“Marry Me and I’ll Help Raise Your Daughters” — Billionaire to Single Dad, His Daughter Said…
Chapter 10
The ceremony was beautiful.
Small.
Quiet.
Almost peaceful.
No one knew how close we were to disaster.
Emma walked first.
Sophie followed.
Then Victoria.
When she reached me, I forgot the threats.
The evidence.
The fear.
Everything.
She smiled.
“Hi.”
I laughed.
“Hi.”
The officiant began.
When it was my turn to speak, I looked at Victoria.
“I thought I was doing this to protect my daughters.”
I paused.
“Then I realized you were never asking me to choose between you and them.”
Her eyes filled.
“You were asking me to build a family with you.”
I took her hand.
“I choose that.”
Victoria looked at me.
“I spent my whole life believing I had to earn love.”
She squeezed my fingers.
“Then I met a man who loved his daughters so fiercely that he forgot to leave room for himself.”
Everyone smiled.
She continued.
“I don’t want to replace their mother.”
She looked toward Emma and Sophie.
“I don’t want to erase the past.”
Then she looked back at me.
“I want to stand beside you.”
The officiant pronounced us married.
Sophie clapped too loudly.
Everyone laughed.
Then we kissed.
For the first time, our marriage wasn’t a contract.
It was a choice.
But Richard’s threat remained.
After the ceremony, security moved the girls to a safe location.
Victoria and I went with the investigators.
At 4:00 p.m., the evidence was released.
Bank records.
Audio recordings.
Rachel’s files.
Richard’s messages.
The corruption became public.
Within an hour, news organizations were reporting the scandal.
Richard was arrested.
The CFO was arrested.
Several executives were detained.
But there was one final surprise.
The largest hidden account wasn’t controlled by Richard.
It was controlled by someone else.
Someone who had been financing the entire network.
Victoria’s father’s old attorney.
Robert Hale.
He had manipulated the company for twenty years.
Richard was his agent.
The CFO worked for him.
He had even arranged Rachel’s final surveillance.
But why?
Because Robert wanted the Sterling family trust.
He wanted the land.
And he had used Richard as the visible villain so nobody would look higher.
Victoria stared at the evidence.
“My father trusted him.”
“So did everyone.”
Robert disappeared that night.
The police searched his home.
Empty.
But his car was found outside the airport.
He was still in the city.
And he had one last target.
Me.
