Contractual Marriage: The billionaire's Woman のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 81 - チャプター 90

Nortia's POV My hand tightened around the file while Alexis drove home, my heart thudding so fast as well. I couldn't wait to get back just to open this up but a side of me couldn't help but contemplate on what exactly would happen if it turned out it was more than what I was expecting, if I would be able to handle the consequences of insisting on seeing in even when any wise person will do everything not to open up past baggage. When Alexis drove in, coming to a halt in front of the house, I slipped out, sauntering out before he could rush after me. “ Nortia” he called behind me as my footsteps raced up the stairs, not stopping to take a glance at him, I stomped up the stairs, slamming the door behind me. Leaning against the door when I had the door knotted properly, I held a hand to my heart grazing the edges of the invitation card which I had received. Was it going to be bad if I say I felt a bit hurt seeing the invitation card? I know I wasn't supposed to be but I was unabl

Alexis's POV The mood had been soured since the very day her uncle had told Nortia that, it had come off as a shock to her but not to me because I knew how the business world works and I also knew he must have something up his sleeves and he would have done everything to make sure the company kept being his. I dragged in a breath, trying to keep calm as I waited for Nortia to walk in through the door. It was taking more time than it should, but I also knew she had to look the part and her best as well. The part where she was both my wife and she was showing off to Samantha that she was better than she could ever be. I wasn't disputing that, as she was always going to be the best to me and that wasn't going to change in anyways. The little scrambles up the steps told me she was approaching and I found myself holding up my breath as I waited for her to come down, each step taking so much more time than the last. I grasped my hand into a ball, waiting for her to come outright and w

Nortia's POV The gaze I earned and the tugging of my sleeves by her mother told me they got exactly what I had just said, I pondered on why exactly she had that look on her face, was she going to act as though she didn't know tha also? Her husband knew, so the possibility of her knowing it was huge as well, it wouldn't be shocking to know that maybe she had been the one who had connived with her daughter to make that happen, anything to get the man even when the man wasn't going to take much to get. It seemed the shock had finally fallen off Maxwell's face because he asked;“ What did you just say?” He had wriggled his hand away from Samantha whose face had muddled into a frown. If we were nice to each other, maybe I would have extended her a handkerchief but she didn't even deserve that at the moment.“ Oh please” I waved him off, beginning to get annoyed. “ Don't tell me you were such a fool, I mean it was all over there, she knew and I don't know how she was going to birth her

Alexis's POV “Fuck” I cussed when a figure which I knew was Nortia breezed past me in tears,the gown she had on sweeping the ground as she did so. “ Nortia” I screamed after her, my feet moving in a sprint after her, but she sprinted down making her way out of the duplex. Grasping her by the hand I turned her around, forcing her to take a look at me. “ What is wrong? Why did you stomp off like that?”She panted, tears cascading down her cheek as she did so. “ I want to leave” she explained, trying to get my hands off her but I held onto it. Where was the confidence I thought she had gotten? What was this sudden change for and why was she acting this way?I searched into her eyes wanting to know but she threw her head aside, the tears coming down in torrent. “ She…my parents, I don't think I can face them, I prepared for this moment, waited to see what it was going to be like, but now …I can't even say anything, I don't know what to say, all I feel is guilt”“ Nortia” I held her

Nortia's POV Sleep evaded me and although I tried so hard not to think about it, I just couldn't, it was hard enough to visualize what exactly had happened, and knowing now that my father and mother had actually been induced not to wake up was beginning to take a toll on me. Alexis was seated just across to me, and I could feel his gaze as they punctured through me but I didn't want to think about that. I was supposed to be glad, my parents were up and that was all I have been waiting for but it happened that I hadn't thought about it through, I haven't thought about how exactly I was going to make sure this would end up well, I haven't even made any plans. I had been so fixated on the fact that everything will be fine as long as they were up, but I haven't thought about them, how they will feel seeing that I had no hand on the company, that what they had laboured so hard for had gone into the hands of the very people who they had trusted to not just protect it but protect me as w