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“It’s not your place to tell us how to do our jobs,” the manager snapped at Isabelle, taking a step towards her. “I’m telling you now, if you and your husband don’t leave right away, we’ll detain you and call the police to take you away.”Seeing that the argument was getting heated, and that Isabelle seemed ready to lash out at the manager, Jacob grabbed her arm and pulled her back to his side. “It’s okay,” he whispered to her, “just let him be.”Isabelle looked up at him, her face troubled. Her nostrils flared, betraying the fact that she was truly worked up and barely holding on to her civility by a thread. “You heard what he said,” she told him, as if she couldn’t understand why he was asking her to back off. “He is making false accusations to humiliate us. We cannot let him treat us like that.”“Why don’t you listen to your husband? He seems to understand what’s going on,” the manager butted into their conversation, sounding smug.Immediately, Isabelle tried to break from Jacob’s
The Billionaire's Pretend Wife Chapter 29 Twenty Nine
Since the owner of the shop had appeared, Isabelle had been stuck in a stupor. When he showed up, she had expected him to inquire what was going on, and she was curious as to how Jacob was going to engage with him.Instead, when the man appeared, he immediately took their side before listening to his staff’s explanations. What followed, him asking the staff to apologise and then firing them, even shocked her further. Not to mention him saying that they could shop whatever clothes they wanted for free. It was all so unexpected.It wasn’t until he left, after being curiously respectful towards Jacob, that she was able to snap out of her astonishment.“What just happened?” she asked Jacob, looking up at him with wide eyes.Jacob shrugged and shoved his hands into his trouser’s pockets, looking relaxed. “I suppose he’s really concerned about the store’s reputation, so he solved the issue as quickly as he could.”She nodded, but couldn’t help frowning too. It’s true that the owner was conc
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As he kissed her deeper, he dropped his hand to her neck, caressing her soft skin, annoying its feel beneath his fingers. His hand moved lower to her shoulder, which was bare but for the straps of her camisole.He went past the straps to her bare arms, stroking her skin lightly. She shivered in his arms, and he wondered whether it was a reaction to him or the cold.Her hands, which were now clutching to his shoulders tightly, pushed him back and she tried to disengage their lips. But he only pulled her closer, now teasing her lips with his tongue. She gasped and drew in a breath through her mouth, and it was only then that it occurred to him that she was out of breath and wanted a break.Before he could give her a little space–with full intention of resuming the kiss right after–the two jerked apart as the car suddenly skidded to a halt. Jacob quickly wrapped his arms around Isabelle to keep her from falling off the seat and glared at Kevin.“I’m sorry, sir. I almost ran into a cat an
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Jacob’s brain caught up with his body a second too late, and he froze, his hands going still around her and his lips freezing against her neck. No matter how much he wanted her, he couldn’t do this. Not when she was drunk and asleep…Cursing softly, he withdrew his hands from her body and rolled away, creating distance between them. Lying on his back, he covered his eyes with his arm and took deep calming breaths. No matter what she did in her current state, there was no excuse to act on his desire. He would be taking advantage of her, and that’s not how we wanted things to happen between them.Sighing, he turned to his side to watch her. His eyes were drawn to her face, and her beauty stole his breath. Everything about her seemed to be stealing his breath of late, and he wondered how he had thought, even for a moment, that he could ignore her while they lived under the same roof.If he had taken time to pay attention to her from the moment he first saw her, he would have realised soo
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That morning, Isabelle’s department had a meeting, but her mind was barely in the room as various teams presented their reports.She was busy trying to untangle the puzzle that the previous night had left in her mind. No matter how hard she tried to urge herself to not think about it, it didn’t take long before her thoughts slid back to that territory.What had she been thinking? She had asked herself that question about a hundred times since she left the house in the morning, but she still had no answer. So she settled on the only one reason that made sense: the alcohol. It was the alcohol that was to blame for her behaviour. Otherwise, she never would have dreamed of clinging to Jacob the way she had, leave alone kiss him.It was true that he was a handsome man, and she thought he was attractive, and maybe he was totally her type, but she was in no position to be lusting after him. Or acting on that lust. The alcohol had done away with not only her sense of propriety, but also her s
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As the week wore on, Isabelle realised that the man she should be worried about avoiding was not Jacob. Everything at home had gone back to normal, as if her drunken antics had never happened. It was a big relief, because she had no idea how she would have reacted had he brought it up again.Instead, the man she needed to avoid at all costs was unfortunately one who was around her all day long–her department director, Mr Grayson. After he had called her to his office on Monday morning to offer his help, he had been more and more direct with his advances towards her. He showed her way too much attention in the guise of work, but he never passed up a chance to make hints about what his true intentions were.She took every precaution she could to avoid running into him, but there was only so much hiding she could do when she worked under him. If only there was a way to put his advances to an end once and for all, she would not hesitate to do it.One day, while she was in the bathroom at
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“Let go of me!” Claudia demanded, grabbing at a desk and digging her heels into the floor to keep Isabelle from dragging her any further. “What do you think you are doing?”“What are you afraid of?” Isabelle asked, not relaxing her grip around her arm. “You said that you saw us with your own eyes. We are only going to confirm with the director.”“You are crazy,” Claudia accused. “This is harassment, I can report you to HR–”“I’ll accompany you to show them the video of you slandering me,” Isabelle informed her.When they were almost at the director’s office, the door burst open and Mr Grayson appeared, a frown on his face. He looked around at the gathered workers, and then his eyes zeroed in on Isabelle and Claudia. “What on earth is going on here?” he demanded.Isabelle finally let go of Claudia and faced the department director. This was her chance to stop everything once and for all, in front of everyone. “Claudia is spreading rumours that you and I went to a hotel together last ni
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After the incident with Claudia, Mr Grayson stopped making advances towards Isabelle. He no longer called her to his office frequently or offered to help her with her work. This convinced Isabelle that he had given up, and she was finally able to relax fully.So it caught her by surprise when he approached her one evening after work and asked her to join him to have dinner with a client. Isabelle’s heart sank as she realised that he had not given up. Instead, he had been biding his time.“I’m sorry but I can’t join you,” she rejected his invitation politely, hoping he would let it go. She gathered her stuff into her bag, wanting to make an escape quickly.Mr Grayson stepped in her way. “You should come with me, Ms Cruz. I want to introduce some resources that can help you a lot here at work.”“Thank you for the consideration,” she told him, “but I really cannot go with you. I have urgent matters to attend to, so I have to leave right away.”“Do you think I wasted my time coming here t
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