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STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA CHAPTER 66
STANLEY'S POVThe door crashed shut behind me like a verdict.The chill of the air on my face was nothing compared to the ice in the bottom of my chest. Her voice lingered in my mind, sharp and hollowed, full of betrayal. Her last words still hung with a weight I had not expected to carry this night.I didn't rush. There was no place to rush to. The streets were vacant, the world too still, too quiet for the turmoil in my ribcage. With each step I made, something else relived what just transpired."Love that begins in lies is still a lie. And it will die as that"God! I reached the edge of the sidewalk and leaned on a lamppost, clutching the cold metal as if it would hold me up when I couldn't. My head was raised to the heavens, and darkness swallowed me whole. Her face was there, everywhere. The agony in her eye. The deception. The shock. All there like a bullet I fired into her heart.I had told her my truth. And yet, it was like I destroyed something holy, like I shouldn't have sa
STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA CHAPTER 65
LIANA'S POVThe knock was gentler than I had expected, but it thumped in my chest. I opened the door gradually, having no notion of what I would find on the other side, and there he stood. Stanley. His hands jammed into his coat pockets, his eyes shadowed by something deeper than mere night."Hey," he whispered."Come in," I whispered back, stepping aside.He came in, not as a friend caller, but as a man coming into a confession booth, prepared to abandon a sin. I shut the door behind us, the snap of the lock final."Want wine?""No. It won't take long."I blinked. "Okay. So what's going on here, Stanley? You said you couldn't tell me that on the phone and you sounded tense."He nodded slowly and assessed my living room, a vacant stare slipping over the unfilled wine glass and silky throw blanket I'd discarded on the couch.He didn't sit. "You're going to hate me for this," he said at last, his gaze cast downward. "But you deserve the truth."I stared at him, my heart pounding."Stanl
STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA CHAPTER 64
LIANA'S POVIt was too quiet for a friday night. The silence was not the comforting kind. Not the peaceful quiet of victory. No… this quiet was jagged, like the world was suspended, ready for the other shoe to drop.I sat by the window, bare feet, robe wrapped, blanket draped around my legs. Cam was sleeping upstairs, little body wedged in star-printed sheets and pillows of softness. I had kissed her forehead a few minutes earlier and said that I loved her. She had mumbled about clouds and rolled over. The untouched glass of red wine beside me on the table was warming up, but I couldn't make myself drink. I'd fought a war today and won, but I couldn't keep my body from shaking.It wasn't euphoria. Surprisingly, it wasn't relief. It was… something more sinister. The boardroom conversations echoed in my head. The faces. The tension. The tremble in Dominic's voice when he realized he had lost. How Nathan stood so calmly, so assertively like he was destined to lead all along.And Dominic'
STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA CHAPTER 63
DOMINIC'S POVThe room emptied like a theater at the end of a movie but I sat frozen, the cold envelope in my hand, though I hadn't looked at it in a few minutes. My gaze was in a space somewhere between the very waxed mahogany table and the vacant area that now held the boardroom space. It was done. I knew it. The silence that followed the vote was more deafening than any scandal, more deafening than any PR noise.I didn't move. Couldn't. I heard the soft cadence of footsteps. Mr. Raymond passed beside me, catching a passing second's look, his mouth working, "I'm sorry," as if a benediction I had not desired. I did not answer. He did try to wait. That seat on the other side of the room was empty now, Liana had stormed out without so much as a backward glance. That hurt worse than the words. Worse than the vote. Worse than the title having been ripped from me like I hadn't bled sweat into this business.I rubbed my face, slow and careful. My hands trembled when I brushed against my c
STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA CHAPTER 62
LIANA'S POVThe room had fallen into awed, eerie silence. I let the door swing shut behind me with the softest click, but even so, the sound seemed to echo through the room like a gunshot. All the eyes fell on me, some in identification, others in confusion, and then there was Dominic, frozen stiff like he'd just witnessed a ghost.He had. Kind of, he had. "That is not why I am here," I replied slowly, the heels of my shoes clicking deliberately across the boardroom floor, accentuating the tension with each precise crack. "I didn't come to reveal that to you.” I clarified. “But since you're so interested, there's a reply for you. It was I."Dominic's face twisted. His chest heaving slightly, weather it was panger or disbelief, I couldn't determine but I didn't care. His hand bunched up the envelope still gripped in his hand."What on earth are you doing here, Liana? This is not your circus. You're have no right to be here, it's a private company meeting."I burst into a fit of laughte
STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA CHAPTER 61
DOMINIC’S POVThere’s a moment that happens right before your entire world shifts beneath your feet. It's like the air changes, thickens, and your lungs forget how to work properly. That was what it felt like as I held that envelope in my hands, reading line after line of dirty linen inked in the black and white language of corporate sabotage.The room was absolutely quiet, every breath, every glance sharpened into something unbearable. Everyone had copies, I couldn't deny something so obvious. It was a contract I had signed months ago, when I decided to do it, I thought it would be buried in the background noise of power plays and business risks like it always was. But this… this time ot backfired. They wound me out. This was about exposure. Who exposed me?My fingers tightened on the edge of the document. I looked at the faces of everyone at the table, wondering who had sold me out. But i hadn't exactly told anyone at the table about it so how do I know who to suspect? Whoever could
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