Semua Bab Three years, Three Billion dollars- His worst mistake : Bab 1 - Bab 4

​POV: Evelyn​The clock on the mantel ticked toward two in the morning, and the tea in my cup had long since gone cold, leaving a bitter film against the porcelain. Arthur had never been this late without calling, not once in the three years we had been married, so I stayed on the sofa with my eyes fixed on the darkened driveway visible through the window. The silence of the house was heavy, only broken by the sharp, rhythmic tapping of heels coming down the hallway.​"Still sitting here like a loyal dog, I see," Rebecca said, leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed over her designer silk robe.​I didn't turn around to look at her, but I could hear the smirk in her voice as I replied, "Arthur isn't home yet, so I thought I’d wait up to make sure he’s alright."​"He’s a grown man, Evelyn, not a toddler who needs his hand held, but since you’re already making yourself useful as the unpaid night watchman, you can go to the kitchen and make me those lemon tarts I like," she de

POV: EvelynMorning,The hospital smell was still clinging to my clothes as I pushed open the heavy front doors of the Hayes mansion, and my hand was trembling so much that I had to shove it into my coat pocket to hide the crinkled ultrasound report that the doctor had handed me only an hour ago. I walked through the foyer like a ghost, my mind spinning with the news that I was six weeks pregnant, and it didn't make any sense because Arthur had always been so careful to make sure we never had a child together, often reminding me that he wasn't ready for that kind of tie to me.​I sat down at the edge of the dining table and stared at the empty chair where he usually sat, wondering how a person’s life could flip upside down in a single afternoon, and I was still trying to find the right words to tell him when I heard his car pull into the driveway. He came through the door a few minutes later, looking stressed and checking his phone as usual, and he barely glanced in my direction befor