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Chapter Thirteen

ผู้เขียน: Joy Uwaka
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I leaned back in my chair, watching the digital ticker for Vance Corp turn a bloody shade of red. Sarah was pacing the floor, her heels clicking a nervous rhythm against the hardwood. She stopped abruptly, leaning over my desk with a look of genuine concern.

"Elara, we’re five days out from the Gala," Sarah said, her voice dropping to a low, serious hum. "The city is buzzing. Charlie is parading Lydia around like she’s carrying the Messiah. Don’t you think you need a man someone with real weigh
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  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter one-hundred & ninety-five

    The plastic fragments of the crushed burner phone clattered against the carpet, scattering around Charlie’s knees like worthless black glass.Tyler looked at Charlie and walked past him.He didn't hit him. He didn't raise his voice. He didn't even offer a single word of anger. Tyler simply stepped over the broken pieces of the phone, his massive frame brushing past Charlie with absolute, terrifying indifference treating the man not as a rival or a threat, but as nothing more than a stain on the floor.Charlie, a famous billionaire CEO, was on the floor begging.He was a man who had once possessed untouchable wealth, international prestige, and the proud Hawthorne name. He was a man whose ruthless arrogance had dominated boardrooms across New York. Yet here he was, crawling on his hands and knees on the floor of a backstage dressing room in Paris, clutching at the hem of Tyler’s tailored trousers, weeping like a broken child."Tyler, please!" Charlie sobbed out, his voice cracking into

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter one-hundred & ninety-four

    "Is the path clear, Lydia?! The decoy logs worked!"Charlie’s voice was a frantic, adrenaline fueled whisper inside the dim interior of the private VIP dressing room at the Grand Palais. He had bolted the door shut, his chest heaving, his face slick with sweat as he clutched the matte black burner phone in his trembling, pale hands.Around him hung rack upon rack of priceless silk gowns and diamond-embroidered coats for Elara’s upcoming Maison d'Elara Global showcase. But Charlie paid no attention to the beauty surrounding him. His mind was consumed entirely by the fevered delusion of his mission.Unaware that Marcus's tactical team was monitoring his every step through thermal sensors and directional audio microphones, Charlie had slipped away from the main runway stage the moment Elara turned her back to speak with her lead tailors."Speak quietly, you fool!" Lydia’s sharp, raspy voice hissed back through the burner phone's speaker, vibrating in the small, quiet room. "Are you sure

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter one-hundred & ninety-four

    Elara and Tyler POV "Are you out of your mind, Tyler?!"Elara’s sharp, furious voice echoed off the gilded walls of their private sitting room at the Hotel George V. She whipped around from her vanity desk, slamming her diamond encrusted phone onto the polished mahogany surface with a loud, ringing crack. Her green eyes flashed with disbelief and sudden, fierce anger.Tyler stood near the heavy velvet drapes, his broad shoulders squared, his face a hard mask of quiet, unyielding gravity. He had just stepped out of the private communications room after ending the emotional call with his aunt, and the weight of Evelyn’s tearful confession was heavy on his chest."Listen to me, Elara," Tyler said, his deep voice remaining low and steady despite her outburst. "Evelyn just called me from Manhattan. She was hysterical. She broke down in tears and confessed that she found Lydia’s lipstick inside Charlie’s bedroom before he flew to Paris. She swears someone was hiding in his private suite!"

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter one-hundred & ninety-three

    Evelyn and Tyler pov"I can't carry this lie anymore, Tyler! It’s killing me!"Evelyn's frantic, broken scream exploded into the phone, her voice cracking under a wave of hysterical weeping. She sat crumpled on the floor of her private sitting room in the Manhattan estate, her hands shaking so violently she could barely hold the receiver to her ear. Beside her on the table sat the empty glass water bottle, its rim still bearing the distinct, crimson smudge of Rouge Vane lipstick.Across the Atlantic, inside his high security penthouse suite at the Hotel George V in Paris, Tyler Hawthorne stood near the rain slicked balcony glass. The moment her frantic scream filled his ear, his body went rigid. His dark eyes narrowed into cold, lethal slits."Evelyn?" Tyler asked, his deep voice dropping into an immediate, focus. "Evelyn, calm down. What are you talking about?""Forgive me, Tyler! Oh God, please forgive me!" Evelyn sobbed out, pressing her palm against her forehead as ragged breaths

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter one-hundred & ninety-two

    Chapter and Lydia POV "Send the files, Charlie! Do it now!"Lydia’s ordered immediately Charlie answered the phone, venomous command echoed inside the cramped, rusting hull of a barge floating on the River Seine. The night fog over Paris was suffocating, wrapping the river in a cold, ghost-white blanket. Rain lashed against the corrugated metal walls, but inside the dark cabin, the air was hot with feverish anticipation.Sitting at a flickering table across from Lydia were three bitter, rogue European brokers men who had lost millions when Tyler and Elara destroyed the Vance Group. They watched with cold, hungry eyes as Lydia gripped her encrypted burner phone, her knuckles turning ghost-white.On the phone screen, a blue progress bar suddenly ignited: INCOMING TRANSFER RECEIVED.Lydia let out a sharp, hysterical laugh that cut through the sound of the rain."He did it," Lydia hissed, her eyes gleaming with unholy triumph as she looked up at the brokers. "My sister thinks she’s an un

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter one-hundred & ninety-one

    "Elara, please! Just look at me!"The frantic scream echoed across the private VIP arrival lounge at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, cutting sharply through the soft hum of jet engines and the quiet murmurs of international security details.Charlie stumbled forward, his clothes slightly disheveled, his eyes bloodshot, and tears streaming down his pale, hollow face. He dropped straight to his knees on the polished marble floor right in front of Elara, wearing a desperate mask of tearful remorse."I am begging you, Elara!" Charlie sobbed out, reaching his trembling hands toward the hem of her tailored coat. "I know I ruined everything! I know I was a fool! Just give me a chance to support Maison d'Elara Global! Let me work for you! Let me prove that I can be useful to you again!"Elara stopped dead in her tracks, flanked by four broad-shouldered Hawthorne bodyguards. She looked down at the man kneeling at her feet the man who was her ex-husband, the man who had lied to her, betrayed h

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter forty

    The Gilded Scoop smelled like childhood dream waffle cones, toasted sugar, and that sharp, freezing scent of industrial refrigerators. After the suffocating, sterile walls of the hospital, the bright pops of pastel colors and the sticky floors felt like the most beautiful things I had ever seen. I

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter five

    I shouldn’t have come. I told myself I was doing it for closure, but as I stood in front of the Vance mansion, the air felt just as poisonous as it did six years ago. Beside me, Leo gripped my hand, his small fingers warm against my palm."Mommy, why are we here?" he asked, his voice echoing in the

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter four ( her return)

    Six years later.They say time heals all wounds, but they’re wrong. Time just gives you the tools to sharpen your blade.I stood at the window of my penthouse suite, watching the skyline of the city that had spat me out like trash. I wasn't that shaking girl in the oversized blazer anymore. My body

  • DIVORCED Back To Claim What’s Mine    Chapter three

    The rain was a cold, relentless weight as I stumbled up the driveway of my childhood home. My clothes were shredded, my face was bruised from where the reporters had shoved their cameras, and my heart was a jagged hole in my chest.I pounded on the heavy oak door. "Dad! Please! Open the door!"The

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