All Chapters of CHASING HIS EX-WIFE: My ex-husband wants me-too late: Chapter 111 - Chapter 116

She could do that.She had been doing it for months, imperfectly, struggling against herself, but she had been doing it and she was better at it now than she had been at the beginning and the conversation at Lena's had given her more to work with rather than less.She finished her coffee and went to get dressed.Lucas called at ten."How did it go?" he said, and she heard in the question the careful quality of someone who had been available the night before and had not been called and was now checking in with the understated concern of a person who trusted her judgment and also wanted to know she was alright."He told me about his mother and You," she said. "And Philip Carver. And the buyers who withdrew." She paused. "He acknowledged what he built and how he built it without flinching from it.""And?" Lucas asked, not sounding surprised at all, which Jayda filed away to assess later."And there's something else," she said. "Something he's not ready to tell me yet. He said it will cha

She looked at him with the expression that was reading him, the specific focused attention she had always brought to moments when she needed to understand what was being said underneath what was being said."You're afraid," she said slowly. "Not angry. Afraid."He said nothing."Antonio," she said, and the composure had shifted, had become something more genuine, less performed, the specific quality of someone who was looking at a situation and arriving at a new understanding of its dimensions. "What is he?""Someone you should not have contacted," he said. "Someone you need to stop contact with immediately and completely.""I can't just—""Yes you can," he said. "Whatever exchange has happened, whatever you've offered or received, you end it. Today. You don't meet with him, you don't respond to his messages, you don't make any further communication through Daniel Reeves or anyone else connected to him."She stared at him."You know about Daniel Reeves," she said."I know about everyt

And for the first time since this had started, since he had first understood that Enzo was circling Jayda's company with the patient precision of someone who had been planning for a long time, the full picture assembled itself in his mind with the cold clarity of something seen completely for the first time.Jayda was not the target.Jayda was the mechanism.Riverside Racing was the credibility. The industry presence. The piece of the motorsport world that would sit in Enzo's portfolio and make his legal case stronger and his professional standing undeniable and his claim to be exactly what he said he was — a significant independent operator in the world the Moretti family had built their name in — impossible to dismiss.She had been a mechanism from the beginning.He sat down at the table.Felt the specific weight of that understanding sitting in his chest alongside everything else he had been carrying since the divorce papers and the distance and the folder he had handed her in Dess