All Chapters of Forbidden Love wtih my Ex-Husband's Billionaire Brother: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

139 Chapters

Chapter 50 – Did I say something wrong?

✧༺Joseph༻✧I had plans for today. Good ones.Wrap up the morning stretch by noon, step away from the desk at a reasonable hour, find Giselle and spend lunch with her like a normal human being. Simple. Manageable. I'd even looked forward to it in that quiet way I'd learned not to examine too closely.None of it happened.The first meeting ran long. That pushed the second one back, which pushed the third one into the slot I'd mentally reserved for lunch, which pushed everything else forward like dominoes falling in slow motion while I stood there watching and couldn't do a single thing about it.By the time the last meeting wrapped and I finally came up for air, the pile waiting on my desk had grown into something that required actual attention, approvals, sign-offs, proposals from three different departments all needing eyes on them before end of day.Each one represented money coming in. I knew that. I was grateful for it in the logical, grounded part of my mind that understood how bus

Chapter 51 – Why would you help me fight against your own brother?

✧༺Giselle༻✧There's something nobody tells you about meeting a man's family after everything falls apart, that sometimes, the family is easier to be around than the man ever was.I noticed it the second Joseph picked up that knife.It was small. Just the way he held it, tilted slightly wrong, fingers wrapped around the handle like he was guessing at the right grip. Ken used to do the exact same thing when he first started teaching himself to cook.He'd stood in our kitchen with that same uncertain energy, trying to look like he knew what he was doing when he absolutely did not, and I'd laughed at him and taken the knife right out of his hand and shown him how to hold it properly.He'd learned the whole thing just to impress me. Spent weeks at it. And I had thought, back then, that it meant something. That a man who would go out of his way to learn something just to make you smile was a man worth keeping.I'd been wrong about that.My hands went still over the lobster in the sink. I ha

Chapter 52 – Don’t impress with the knife

✧༺Joseph༻✧I hadn't meant to dodge her question but how could I tell her that all along, I never wanted them together because I always wanted her for myself?To make a clean exit, the vegetables became my support so I grabbed them.Are you going to teach me or not?The laugh that came out of her was worth it. It broke out of her chest before she could catch it and she pressed her lips together trying to pull it back and barely managed to get halfway there. Something about watching her try to contain it made it even better.I kept my face mostly straight and turned back to the vegetables.She shook her head and told me, “we have to wash them first,” making me pause my movement, as I followed her to the sink without argument.The space wasn't built for two people standing side by side but neither of us stepped back to fix it. We just stayed where we were, shoulders almost touching, both of us reaching into the running water to rinse the vegetables.I kept my eyes on what my hands were d

Chapter 53- I'd rather eat from your hand

✧༺Joseph༻✧"It's fine." I brought my finger to my own mouth, closing my lips around the cut, and tasted something faint and warm underneath the iron. I dropped my hand and glanced over at her."Did I miss the wine? Because there's something in my blood that tastes like Cabernet and I'd like to know if you started without me."The tension snapped right out of the room.She laughed, surprised out of her, and she shook her head and turned toward the bottle sitting on the counter. "It's right here. I only drank a little."She poured a glass and slid it toward me and I picked it up, watching her drift back to the stove like she needed the distance and the task equally. The color in her cheeks was fading but not all the way gone. I took a long sip and turned back to the cutting board, picking up the knife again with considerably more respect for it this time.We worked like that for a few minutes, her at the stove, me at the board doing my best not to lose any more blood, and the kitchen fil

Chapter 54 – Do you want my help or not?

✧༺Giselle༻✧I still hadn't fully recovered from the finger incident.That was the honest truth. The warmth of his skin against my tongue. The way neither of us had moved for those few seconds that felt much longer than they had any right to. The look on his face when I'd finally stepped back.And now he was sitting across from me at the kitchen island with that expression on his face, the one that was somehow both completely relaxed and entirely too aware of everything happening in this room, and he'd just said he wanted to eat from my hand.I tried to figure out if he was serious. Maybe it was his finger. Maybe cutting himself had done something to his grip and he genuinely couldn't hold the fork properly right now.That was a reasonable explanation, and I was going to go ahead and work with that interpretation because the alternative was something I wasn't ready to sit with."You're not a baby," I said.It came out with less authori

Chapter 55 - I'll hold onto your offer

✧༺Giselle༻✧I thought about it honestly before I answered.Did I need help? Right now, in this moment, everything was lined up the way it needed to be. My lawyer was good, better than good, actually, she was the kind of woman who made opposing counsel nervous just by walking into the room, and the paperwork was moving the way it was supposed to move.Ken's little text hadn't changed any of that. It had annoyed me, rattled me more than I wanted to admit, but it hadn't actually moved anything.But then I thought about Joseph’s status, and what he represented in a room. Not just the money, though that was real enough but the kind of quiet authority that made people straighten up and reconsider things before they said them out loud. Ken was comfortable, had resources and connections and a family name that opened certain doors. But Joseph was in a different category entirely, and we both knew it.Ken would know it too."I'll hold onto your offer,

Chapter 56 – For the rest of your life

✧༺Giselle༻✧Knox walked into my office that morning like he had something heavy sitting on his chest. I could tell before he even opened his mouth. There was someone with him, a woman I immediately recognized, but pretended I didn’t.He turned to me first. "Good morning, Giselle." He cleared his throat. "I want to let you know that today is my last day. I'll be heading back to oversee the Mexico branch."I blinked. Something about that didn't sit right with me. "Isn't Mexico the head office?"The question was already out before I could pull it back. The woman beside him shifted slightly, and Knox gave me a look, not unkind, just careful."It was. Mr. Macmillan is moving the head office here, so Mexico becomes a branch going forward." He paused, then gestured toward the woman standing at his side. "And please forgive me. I should've introduced her first. This is Antoinette Sinclair. She's the new HR Manager."Antoinette smiled. One of those smiles that never quite reaches the eyes. She

Chapter 57 – Word is she's going to be the CEO's wife

✧༺Giselle༻✧Antoinette wasn't finished. She straightened up, let her arms drop to her sides, and looked at me with something that wasn't anger anymore. It was worse than anger. It was the look of someone who's been sitting on something and finally gets to put it down."And before you think about running to anyone for help," she said quietly, "maybe you should know what everyone else already does.""Bring it on."The words came out of my mouth before I even thought about them. Cool. Steady. Like I wasn't the least bit rattled.Antoinette laughed. Not the nervous kind, the kind that comes from someone who genuinely thinks they're holding all the cards."You still think you're untouchable because the Macmillans are brothers." She shook her head slowly, like I was a child who hadn't figured out how the world worked yet."Joseph and I are close. Closer than you think. I was at his penthouse when it was still under construction, before the paint was even dry on the walls. He's offered me a

Chapter 58 – Jo, I need your help

✧༺Giselle༻✧"You sound surprised." I kept my voice even, almost amused. "Don't you know your boss is about to get married?"It was a double move. I was covering the fear sitting in my chest and fishing for the truth at the same time. But before Knox could get a word in, Antoinette cut right across him."How would he know?" She looked at Knox like the question was almost insulting. "Does Joseph strike you as the type to sit around discussing his personal life with his employees?"Something about the way she said it, so comfortable, so proprietary, made my stomach turn.Mandy cleared her throat and reached for her bag. "I should go present myself to Mr. Macmillan properly." Her voice was breezy and light, but her eyes were already moving toward the door. She wanted no part of whatever this was becoming, and honestly, I couldn't blame her.Knox was right behind her. "Same. I need to hand over my notes to Mandy before end of day." He didn't look back at either of us.And then they were go

Chapter 59 – Talk to me first

✧༺Joseph༻✧The oatmeal was still warm.Giselle had made it before we left the penthouse that morning, and after she disappeared down the hallway toward her office, I sat at my desk and pulled the bowl toward me. Two spoonfuls in, maybe three, and the quiet I'd been looking forward to was already gone."Sir." My assistant appeared in the doorway, back straight, tablet in hand. "The executives are waiting in the conference room. Mandy arrives in a few minutes. The HR Manager is already here."I swallowed what I had in my mouth and glanced at my laptop screen. The pending approvals alone were going to eat up a good chunk of the morning, and that was before I even got to the reports stacked on the left side of my desk."Send the executives here," I told him. "I'll run the meeting from my office."Knox stepped in, already reading the room. "I'll use the time to walk Mandy and the HR Manager through the floor, introduce them to the staff. By the time they join you, you'll have covered whate

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