of it initially felt confusing and complicated. But she investigated other differences in how they treated people. It was something she’d not given much thought about until her life spiralled out of control and she finally understood why she was the way she’d become. It wasn’t pretty, and she had the photos and v
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“Edward has everything in the car, Julie. We’re ready to head for the hospital. Now, you’re sure you’re okay with going through with a c-section? I mean, if you change your mind, you can still back out.” Michael could see how large Julie grew and wondered how his son hadn’t torn his way out. Michael worried Julie could no longer stand and walk safely. Life kept changing and he couldn’t believe he’d once thought this part of his life could go on without him. Over the last eight and a half months, he’d learned so much about a woman’s body he had to wonder if they were the same species. Women were so complicated, and Julie had some unique complications. A common comorbidity Julie had called EDS would complicate even the epidural she would need. Her joints had more range, and it caused her shoulders, back, and hips to be uneven. It could complicate administering the epidural. If she couldn’t get it, then she’d have to give birth naturally without it. This terrified Julie, alon
The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Thirty-Three–Aria Gets Married
“I’m glad you’re doing this, Julie. Honestly, I don’t know what her father is thinking. But if he thinks she could embarrass him normally, to not come to his daughter’s wedding. Campaigning or not, he’s going to look bad. He recognized her as his daughter when it was convenient for him. Now he pulls this because it’s not convenient. His poll numbers will go down and he’ll lose the public confidence. If it gets out and it will that we showed up after that entire mess that started all of this. He’s sunk.” “You don’t think this is a mistake? She will not pull something fast. Like become caught in someone else’s bed?” “Julie, Aria’s been through a lot in the last six months. Leon didn’t just send her to rehab to just get off the medication. He sent her to a location that deals with complex abuse cases. She doesn’t realize it, but they did. He had to wait for over two years to get her a place there. It’s why I took her in like I did. I admit there were other stupid
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The small plane landed at the secluded island airport, and Julie sighed in relief. There was something about travelling she disliked. To come all this way for a wedding for someone she didn’t like seemed crazy. But Leon was Michael’s best friend and Julie would muddle through it for five days there. What she still couldn’t get over was Aria’s request to come and bury the hatchet somewhere other than Julie’s back. She’d apologized. The hadron collider must have tested something again, and the world altered in reaction to the outcome of that test. That’s how Julie thought of why things changed in ways she didn’t see coming. Not that she believed the conspiracies; it was just a humorous way to look at her problem because Julie didn’t believe she’d ever find out the true reason these things changed. But jumping off into another timeline felt as sane as any other reason, and perhaps sometimes more logical. They stepped off the plane with the other guests, and a protracted line
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Michael had said that he didn’t want to celebrate something that didn’t change. He didn’t want to admit he’d changed, and that changed their relationship. His explanation for this was he’d not been aware that he could be any other way until he’d seen how she lived in perpetual difference. Her effort to give him an easier existence while ignoring her own struggles had him questioning and rejecting much of his father’s teachings. It’d crossed over into his work life to and several people mentioned it over the months. So much so it became part of the water cooler gossip. Julie only found out about this after they’d gone back to the gym, and she heard the gossip at the juice bar. Michael hadn’t gone with her today as he now often did. Julie still struggled to become used to his constant presence around her. But she knew why this time around she struggled with it. Julie had to fight putting up a mask for the world and in that moment with Michael at the gym, she couldn’t figure
The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Thirty–Aria Learns More About Who Leon Is
Christiana brought Aria upstairs, showed her the room, and helped her to unpack her things. Aria had to wait an hour before Leon came upstairs to her. But once Christiana ended with that, she gave Aria an odd warning before she left Aria to her own devices. “My dear, you’re not as sweet as you pretend to be, but that’s not a mark against you with me. The problem you will have been with the men of this family. They run this family with an iron fist, and we are not part of the conversation or the family business. So, if you think you will control anything or anyone within this family, then you’ll be walking a thin line between surviving or disappearing within an unfortunate accident. Please be careful what you say and do. This is something we say to all women who enter this family. Think carefully and long. If you stay, learn to keep your head down and your mouth shut. You can do and say anything outside of the family but don’t allow the bad to reflect on the family.”
The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Twenty-Nine - The Birthing Plan
“Julie love, you fell asleep. We’re here now. Let’s go in for our appointment.” Julie woke up to Michael’s voice. During their trip to her doctor’s appointment, she’d fallen asleep. Today she would talk to the doctor about her pregnancy and what to expect, including her birthing plan. Something she’d been avoiding because it absolutely terrified her. With pain, she had an odd relationship with it. There was no normal response to it for her. It either didn’t register or she was in a world of hurt that no one understood. Medications didn’t seem to work correctly either when dealing with pain. She’d believed that she was imagining this issue for most of her life, but Julie learned not too long ago that wasn’t the case. Her body resisted many pain medications, and she did in fact register pain differently to other people. “Great, let’s get this over with because there’re things I need to get done today.” She’d been grumpy for most of the day. Between
The Billionaire's Alternate Plan Chapter One Hundred-Twenty-Eight–Decision Day
Julie sat there in the conference room with her lawyer. They’d been hashing out exactly how things would go from here on out. Michael had given her a file of documents which gave her terms he was willing to work with and he’d changed all the wording. Her lawyer had to review it all over the last few days and he had admitted to Julie that the generosity in the new offer was off the charts compared to the first time they sat down to get through this. But to stay was more beneficial for both parties. However, he warned her not to do anything if it wasn’t in her heart, or best for her safety. She should do what she believed was best for her and her child. “I will, I promise you that. But I will have to say that things have changed greatly in the last six months. I’m still unsure what changed things. If it was a single event or multiple events, but he’s not the same man. No, before you say it’s temporary, understand he’s happier now with the changes he’s made. It’s
