All Chapters of My Ex-husband Billion Dollar Mistakes : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

116 Chapters

Chapter 51-Too Late To Listen

POV: Marcus While driving to Xavier's house, I kept one thought going through my mind the whole time, he really had to hear this tonight.What I had overheard in that hallway was too heavy to be kept until morning. Every moment Xavier waited without that knowledge, it was another moment the trap was closing on him. I got to his place at seven thirty-two.There were two black SUVs already parked behind the other in the driveway, their engines were on although the drivers seemed totally relaxed at their posts. Xavier was leaving before I had even fully opened the door. He came downstairs with his dark navy suit. His watch was glinting as he moved, like a man walking confidently with a certain pride and a good place to be looking forward to, getting ready to go."Hey, Marcus, good to see you." He greeted, still focused on getting his shoe straps done, "Why are you here?"I walked towards him. " Yes Xav, we have something on ground I need to discuss with you. I just need a few minutes

Chapter 52 - The Plan

POV: NicholeMarcus called Evelyn at nine fifteen.By nine forty-five, the three of us were sitting around my kitchen table with two cups of tea, one glass of water, and a problem that had a forty-eight hour deadline.I have met Marcus before tonight, which was enough for me to open the door when they arrived together. He was tall, well dressed, and ready for the conversation.He sat across from me and put his phone face up on the table as he started the conversation."I'll start," he said. "Because what I heard tonight changes the shape of everything."He told us all his plans and Mira's exact words against Xavier, the joint portfolio buried in the engagement contract, the attorneys already on standby.I sat very still through all of it.Evelyn sat beside me with her hands folded on the table, listening carefully without interrupting. When Marcus finished, the room was quiet for a moment."She was never after Xavier," I said."She was always after the Harrington accounts," Marcus sai

Chapter 53- What Mira Planned

POV: MiraI waited for him at the meeting place, a bar on the east side of the city that nobody visited unless they had a reason to stay invisible.With no decent lighting, no familiar faces and the music was low enough to cover a conversation but not loud enough to matter. I arrived at ten and sat in the corner booth facing the door.He walked in at ten past and sat across from me without introducing himself and placing both hands flat on the table."You called," he said."I did," Mira said."What do you need?"Then I began. “I need a deal to be struck tonight. You will carry out a deadly mission for me in my suppose engagement party and you must not leave any trace.”The man looked at me for a moment. "Oh well Miss, that's a very specific order.""Of course, why not, I'm a very specific person," I responded adjusted my cloths in pride."Well, your price reflects that.""I didn't come here to discuss the price," I said,as I slid a sealed envelope across the table. "This is the half

Chapter 54- Do You Love Me

POV: NicholeI was a good half hour early.There, on a bench at the margin of the park, I was staring at the streetlight above me. The place was really quiet with no pedestrians, or traffic noises, because it was already late, and people had retired for the night.I texted him two hours ago and got no response from him.Anyway, I waited because I had nothing to lose by waiting but will have everything to lose by not showing up.In less than 30 minutes, I saw his headlights appear in the distance at quarter to ten.The car stopped at the curb. He stepped out and, as I was watching, he looked around before he spotted me. Then, without a word, he came over to me with his hands in his pockets. He came to a halt just a few steps away from me."What's going on here, Nichole?" he asked. "Why are we standing here?"I got up and looked him in the eyes. "Xavier, because you don't answer my calls anymore. You ignore my messages and I had to find some other means of getting in touch with you.""I

Chapter 55-Shield

POV: XavierDo you love me?I saw her eyes welled up in tears Infront of me as she asked me those three little words which I've been avoiding for two weeks now. It was not that I didn't want to answer but atleast not at this point.However, when I was about to reply to her, then suddenly a gunshot abruptly interrupted the moment and all other matters we were discussing became irrelevant.The noise reached me before I understood what it was. The muscles of my body responded first, as I threw my hands on Nichole shielding her from the shot and shoving her behind me with my arms firmly wrapped around her, from the direction where the gun came from.As soon as I recognized the person who came out of his hidden place to come and face us squarely.That was Daniel Osei. An ex-business partner. Who had contract dispute that turned sour and that was the last time we saw each other physically.During that period he even got lawyers to threaten me, which I took seriously for a week until I won

Chapter 56- The Answer

POV: XavierHe released a shot, immediately it cracked through the air and I shut my eyes.I felt it was at my back. Is this how death feels? I felt no pain.I was still holding Nichole when she immediately adjusted back, I held her again with both arms, scanning through her face and shoulders, running my hands down her arms. She was still trembling but standing and nothing hit her.While we were still in shock, something heavy dropped behind us.I turned around and Osei was flat on his back. His gun had skidded three feet from his hand. His shoulder was bleeding through his jacket and he was breathing in short pulls but he was down and he wasn't getting up.That was when I saw Marcus, he stood further down the path with his eyes cutting across the dark spaces between the trees and he held that position without making a sound, looking for any danger further. When he noticed there was no further danger, he exhaled, dropped his hands and walked toward us."Marcus." I stared at him. "Wh

Chapter 57- Wrong Energy

POV: XavierThe house was lit up when I got back.Every ground floor light was on, soft music was coming from the sitting room, and a faint smell of something warm from the kitchen, a type of atmosphere someone had spent time arranging.I pushed the front door open and Mira was right there.She had already changed into something fitted and dark, her hair was neatly packed and a glass of wine in her hand and a smile that took up her whole face the moment she saw me."There you are." She moved toward me with her arms open. "I was starting to worry about you."She hugged me and I put one arm around her reluctantly and stepped back.She felt the difference immediately and her smile."Are you okay?" she asked."I am fine," I said. “I'm just tired."I moved past her toward the stairs."Xavier." Her voice followed me. "We have the final dinner confirmation tomorrow and Harrington's attorney called this evening about the contract signing. I need ten minutes with you to go over the….""Tomorro

Chapter 58-Not This Time

POV: NicholeBeatrice was standing at my front door with her arms folded, dressed like she had somewhere important to be but had made a detour specifically for this.I stopped walking for exactly one second.Then I kept going."I've been waiting for you," Beatrice said to me."I can see that," I said, reaching my door and standing directly in front of her without stepping back an inch. "You're also standing in front of my door so you'll need to move.""We need to talk Nichole.""Well we don't," I said. "So move out of my way Beatrice.""Raymond hasn't come home in two days. He is not answering my calls and he is not at his office and every time I try to trace his movement it leads back to you.""So how is that my problem?" I asked."You are destroying my marriage Nichole," she said.My blood boiled at her stupidity of how she dares to stand in front of me and talk about marriage. I looked at her fully."Your marriage," I repeated slowly."Yes," she said. "My marriage, my husband, my f

Chapter 59- Follow Your Heart

POV: XavierThe call lasted four minutes.Four minutes was all it took for the board's lead attorney to remind me that I had seventy-two hours left before the Harrington partnership agreement was formally dissolved and the one point four billion dollar deal would be taken from me permanently.I stood at my bedroom window after the call and stared at the city below without seeing any of it as I got lost totally on what to do.Three days to loose my worth.I put the phone down on the windowsill and held both hands flat against the glass and just stood there and behind me the room was quiet. Mira had stopped crying an hour ago and gone to the guest suite without another word. The silence she left behind was the kind that had an opinion in it.I thought about her sitting on the edge of the bed with tears running down her face telling me I kept breaking her heart.I thought about the engagement contract on page eleven.I thought about Nichole's palm pressed against my chest in that park as

Chapter 60- The Weight of the Crown

Pov: Xavier My phone on the marble counter screamed. It was exactly 8:00 AM. I was so lost in thought that I didn't need to look at the caller ID to know who it was. My skin prickled with a cold sweat that had nothing to do with the air conditioning. I picked it up."Xavier," my Uncle’s voice boomed through the speaker. It was a voice used to command empires, heavy with the scent of expensive cigars and old power. "The board called me ten minutes ago and they told me you’re letting the Harrington deal slip through your fingers like sand."I leaned my forehead against the cool glass of the window as I thought of what to answer him. "I’m weighing my options, Uncle.""Options?" My uncle laughed heartlessly. "There are no options, boy. There is the Harrington partnership, and there is the end of the legacy your father bled for. They are saying you are giving up and now I need you to tell me they’re lying. Tell me you aren't throwing away thirty years of work for a feeling." He said an

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