All Chapters of Goodbye Ex, I Married Your Uncle!: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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CHAPTER 11 A Cheap “Business” Deal

LILA’S POVJason’s fingers dug into my arm.“It’s pathetic, even by your standards,” he hissed. I took a slow breath. “Let go of me, Jason.”“Not until you—”“Jason!”Both of us turned.Chloe stood a few meters away, just outside the glass doors of a boutique. The same boutique I’d gone into to buy my dress before the courthouse. Shopping bags dangled from her wrist, her lips pressed in a tight, annoyed line.She looked from Jason’s hand on my arm to my face, then back again.“What are you doing?” she demanded.Jason dropped my arm like it had burned him. “Nothing. We were just talking.”Chloe’s eyes narrowed. “You can talk to your fiancée,” she snapped. “We’re late.”She flicked her hair over her shoulder and turned away, expecting him to follow.He hesitated, just for a second.That was all I needed.I stepped back and walked away, my heart thudding hard against my ribs. I didn’t stop until I reached the main road and flagged down a taxi.***Monica’s office felt different the seco

CHAPTER 12 No One Hurts My Wife

LILA’S POVI forced a small smile. “It’s nothing,” I said quickly. “I tripped.”His eyes lifted to mine. I felt the weight of that look all the way to my spine.“You tripped,” he repeated.“Yes.” I nodded, trying to sound casual. “I can be pretty clumsy sometimes,” I laughed, hoping to ease the tension. His jaw tightened. “Is Chloe’s family picking on you again?”The question was soft, but there was a sharp edge underneath. Like a blade wrapped in velvet. I glanced toward my aunt and uncle, who were laughing with some guests, looking like the picture of respectability.“It doesn’t matter,” I said. “This ends in a month. What’s the use in creating a fuss now?”He looked away for a moment, taking in the room, the people, my aunt and uncle posing like generous benefactors.“I see,” he said finally.It wasn’t agreement. It was… something else. Guilt? Annoyance? I couldn’t tell.For some reason, it bothered me. I didn’t understand why it mattered to me what he thought, but that did not s

CHAPTER 13 The Truth About My Parents

LILA’S POVAs soon as we stepped inside the house, the argument exploded.“This is all your fault!” Aunt Maggie shrieked, throwing her clutch onto the floor. “First this girl goes and sleeps with the wrong man, and we lose the island development Edward was giving us. And now Martin won’t renew our contract and has decided to sell his soul to some tech company!”Uncle Andrew rubbed his temples. “Maggie, this is not the time.”“Oh, really?” she snapped. “When is the time then? When we’re bankrupt?”Chloe sniffed loudly. “Everyone was staring at us,” she cried. “Do you know how embarrassing that was? Are we really behind on our payments to Martin?”“You two need to fix this,” Aunt Maggie said, jabbing a finger between Uncle Andrew and me. “We can’t have people talking.” Uncle Andrew straightened, his face tight. “Shouting won’t fix things,” he said. “We need to get our ducks in a row. Think.”He paced, muttering. “Things will be fine once Chloe marries Jason, but until then, we need cas

CHAPTER 14 Checkmate, Jason

ADRIAN’S POVThe spreadsheet on my screen might as well have been in another language. My mind kept dragging me back to the same image.Lila, standing under a streetlight, shaking so hard she could barely speak.Lila, in my arms, crying like she’d been holding it in for ten years.I leaned back in my chair and rubbed a hand over my face.This was becoming inconvenient.I was supposed to be focused on Ambrosia. On cleaning up the financial rot Kline and Jason had spread through the company like mold in a damp wall. Instead, I kept thinking about the way she’d looked at me when she said, I want revenge.The tears on her face did not soften that blow. Hearing her say those words, god help me, excited me. I saw steel for the first time, underneath the layers she had built to protect herself from her uncle and aunt. A knock sounded on my office door.“Come in,” I said.Luca stepped inside, tablet in hand. His expression already told me I was about to be annoyed.“The media knows about Mr.

CHAPTER 15 What Have I Done?

JASON’S POVThe boardroom had gone so quiet I could hear the air conditioner humming overhead, and yet somehow his words still felt unreal.I’m married.I stared at him. “When the hell did that happen?”“I don’t enjoy making a spectacle of my private life,” Adrian said coolly. “So I didn’t announce it.”Then he tilted his head slightly.“So,” he asked, “do I have a right to sit here or not?”A few of the board members exchanged looks.Martha was the first to recover. “If that’s true,” she said, “then yes. Obviously.”“If that’s true,” I repeated sharply. “Then who is she?”Adrian’s gaze flicked to me, and something cold passed through it.“My wife values her privacy,” he said. “So I won’t be sharing that.”My stomach twisted.He was lying. He had to be.This was Adrian. He probably found some convenient way to fake a marriage so he could walk in here and grab power the second Granddad got sick.“That’s not enough,” I said. “Anyone can say they’re married.”Adrian’s face darkened. It

CHAPTER 16 My Husband’s Mysterious Wife

LILA’S POVI was curled up in bed with a book when my phone buzzed.For a second, I ignored it. The house had been unnervingly quiet all evening, and I was enjoying every second of it. But the screen lit up again, and when I reached for it, my heart gave a weird little jump.Adrian.It wasn’t a text, it was a photo.He had sent me a picture from what looked like a conference room at Ambrosia. A long polished table. Half-drunk glasses of water. A leather folder. The city skyline behind the glass wall. No words. Just the image.But I understood immediately.Things were going smoothly on his end.I stared at the photo for a moment, then smiled despite myself and typed back:Congratulations, head of Ambrosia.Three dots appeared almost at once.Then:Thanks, wife.My face warmed so fast it was embarrassing. I stared at the word like it might rearrange itself if I looked hard enough.Wife.There was something about the way he said it—casual, dry, like it meant nothing and everything at onc

CHAPTER 17 Opportunists Everywhere

ADRIAN’S POVI stared at my phone longer than I should have.The message I sent Lila yesterday sat there on the screen.Thanks, wife. No reply.I set the phone down, picked it up again, then told myself to stop acting like an idiot. She was probably flustered. That thought alone was enough to improve my mood more than it should have.I could picture it too easily—her reading the message, going still for half a second, then pressing her lips together the way she did when she was embarrassed and trying not to show it. A faint blush creeping up her neck. Her eyes narrowing at the screen like she wanted to argue, but couldn’t quite find the words.The image made the corner of my mouth lift.Inconvenient.Very inconvenient.Luca walked into my office just as I locked the phone and set it aside again.“You seem pleased, sir,” he observed.“I just destroyed my nephew in front of the board,” I said. “Wouldn’t you be pleased?”Luca’s face remained politely neutral, but I could tell he wasn’t

CHAPTER 18 Breakaway

LILA’S POVBefore I knew it, a month had passed.Thirty days of pretending. Thirty days of keeping my head down, counting the hours, swallowing insults, and hiding the biggest secret of my life.And now it was over.I was sitting on the edge of my bed, staring at the clock like I could force time to move faster, when my phone rang.Monica.I answered so quickly I nearly dropped the phone. “Hello?”Her warm voice came through at once. “Lila, it’s done. The trust can finally be activated.”My fingers tightened around the phone. “Really?”“Yes,” she said, and I could hear the smile in her voice. “I’ve already prepared the documents. Come by the office as soon as you can.”My eyes stung.“Also,” she added, “my sister is a real estate agent. I’m sending you her number. I told her a little about your situation, and she’s already found a few places you can look at right away.”I laughed softly, half from relief, half from disbelief. “You thought of everything.”“I’ve seen enough girls get de

CHAPTER 19 My Husband’s Offer

LILA’S POVJason had been silent the entire time. That was what made it so much worse when he finally spoke.“Open it, Lil.”I turned to stare at him. The man I’d thought I would marry had turned at the flick of a switch, and that had never not been jarring. “You have nothing to do with this,” I said coldly.Before he could answer, Chloe lunged like a furious little guard dog.“Don’t speak to my man like that!” she screamed.I had to bite the inside of my cheek to stop myself from laughing.My man.Jason folded his arms and looked at me like he was the reasonable one in the room. “If you have nothing to hide, it shouldn’t be a problem.”I looked from him to Chloe, then to my aunt and uncle.And suddenly, I was tired.“Fine,” I said.My hands were trembling with anger by the time I crouched and unzipped the suitcase. Then I lifted it and turned it over.Everything spilled onto the floor. Clothes. Shoes. A few books. Toiletries. Boring. Regular. Silence hit the foyer when they saw t

CHAPTER 20 Reveal

JASON’S POVI had just poured myself a drink when Chloe called.I stared at her name on my screen for a second, already irritated, then answered anyway, because it would have been far worse if I’d ignored it. Big mistake.That was how the next hour disappeared.Into my ear, into my skull, into my last remaining shred of patience.“She’s lost her mind, Jason,” Chloe ranted. “Completely lost it. Mum and Dad found her in this ridiculously fancy complex, like she’s some kind of princess now. And she spoke to them like they were trash. Trash! After everything they’ve done for her!”I leaned against the kitchen counter and took a slow sip of whiskey.On the other end, Chloe kept going without even pausing for breath.“She basically disowned them. Can you believe that? The family that took her in when she had nothing. Nothing. She has no gratitude, no shame, no sense of loyalty—”My eyes drifted to the city lights outside my penthouse window.I was barely listening anymore.Lila had moved o

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