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CHAPTER 23
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My Cheating CEO Husband Wants Me Back CHAPTER 23
CATHERINE POV I found Adrian at the house two days later, kneeling in the garden with Dylan, the two of them hunched over some contraption of sticks and string that Dylan had apparently declared a "trap for spies." Sera sat cross-legged nearby, telling them instructions neither of them followed.For one moment, I was watching him laugh at something Dylan said, I almost lost the resolve I'd spent two sleepless nights building.Then I remembered his hesitation in my office. “It's complicated, Cat.” Five years of trusting a man who apparently found the truth too complicated to tell me even now."Adrian." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "Can we talk? Alone."He looked up, and something in my face must have told him this wasn't a request. He rose, brushed the grass from his knees, and told the children he'd be right back, his easy smile that never quite reached his ears.We walked to the far end of the garden, out where no one can eavesdrop on us, the late afternoon sun throwing l
My Cheating CEO Husband Wants Me Back CHAPTER 22
DOMINICThe man didn't move toward me.He held my gaze a moment longer, two fingers still resting against the brim of his cap, and then slowly turned and walked back toward his car. No words or any confrontation. Just that creep gesture, calm enough to feel more like a threat than any direct confrontation could ever be.I sat frozen behind the wheel, my pulse hammering, every instinct screaming at me not to move or react, not to give him anything more to read from my face than he'd already taken.He climbed into the grey sedan without looking back again. The engine started. I watched it pull away from the curb, exactly the way he'd crossed the street and disappear around the corner toward the wider roads leading out of the neighborhood.I didn't follow him.I sat there long after the street went quiet again, my hands finally not shaking anymore, now that no one could see them. A man who tips his cap instead of asking questions is a man confident enough in his own reach that confrontat
My Cheating CEO Husband Wants Me Back CHAPTER 21
DOMINIC POV I woke up with my jacket still on from last night and the taste of scotch gone stale in my mouth. Grey light crawled through the curtains. For three seconds I forgot everything.Then I remembered his name on that television screen, and I was on my feet.Reyes.The man who stood in front of every camera meant for her. If I wanted Catherine, I had to start with him.I didn't call Marcus. He would have sent a team, a plan, a list of risks. The last time I let someone else stand between me and my wife, she ended up in a burning car. This one, I would do with my own hands.Reyes wasn't hard to find. A man who smiles for cameras leaves footprints. A business-club photo, a charity page, a gym membership mentioned in a magazine profile. By eight o'clock I was parked across from a glass apartment tower, a paper cup of bad coffee going cold in my hand.Reyes came out at nine, tall and easy in a navy suit, phone against his ear. He looked exactly like what the men at the bar had desc
My Cheating CEO Husband Wants Me Back CHAPTER 20
CATHERINE POV "Don't answer that," Adrian said again, sharper this time, but the phone was already pressed to my ear."Hello?"Silence greeted me first, the silence of someone listening rather than speaking. Then an unfamiliar voice that made my skin crawl."Catherine Vance," it said. Not a question. "Or should I call you Mrs. Moretti?"My blood turned to ice. I gripped the edge of my desk, my knees suddenly unsteady beneath me. "Who is this?""Someone who's been watching your company for a very long time." A pause, unhurried, cruel in its patience. "You should ask your friend standing next to you what Ashgrove Capital really is. Ask him why your safety report disappeared so quickly after his mother made a phone call."The line went dead before I could respond.I lowered the phone slowly, my hand trembling, and turned to find Adrian's face drained of all color, watching me with an expression I'd never once seen from him in five years."Who was that," he said, though something in his v
My Cheating CEO Husband Wants Me Back CHAPTER 19
DOMINIC POV I found a bar three blocks from the hotel, it was dim enough that no one would recognize a Moretti two states from home, quiet enough to drink alone without conversation forcing its way into my thoughts. I hadn't told Marcus where I was going. For the first time since landing in Ohio, I needed silence to control myself.The bartender set a scotch in front of me without asking, the universal courtesy extended to men who clearly needed to be left alone. I nursed it slowly, staring at the muted television mounted above the bar, half-watching a business news segment scroll past without paying any attention to it.Two men in rumpled suits sat a few stools down, their voices carrying with the particular looseness of men several drinks past caution."I lost the Fairview contract to Vance again," one muttered, swirling his glass. "The third project this year, FUCk!!!. I don't understand how one company keeps outbidding everyone in this city.""It's not the company," the other sai
My Cheating CEO Husband Wants Me Back CHAPTER 18
CATHERINE POV I didn't sleep. By sunrise, I'd changed the locks on every door in the house with my own hands, ignoring my housekeeper's worried glances, ignoring the ache building behind my eyes from a night spent staring at a photograph that made no sense.Dylan found me in the kitchen, watching the new keys glint under the morning light."Mummy, why do the doors sound different?""New locks, baby." I forced a smile. "Just to keep us extra safe.""Grandma Jas said the man outside Sera's window was probably just a dream."My hand stilled on the counter. "Grandma Jas said that?""This morning. Before you woke up." He tilted his head. "But Sera doesn't dream about things she's never seen before. She told me the man had a scar. She's never seen a scar like that anywhere."A chill crawled up my spine that had nothing to do with the morning air.I found Jasmine in the garden an hour later, clipping roses with the same serene patience she brought to everything, as though last night hadn't
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