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Chapter 40: Exes In Offices

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Evangeline

One month later.

My strategy worked.

Alexander and I are making a shit ton of money. My baby is growing healthily and we’ve finally agreed on a name.

Elias .R.

Because I’m having a boy.

The media is buzzing with everything Alexander and his wife and their child on the way. And I am buzzing with anger because I just walked into Alexander’s office, heavily pregnant, with a heavy lunchbox dangling from my hand as per my dear husband’s request, only to be met by the presence of the woman who almost ruined his life.

Chanel.

His fucking ex.

I stop at the door, listening to all the gibberish she’s spewing from her mouth. And Xander has the nerve to look comfortable. His frame is reclined back, his eyes narrowed like he’s listening to a friend and not sitting across from the woman who once made a fool of him. No; the woman who once did everything in her power to tank his entire existence.

I take a step forward. Slow. Hesitant. My fingers falter around the lunchbox.

Chanel stops ta
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