The Billionaire's Silent Wife (Ryan and Eve) novel Chapter 89

Chapter 89 The Weight of the Ashbrook Curse

Ryan’s POV

The city lights of Bexlin flickered against the darkening sky as Ryan stepped out of the hospital and exhaled slowly, the cold air carving a path down his lungs. He had just left his parents’ room, two people who once seemed untouchable, pillars of wealth and influence, now reduced to pale silhouettes against stiff white sheets. Jonathan Ashbrook’s pride had taken a beating in recent days, and Leah… she had barely spoken.

The air around the hospital felt heavy, saturated with secrets and the metallic tang of fear. Ryan adjusted his suit jacket and checked the time. Tevin and Carter would be waiting by now.

He had asked them for help, not something he did often. But when a man found himself trapped between

protecting a wife who had already lost too much and a family drowning in sins that predated his birth,

pride had to be set aside.

They were meeting him at an old private workspace his father used in the financial district. A secure place. A quiet place. A place where truths had been buried and unearthed many times before.

Ryan headed toward his car, his thoughts closing around him like a vise.

He had expected complications.

He had expected resistance.

But he had not expected to feel the creeping awareness that something catastrophic was hidden under

the surface.

Something older than the current scandal.

Something rotten at the roots.

He slid into the car, clenched his teeth, and started the engine.

Tonight, he wanted answers.

Real ones.

Tevin and Carter sat waiting in a glass-walled room overlooking the city’s glowing skyline. They stood the

moment Ryan walked in, Tevin with his usual restless energy, Carter with his steady seriousness that never

wavered.

“Ryan,” Carter greeted. His voice held an edge. “We’ve found some things.”

Tevin nodded, rubbing the back of his neck. “A lot, actually.”

Ryan closed the door behind him, locking it.

The room fell silent.

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Ryan approached it slowly, the way a man approaches a door he knows he must walk through but dreads

what lies on the other side.

“Start talking,” he said quietly.

Carter exchanged a look with Tevin before speaking.

“You asked us to dig into Steven. Dirt he might have on your parents. Dirt on him. Anything that could help you break free from whatever hold he thinks he has.”

Ryan nodded once.

Carter inhaled. “We didn’t find what we expected.”

Ryan’s jaw tightened. “Meaning?”

“Meaning it wasn’t business corruption or embezzlement or any of the usual things rich families use fixers

for,” Tevin said. “It goes deeper.”

Ryan moved his gaze from one man to the other, waiting.

Carter took the lead again. “We traced someone who used to work in your house years ago. Mirabel, the nanny you had before you were even old enough to remember her.”

Ryan’s eyes narrowed slightly, the name stirring a faint memory, hushed lullabies, the smell of lavender, a soft voice. He had not thought of Mirabel in decades.

“She wasn’t alive anymore,” Carter continued. “But her daughter is. She continued working for your parents. She agreed to talk.”

Tevin leaned forward. “And she had a lot to say.”

Ryan took a slow breath. “Go on.”

Tevin opened the folder, sliding a few papers closer. “Steven… wasn’t just a driver. He was your father’s and mother’s domestic fixer. Personal fixer. Anything that involved private life, not corporate, Steven

handled it.”

Ryan’s heart dipped into a cold place.

“Like what?” he asked carefully.

Tevin hesitated. “The woman said Steven took care of tasks that required… discretion. Things your parents

didn’t want tied back to them.”

Ryan said nothing.

Carter’s voice dropped lower. “If they had personal problems, Steven solved them. If they needed

someone neutral to handle difficult situations outside business, Steven did it.”

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“Loyal to a fault,” Tevin replied. “Mirabel’s daughter said her mother believed Steven would have died for

the Ashbrooks.”

“Until he didn’t,” Carter added, sliding a long, yellowed note across the table. “Something happened.”

Ryan stared at the note but didn’t touch it.

Tevin’s expression turned grim. “She said there was a day, about seven years ago, when your mother asked

Steven to help her with something. Something… serious.”

Ryan looked up sharply.

Tevin continued, “She didn’t know what it was. Mirabel never found out. But whatever your mother asked

him to do, Steven refused. For the first time. There were lines even he wouldn’t cross.”

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A cold wind seemed to move through the room, though every window was closed.

“What happened after?” Ryan asked, though the answer churned in his stomach.

Carter flipped to another page. “Leah was furious. She demanded your father fire him on the spot.”

Ryan blinked slowly, pressing the anger down, down, down until it burned.

“And did he?” he asked.

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