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CHAPTER 76

Penulis: Samuel Chikwado
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-25 23:40:02

LIANA'S POV

I stood at my home office window, my fingers casually slung over the rim of my telephone. The sun was bleeding into the late afternoon horizon, leaving long streaks of gold in the sky, but I barely noticed. My mind had been racing since Stanley and I parted ways at the restaurant the night before. The subjects that we had discussed… the dangers we had skirted around… it all rubbed at my nerves with a tenacity that I could not dispel.

Stanley had said that Dominic might be watching him. And if Dominic was suspicious of Stanley, it wasn't far fetched that I might be quietly watched as well, maybe Serena was watched too. The thought sent shivers down my spine. I jut wanted to be done and over with this Dominic scandal and move back to my normal life.

I picked up my phone and glanced at my messages. Sifting through the calls I had left unanswered and the half dozen random emails, I saw Serena's number. My thumb lingered for a moment on the screen. She was a major part of this
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  • STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA   CHAPTER 76

    LIANA'S POVI stood at my home office window, my fingers casually slung over the rim of my telephone. The sun was bleeding into the late afternoon horizon, leaving long streaks of gold in the sky, but I barely noticed. My mind had been racing since Stanley and I parted ways at the restaurant the night before. The subjects that we had discussed… the dangers we had skirted around… it all rubbed at my nerves with a tenacity that I could not dispel.Stanley had said that Dominic might be watching him. And if Dominic was suspicious of Stanley, it wasn't far fetched that I might be quietly watched as well, maybe Serena was watched too. The thought sent shivers down my spine. I jut wanted to be done and over with this Dominic scandal and move back to my normal life. I picked up my phone and glanced at my messages. Sifting through the calls I had left unanswered and the half dozen random emails, I saw Serena's number. My thumb lingered for a moment on the screen. She was a major part of this

  • STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA   CHAPTER 75

    STANLEY'S POVShe uttered it like she was asking for extra cream in her coffee. It was so effortless and smooth."So what's the plan?" The line hit me like a slap, unexpected and rough. I blinked. My body froze halfway through its movement, hand in mid-air as I tried to push the table a little further. I had spent the last half-hour trying to make amends for my transgressions, wearing my guilt like a crown, hoping she would see remorse shining through every word I spoke.But this? I wasn't sure this was forgiveness. This smelt of strategy. I seethed at her. Her face was calm and vacant, but her eyes, they blazed with something else. Determination. Revenge. A craving to regain power."What?" I breathed, not quite certain I'd heard right.Liana's lips formed a tiny smile, but her words sliced like glass. "You heard me, Stanley. What's the plan?"Slowly, I lowered my hand and rested back into the booth, gazing at her face. I forgot how to breathe for a moment. There she was, the same wom

  • STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA   CHAPTER 74

    LIANA'S POVI lingered there, staring at my phone screen for too long. My thumbs hovered over Stanley's name as if touching it would make him vanish. I didn't know what scared me more, the thought that he would not pick up, or that he would but after the conversation with mum, I was convinced I needed to talk to him. Finally, I pressed the call button.It rang once and then it kept ringing but no answer came. My heart was pounding as I dialed it again. "Hello?" His voice was deep and groggy.For a moment, I was paralysed. My mouth opened but nothing came out. That voice, Lord,it was like a pull to everything I wanted to disown and everything I secretly desired."Are you there?" he asked, soft, hesitating.I swallowed. "Yeah. I'm here."There was a pause. Then his voice returned, panicked and on the verge of being out of breath. "I'm… I can’t believe you phoned. I mean, I'm so grateful you phoned.""Hold on," I said, trying to stop my voice from trembling. "Don't be thankful yet.""

  • STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA   CHAPTER 73

    Mrs David PovThe cold had settled in. It wasn’t just in the wind outside or in the pale afternoon light slipping through the blinds, it was in my bones. In the quiet that had hung in this house lately like an extra layer of frost.I wrapped my shawl tighter around me and went into the kitchen. The tiles were biting into my heels, and I moved slowly, rubbing my hands together to warm them.What I needed was coffee. Cappuccino, specifically.Something creamy and warm, like friendship in a cup.The kettle whirred into action as I picked out my favorite mug, the one Cam had crafted on Mother's Day three years previously, with its drippy swirls and pink heart bearing my name just legibly in the center. I smiled every time I used it.The sachet tore open easily, and I poured it into the mug as steam erupted behind me. Just then, I heard the clicking of heels from behind, slowly approaching me. She did not usually walk that slowly.Liana entered the kitchen wearing a lightweight coat over h

  • STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA   Chapter 72

    Dominic's Pov The air was thick with unsaid things. After Marc left my penthouse, his tension remained in the room like fog after gunfire. I was at the window staring over the city. I'd built this skyline in my head all those years ago, before I ever cut it from glass and stone. But now I could feel it being taken from me, grains of control slipping through fingers that used to crush like fists.Elia Torres was no longer a name. She was a silhouette on the floor, a sanitized file that didn't ring true, a ghost we inhaled and buried to protect what? Margins? Investors?No. Marc was withholding something I knew him well enough. The stutter, the twitch in his left eye, the bumbling laugh… facades. Which meant I needed someone who wasn't lying or hiding something. I picked up my phone and sent a coded message to Alejandro. "Meet me at my house, don't let Marc know about this meeting, it's private. "In a matter of minutes, he sent a lone dot. I interpreted that as confirmation that he g

  • STEP ASIDE EX-HUSBAND: THE RISE OF LIANA   Chapter 71

    Dominic POV Five days. Five days since the board handed me out of seat. Five days of silence where there used to be power. Five days since I watched Liana walk into that boardroom like she owned the air.And five days since I love everything I worked hard for and started sitting in my room day in and day out.I hadn't slept more than two hours a night since. I'd lie back and close my eyes and see Liana, not in that dress she wore when she kissed me last, bar tossing my secrets packed in a box to Liana, it will then translate to Liana staring in that conference room, staring at me with eves glittering with mockery.And in the background of her voice, echoing like a curse in my mind, was her cursed name.This morning the sun tore my window blinds apart like a blade, and I woke up to the buzzing of my phone on the nightstand. I reached for it without opening my eyes. Ten missed calls. From Marc. He also sent one text message.“I have an update for you. It's urgent.”My heart missed a be

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