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

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

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

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

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

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