The Poor Billionaire Heiress Returns! のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 30

•OCTAVIA•“Stop slamming the door, Missy!” My mother groaned when I walked in the front door near the living room.I wasn’t expecting to see them until a few hours later.“Hey, Dad. Hey, Mom. I’m glad you guys are home.” I barely smiled as I wrapped my arms around them.I was stressed thinking about Laura and her threats. If what she told me was true, my family would be broke in weeks because we didn’t have that kind of money, and Noah wouldn’t give me the money she wanted.“Hey, sweetie. Your dad and I thought we should surprise you. We’ve missed you! Are you okay?” My mom asked when I pulled away from them.“She doesn’t look so good, Allison. Did something happen, honey?” My father asked.I groaned, sat on the couch, and hung my head over it. That asshole dared to threaten me in front of her assistant and bodyguard.Worse, Noah questioned me about the day at the hospital, meaning that the two were talking behind my back, and Giselle was getting Noah to act against me.I probably didn

•GISELLE•“Why am I here, Noah?” I sighed when I arrived at his office and found his lawyer. The one he used to get us divorced.When he called and asked to see me in his office in the morning, I thought it was about the board meeting I had missed earlier. “Sit down, Giselle. Tyler and I have a proposal for you. This could be easy, or we can go to court. This is all your choice.”I sat on the chair next to his lawyer, and he gave me a paper and a pen. I shook my head and scoffed because the two idiots thought I’d have no choice but to agree to whatever they were proposing and give them what they wanted.“That’s shared custody of the twins. They will stay here in California for easier equal visits between us. If you don’t want that, we can gladly take this to court, and I’ll get full custody of them. Do you think they’ll let someone on antidepressants raise the twins alone? If they decide to be lenient on you, they’ll make you decide which twin you want to live with while the other st

•OCTAVIA•“I want you to wreck my car and make me look like someone who just got her ass beaten. Make sure there are signs that Laura did it. Carve her name on the side of the car and leave a note with her name on it.”“Yes, Miss North.” The guys nodded as they took hammers to wreck my pink Mini Cooper. It was my favorite car of all the cars I had.Noah bought it for my 28th birthday three months ago. I went everywhere with it.“Are you sure about the Mini Cooper? You loved it, Octavia, and you might never get one like it. Don’t you want to reconsider your decision and have one of your other cars wrecked instead?” Mandy asked, and I rolled my eyes at her stupid question.“Noah knows the car is my favorite, so he won’t suspect I’m the one who wrecked it, dumbass. I thought I explained this to you when I organized the guys to wreck it. Laura won’t go anywhere if I don’t want to sacrifice something I love. Besides, Noah would buy me another one to replace this one, so I don’t care.”“I’m

•OCTAVIA•I shouldn’t have agreed to meet him. Even walking into the cafe felt like stepping into a storm I had spent years trying to outrun.The moment my eyes found him, tucked into the farthest corner like a shadow waiting to pounce, my breath caught. Bruno.He hadn’t changed—still broad-shouldered, still intense, his gaze fixed on me as if I was the only thing in the world that existed.“Octavia,” he said when I sat across from him.I forced a shaky smile. “Thank you for coming.” I adjusted my shades to hide the bruises on my face.“You asked. I would always come,” he said, voice edged with something sharp. “But tell me—does your husband know where you are right now?”I flinched. “Noah doesn’t need to know everything. This is between us.”Bruno leaned forward, his eyes dark. “There is nothing between us anymore. You made that clear when I called you yesterday. Have you forgotten how you broke me? How you ran off to play the dutiful wife while I was left with nothing but promises y

•NOAH•“You can’t get the mother of your children arrested, Noah. That’s absurd!”“Watch me, Jordan.” I picked up the telephone in my office and called the police.I told them everything Octavia had told us when she got home, and they promised to question Giselle before filing a case against her.“Bloody coward.” I huffed as I placed the telephone down and sat in my chair. “Giselle wrecked Octavia’s car and carved her name on the side. She clearly wanted us to see and know she’s the one who assaulted Octavia.”“You were in her place last night, Noah, and she told you she didn’t do it. Instead of getting her arrested, you must investigate what happened to Octavia.”I looked at Jordan and wondered why he always sided with Giselle even though the signs were there to prove her guilty.Even Giselle didn’t have concrete evidence that she hadn’t hurt Octavia because she wanted to avenge herself for betraying her.“No one who has ever loved and supported you like Giselle did. She gave up her