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Chapter 36: Scammed.
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2026-11-08 13:25:43
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Discarded By My Husband, Claimed By The Billionaire. Chapter 38: Was your hair blonde?
Jemma’s POV.-“Rich people parties for me are a bore.”The lie comes out smooth. It’s not entirely a lie. My recollection is fractured, too many beats completely gone. The only thing partially credible is that whatever happened within the first hours of the night is the reason Anna exists. I just want to end this meaningless interrogation session and be free of this man.So when he throws the questions once more, I lie through a calmer expression, inventing the details as I go - warm champagne, a headache starting behind my eyes, a taxi I paid with coins since I’d left my wallet at home. I even laugh a little at the end of it, at my own foolishness, and it’s such a good performance that I almost believe myself. “Was your hair blonde?”Excuse me?The question is so absurd that it cracks me up. I can’t hold it in, I let it ring out of me, then press the back of my hand to my lips to contain it. “Blonde?”I might laugh it off, but the dread creeping up my spine doesn’t go unnoticed. I
Discarded By My Husband, Claimed By The Billionaire. Chapter 37: A wound with better manners.
Jemma’s POV.-I close my eyes, still in my position. I don’t move, and Nathaniel doesn’t repeat his order. He doesn’t look at me and I don’t want to sabotage my mood for such an arrogant man. Without a word, leaving my face to carry it instead, I get in. I sit extremely close to the door, already annoyed I have to share a personal space with him. I tell myself it’s because I don’t want people on the street to notice, and I’ve had quite a hectic day. And I know none of it is true.Kayden shuts the door, sealing me in with the smell of leather, cedar, and the particular silence of a man who has never once had to explain himself. The silence lasts until I end up across from him in a private dining room at the back of a restaurant my current paycheck could never afford, with one candle between us, and he still hasn’t looked at me. He doesn’t touch his menu, and neither do I. Okay, I’m sure he didn’t just force me here to compliment the tasteful furniture. I feel my fingers curl on
Discarded By My Husband, Claimed By The Billionaire. Chapter 36: Scammed.
Jemma’s POV.- I brace myself with heart pounding, and push the door open at once while shielding Anna behind me. Only to freeze dead in my tracks. Standing in the middle of the living room, is a young couple surrounded by their own stacked boxes. Sitting on a suitcase near the hallway is another woman, frantic on a phone call. What’s going on here? Who’re these people?“Um, excuse me?” I blink, sweeping my eyes over the unfamiliar faces. “What are you doing in my apartment?”The couple turn to me, the man looking just as bewildered as he says, “Your apartment? I signed a lease for 4B two hours ago!”“So did I!” The woman on the phone gasps, hanging up, her face pale. “I paid a six-thousand dollar deposit to a guy named Mr. Sander!”Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me. A cold, suffocating weight drops straight to the pit of my stomach. I shut my eyes for a moment, and open them back slowly, processing this whole mundane situation until it hits me like wrecking ball.I’ve been scammed.
Discarded By My Husband, Claimed By The Billionaire. Chapter 35: He looks just like me!
Jemma’s POV.-“Mommy,” Anna calls from the table and I turn to see her chewing on a slice of apple. “Yes, darling.”She chews quickly and with a gummy smile, says to me, “The boy at my table was eating three whole bread rolls from the free basket again, yesterday.”Oh, the same boy.I smile at her and make a quick turn to grab her lunchbox, asking, “Was he very hungry?”“Uh-huh! But he never talks to anyone,” she says, brows furrowing with earnest seriousness. “He just sits by himself, and he always wears worn clothes. But he never brings a lunchbox, so I share mine with him. I even gave him half my juice box yesterday-” “Oh, and he looks just like me! Same hair, same nose- Mommy?”It happens all of a sudden. The moment Anna mentioned that the boy looks just like her, my heart stops brutally. And the flood gates I’ve kept locked for years, bursts open without warning. The towel slips through my fingers. My hands are shaking, my heart, pounding erratically. I feel my body sway and I
Discarded By My Husband, Claimed By The Billionaire. Chapter 34: She has a child?
Nathaniel’s POV.-She wears a simple button-down blouse and loose black office pants, index tapping her chin as she mutters things out of earshot to herself while checking out the very slabs I escorted my younger sister there for. Her long ginger hair is kept down as usual, long bangs obscuring the upper half of her face as she focuses intently.Jemma Hail.I step silently behind her, towering over her personal space unsuspiciously. Sweet jasmine and sunlight wafts from her hair, rich, refreshing, and invading my nerves. “Did that one catch your eye, Ms. Hail?” I drawl softly, deep voice cutting through the quiet aisle.Jemma flinches slightly, her shoulders going rigid. She slowly turns her head, pushing her long bangs out of her eyes for a split second to glare up at me, her slate-blue eyes flashing with instant, burning hostility.Hoh, someone’s made me her enemy. Interesting. “I didn’t know you have a quirk for creeping onto people, Mr. Ashworth,” she says, her tone colder tha
Discarded By My Husband, Claimed By The Billionaire. Chapter 33: That's all bullshit.
Nathaniel’s POV.-The impostor gasps, visibly shocked, but the fear comes out more profound as she lowers her eyes, shoulders shaking violently.“Nate, don’t tell me this is what you brought us here for. You didn’t have to go through the length to get here when we can always question her at a better place,” Kayden says to me, sounding disappointed. I look at him calmly, and say, “If we do it the conventional way, we won’t get the answers the Whitmores’ are guarding so fiercely.”“But she lost her memory, what do you expect her to tell us?” His frustration only grows as he lets out a breath and runs a hand through his hair. I don’t say anything. I close the gap once more, leaving the table the only thing between us as I speak to the impostor in a colder, cutting voice, keeping the irritation at bay. I have to pardon the defamation of Eleanor’s name this once. “Was your face the only loss you suffered from the accident?”She freezes. It takes five seconds before she starts trembling
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