PART 5: Unmasking the Staff Quarters

PART 5: Unmasking the Staff Quarters

Hidden sacrifices shame billionaire negligence.

Later that afternoon, after Naomi had carefully settled the quintuplets into their nursery for their afternoon nap, Hudson did something else completely unprecedented.

He followed her down the back service corridor toward the staff quarters in the basement level.

The hallway was narrow, poorly lit, and smelled faintly of old laundry and damp concrete—a stark, shameful contrast to the glass and steel luxury of the upper floors where he lived.

"Where are you staying, Naomi?" Hudson asked, his voice echoing off the concrete walls.

Naomi stopped outside a tiny, cramped storage room that had been converted into a makeshift bedroom with a single narrow cot, a small suitcase, and a stack of nursing textbooks on a folding chair.

"This is fine, sir," Naomi answered quickly, trying to block his view of the cramped space. "It's close to the nursery stairs, so I can hear the monitors if they spike a fever."

Hudson stared at the tiny cot, then at the folders containing her nursing school tuition bills sitting half-open on the chair.

He calculated how much money he spent weekly on imported vintage wine alone—enough to pay off her entire education ten times over—while the woman keeping his children alive slept on a cot in a basement closet.

"Pack your things," Hudson commanded, his tone returning to its authoritative corporate register, though the harsh edge was entirely gone.

Naomi flinched. "Sir? Are you sending me away?"

"I am moving you upstairs into the master guest suite on the second floor," Hudson stated flatly, leaving zero room for argument. "And tomorrow morning, my corporate legal team is setting up a full trust fund to cover your family's medical expenses and your nursing degree in full."

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Naomi stared at him, her jaw dropping open in sheer disbelief. "Mr. Vale, you don't have to—"

"I don't have to do a lot of things, Naomi," Hudson interrupted quietly, his dark eyes meeting hers with absolute resolve. "But for the first time in a year, I'm going to do what's right."