All Chapters of She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife: Chapter 341 - Chapter 350

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Chapter 341 Special Care

(Sonia)"Do not put money in that machine.""It already has my money."Liam's got both hands on the glass, forehead pressed to it, staring at a bag of pretzels hanging by one corner."It has my dollar and my trust.""Liam.""It's a hostage situation."The security guard from yesterday comes around the corner, sees who's at the machine, and turns straight back the way he came.I'm holding two paper bags of food and a milkshake that's sweating through the cardboard, and my boyfriend is now rocking a vending machine in a maternity wing.He gives the machine one last shove.The pretzels drop.He holds them up like a trophy and says nothing, because he doesn't have to, because he's insufferable.Chloe's room smells like flowers and disinfectant.It’s not a great combination.She's sitting up, hair scraped back, in a robe with a pattern I'd describe as "aggressively calm.""Please tell me you got it."I hand over the bag.She looks inside and makes a noise I have genuinely never heard a wel

Chapter 342 Star Hire

(Natasha)"The board met. Unanimous. That never happens, and I've been doing this for thirty years."The chairman's voice fills my office, which is half in boxes and no longer really mine."Congratulations," I say. "Unanimity is usually a sign nobody read the memo.""They read it. I wrote it in short sentences."A pause with a smile in it."Los Angeles office. Your hires, your mandate. You'd report to me and nobody in San Francisco, and I am extremely easy to ignore.""You're a lot of things, that’s not one, but I appreciate the leeway."Priya sets a coffee on the one clear corner of the desk and mouths eclair? at me.I shake my head. She looks at me like I've told her I'm dying."I need something from you," he says."A number or a date. Either one. I'll take either."And here's what my mouth does."If it's built around me, it gets built with me. I pick the team. Two years of budget signed before I sit down. And nobody flies down every quarter to make sure I'm doing it the San Francis

Chapter 343 One Call

(Chase)"Twenty minutes. It's down in twenty minutes and there's a correction by tomorrow.""No.""Natasha.""No."She's not looking at me.She's at the sink, rinsing a bottle that's already been sterilized.Lily's on the kitchen floor with a stack of plastic cups, building something that keeps falling over and delighting her every time.I put my phone on the counter between us, face up, like that helps."The parent company is owned by a man who's wanted a meeting with me for a year," I say."I've said no four times.""So you'd give him one if he does what you tell him to?""I'd give him twenty minutes and lunch. It'll be the cheapest thing I've ever bought.""And then?""And then it's gone. The photo's gone. Tomorrow it's a correction nobody reads and by Friday it never happened."She sets the bottle on the rack. Straightens it."And then it's about you," she says."What?""The story stops being about the office being set up for me because I’m your ex-wife and starts being about the

Chapter 344 On the Record

(Natasha)"You're recording.""I am."Dana Whitfield turns her phone face-up between us."You want me to put it away?""No. I want you to keep it running the entire time, including the parts you don't like."We’re meeting in Larchmont, mid-morning.My flat white with honey, her black coffee, her notebook already open on the table between us.She's older than I expected and considerably less apologetic."Then let's start with the obvious," she says. "You have not been commenting on the recent speculation.""I'm commenting now.""What changed?""You published a photograph of my wedding and the word ‘gift’ next to a recent job offer made to me."She doesn't flinch.I'd have been disappointed if she had."Doheny's building an office in LA for you to spearhead after you turned down their initial offer. That seems a bit far-fetched doesn’t it?""Doheny's board approved an office in LA. I've accepted nothing."Her pen stops."Nothing?""Nothing. No contract. No start date. No handshake."I p

Chapter 345 Conflict of Interest

(Mason)"Before I read what?"Maya's asleep on my chest with her hat down over one eye, and I've got the phone wedged into my shoulder like a guy taking a delivery order."Sit down," Natasha says."I've been sitting down since she was born. My spine's a rumor.""Mason.""Ten minutes left on the clipboard. Go."She breathes in.She doesn't do dramatic pauses as a general rule."I told Dana Whitfield I'm opening my own firm."The vent above me ticks.Maya's hand opens and closes on a miniscule fistful of my shirt."Just to confuse her, or because you actually are?""I actually am. It was kind of a snap decision I’ve been turning over for a while without really paying attention to it.""And it’s on the record?""Yes. She recorded the whole interview.""Huh.""Don't 'huh' me twice in one phone call."I look at the ceiling.They should really paint some fun murals on there.The babies can’t focus yet, but the parents would appreciate it.I may be a touch sleep-deprived."Okay. Say the rest

Chapter 346 Temporarily

(Chloe)"The strap's twisted.""It's not twisted. It’s supposed to be that way.""It's twisted. I read the manual twice."Maya's asleep in the car seat in the middle of my living room floor, and Mason is down on one knee beside her, unthreading a strap that is not twisted.He hasn't taken his shoes off.He hasn't put the bag down.There's a paper hospital bracelet still on his wrist."She's home," I say.He stops to smile at me, nearly blinding me with how happy and handsome he is."She's home."By evening he's found bottles I didn't know I owned, sterilized every one of them, and put a feeding log on my phone right next to the birthing app I never deleted.I’ve been pumping in the hospital and she got used to the nipples on the bottles, so they advised me to just keep pumping."Every three hours," he says. "I'll take the ones after midnight.""You have a company to run. I’ll take them all.""The company has a whole floor of people who are delighted when I'm not there. Don’t deprive t

Chapter 347 Keep or Go

(Julian)"Keep or go.""Go.""Julian, you haven't looked at it.""I've looked at it for months. It's a coat. Go."Natasha folds it anyway, which is not the same as arguing with me, but is in the same family.The closet is not all that big.That was always the joke.A woman who owned three hundred things, and me who owns four hundred, and a closet you have to enter sideways because it’s so full.Natasha’s got four bags open on the bed and a system I did not authorize."Keep, donate, Sonia, undecided," she says, pointing."Why does Sonia get a bag?""You'll see.""That's a threat.""It's a bag, Julian."We do eleven more things.I say go, go, go, go, and she puts two of them in undecided without asking me, and I let her, because there's no version of this where I win and I don't especially want to.The doorbell goes.I come back with a paper sack that smells like a serious restaurant."I thought the casserole train has stopped," Natasha says."It has. At my insistence. You all meant so

Chapter 348 House Call

(Natasha)"You stopped taking my calls."Gerald Kastner's standing in the middle of a room that smells like wet paint, and there's nothing in it but me, a stepladder, and eleven color cards taped crooked to the far wall."I gave you eleven minutes on the phone," I say."You gave me nine. The last two were you working out how to hang up."Fair.He got on a plane for this.Men who've been at the top of their field for thirty years don't fly down for a maybe."How'd you find the space?""You signed a lease."He turns a slow circle, taking in the drop cloths."Leases leave a trail. I expected an office. This is a room with opinions about becoming one.""It'll get there.""For whom?"That's the question I can't answer without handing him a thing I haven't handed anyone else in the right order yet.So I don't.I pull a color card off the wall, put it back one space over.Doesn't matter.I just need a distraction."You didn't fly down to look at my paint.""No."He reaches into his coat and

Chapter 349 I Don't Lose Gracefully

(Natasha)I join him for breakfast at his hotel."You read it."I set the folder down beside his coffee, squared to the edge of the table, the way you hand back a thing you're finished with."Cover to cover. Twice.""And?"Kastner puts his fork down. He doesn't reach for the folder."It's the best offer anyone's ever put in front of me. I mean that. Whoever built the comp structure deserves a raise, which you can afford, because it's obscene.""But.""But it's got your name at the top and mine underneath it."He nods slowly, like I've confirmed a diagnosis he was hoping to be wrong about."So it isn't the money.""It's never the money.""Then what is it?""Every good thing I've ever built had a man standing behind it who could take it apart on a whim. You'd be a generous employer. You'd stay out of my way for years. That's not the point.""Enlighten me on the point.""I want the door to be mine. The name on it, the lease under it, the light switch, the bad clause I get to strike becau

Chapter 350 Friday

(Chase)"Finally," Rosen says, and sets the box on the velvet like he's laying down a winning hand."Three weeks you said not yet, then you finally say Friday. Now it is Friday.""I'm here.""You're here." He opens the lid. "Look at it and tell me I'm a genius."I look at it.It's exactly what I envisioned."It's perfect," I say."Of course it is. I don't make wrong."His German accent is heavy.He shuts the lid, then opens it one more time because he can't help himself."This stone came from a man in Antwerp who wept when I bought it. Do not lose it in a couch. Do not carry it around for a month like a lucky coin.""I wouldn’t dream of it.""You will. Everyone does. Scared the answer will be no."He shuts the lid and presses it into my hand."Take it before you cancel Friday in hindsight."The box goes in my inside pocket.It weighs nothing at all, which is not the same as light.Elijah's in the back seat when I get in, backpack between his sneakers, already pretending he isn't track

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