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Auteur: Author Ada
last update Date de publication: 2026-07-05 00:20:46

BETHANY

I couldn’t stop thinking about what Ophelia told me.

I sat on my sofa with my legs pulled under me and just replayed the whole thing. The tea, the sitting room, the way she had leaned forward like she was letting me in on something everybody else was too blind to see.

That marriage is hollow.

I said it out loud just to hear how it felt.

“That marriage is hollow.” and It felt good.

Those pictures had genuinely scared me. I’m not going to pretend they didn’t. Jared and Nara walking into t
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  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   32.

    32NARAThe kitchen was warm and the garlic had been going long enough that the whole room smelled like something actually worth coming home to.I stood at the stove stirring slowly, keeping my eyes on the pot, keeping my voice easy and light.“So how long have you both been working here?” I asked. “In this house.”The younger maid looked up from the vegetables she was chopping and smiled. “Three years for me ma.”“Almost five for me,” the older one said from across the counter where she was arranging the side dishes.“Almost five.” I nodded like I was just making conversation, just filling the silence. “So you were both here before I came. When it was different.”“Yes ma,” the younger one said.I stirred again to let a few seconds pass.“What was it like?” I asked. “Before.”The younger one’s knife slowed down barely.. Just enough that I noticed.The older one kept moving the dishes around the counter with the dedicated focus of someone who had suddenly found the task extremely impor

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   31

    BETHANYI couldn’t stop thinking about what Ophelia told me.I sat on my sofa with my legs pulled under me and just replayed the whole thing. The tea, the sitting room, the way she had leaned forward like she was letting me in on something everybody else was too blind to see.That marriage is hollow.I said it out loud just to hear how it felt.“That marriage is hollow.” and It felt good.Those pictures had genuinely scared me. I’m not going to pretend they didn’t. Jared and Nara walking into that gala hand in hand, his body turned toward her, every blog in the city running with it like they had just discovered the most beautiful love story of the year. I had sat in my living room and felt something cold move through me that I hadn’t felt in a long time.But Ophelia words was all i needed now.. She knew Jared, she knew what was performance and what was real and she had sat across from me and told me plainly that what the world was seeing was not what was actually happening behind clos

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   30

    The car rolled to a stop and the chauffeur came around to open the door.Nara stepped out first, one hand gathering the hem of her dress, as the night air hit her face while she just stood there for a second and breathed.“God, I’m tired… Who knew smiling could hurt this much?” Nara cursed under her breath.The gala had looked beautiful with its fine attention to fancy details, candlelights a d women wearing dresses that probably cost more than most people’s yearly rent. But none of that mattered once you were standing in the middle of it.It was just a draining circle of smiling, shaking hands, saying the right things and more smiling. Her feet still ached from the heels, and her cheeks felt sore from holding the same polite expression all night.Jared came around the car and they walked inside together, neither of them speaking. The house was quiet with the staff already settled for the night, just the sound of their footsteps through the corridor and up the stairs.In the room Nar

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   29

    NARAI had been giving Jared the cold shoulder for days now.Not in a dramatic way, not in the way where I slammed doors or refused to cook or made scenes.. I was too tired for any of that. I just… stopped. Stopped eating with him at the table, stopped making conversation when we passed each other in the hallway, stopped trying. I did everything I was supposed to do, I prepared his meals, I kept the house running, I managed the staff, I showed up in every way that could be expected of me. I just didn’t talk to him while doing any of it.I just couldn’t.. every time I looked at him I felt his hand in my hair again. Felt my knees hit the floor. Heard myself screaming and not recognising my own voice. I couldn’t just smile and sit across from him at dinner and pretend that didn’t happen. I couldn’t do it. So I stopped pretending.The gap between us had stretched even further than it was before. Which I honestly didn’t think was possible but here we were.On the days Jared went to work t

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   28.

    NARAThe house was quiet, so when I walked in and something felt off about it.. It felt too still and too heavy. I and Tristan had lost track of time and engaged in other outdoor activities after leaving the coffee shop. We even went to the movies.It was a beautiful and relaxing time. Steadying myself, I took a deep breath as I pushed the door shut behind me and turned around.. That's when I saw him in the living room staring straight at the door.. Jared.He was sitting forward with his elbows on his knees, the lamp behind him barely doing anything, and his eyes were already on me. Just fixed on me, like he had been sitting in that exact position for a while now and had been waiting for the sound of that door.“Hey.” My voice came out lighter than I felt. “I didn’t know anyone was still up.”He said nothing.I smiled a little, the awkward kind you make when you need to fill a silence that isn’t filling itself, and I turned toward the stairs.“Where are you coming from.” His voice ec

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   27.

    NARA DAYS LATER Folding laundry was not exactly how I imagined spending my afternoon but it was something to do with my hands and right now that was all I needed.. The house had been quiet since the breakfast incident and it wasn't the normal quiet at all, the kind where everyone is just busy with their own things. This was way different. It felt like I was an unseen ghost among everyone else.. The staff barely spoke to me anymore, they were not rude exactly, just oddly careful around me now.. They only gave short answers and quick nods.. Even the maids who used to chat a little while helping with dinner had gone quiet.. I didn’t blame them though.. In a house like this you read the temperature of the people above you and adjust accordingly. Jared on the other hand, went back to being completely cold. It wasn't the soft cold of recent weeks, where there was still a little warmth underneath if you looked hard enough. This was the old cruel version. He kept his eyes forward, wo

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