Lahat ng Kabanata ng Taming Mr Billionaire : Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 120

Edward’s POVThe study felt cooler than usual tonight, even after I turned on the heater. Shadows from the lamplight spread wide across the amber desk, the air felt tense, and my liquor sat in a round glass untouched. The pen in my hand felt heavier than it should have. Maybe it’s because I knew what the document in front of me meant, even if the lawyer sitting opposite thought this was just another business transaction.Termination of the marriage contract.I signed my name with slow, deliberate strokes, every curve of the pen felt like it was cutting into my chest. Across from me, Tobias leaned back in his chair, arms crossed, watching me with that older-brother calmness he’d perfected over the years. The lawyer cleared his throat softly, sliding the papers closer for the final signature on my end.“She’ll have to sign tonight when she comes back,” the lawyer said, like it was nothing. “It will be official the moment she does.”My hand paused mid-stroke. Tonight.Would she even bot

Edward POVI didn’t think. I just grabbed her.Vanessa’s face was pale, stricken, her eyes appeared glassy with tears she was about to shed as the headline kept replaying on her phone screen. Lady Red. That name, dripping with ridicule from my mother’s mouth, as it circulated through the mansion like shame. My chest burned with fury, but I shoved it down long enough to tug Vanessa away before she shattered into a thousand pieces in front of Jules’ weird expression.Her hand felt lifeless in mine, her feet stumbling on the stairs as if she didn’t know where she was. I guided her down the hall, past her room, Liam’s room, until we reached my study. The door shut behind us with a dull click.She ripped her hand free the moment we were alone.“Don’t you dare touch me,” she choked out.The sight of her, tears streaking her face, her body trembling as though the air itself hurt. It nearly destroyed me. “Nessa,” I said softly, reaching for her again.She shoved me back, her voice rising,

Vanessa’s POV5 days later, June 13thI had barely slept well in days, since the incident. The fashion house was doing very well, I guess the lady red saga has both a good and bad consequence for me.Tobias hadn’t stopped calling, and Edward too. His Elder sister Angela, even reached out to me as well. But all I wanted was peace. And space from Edward’s manipulative family. Liam and I are leaving for the UK tomorrow, to be with Mandi and the kids. It’s the only way I got Liam not to ask questions about moving out of the Mansion.Little did he know that things would become even more different when we return back to New York. If we return back.Bella has been so accommodating and kind to me these last couple of days. I can’t even thank her enough. I told her about the date Daniel suggested, and she said to go for it. Hopefully, it helps me cope with the whole mess with Edward.***Later that evening,The wicker basket creaked beneath my feet as the hot air balloon drifted higher, the

Chapter 117 Edward POVThe penthouse felt colder than the mansion, though I knew that wasn’t true. The thermostat glowed a steady seventy-two, but my skin crawled as if the whole place had turned into a freezer.I had run here after the chaos, after Vanessa had slipped through my hands like smoke.I didn’t defendher.Didn’t protect her.I had stood frozen while my mother ripped her heart open in front of everyone.And now the whole world knew.I tossed the remote onto the marble counter and it clattered too loudly, echoing in the silence. Every channel I flipped to, every gossip blog I came across on my phone, showed the same thing: headlines with her face, some screenshots of her masked stage persona, snippets of grainy videos that had been dug out of whatever pit my mother’s contacts had crawled through. Then her fashion house made the news as well.Lady Red Unmasked.Edward Silver’s Secret fling: Stripper Turned Socialite.Was Silver in Love with a Lie?My jaw ached from clenching

Edward’s POVThe mansion was heavy with silence ever since Nessa and Liam left. It was the kind of silence that pressed against the ribs until breathing itself felt like it was impossible. I sat on a dining chair, and stared at the stack of resignation papers waiting in front of me.The ink of my signature was still fresh, bleeding into the page like. An end.I leaned back in the chair, my jaw tight, the weight of the decision pressing into every bone. Years of sacrifice, of rebuilding the Silver name after my father’s scandals, after my own mistakes… and yet, this was the first moment that felt like clarity.If cutting ties with my mother meant losing my claim to the family company, then so be it. After all I had built my own company, and I am just getting started.I can’t lose Vanessa. I can’t keep letting my mother dictate my life, poison every corner of my future until all that was left was ruin.The door opened with the familiar click of expensive heels against hardwood. My moth