All Chapters of She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife: Chapter 401 - Chapter 408

408 Chapters

Chapter 401 Nightcap

(Julian)"You've been holding that same glass for an hour."The woman saying it has been circling since the lights came up in the screening room, and she's decided I'm the softest target left standing."It's a prop.""You're Sonia Morton's brother.""Stepbrother. And you've done your homework, which I'd find flattering if it was about me and not just an attempt to get to Sonia.""Introduce me to her.""No. Forty people have asked me that tonight, and I’m not in the business of selling access to family."She goes off to try somebody else.The party's for the latest film Sonia's in.She's over by the pillar with her back flat against it, because it's the one spot in the room where nobody can come at her from behind.A woman at the next table has turned her chair right around so she'll be in the background of the pictures people are taking of Sonia with their phones angled over their shoulders.Nobody here is thinking about the film. They want to stand near her for four minutes and then

Chapter 402 Learner

(Elijah)"Signal.""I did signal.""You signaled while you were already moving. The signal goes first. That's the entire point of it.""Okay, fine."I put the indicator on for the next lane change about half a mile early.Dad doesn't say anything about that.He's had one hand resting on the emergency brake since we pulled out of the driveway, and he thinks I haven't noticed."Where are we going?""Straight. About forty minutes."He looks over.I keep my eyes exactly where they're supposed to be, which is the only reason I get away with it.He sits back and doesn't ask again.I've had this whole conversation planned since Tuesday. Actual sentences, in an order.I practiced them every chance I got, and now I've finally got him trapped in a car for forty minutes and I can’t remember what order they go in."How was work?""Fine."I can feel him looking at me suspiciously. I don’t usually ask him about work. That’s the kind of lame question old people ask."Cool."The conversation dies a n

Chapter 403 Middle Seat

(Chloe)"It's a waning moon. That's finishing energy, not starting energy.""So what does that mean for my day?" Natasha asks."It means don't sign anything new. Anything you already started, you can absolutely finish."Natasha thinks about that properly instead of laughing at me, which is one of about four hundred reasons I love her."I'm signing a lease this afternoon.""Oh. Is it a lease you already agreed to?""Weeks ago. We've been arguing about extra parking spaces ever since.""Then that's finishing. That's completely fine. Bryce would agree that's fine."She flies commercial because of the environment which just makes me respect her more.Chase has a private jet, but Natasha says that’s for special trips once in a while, not flying between San Francisco and Los Angeles weekly. The carbon footprint would be monstrous.I booked this flight nine hours ago, the second I found out she'd be up here the same day as my meeting, which is why I've got the middle seat.I don't mind. I ge

Chapter 404 Two Nights

(Chase)"Two nights," Lily says. "That's one night and then one more night.""That's exactly right.""And then you come back.""Yes, sweetheart. Then we come back."She thinks about it with her whole face, the way she does everything, and lets go of my leg."Okay."That's the entire negotiation."Go," Clarice says. "Both of you. We have plans and not one of them involves you."Natasha kisses the top of Lily's head twice, then a third time, and Clarice steers her toward the kitchen before she can keep going.She has the laptop open before we're level.I give her an hour, because I've learned that much.She has to land the last thing before she can be anywhere else, and if I take it off her too early she'll just carry it with her for two days.And this romantic getaway to the Seychelles will not feature anything work related.So I sit across from her and watch her tapping away at her laptop, which is no hardship."Priya says she's fine with moving to San Francisco," she says, to the scr

Chapter 405 The Part

(Liam)"That's a no. A very flattered, extremely grateful no. Tell them I wept."I hang up and put the phone face down on the counter, next to a fruit bowl nobody's ever going to touch.Sonia's in the chair in front of the mirror, drinking a soda through a straw, because she's got a full face of makeup on and she isn't allowed to bring anything near her own mouth until they wrap."That's the fourth one since Tuesday," she says."Fifth. One of them called while you were asleep and I turned it down as well.""Liam.""I’d have hated it. There were horses. You know I don’t trust horses. And they want me to work from the set."She swivels the chair round to look at me properly.Somebody's pinned her into a green dress and she can't lean back in it, so she sits forward with her elbows on her knees.She looks so gorgeous it would make an angel weep."Why do you keep saying no to everybody?""Because I'm a man of principle and mystery.""You've been saying no to people for months. You love wo

Chapter 406 Read It Again

(Sonia)"You can tell me it's bad. I'd survive. I'd be unbearable for a year and then I'd be completely fine,” Liam lies to me shamelessly.I'm at the desk eating cold fries out of the tray with my fingers, because I haven't had anything but a straw since they put me in that dress.Liam's on the end of the bed with his hands squeezed between his knees. He hasn't sat still since I got back to the room.Probably since I left the room initially"You know it's not bad," I tell him."That's not a review. That's a hostage statement.""Eat something. You've been like this for hours.""I can't eat. My stomach's a fist."He looks at the script on the desk, then makes himself look at the wall."How far did you get?""All of it. Then I read it again."He puts both hands over his face."You read it twice and you've been in this room for twenty minutes talking to me about fries.""You're the one who said take my time.""I said that when I thought you'd hate it. Nobody means that."I wipe my hands

Chapter 407 The Third Chair

(Lily)"Excuse me. Do you have spoons?"The lady pushing the cart looks down at me. She's got a pin on her jacket shaped like a little plane, which I think is a good idea for a job like hers."I've got these," she says, and holds up a skinny white stick."That's not a spoon.""It's for stirring.""So is a spoon."She laughs and gives me two of them anyway.I take them because two sticks is better than nothing, but they’re not as good as one spoon.Mommy's next to me with her laptop open on the little table that folds down out of the seat.She waits until the cart's gone past us."Do they count?""No.""I figured."I put the sticks in the front pocket of my backpack and zip it.Maybe there will be an emergency I need sticks for, then I’ll be glad they didn’t have spoons.It’s not very likely, but maybe.This is my first time on an actual airplane.Before, I just sat in the chairs and watched mommy walk through the doors.Third chair from the pole with the clock on it. That was mine and

Chapter 408 Before the Cake

(Natasha)"Two now.""One now and one after the cake. That's the deal.""Two now and none after the cake."Lily stops with the bowl half lifted, because she wasn't expecting a counter-offer, and my daughter has never in her life been offered a deal she didn't want to examine."That's the same amount.""Yes," Diego says.She hands him two orange segments. Then she looks at me, and I can see her trying to work out where the trick was.She can't find one. That isn't the same as being happy about it.Diego's off across the room at a dead sprint yelling "Mommy, Mommy, I got two," and Gloria catches him without looking.It's his birthday.The house is loud and getting louder and somebody has already stepped on something that squeaks.In the kitchen Gloria reaches for a tray and Nathanial takes it off the counter before her hand gets there."I can carry a tray.""You can. You shouldn’t. I'm carrying it."She lets him.She's been letting him all afternoon and hasn't said one word about it, an

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