บททั้งหมดของ The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return : บทที่ 21 - บทที่ 30

021Eliaz's POV I'd never been more glad wiping off the smile off someone's face. I always heard it was satisfactory, but this, I could bet my life that an English word to describe what I felt hadn't been invented yet. Time seemed to slow to a halt as I watched the expressions change on Alora's face. First came shock, and then a steely determination that I didn't exactly like. “You do know this is a lost cause right?” She called out, her voice as cool as a cucumber. “You have nothing against me….”“Yet, I just submitted a file.” I responded with a smirk. “I implore you to not judge from it's size, it's more efficient than it looks.” The woman in front of me parted her lips to speak, but pressed her mouth shut again. I liked to think that I had rendered her speechless but she cornered me just at the last minute. “I hope you know you're only digging your own grave, right?” She asked quietly. “it would be a shame to see you lose twice in a row.” “I think you have enough things

023Alora's POV If someone had told me this would happen, then I would have simply laughed in their faces that they were being delusional and had no idea what they were talking about. Over the years, I'd guarded my heart so heavily that nothing could penetrate, no matter how hard they tried and it had been working, it so I thought.I'd practiced being stoic to things that would previously make me feel emotional,and I had swapped my overroy emotional heart, for one wrapped up and decided with steel. It had helped me become who I was today and now that I thought it was going to hold it's weight, it fell through. I couldn't exactly pinpoint the remote cause of it all, but I broke down. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that Eliaz was out to ruin me or perhaps it could be likened to the fact that Fredrick had easily noticed my foul mood and opened his arms for me to run into. I didn't want to, but that gesture was all it took me to snap. I buried my face deeper into his

025Alora's POV “Deep breaths, Alora.” I muttered to no one but myself. It was particularly windy outside today, and I couldn't begin to express how thankful I was for the harsh weather. Whether anyone spotted me or not, no one would be able to tell I was talking to myself and I would save myself the stress of appearing in the news again,and for all the wrong reasons too. “Deep breaths. You can do this.” I really wish I could, because right now I dnt feel like it. I didn't feel anything at all. My mood had been a mess and I'd been numb since the hullabaloo on the news. I hadn't waited to hear what the repoeter had to say before dashing into my personal library to cry, but it didn't matter. The damage had already been done and everyone saw me as a failure, all thank to Eliaz.In the last couple of days, Fredrick had been more than supporting. He checked up on me when I didn't want it, and even when I yelled at him to leave me alone, he would offer me a cup of coffee or a promis

027Fredrick’s POV A frustrated groan slid past my lips. I pursed my lips and even counted down to ten and back again, but it didn't work. In fact, it seemed to be intensifying my anger all the more. “This is bullshit.” I hissed out loud. My glare rested on the laptop and I battled a lot of intrusive thoughts. For a quick second, I wanted to toss the damn gadget out of the window, or even stomp on it till the bits were scattered all over my office floor. As tempting as that sounded, I knew it wouldn't be forthcoming with anything good. I needed to help Alora and doing all of that wasn't going to birth anything good. After so much inner thoughts, I closer the laptop. I was going to visit it later. “Sir?” A small knock infiltrated my thoughts. I raised my head just in time to see a young man standing at the door. “Can I come in?”“Of course.” It took nothing to put myself together. “Come in.” My smile widened as he walked in. I made sure to give him a couple of minutes to hims

029Alora's POV Just when I thought things couldn't get more worse, life just had to pull another fast one on me.Shit. The air was tense, with neither me nor Fredrick saying anything. The entire atmosphere was shrouded with something thick and acrid and it didn't look like it would be dissolving anytime soon. I stared at the phone in Fredrick's grip. For a moment, I was tempted to think that I was only imagining the whole thing. Maybe somewhere in between Cynthia's subtle threat, I had drifted to sleep and had started dreaming of worse, hallucinating. I blinked back a couple of times, before giving myself a punch in the air. The painful sensation that spread around that spot was all I needed to know that I wasn't dreaming. This was real. The phone call and the pictures were real. Oh good Lord. I didn't watch a lot of movies, but I'd heard stories and read things that revolved around this situation I was in. Usually, when mysterious calls came in, they always ended in…“I