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CHAPTER 14
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My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 30
ELENAAdrian freaking Blackwood was avoiding me.Not in a subtle, maybe-he's-just-swamped-at-work way. In a full-blown, five-star, Olympic-level avoidance campaign, like I had the plague!Every morning I came down expecting him at the table, the way we'd quietly started doing without either of us realizing. I assumed a meeting. Then it had become a bit.... he'd just stay long enough to kiss Elias's forehead, give me a nod that could've been meant for furniture, say "Bye," and vanish like a man late for his own kidnapping.No breakfast. No 'how'd you sleep.' Nothing. The audacity.I stabbed my eggs in the morning like they'd personally wronged me."Unbelievable."Elias looked over, mildly concerned for my mental state."Nothing, sweetheart." I smiled and went back to assaulting breakfast.Here is what got under my skin most: He was the one who leaned in first. He was the one who looked at my mouth like he'd forgotten his own middle name, I do not even know he's middle name! And somehow
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 29
ELENAI barely made it to my bed before I dropped onto it, flat on my back, staring up at the ceiling without any words in my head at all.Then it hit me.We almost kissed!I sat up so fast my hair fell into my face. "Oh my god."Adrian and I. My husband.... well technically fake husband, though that distinction was doing a lot less work than it used to. My heart was already racing just replaying it.What would've happened if he hadn't pulled back? If our lips had actually met instead of stopping an inch short? If I'd kissed him back, which, if I was being honest with the ceiling, I absolutely would have?I covered my face with both hands. "No. No, no, no."That would've broken every rule we'd set before I signed anything. Separate rooms. Separate lives. No intimacy, no falling for each other, no crossing whatever line we'd drawn in that office the night he offered me the job. And for a few seconds in that kitchen, I'd forgotten every single one of them existed.Because I'd wanted to k
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 28
ADRIAN"It was supposed to be Laura."Elena stared at me. "Laura?""You're not her."Her eyebrows pulled together. "I know that. Who's Laura?"I looked away. "Elias's mother.""Oh." Just that. One quiet word.I couldn't blame her for not knowing what to do with it. What was I supposed to say.... that I'd just measured her against the woman who tore apart everything I'd spent years trying to protect? That I'd worked for years to stop thinking about Laura at all, and somehow Elena had walked in and made me remember what wanting something felt like?I didn't have an answer. I didn't even fully know what I was feeling. That was the actual problem.Confused. Conflicted. Scared, if I was being honest with myself, which I rarely let myself be.And underneath all of it, one thought wouldn't shut up: She's going to leave too. I knew Elena wasn't Laura. Every rational part of me understood that. My head didn't care about rational. It remembered trust, and what trust had cost the last time I han
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 27
ADRIANI stopped outside Elias's door without meaning to. I'd only come up to say goodnight.Then I saw them through the gap.... Elena on the edge of his bed, a picture book open in her hands, Elias curled into her side like he'd found exactly where he was supposed to be. Comfortable. Safe. Happy, in a way I still wasn't fully used to seeing on his face.I stood there longer than I meant to, just watching.Her voice stayed soft through the story, pausing now and then to show him a page. He barely moved, fully absorbed, tucked against her like this situation had been true his whole life instead of a few months.Something in my chest pulled tight, and I didn't like it. Not even slightly.Because I could see everything happening in real time.... the way he looked at her now, the way he reached for her without being asked, the way he'd started trailing her through the house like gravity had shifted in her direction. The way he ate without a fight. The way he'd started, slowly and without a
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 26
ELENAThe car pulled through the gates of the Blackwood estate, and I couldn't stop smiling the whole way up the drive.My first day. I'd actually done it... walked into a hospital, sat behind a desk, talked to patients, written consultation notes that mattered, and somehow survived being an actual resident doctor by the end of it.I'd also survived Daniel Bennett. Twice, technically, which felt like it deserved its own separate celebration.The guard, Mr Martins, stepped forward as the gate rolled open. "Evening, Mrs. Blackwood.""Evening, Marty. How many times have I told you to just call me Elena""So sorry, how was the day?""Amazing." I couldn't have wiped the grin off if I'd tried. "Absolutely amazing.""Yeah?""Yes." I practically bounced against the seat. He laughed."You look happy.""I am." I leaned toward the window. "How's Denise?"His whole face softened at that. "Doing well.""And the kids?""Great, actually.... the twins had their ballad recital yesterday.""They did? O
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 25
ELENADaniel and I stared at each other, and for a moment neither of us managed a single word. My mind had gone completely, unhelpfully blank.What is he doing here?Surprise crossed his face first, then hardened into something I recognized instantly. Contempt, the exact flavor he used to reserve for me on his worst nights."What are you doing here?""Nothing that concerns you.""Oh." One syllable, loaded with enough arrogance to turn my stomach.Then the insults started.... the same old script, reminding me of the woman who used to cry over him, who used to beg, who'd once believed every lie he'd fed her like it was scripture. He spoke like that woman still existed somewhere in front of him, waiting to lower her head and cower on cue.I just watched him talk. I didn't defend myself. Didn't argue back. Didn't even blink, and somehow that silence seemed to get under his skin far more effectively than any comeback could have.His voice sharpened. I let it. Eventually I tilted my head sl
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