The Billionaire’s Twins Play Matchmaker – Chapter 19
Julius hurried to his car forcing himself to leave his family. It was getting harder to leave them not knowing if he would be allowed to return. His place was precarious and subject to Macey’s whim. After last night it was clear she still desired him. Yet her reluctance only heightened how much he hurt her. Would she let him stay fearing it might end badly again? He had to find some way to prove his intentions were true.
Sitting in his car he pulled out his phone glancing at March’s text message: Call me as soon as you get this. Sighing he hit the call button.
It rang once before March answered, “Finally! Where are you?”
kids French Toast for breakfast.”
the night at the villa?”
d?”
e really didn’t want to discuss this over the phone.
m?”
came out in the papers.”
with the kids and the Board is panicking because they don’t kno
see how my life is any of their business.”
he company’s stability. You know as well as I do that the stocks dropped after mom passed.”
ow.”
e interfere with his family.
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ather’s office. Augustus glanced at him as he signed the papers Stephen handed him. Without a word March slumped in a chair and waited for his fat
tus asked.
e.”
tus g
Perhaps there was hope in convincing Macey to stay after all.
of him and the kids were actually pretty nice,” March said.
ould cont
family album,” Augustus answered.
wanted copies. He checked his watch. There was over an hour before the meeting, time enough to get some work done. Excusing himself h
is phone and called up the text message he received earlier that morning. In it was a picture of Julius and Macey asleep in each other’s arms and a brief message appeared under it: Phase Four complete.
hey have planned for Phase Five?
* * *
the DaLair patriarch and his sons occupied. Some of the senior members had been there since the company began. They knew Augustus DaLair for decades and still feared his wrath. The
is throne. March entered a few moments later taking his usual seat at his father’s right. Neither DaLair said a word as they waited for the one who called the meeting.
oday he wore a suit looking every bit the professional for this confrontation.
glanced at his father’s assistant. “No interruptions.”
e Board members. To their knowledge Stephen had never obeyed anyone’s directive except Augustus’s before. Did this mean Julius was the acknowledged first heir over his brother?
have too much time on your hands,” Julius announced glaring around the
they were all aware of it. More than a few probably bought a copy.
private life is any of your business.”
stoic patriarch was playing on his phone and didn’t seem interested in what happened in front of him. March stood and dragged the magazine toward him to read the article as if it were all news to him. Both were content to allow Julius free reign to handle the situation.
as the silence continued. “Cat got your tongues?”
DaLair, you, your brother and your father are the founders and faces of the company. Investors look at you to determine if the company is stable.”
s less stable than my usual drinking binges?”
…Um…well…”
ly company,” another spoke. “They are worried that another fa
you been at this company?”
ve years
ou?”
.”
re are men in this room who have been here since this company’s inception. They could tell you at thing or two. They could tell you about my marriage for starters.”
“
one of the photo albums
amiliar to you?”
March continued to read showing a redhead in Julius’s arms. They could almost be twins…unless…
woman in those photos i
from me.”
hildren…”
ren?” Julius opened the other magazine and turned to the article about him and th
Macey’s very pregnant belly. Setting it on the wedding album he asked the Board member, “Well?”
n her arms.
”
gustus holding the twins.
”
e in his face.
“Sir?”
n was an idiot?”
fore she disappeared and the marriage seemingly dissolved. None questioned it at the time but now it seemed the DaLair patriarch had been deliberately hiding her and his grandchildren from public scrutiny.
sfy you. But I will not tolerate interference in my personal life. You will not approach my wife or children. You will not make any formal statements or press releases. I will decide when and where I make any announcements. Do I make myself clear?”
protest. They quailed under his ruthless gaze realizing they had grown too complacent. They had
my son has been the only heir. Now this company has three. How is that for a stable future?”
oks at that statement. It was true. Though other families were often torn apart by infighting and rivalries the DaLairs had always been close. Despite the age gap between the brothers March and Julius were a united front. There was every reason to believe the cousins would be just as close. It also m
to albums and magazines. “Not one word of this leaves this