All Chapters of The Billionaire Next door (Who I Hate): Chapter 41

KATE’S POVNobody moved.Stefena Romano, the woman who had made an art form out of saying exactly as much as she intended and never a syllable more, was sitting in that chair looking at her husband like she had finally run out of road.Carter had gone very still.Not the polite stillness of a man waiting for someone to finish speaking. The kind that meant his body had made a unilateral decision to stop while his mind caught up.“Stefena,” he said. Just her name. Low and careful.“Let me finish,” she said.He sat back down slowly.She didn’t look at anyone else in the room. Not at Justin standing by the wall with his jaw tight. Not at me. Not at Fiona, who had gone very quiet in the way of someone who already knew what was coming and was bracing for the version of it spoken aloud.She kept her eyes on Carter.“I found out about Martha three years into your relationship with her,” she began. “Not the affair, I knew about that earlier. I mean I found out about the child.”Carter’s expres