All Chapters of My Ex-husband Billion Dollar Mistakes : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

POV: Nichole,Elena found the message the second day after. This is the third day we spent the whole time at the table. The music box was sitting amid us, opening the tune already finished. Xavier had thoroughly examined each panel. I had looked at the picture so much that all the details were engraved in my memory. Meanwhile, Elena under a small torch was working the winding key, turning it slowly and changing the angle of the light.Then she stopped. "Come here, " she said. Xavier gave a voyeuristic glance over her shoulder and I came around the table.Under the shaft of the winding key, it was a little with the light at the right angle, a line of very small marks could be seen. They weren't the decors but numbers and letters in groups of four. "That is deliberate, "Xavier said. "It was done on purpose." "How complex is it to decipher?" I asked "That depends on which code he used." Elena had already picked up a pen and paper. "Just give me a moment." Xavier stood up and looked at

POV: NicholeAlready the park was getting crowded and that was the idea. Thorne had chosen a Saturday midmorning when people had filled the benches and small children were racing through the grass and nobody noticed a woman pushing a baby carriage.I stroll along the road more slowly now. Lily is awake watching the top side as her eyes move around her head, her hands opening and closing. I kept my hand on the pushchair, walked normally and kept my eyes forward.My hearing aid and mouth piece was so small that I could hide it underneath my hair."East bench, two o'clock." Thorne's voice whispered in my ear. "You can't look. Just walk." He whispered.I kept on walking and Xavier was some distance back from me. I hadn't looked behind me since we got underway.Thorne's orders had been so specific that he said, ‘Don't look for your team, scan around. Just walk like a woman out for an ambling morning who is walking with her kid. Behave as if no one is observing you. The problem was I knew pr

Pov: Nichole"Nicely done, Nichole. You are really pretty, " Elena told me as she fixed the strap of my black silk evening dress. "But your shoulders are way too stiff. Please loosen them. The vultures will be able to smell your sweat.""I am doing my best, " I explained.I was moving from the corridor into the large ballroom of the Vance mansion. The big crystal chandeliers were nearly touching the floor and there was a very strong and harsh lighting on the three hundred high class members of the city with diamonds on necklaces sparkling under the bulbs. The room filled with the sound of clinking champagne glasses and low polite laughter. It was like a trap decorated with gold leaf. I was holding my head so that it would be parallel to the floor made of marble. I could feel the eyes of the crowd moving towards me, they were watching my every step. They knew about the park ambush. The news had been suppressed, but these people traded in secrets. They were waiting to see if I would br

Pov: Xavier The television screen in the safehouse kitchen flashed with red text. THE VANCE FAMILY COLD CASE A woman in a blue suit spoke fast into a microphone and behind her, was a large digital picture of my face filling the screen. Next to my picture was a scanned document from fifteen years ago.I stood by the window and kept the curtains pulled tight as the light from the screen hit the opposite wall in steady pulses. Every major news channel played the same story and not even to think of it, social media was worse. Millions of people were typing my name, calling me a murderer and a thief. Silas had done his job perfectly and then the news anchor changed the slide. Nichole’s face also appeared on the screen as the reporter called her a gold-digger. They said she helped me hide the family secrets to protect her new wealth.I looked over at Nichole as she sat on the small sofa in the corner and her knees pulled up to her chest as she stared at the TV with utmost shock. Each

The old warehouse was freezing and the air inside smelled like wet iron, rotting wood, and old oil. My flashlight beam cut a small yellow circle through the heavy dust, but the darkness seemed to swallow the light as I kept my left hand tight on the strap of the baby carrier against my chest. Lily was asleep, and her small face pressed into my jacket, but her tiny breaths felt too fast.Xavier moved one step ahead of me with his gun up and his eyes darting toward the iron rafters above us. Every sound, the drip of water from a broken pipe, the scrape of a rat across concrete, all of them, made my heart leap into my throat."We are too deep inside," I whispered as my voice sounded tiny in the massive space. "Xavier, we need to turn back, the laptop isn't here.""Two more minutes, Nichole," he muttered with his jaw locked tight. "Marcus said the old junction box was near the back wall and if the server is drawing power, it will be there."We rounded a corner made of stacked, rust