She stopped.
Grace finished.
“Unencumbered by prior estate, trust, royalty or reversion rights.”
Silence.
Ethan’s chair creaked when he shifted.
Grace looked at him.
“That paragraph doesn’t exist in the version your attorneys approved.”
Ethan’s voice was quieter now.
“It was added during negotiations.”
“By whom?”
“Harbor Crown requested it.”
“No.”
“You weren’t there.”
“I asked them.”
His face changed.
Grace saw it.
A flash of genuine surprise.
“You contacted Harbor Crown?”
“This morning.”
“You had no authority.”
“There it is again.”
Grace’s voice stayed soft.
“You really should stop saying that.”
Ethan pushed back from the table.
“You’re interfering with a seventy-million-dollar deal because you caught me with another woman.”
Grace stared at him.
Then she laughed.
One quiet breath.
Almost disbelief.
“You still think this is about Vanessa.”
“You showed up here seven months pregnant with another man.”
Declan’s expression hardened.
