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Chapter 176 Decisions Made In Anger
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She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 180 The Drive Home
(Chase)Sunset Boulevard is empty at midnight in the way only LA can manage.I take the curves like I’m late for something.I remember the look the valet gave me as I handed him the fifty dollar tip.He gave me the keys with the look I'm used to seeing in a lot of people lately.The look that says he reads the wires too.My hands are at ten and two on the wheel.I realize I’m grinding my teeth and try to stop as the reel keeps running in my head.Julian at the bar next to Natasha.I don’t know what he said to her, but I saw the corner of her mouth lifting in the mirror.He’s trying to charm his way back into her good graces and it seems to be working.Why am I the only one being punished for keeping the secret?She’s reconnecting with Nathanial.She’s almost-smiling at Julian.Would she even be offering me her friendship if it wasn’t for Lily?That thought scares the hell out of me.So I go back to the reel in my head and remember the way Julian lifted his drink at me after she walked
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 179 The Step-Sister Bit
(Julian)The function is a fundraiser for the critically endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise.Not being a well-known philanthropist, I’m assuming they left me off the list on purpose and my invitation didn’t get lost in the mail.I’m attending anyway.This is the first lovely thing about my evening.The second is that the man on the door is someone I know, and he waves me through without even bothering to check the list.I make a mental note to send him something nice.Maybe a good whiskey. A boy with that much discretion deserves a single malt.The third lovely thing is that I am, by my own quick reckoning of the room, the best-dressed man in it.Which is a low bar at a charity function but I never turn down a low bar.I consider going to the bar for a cocktail, but half the time the staff working these functions barely know how to do more than open a beer, or splash bourbon into a glass.No use wasting my time.I take a flute off a passing tray, hoping it’s the good stuff and not so
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 178 Three Weeks
(Natasha)Three weeks since the transfusion.Lily is on the living room rug in a fresh onesie and the headband Liam sent her with a felt strawberry on it the size of her actual head.She’s sitting up against the boppy, drooling onto her own thumb, working out whether the wooden spoon Mason brought her last week is interesting or hostile.Spoon. Mouth. Pause. Spoon. Mouth. Pause.Cheeks pink. Eyes bright.Hemoglobin in the boring range James likes to see.I’ve stopped being actively hostile toward him, but I’m not quite ready to have him over for afternoon tea to try and mend bridges either.I’m at the dining table with my laptop open and a financial model I’ve neglected for too long.Mason has allowed me back at the office part-time for ten days.Only four hours a day, the rest still gets done from home.The Bauer file sits in a closed folder on my desktop.Mason has taken care of the brunt of it while I was focused on Lily and I’m very glad not to have heard from Jeffrey again.Clari
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 177 The Wires
(Bauer)My office is the highest one in the entirety of Century City, and I have always considered the view to be a cure-all.Today not even the view can improve my mood.Three screens are flickering on the far wall.CNBC on the left,Bloomberg in the middle.The Wall Street Journal live ticker on the right.Three different sets of strangers in nice suits are explaining the same story to me, with mild variations of phrasing, and the story is not what I so carefully planned.Bauer-Warren Merger Falters Amid SEC Inquiry.Bauer Subsidiary Sells Off Stake In Energy Spinout.Sources Close To Bauer Capital: Operational Review Underway.I’ve been here since five this morning.I haven’t eaten.I have had four espressos.The cup nearest me has a small ring of black at the bottom that I keep tipping side to side and watching slide.As if it could tell my fortune if I stare hard enough.It’s been three days since my lawyers, my own lawyers, decided to keep me waiting at the end of a phone for th
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 176 Decisions Made In Anger
(Gloria)My neck is fucked.That's the first thing my body tells me when I open my eyes, cheek stuck to the arm of the couch.Throw blanket twisted around one foot.A wine glass on the coffee table with half a finger of red left in it, congealed at the bottom.The TV is still on. A chef on a Spanish island is chastising someone about raw garlic.Eight twenty in the morning.I sit up slowly.My phone is face-down on the rug under the coffee table because I threw it there at some point around midnight.My recollection of the event is fuzzy, since the bottle of red wine was empty by then.I pick it up and glare at the screen.Nothing.Not a missed call.Not a text.Not a goddamn emoji.Twelve hours of waiting for a man who I foolishly decided to give another chance.I never learn.I stand up and my back loudly informs me what it thinks of last night.After brushing my teeth and washing my face I do something that should probably let me know that I’m not quite sober yet.I pick up my phon
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 175 The Bench Is Empty
(Natasha)The night nurse gets ready to leave when the day nurse comes on at seven.Between the two of them, with quiet efficiency, they confirm what I’ve been watching on the screen above the cot all night.Hemoglobin: up. Platelets: up. Kidney panel: behaving. Capillary refill: better than yesterday. Colour: pink in a way that makes me want to cry tears of joy.Lily is asleep on her back with one fist near her ear.The numbers are sitting where they should and they’ve stayed there for several hours.Mom has finally gone to the lounge to lie across two chairs and rest her eyes.Dad has gone to find a real coffee.Liam was last seen heading down to admissions to "stretch his legs."I know he’s vaping. My parents pretend not to.All of them steadfastly refuse to go home.I stand up and my knees crack from being in the same position for so long.I press my palm to the small warm cheek that is, at last, the right temperature, before I go to the door.Chase deserves to know that Lily is d
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 23 The Resemblance
(Nathanial)Walking up the wide stone steps of the Warren estate, I keep a close eye on my sister.Sonia walks stiffly beside me, keeping her hands carefully folded over her perfectly flat stomach.She shivers, blaming the cold wind, but I know she’s anxious about seeing Chase and Natasha’s child.
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 18 The Successor
(Nathanial)Holding my phone to my ear, I stare out the large window of my office."Mother, you need to come to Los Angeles," I tell her firmly."Sonia is pregnant. She is very upset and needs you right now."A long, heavy silence fills the line."You know I can’t go to Los Angeles, Nathanial," my
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 50 The Frames on the Wall
(Chase)Lily will not sleep.She was fine during the show, fine through the chaos of the evening, perfectly content while Mason was here and the room was full of noise and movement.The moment things quieted down she decided she had opinions about it.I walk her through the townhouse in slow loops,
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 40 You Were Mine First
(Natasha)The drawing room buzzes with the sound of Eleanor’s guests.The string quartet is playing a lively, hollow tune. But the social adrenaline is fading from my bloodstream.Chase hasn’t come back and I can only assume he’s spending the night with Sonia.I don’t know why I’m even allowing tha
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