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Chapter 186: The Ledger
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2026-05-18 18:25:50
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My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 193: Seraphina Montague Ashford
"Is the ink dry on the Milan foundation papers yet?"I didn’t look up as Ada walked into my office. I already knew the answer. Ada was never late, and she never brought me half-finished business. She set the heavy stack of legal documents on the center of my desk with a soft, decisive thud. These were the final papers, the culmination of months of legal maneuvering and high-stakes negotiation. The Milan foundation was finally ours, fully integrated, fully funded, and ready to launch. This wasn't just another acquisition; it was the final brick in the new empire we had built from the rubble of our old lives."Everything is ready for your signature," Ada said, her voice as professional and steady as it had been since the day she started. "The board has approved the structure. The legal team in Italy has given the green light. All that’s left is you."I leaned back in my chair for a second, looking at the top page. It felt heavier than it looked. My office was quiet, the midday sun
My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 192: The Newspaper
"They want you for the profile, too."I dropped the email printout onto the marble island in the kitchen. Sera was already there, her fingers curled around a mug of coffee, looking like the absolute owner of the room. She didn't even flinch. She just reached out, pulled the paper toward her, and scanned the request from the *Financial Times*. It wasn't just a business blurb. It was a deep dive. They wanted the full story, the fall of the old Ashford regime, the Montague partnership, the marriage, and the rebuild. They wanted the anatomy of a second chance."The journalist is persistent," I said, leaning against the counter. "He wants to cover the business, obviously. But he wants the full version. He thinks the story isn’t complete without you."Sera looked up, her green eyes sharp and calculating. "And what did you tell him?""I told him I’d ask."She blinked, a slight frown touching her lips. "You didn't say yes?""Of course not," I replied, my voice dropping. "It’s your story too,
My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 191: Dante and Felix
"How exactly did we become friends?"Felix asked the question without looking up from his drink. We were sitting in a corner booth of a bar that was too quiet for a Friday night, but that was exactly why we chose it. It had been three months since that first disastrous pasta dinner where we all tried to pretend things were normal. Since then, Felix and I have met up twice on our own. No, Sera. No, Roman. Just two men who had spent too many years cleaning up other people's messes, finally taking a breath of our own."It’s a low bar for entry," I said, leaning back against the worn leather. "We both spent a long time watching two people not quite get it right. That kind of shared trauma creates a bond, I guess."Felix finally looked at me, a small, tired smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. He looked different than he had a year ago. The permanent crease between his eyebrows had smoothed out. The frantic way he used to check his phone every thirty seconds had disappeared. He look
My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 190: Eleanor's Garden
"He’s not here."Eleanor didn’t even look surprised when she opened the front door. She stood there with a pair of gardening shears in one hand and a smudge of dirt on her cheek, looking more like a woman who enjoyed her life than a woman who had raised a billionaire. It was Sunday afternoon, the kind of day that usually belonged to families and quiet rituals. Roman was tied up in a cross-continental conference call that he couldn’t dodge, but I’d found myself driving toward Eleanor’s anyway. I didn't need an escort to see her anymore."I know," I said, leaning against the doorframe. "I didn't come for him."Eleanor’s lips quivered into a soft, knowing smile. She stepped back, gesturing for me to enter. "Good. Come in. I was just heading out back."I followed her through the house, past the expensive art and the silent hallways, and out into the garden. It was nothing like the Montague estate. My family’s gardens were a masterpiece of precision, every hedge trimmed to the millimeter
My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 189: The New Threat
"Vargas is making a move."Roman didn’t even look up from the folder he’d just dropped onto the kitchen table. I was halfway through a glass of wine, the pasta I’d made cooling between us, but the domesticity of the evening evaporated the second he spoke. I pulled the documents toward me, scanning the lines of fine print. It wasn't a full-scale assault. It wasn't Aldric coming back from the dead to burn our world down. This was smaller, a tactical nibble at an Ashford logistics subsidiary that happened to handle the primary shipping for the Montague vineyard expansion. It was a nuisance move, a test of our new, combined perimeter. Vargas was a bottom-feeder, but even a bottom-feeder can cause a mess if you let him get comfortable."He thinks he’s clever," I muttered, flipping to the third page. "He’s targeting the fuel contracts. If he squeezes there, Ashford’s margins drop four percent, but my father’s shipping lanes get backed up for weeks. It’s a double hit."Roman pulled out a ch
My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 188: What Roman Doesn't know
"You’re staring again."Sera didn’t look up from her tablet, but I could see the slight curve of her lips. I leaned back against the headboard, watching the way the morning light caught the sharp lines of her profile. She was right. I was staring. I’d been doing a lot of that lately, mostly because the woman sitting next to me was vibrating on a frequency I couldn't quite name. Something had changed three days ago. It wasn't a bad change. It wasn't the jagged, frantic energy that usually meant a Montague storm was brewing. It was quieter. More internal. Like she was holding a secret that didn't weigh anything.I noticed. Of course I noticed. I knew the way she breathed when she was stressed and the way her eyes narrowed when she was plotting a corporate takeover. This was neither. I said nothing. A year ago, I would have pushed. I would have demanded access to whatever was running through her head, convinced that if I didn't know everything, I couldn't protect her. I would have mist
My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 17: Six Rings
Sera had been reading for twenty minutes when her phone lit up.Unknown number. She looked at it for one second. Then she set it face-up on the cushion beside her and went back to her page.She knew.She couldn't have explained how. The number was unsaved, clean, nothing her phone recognized. But s
آخر تحديث : 2026-03-19My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 19: The Gala
Sera arrived at seven with Dante and knew within ninety seconds that Roman was not yet in the room.She knew the way she had always known things about him, before the information reached her brain. The room felt like a room that had not yet changed. She greeted the hospital director at the entrance
آخر تحديث : 2026-03-19My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 27: Isabella's True Face
Isabella came home at three thirty to find Roman in the sitting room with no lights on, and the notebook closed on the coffee table in front of him.She set her bag down. Looked at him. Looked at the notebook. "What is that?""Sit down," he said.She sat across from him with the careful posture of
آخر تحديث : 2026-03-22My Ex Husband's Biggest Regret Chapter 28: Escorted Out
Ada's message came through the internal system at two fourteen.*Roman Ashford in the lobby. No appointment. Says it's important.*Sera read it at her desk. She set her pen down. She looked at the message for four seconds. Then she picked her pen back up and went back to the document she had been r
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