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Chapter 130

Author: Leema Kamal
last update publish date: 2026-04-05 23:22:52

VICTORIA

Richard Hale had a villa in Connecticut that he visited three times a year and never once invited me to. I had been there once before, when I was nineteen and stupid enough to think showing up unannounced would fix something.

I remembered the smell of it. Cedar. Money. And something cold underneath both, like the walls themselves had been built to keep people at a distance.

I drove there alone the morning after dinner with Clark. I didn't tell him where I was going. I didn't tell Isab
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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 131

    VICTORIAThree days before the preliminary court hearing, Clark showed up at my penthouse without calling first.I opened the door in silk and complete composure. That unsettled him more than me showing anger would have. I could see it in the way his eyes moved over me, trying to read what was underneath the calmness.I stepped back and let him in, not because I had forgiven anything, but because I had questions, and he was the one standing in front of me with the answers.He walked in, I closed the door, and then we stood in the living room with all that space between us that somehow still felt too small. It had always been like that with Clark. The tension didn't need proximity to be felt. It filled whatever room we were in regardless of how far apart we stood.I had spent months telling myself that what I felt around him was just awareness, exactly the way I would stay alert around someone who had leverage on me. But I was too tired tonight to keep lying to myself about what it act

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 130

    VICTORIARichard Hale had a villa in Connecticut that he visited three times a year and never once invited me to. I had been there once before, when I was nineteen and stupid enough to think showing up unannounced would fix something. I remembered the smell of it. Cedar. Money. And something cold underneath both, like the walls themselves had been built to keep people at a distance.I drove there alone the morning after dinner with Clark. I didn't tell him where I was going. I didn't tell Isabella either.Some things needed to be done without a witness.The gate was open when I got there, which meant he was home. I parked and walked to the front door and knocked twice, firmly not aggressively. He answered in a robe, a glass of something amber in his hand, looking like a man who had been comfortable for too long. He was smaller than I remembered. Or maybe I was just bigger than I used to be.He looked at me for a moment, then stepped aside. I walked in without waiting to be invited.

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 129

    VICTORIASenator Elliot Vance talked like a man who had practiced every word before saying it. Each sentence was measured. Each pause was placed exactly where it needed to be. He was fifty-three, silver-haired, with the kind of face that had learned to stay still no matter what he was thinking about.We rode the elevator up to the top floor of the building. He didn't explain why. I didn't ask. I just followed and listened, which was the plan anyway. Let people talk. Let them show you everything they knew before you showed them anything.He led me to a small conference room that didn't belong to my company. Someone had arranged access. That told me enough.We sat across from each other at a narrow table. There were no staff, assistants, or witnesses. Or so he thought.He started talking. And the more he talked, the more I understood why he had stepped into that elevator in the first place.He knew about Daniel Rhodes' offshore accounts, not all of them, but enough. He knew how the mone

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 128

    VICTORIA Now that I was certain someone had been watching me again, it didn’t feel random, and it didn’t feel like a warning either.It felt controlled, as if someone was guiding me again. And I didn’t know if that made things better or worse. That was the part I couldn’t place.I didn’t sleep. I didn’t even try. There was no point pretending I could. My mind wouldn’t allow it anyway.By the time the clock hit 4 AM, I was still at my desk. The documents were spread out exactly how I left them. Only now, there were more notes added between them.I had cross-referenced every company filing from the last two years against the clause buried in the founding documents.The results were clear. And it wasn’t something I could ignore. Everything pointed in the same direction.The clause had never been used. Not once. But it also hadn’t been removed. It just sat there, untouched and quiet, waiting, like a loaded gun on a shelf, looking still and harmless until someone picked it up.I leaned ba

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 127

    VICTORIA The admission still rang in my ears when I finally walked away from Clark. I didn’t rush or shake. Every step I took felt measured.I didn’t look back as I moved through the hallway. The lights stayed the same, but everything felt quieter now. It was like something had shifted and the building could feel it too.People glanced at me as I passed, but I didn’t stop. I didn’t acknowledge anything around me. Nothing about me was supposed to look different.I got into my car and shut the door quietly behind me. For a second, I just sat there without moving. The silence settled in fast, but I didn’t break it.I didn’t cry. I didn’t react. I catalogued everything instead.Clark had helped design a legal fallback that could erase my claim completely. That was the only fact that mattered right now.I started the engine and drove out slowly. The road ahead was clear, but my thoughts were not. They were moving faster than I wanted.Every detail lined up in my head. Every conversation,

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 126

    CLARKShe stepped back like I had already chosen against her.That reaction bothered me more than anything else. Not the question, not the tension, just that step.It was small, but it said everything. She was putting distance between us.“I’m not helping Trent,” I said.And I meant it. More than she probably believed.“I didn’t say you were.”Her tone didn’t change. It still sounded calm, controlled, and unreadable.“You’re thinking about it,” I replied.Because I could see it even if she didn’t say it out loud.“I’m calculating,” she corrected.I let out a slow breath. That wasn’t her being defensive. That was her pulling back.I moved closer, lowering my voice.“The truth doesn’t automatically work for him.”I needed her to understand that.“It doesn’t automatically work for me either.”She didn’t hesitate. And she actually wasn’t wrong, so that was the problem. There was no clear answer here.I ran a hand through my hair, trying to steady my thoughts. Everything was moving too fas

  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 83

    CLARKI had already mapped three exits before she finished her coffee.That was how my mind worked now. Not panic. Not fear. Patterns. Routes. Time windows. If this went wrong, where did we go. If this went worse, how fast could we disappear.Victoria sat across from me at the table like nothing ha

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 82

    VICTORIAMargaret’s kidnapping didn’t end with fire or screams.It ended with my name on every screen.I woke to my phone vibrating like it was alive. It kept buzzing over and over. I didn’t answer at first. I knew what it would be before I even looked. That heavy feeling in my chest told me enough

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 77

    TRENTI didn’t sleep.I stared at the ceiling and counted every mistake I’d ever made. By morning, my head hurt and my mouth tasted like regret.A baby.Every time I thought about the word, my chest tightened even more.Not because I didn’t understand what it meant. I understood it all too well. A

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  • The Divorce That Made Me A Billionaire    Chapter 81

    ISABELLA Everything felt wrong in the morning.I sat at my desk with cold coffee and three screens open. One showed account trails. One showed legal filings. One showed a smiling photo of Margaret taken two years ago, back when she still pretended she was just a patron of art and not a spider with

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