The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband – Episode 55
Sebastian wanted to confront George immediately, but Natalie asked for one night. The first wedding had been controlled by other people’s deadlines. She would not let the second become another ceremony organized around crisis.
The next morning, she invited George to the church before rehearsal. He arrived in an inexpensive suit and stopped when he saw Stephanie’s agreement on the altar rail.
His denial lasted only seconds. The signature was his, witnessed by an attorney who still practiced in the city.
George explained that Klein executives threatened to cancel contracts supporting hundreds of Quinn employees. Transferring Stephanie’s interest appeared to be the only way to save his company.
“You saved your business by taking from a dead woman and her child,” Natalie said. “Then you asked that child to marry your daughter years later as though none of it existed.”
George claimed he never knew Sebastian would become Bash Myers. The defense revealed that regret arrived only after the powerless child became powerful.
Sebastian stood at the rear of the church, silent because Natalie had asked to lead. Anger radiated through his stillness.
George apologized to him directly. Sebastian answered that an apology without restoration remained another request for the injured person to absorb the cost.
The recovered investment would be transferred to Stephanie’s foundation with accumulated value determined by court. George agreed not to contest the claim.
Natalie then addressed the wedding. “You may attend only if you understand that your invitation is not forgiveness completed. It is an opportunity to witness the family I am choosing.”
George accepted. He would sit in the back, make no public statement, and leave if his presence caused Sebastian pain.
Sebastian expected himself to refuse. Instead, he considered the empty pews at Stephanie’s funeral and the years when exclusion defined family power. Removing George would repeat the gesture, even if justified.
“Come,” he said. “Watch what your bargain became.”
Rehearsal began after George left. Natalie’s mother practiced walking beside her with a cane, refusing the wheelchair prepared by the church.
Halfway down the aisle, fatigue made her pause. Natalie offered to shorten the route, but her mother insisted she had already watched her daughter carry too much alone.
“This part belongs to me,” she said. “Let me carry one moment with you.”
Sebastian waited at the altar, struck by how different the room felt when people arrived because they loved them rather than because contracts required witnesses.
The minister reviewed the renewed vows. Natalie removed language implying obedience and added a promise that honesty would not be withheld in the name of protection.
Sebastian added his own line: he would never use power to make her choices smaller. The minister remarked that the vows sounded more like governance than poetry.
Before rehearsal ended, Daniel received an emergency alert from Klein Enterprises. A group of former directors had filed for an injunction challenging Sebastian’s takeover, scheduling the hearing on the morning of the wedding. If he failed to appear, control of the company—and Stephanie’s recovered legacy—could return to the family that erased her.