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My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 49
ADRIANI needed air, and the gym didn't have any.Laura Benjamin. Her name, in a headline, sitting on her like a coat she'd left in my closet and come back for. I'd spent six years across a breakfast table from that face, and I knew precisely what it looked like when it was performing. I hated her. Cleanly, thoroughly, the way you hate something you've had to scrape out of your life with a knife.But the rage had too much room in it. It was far too large for a woman I'd stopped thinking about, and it kept leaking toward a different shape entirely."Adrian," Edward said."I'm going home.""You're not fine.""I'm going home."I realized somewhere around the second red light that I wasn't driving toward a house. I was driving toward whoever was in it, and I did not examine that thought, because I didn't like how quickly I'd stopped needing to.I heard her before I saw her.Not words. Just the laughter, hers braided into Elias's, so bright and breathless it stopped me in the hall with one
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 48
EDWARDAdrian's fist came at my face, and I dodged it.Barely.The next one caught my shoulder hard enough to make my teeth click. I stumbled, recovered, and threw a punch of my own that he blocked with his forearm like he was swatting a fly."Fuck," I wheezed."You're getting slow.""Shut up.""Your footwork is also terrible.""Adrian.""What?" He lifted both gloves, the picture of innocence. "I'm stating facts."I charged. He ducked, caught my arm, and used my own momentum to send me skidding past him into the ropes. I folded over, hands on my knees, lungs on fire. Across the ring, Adrian Blackwood stood barely winded, which was a personal insult."You punch like shit today."I lifted my head slowly. "I'm going to kill you.""Get in line." He tugged off his gloves and tossed them on the bench.Forty minutes in, I was starting to suspect that dragging my best friend into a boxing ring had been a tactical error. Not because he was beating me senseless. (Okay, partly.) But because Adri
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 47
EDWARD"Mom! What was that for?"My mother paused with one hand on her handbag clasp and turned to look at me, wearing the expression of a woman who has never once stopped when asked."What?""You said that on speakerphone." I dragged a hand down my face. "Chloe was right there. The line went dead halfway through your sentence. I have no idea how much she heard.""I said nothing untrue.""You said I'd have to 'pretend' to care.""Well, don't you?""No! I mean, yes. I mean...." I stopped. "That's not the point.""Then what do you feel for her?"I opened my mouth. Closed it. Opened it again, for the sake of dignity, and found nothing in there.My mother raised one perfect eyebrow. "That's what I thought."I'd been staring at my phone for ten full minutes before I called, if we're being honest, with her standing over my desk like a prison warden. I'd rehearsed three openings. By the time Chloe picked up, my brain had stripped them all for parts, and what came out was *yeah?*I will carry
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 46
CHLOEThe spa smelled like lavender, expensive oil, and the specific kind of peace you only buy when you're about to spend an afternoon with your mother.I wiggled my freshly manicured fingers, admiring the glossy nude polish. My toes had gotten the same treatment, and beside me, Elena sat with her feet soaking and her head tipped back against the recliner, wearing the blissful expression of a woman who had not been allowed to relax in about a decade."Okay," I announced. "After this, a full-body massage. Then facials. Then hair. Then accessories."Elena turned her head slowly. "Chloe, are we preparing for a bridal shower or a coronation?""Both. Why settle?"She laughed, and I felt it land somewhere warm in my chest. I'd forgotten how it felt to spend an afternoon with another woman without monitoring my posture, my volume, or my chewing speed. With Elena, I could just exist."How does it feel," she asked, lifting her glass of champagne with the careful elegance of someone who'd been
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 45
ELENAThree hours.That was how long it took for my life to become a trending topic.Three hours of strangers dissecting me, tabloids sniffing around the story, and gossip accounts turning my face into free entertainment. Apparently I was a seductress. A calculating gold digger who'd slept her way into a hospital. Someone had even called me a professional bed warmer, which I had to admit was creative.I would have laughed if I hadn't wanted to throw my phone at the wall."Don't read the comments."Chloe plucked the phone out of my hand mid-scroll."Chloe!""No." She held it behind her back like a mother confiscating her teenager's phone. "You are not going to sit here and let miserable strangers ruin your afternoon.""They're saying I seduce CEOs!""Then they can go seduce a dictionary. Maybe they'll learn what evidence means."A laugh escaped me before I could stop it. Chloe pointed at my face, triumphant. "There she is. Still breathing. Still Elena. Some anonymous account doesn't ge
My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me CHAPTER 44
ADRIANRage and efficiency turn out to be the same muscle. Pointed in the right direction, one becomes the other.I was out of my chair before the last word of that comment had finished loading."Betty.""Sir?""Clear my afternoon. Marcus from Legal, the head of cyber security, Priya and her whole media team, boardroom, ten minutes. If anyone's out of the building, put them on a call.""Yes, sir.""And get Eric on the line."Edward was already on his feet. "What did the last comment say? The one that just...""Read it yourself."He did. I watched his face change."That isn't gossip anymore," he said quietly."No."I didn't sit down in the boardroom. Nobody else did either."A post using my wife's photograph is circulating on at least four accounts," I said. "It makes false claims about her character and career. By tonight, I want every trace of it gone. Marcus."My general counsel straightened. "Sir.""Cease-and-desist to every account that has posted, shared or captioned it. Takedown
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