She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife (Natasha and Chase) novel Chapter 74

Chapter 74 Friendly Advice

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Sonia looks like she hasn’t slept.

Which, for a woman who treats her appearance as a full-time occupation, is genuinely alarming.

There are shadows under her eyes that her concealer hasn’t quite covered, and she’s holding her coffee cup with both hands like it’s the only stable object in the room.

I sit down across from her and take a moment to appreciate the catastrophic architecture of the situation she’s built for herself.

It really is impressive, in the way that a very large forest fire is impressive.

“You have to get me out of this,” she says.

“Good morning to you too.”

“Julian. You made me wait an eternity, don’t play games with me right now.”

I lean back in my chair.

“You summoned me down here. I’m allowed to arrive at my own pace.”

She stares at me with the expression she’s been using on men all her life.

It’s never worked on me, probably since I’ve known her since she was in diapers, but old habits die hard.

Then again, Nathanial’s known her as long as I have and she’s managed to twirl him around her little finger all her life.

And look what she’s done to repay that blind loyalty.

“The blood typing,” she says, dropping her voice. “If Nathanial’s results flag a compatibility with Lily-”

“I know what it means,” I say. “I worked it out upstairs. Approximately thirty seconds after Patel finished his explanation, which means you worked it out in twenty.”

“Then you understand why I need-”

“I understand everything,” I say. “That doesn’t mean I have a solution to your dilemma.”

I pick up her untouched muffin and take a bite because for some reason hospitals make me hungry.

She watches me do it with an expression of pure disbelief.

“Sonia.”

I set the muffin back down.

“I’m going to say something and I need you to actually hear it rather than immediately start working out how to get around it.”

“Fine.”

“Lily Warren is in the NICU.”

I keep my voice pleasant and my eyes very steady.

She is a sick child. Chase Warren’s daughter. The one thing in this world that man would burn everything else down to protect.”

I pause to let that land.

“If she comes to harm, if anything happens to that little girl that can be connected, even loosely, even distantly, to anything you’ve done, there is no version of events where you survive it. Not socially. Not legally.”

I tilt my head to make sure she gets my point.

“Not with Chase.”

Sonia’s jaw tightens. “I’m not going to hurt a child.”

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