All Chapters of Forbidden Love wtih my Ex-Husband's Billionaire Brother: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

139 Chapters

Chapter 40 - Your neighbors will introduce themselves

⊱Knox⊰I'd been working for Joseph Macmillan for years.International flights and back-to-back meetings, of managing schedules that would give a normal person a breakdown.In that time, I had seen a lot, had watched deals worth hundreds of millions get closed over dinner like it was nothing. I had seen grown men sweat through their suits in Joseph's boardroom and had watched entire departments restructure overnight on his word alone.And through all of it, I had seen women come and go.That part was never something I dwelled on, wasn't my business. But you couldn't work that close to someone for six years without noticing patterns. The women in Joseph's life followed one.They showed up beautiful, interesting for a while, and then they were gone. No drama, no extended goodbyes, no particular grief on either side. Joseph moved through those situations the way he moved through everything, controlled, and completely unbothered when it was over.

Chapter 41 - Are you still with her?

⊱Joseph⊰Dealing with Ken had eaten up more of my evening than I wanted to give him.He wasn't worth the time. But some situations required you to show up and handle them personally, and this was one of them.By the time I walked out of that hospital, I was done with him in every sense of the word. I pushed him out of my head before I even reached the elevator.There were other things to take care of. More important things.Giselle's father had been on my mind so I made some calls. Pulled some strings that most people didn't have access to pull.By the end of it I had arranged for a specialist to be flown in from Cuba, one of the best in his field, someone whose calendar didn't open up easily but opened up for the right conversation. Everything got signed and confirmed and by the time the last call ended, it was late. Later than I'd planned.I skipped the office. Went straight home instead.There's a specific kind of feeling th

Chapter 42 - We'll head out together

✧༺ Giselle ༻✧I was not expecting company.The doorbell rang and I didn't even flinch, just dried my hands on the front of my jeans and headed straight for the door. Knox had been in and out all evening helping me settle in, so my brain had already decided it was him before I even touched the handle.He probably forgot to give me an important information. I pulled the door open without a second thought, a casual "hey" already forming on my lips.And then every single thought in my head just evaporated.Joseph Macmillan was standing on the other side of the door, not anyone I had mentally prepared myself for. Joseph. In the flesh. Right there in my doorway like that was a completely normal thing to happen on a Tuesday evening.I stood there gripping the door handle so hard my knuckles probably changed color. My mouth opened. Nothing came out. I tried again."Mr — sorry — I mean Jo —"

Chapter 43 - When did this start?

✧༺ Giselle ༻✧ The thought crossed my mind almost immediately after I agreed. What would the other staff think if they saw us pulling up together every morning? I worked for this man. I lived in his building. And now I was cooking him dinner and sharing a car ride. From the outside looking in, that was a lot.But then I looked at his face and he seemed completely unbothered by the whole thing, so I pushed the thought out and just asked it directly. "You don't mind if someone sees us together?"His eyebrows went up just slightly, like the question genuinely confused him. "Why would I?"He said it so simply, like it was

Chapter 44 - You deserve every bit of it

✧༺ Joseph ༻✧I genuinely thought having Giselle next door would make things easier.I was wrong about that. Completely, embarrassingly wrong.When she was far away, the ache was dull, something I could push to the back of my mind and bury under work and late nights and back-to-back meetings. Distance made it manageable.But now she was right there, on the other side of a wall, close enough that I could have knocked and she would have answered, and somehow that was so much worse. Close enough to feel but still completely out of reach. That was its own kind of painful that I hadn't prepared myself for.She had promised to cook dinner for me, and that was the one thing I was actually looking forward to. I held onto it. But my brain refused to shut off long enough for sleep to come, and I laid there in the dark for what felt like hours, staring up at the ceiling, listening to nothing.Eventually I gave up.

Chapter 45 - Don't say I didn't warn you

✧༺ Giselle ༻✧I counted the minutes sitting on his couch. Ten. Maybe fifteen. Could have been twenty. I honestly stopped keeping track at some point.And then he came back down the stairs and I had to work really hard to keep my face neutral.Because the man who had opened the door for me twenty minutes ago with the sleepy eyes and the disheveled hair and the boxer shorts, was completely gone.In his place was someone else entirely. Tailored jacket, every hair in its right place, that particular kind of calm on his face that powerful people practice until it becomes second nature. He moved differently too, like he had a switch somewhere that he flipped on the way down the stairs.Hot Hollywood action star to cold corporate CEO in under twenty minutes flat.I looked down at my hands and reminded myself to act normal.The warmth he had for me hadn't gone anywhere though, that part stayed, even underneath

Chapter 46 – My honest advice to you is to grant the divorce

✧༺Kennedy༻✧My hands were shaking by the time I finished reading it.Not from fear. Not even from anger, at least not yet. More like that specific kind of shock that hits you when something you never actually let yourself believe could happen is suddenly sitting right there in front of you, printed on official paper with a court stamp at the top like the universe decided to stop being subtle.A petition.A divorce petition from Giselle.I read it twice. Then a third time. Like maybe the words would rearrange themselves into something else if I just looked long enough.They didn't."Jack!"My voice came out louder than I intended. It bounced off the walls of the office and I didn't care. I could feel my eyes burning, not tears, I wasn't there yet — just that hot, pressured feeling that builds up behind your eyes when your bod

Chapter 47 – So you're going to help me get out of it

✧༺Kennedy༻✧"If the evidence doesn't exist…" he paused, choosing his words, "then the case doesn't exist." He held my gaze. "If every piece of documentation she's built this on were to disappear before the court date, there would be nothing to proceed with."The room was quiet for a second.I turned it over in my head. Felt it settle. Looked at it from every angle.Then I nodded. "Fine." I walked back to my desk and stood behind it. "Prepare to defend me in court. By the time we get there, the evidence won't be a problem."The lawyer looked at me for a long moment. Then he put his glasses back on, closed the folder, and stood up. He didn't ask how. Smart man.The second he was gone, I picked up my phone and called Jack back in."Two things." I sat down, already thinking three steps ahead. "First, tell HR to hold off with that secr

Chapter 48 – My end is handled

✧༺Kennedy༻✧A tear spilled over and ran down her cheek.Before maybe a few months ago, maybe longer, that would've done something to me. I would've felt it somewhere. The pull of old habit, old softness, something.But standing here right now, looking at her face, I felt absolutely nothing except a mild, distant disgust that surprised even me. Like whatever had connected me to Annie had been quietly dissolving for a long time and I was only now noticing that it was completely gone."Don't stain my fingers with your dirty tears," I said, and even I could hear the cold in it.Pain moved through her eyes. Real pain, the kind that didn't perform. I noted it and moved past it."Giselle took me to court." I kept my grip where it was, kept my voice level. "My lawyer's advice was simple, destroy every piece of evidence." I let that sit for exactly one

Chapter 49 – I was thinking I'd watch you cook

✧༺Giselle༻✧Ken's text was still sitting on my screen when I put my phone face-down on my desk and made a deliberate choice to leave it there.Court won't go the way you think it will.I'd read it three times. The fourth time I almost typed back. Then I stopped myself, set the phone down, then I went back to my food as if nothing had happened.A drowning man will grab onto absolutely anything, a rope, a branch, a piece of driftwood, it doesn't matter. The desperation doesn't make the thing he's grabbing onto real. Ken texting me with that particular brand of confidence was the same thing. He was going under and he knew it, and this was him reaching for whatever he thought might keep him afloat.I wasn't going to be that for him anymore.So I worked. I put my head down and I worked, and somewhere in the rhythm of it the afternoon moved

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