To Make A King Kneel
A Betrayal and Regret Billionaire RomanceBy Larissa Zrina
Length6h 29m
About this audiobook
She found out on her knees, with four pins in her mouth.
Vera Sayer has knelt to four thousand men. It is where the hem is. In twenty-six years as a bespoke tailor it has never once cost her anything.
Then a customer standing on her fitting box mentions, idly, that the whole street is coming down.
Her street. Her shop. The building an old man left her, and the last address her husband's company needed.
Casimir Rooke married her to get it.
He came into her shop under a false referral in June, to survey an obstacle. He stayed. He learned her trade. He found her a roofer and would not pay for it. He insisted she take her own solicitor and instructed that the solicitor be adversarial.
And on a Tuesday in November he stood at a window and said no three times, and she handed him the freehold herself, over a kitchen table, with a pen, smiling.
He has never told her a single lie. Not one, in nine years. That is what makes it unsurvivable.
So Vera stops trying to prove a fraud, and does something colder. She gets the building listed — permanently, immovably, out of the reach of every family that buys streets — and the case is built from a hundred and forty years of ledgers in her own basement, including four generations of his family's bodies.
The scheme dies by letter on a Tuesday morning. Four hundred million pounds. His father's life's work. His chair.
And it costs him nothing that matters, because a man like that carries ruin beautifully and does not change.
Then his brother is blamed for what she did — and she says nothing for eleven months and eight days.
Because she is not the innocent one either. She learned the technique from the man who used it on her, and she used it on somebody kinder.
Two years later, a man who is no longer chairman of anything walks into her shop and orders a suit. It will take seven months. He will not be permitted to hurry it, buy it, or arrange one thing about it, and every decision will be hers.
He has one chance, at the final fitting, when she is on the floor and he is on the box.
He will have to stand still, say nothing, and let her look at what is actually there.
A slow-burn, closed-door billionaire romance about a betrayal with no lie in it, a revenge that works and costs the wrong person, and a man who has to learn, at forty-six, how to ask out loud for something he wants.
A grovel that money cannot touch.
One-click if you love: billionaire on his knees · marriage of convenience revealed · slow-burn second chance · heroine with a trade · morally grey both ways · earned redemption
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length6 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
20The Roll Line
2The Measure
21The Forward Fitting
3Chalk
22Lining
4The Pattern
23Seam Allowance
5Rock of Eye
24The Second Pattern
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6Canvas
25Buttonholes
7Basting
26Cloth
8Ripping Down
27Under-collar
9Inlay
28The Baste
10Balance
29Pressing
11The Crooked Shoulder
30Finishing
12Ease
31The Green Box
13The Iron
32The Hand
14The Break
33Delivery
15Bar Tack
34The Book
16Padding Stitch
35Nine Marlowe Court
17Let Out
36Bespoke
18Take In
37Kneel
19Shears
38Epilogue
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