30 Days to Divorce My Billionaire Husband のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 20

(Mia)I almost stayed naked in his office and waited longer for him to come back.Then her name flashed up on his screen. Emma Pearce.In that moment, I realized what a fool I was being. Clearly, he was with her.My car Bluetooth lights up with a call.I expect it’s Calder again. It isn’t. It’s his mother.I glance upward and silently thank the universe for its impeccable timing.I take a deep, fortifying breath and tell the system to connect.“Hello, Harriet.”“Good afternoon, Mia. I’d like you to join me for tea. Five o’clock.”“Today?”“Yes. Is that a problem? I’m booked up for the next two weeks and I wanted to catch up.”“Sure. I’ll be there.” It’s just easier to get this over and done with and go.“Wonderful.”The call ends.I was about to call Lena.I was about to say, Meet me somewhere with tequila. I’m done for today.Maybe I shouldn’t have left. That’s what I told myself in the elevator.But it had been forty-five minutes, not fifteen.Then I thought maybe I was wrong thinki

(Calder)I call my lawyer.I don’t know what the hell my mother is talking about but I’m about to find out.I also know that I did not read everything. I trusted it was just the basic prenup stuff.I wasn’t myself that day and I slipped up.The lawyer answers. “Mr Wynn? How can I help?”“The prenuptial I signed on my wedding day. If I exit this marriage early, what happens?”“If the marriage ends before the five-year mark, Common Ground absorbs into Wynn Holdings.”“What!?”“It goes under family company control,” he says calmly.“Like fuck it does.”“There’s more.”I walk to the windows, my hand tight around the phone.“Under the current governance provisions, interim oversight would fall to your brother. The board would then decide the final outcome.”The board has fought me on Common Ground from the start.They called it impossible. Too expensive. Too idealistic.They would rather build another glass monument for people who already have five homes than prove ordinary families deserv

(Mia)When I wake up, I think for one stupid second that I dreamed last night.Then Calder’s arm tightens over my waist.My whole body answers at once.The soreness.The heat.The memory.He stayed. My husband stayed.Three years of marriage and the first time I’ve woken with my husband beside me after we were intimate.It’s day four of the month I asked for.Something hot and stupid fills my chest.I feel the blush rise as I remember how he took me. How he literally threw me around and I answered his every need.He answered needs in me I never even knew existed.Then I try to shift a little.Pain answers first.My thighs. My wrists. My mouth. Places lower that make me close my eyes and breathe through my nose.The stinging, the soreness, the rawness is all present and protesting me moving at all today.God.That really happened.I turn my face into his shoulder and smile.His hand moves once over my waist.“You’re awake.” His voice is rough with sleep.I lift my head. He’s looking at

(Mia)Dark trousers. Black shirt with the sleeves rolled to his forearms.Two glasses on the counter. Wine already open. Plates warming.Calder is standing there like he had something to do with it beyond issuing instructions and staying in the room while it happened.“Hey,” he says when I shake my head. “It’s the thought that counts, right?”“I’m just happy to be home and having dinner with you, no matter who cooked.”His phone lights up again. I don’t make a point of looking.The call vibrates across the counter. Calder looks at the screen and cuts it off immediately. Shoving the phone in his pocket.“You can answer her if you want to. It’s okay.” I say because I’m not being that person.His eyes come up at once. “I don’t want to. I want to have dinner with my wife.” He turns off his phone and pockets it again.Something in me shifts. “Okay.”He hands me a glass of wine.“So,” he says, “tell me whether Lena approved of me ruining your ability to sit properly.”That startles a laugh

(Mia)By the time I wake up, Calder is gone.He never came into the master bedroom last night but I know he is gone already.The candles are gone. The plates are gone. All tidied up by the invisible staff.I guess he thought it best to leave me alone after he couldn’t answer my question and I stormed into the bedroom.I pick up my phone.There is one message from Calder.With lawyers. Need facts first. Seeing my mother after. We’ll talk later.I set the phone back down.Lawyers. His mother. Proof. What a circus this is going to be.Everything is moving forward before I have even had a chance to decide how I feel about any of it.I make coffee and sip it.I thought the biggest humiliation of the night was Emma turning up in my home to announce she was pregnant.It wasn’t.The worst part was realizing Calder stopped with me because some part of him thought I might trap him with a pregnancy.I grab my bag and leave. Lena and I have sent in the first set of designs. Now we need to really