All Chapters of CEO's UNEXPECTED WIFE : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Maddison's POVExactly a month later…The Grand Oak Hotel Grand Ballroom was a shining, loud cave of old memories and hopeless quiet. Several months out of university for her and many friends from University of Charlotte who had graduated before and after her; it might have been a lifetime, but it was, instead, only minutes.Smells of flower perfume, expensive cologne, and a hint of oily egg bites hung heavily in it. Patterns of faint conversation and laughter traveled through it all, stopped by the ringing of glasses holding champagne.Men in suits that looked a little too small for their skin and shining dresses on women a little too bright made their way between these conversations, their eyes moving always over this space, comparing, judging. There was a band playing a boring version of a popular hit song that they'd loved senior year.In any other situation, this would have been her personal hell. But tonight, she'd come here to shut a door. Seal a tomb.Grant had begged her to l

Maddison’s POVThe next day…The city lights sliced through her heart like a knife outside her window in Grant's penthouse that morning, sparkling like stars that had led her on the night before. They all represented the huge breaks that had opened on her walls.Sleep was something that felt like a distant land that she was no way near to visiting. But with the cool air wafting through the vents in the windows of Harrison Enterprises came the scent of coffee brewing; that was until she noticed that it smelled like poison to her nose.At that exact moment, she felt that dull pain start to form in her head; that was her sign that she was about to face an entire day of troubles.The ghost from her past had come to life but this time with a name, with an office, with an ID card. The normally working sounds that come with working in the office loomed into her mind like bombs waiting to explode.The hollow laughter from the school reunion was still echoing in her ears. In reality though, th

Maddison's POVThe wallpaper was a photograph taken in the sunlight. A selfie, the kind you’d see at a park. The arm was slung around Clara, holding her tightly to him.He was smiling at the camera, an easy, perfect picture of style, his smile promising fun, adventure, and always knowing he was only interested in you. Then, at this point, Maddison remembered Brooke…the pictures he'd posted on social media a day after her graduation. Just like that, he had continued, moved on to the next woman.Clara….well….Clara was leaning into this hug, her face turned up to him, her smile so bright, so full of open trust and simple happiness, that it seemed as though it was a physical jolt to Maddison, A REAL SHOCK.The picture was a carefully made-up lie, which shows how well Tyler is able to fool people. A sickness was about to enter Maddison's stomach.Maddison’s breathing was caught in shock, but this was well hidden as she tapped a finger against the paper just in front of them. The voice, her

Maddison’s POVSOURCE: Agreed! She got promoted. Let us not forget she replaced you on the team as LEAD ENGINEER Marcus; We have to up the stakes. We can't have her with just a whisper campaign. I have another plan; it is mean, but it'll finish her for good.***The folder had fallen from Clara’s numb fingers, banging to the ground.She hadn’t appeared to register this either.She’d shaken from head to toe as her body had shaken in silent sobs. The world she’d been carefully creating for herself in this manner for weeks was in ruins, her very base had been exposed to be but lies.The man who’d been listening intently to everything she’d related in detail hadn’t been her friend AT ALL; he’d been a spy, gathering intel."No," she whispered, her response harsh from her ravaged breathing. "No, this isn’t real. This is a mistake. You...you had staged all of this.""Do you really think that, Clara?" asked Maddison gently but firmly. "Don’t you doubt it even now?""Then, of course, there is

CLARA'S POVAt that time, she had believed that it was just another young man named Tyler. After all, TYLER as a common name.Then even the small and bad side of her couldn’t help but be a little bit excited that her Tyler wasn’t the only one bearing the name.The name itself was a part of the business world that she'd so really wanted to be a part of. This is why she boxed the memory away and then tried to forget it.Until now.That sentence that she had overheard from Marcus many weeks back, wasn’t a set of random bunch of words. It was a part of the entire horrible scheme.The statement had now clearly proved that the trap that was laid before her wasn’t small but bigger and had also been laid much longer even before she ever spilled a cup of coffee.This seemed even chillier and scarier than the shattered coldness of a broken heart that she could ever imagine. This wasn’t only Tyler using her for his pathetic revenge. No way! He was a soldier in a different army.Tyler and Marcus