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Anthony said, "Don't make it sound like I'm buying Angeline."Even if she'd never agreed to remarry me, I would have helped her the moment she came to me for that kind of help. Not like you, a husband who can't even keep his hands off his mother's medical fund without spending it on gifts for his secretary.""You!"Robert's fist connected with a crack. Anthony stumbled back a few steps, and I rushed to steady him."Why didn't you dodge that?"I dabbed the blood from the corner of his mouth, aching for him.He caught my hand, smiling, sly, "Angeline, he's awfully violent, isn't he?""You!"Robert's fist clenched again.I stepped in front of Anthony. "Don't waste your energy. I said I'm remarrying, and I meant it."Robert's jaw tightened. "Fine. Divorce me first, then."…Once I had the revised divorce papers drawn up, Robert suddenly refused to let go. No matter what version of the divorce agreement I drafted, even one where I walked away with absolutely nothing, he wouldn't
The Cost of Favoring His Secretary Chapter 8
"I just talked to my mom on the phone! She's on vacation in the Taldive Isles! There's no way she's dead!" Robert said.There was a brief pause on the other end before Pierre Louis responded. "Sir, there's been an air travel restriction to the Taldive Isles recently. Your mother can't have gone there.""What did you just say?""As for the call, I think it might have used some kind of technology."Melanie's face drained of color instantly."Mr. Gilmer, Mr. Gilmer, I..."Melanie gripped her phone tight, trying to keep talking, but a bodyguard wrenched it out of her hands before she could finish.It didn't take long for the tech team to come back with an answer: AI voice synthesis.Robert nearly lost his footing. Melanie instinctively took two steps back. "So, so it really was an AI voice? I didn't know. It must have been some scam, using your mother's voice to trick me into paying up. I got fooled too."A hand cracked across her face, hard enough to knock her straight to the
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"Angeline, are you still holding onto that promise I made about splitting my shares with you after I die? Let me tell you right now, you won't see a cent of the Gilmer family's shares!"I nearly lost my footing. That voice. It really was Cassidy's.But I'd watched with my own eyes as her body went into the crematorium. I'd carried the urn back myself. She didn't have a twin sister or anything like that. So what was going on?A hand cracked across my face. My head hit the wall, and blood welled up instantly where it split."Stop it!"Mom rushed forward and threw herself between us. "Robert, something is very wrong here! I watched Cassidy get buried with my own eyes! That call cannot be her!"Robert sneered. "Even you, at your age, want to play these games?"Mom tried to answer, but he didn't let her finish. "Someone get this pair out of here. Hospital beds are for people who actually need them, not for people looking to put on a show.""No! Robert! My mother just had surgery! He
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"What did you just say?" Robert's brow furrowed hard."It was a sudden illness, sir. Your wife asked me to go pick up the death certificate.""How much did Angeline pay you?"The person on the other end sounded near tears. "I swear on my life, sir. I've served your mother for thirty years. She's the one who saved my life. I would never joke about her death."Robert's phone slipped out of his hand and hit the floor. He stared blankly ahead. "What… That's not possible."Then he looked at me. "That day you asked for half a million. It really was for..."I held Mom close, my eyes red as I looked back at him. "I told you over and over. It was your mother who was sick. But you always assumed I was just fighting your secretary. All for the sake of some self-righteous favor, you tore down my mother's house, buried my father's belongings, and put my mother in the hospital from the shock!"For the first time, the man who was always so decisive lost his footing in front of me. He stumble
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I cried pitifully over the phone, and in the end, he transferred me a token payment of a hundred dollars."This is all I'm able to do for you," he said.I stared down at the shattered tiara in my hands, then at the pitiful few digits left in my account.I looked up. Robert had already walked off with his arm around Melanie. I caught him murmuring to comfort her, "Don't worry about it. There's another tiara coming up at next week's auction. I'll put in the winning bid for you."The hospital's payment notices kept coming. The doctor's messages kept pushing for a decision. My nails dug so hard into my palms I nearly drew blood.After turning it over and over in my head, I dialed a number. "I'll divorce him and marry you. But I want money first."I stumbled through paying the deposit and got Mom into surgery. When word came that it had gone well, exhaustion finally caught up with me, and I passed out.The moment I woke, I rushed straight to see Mom. Seeing the color back in her face
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Knowing there was no reasoning with Melanie, I grabbed Robert's hand instead. "Robert, please, save my mom."He glanced at Melanie, then shook me off. "Drop the act. My people wouldn't actually hurt her. Stop trying to con me with fake paperwork."I shook my head, tears welling up, but he cut me off before I could get a word out."I know you're not really here for the money. You're jealous of Mel, that's what this is. I've told you a hundred times, Mel is talented at her job. I was just rewarding an employee. Can you not throw a fit over it every single time?"Two bodyguards moved in and dragged me toward the exit, one on each arm."Robert!"I fought them with everything I had. That was when I noticed the earrings hanging from Melanie's ears, a matching set to her half-a-million-dollar necklace. Market value, exactly one million.There was no time to grieve over it.I called everyone I knew and scraped together what I could, but it still wasn't enough. In a panic, I remembere
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