All Chapters of The Wife He Never Married: Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

JUNEThe door closed behind Dante and for a moment, I simply stood there because I felt like I couldn’t move. My fingers were curled tightly against each other, but they wouldn’t stop shaking and I looked down at them as though they belonged to somebody else.My mother was on the other side of that door, the word kept repeating inside my head, but it still didn’t feel real because I had grown up with an empty space where she should have been and I had learned how to live around it, how to carry it without letting it consume every part of me but now now she was here, close enough that I could reach out and touch her.I looked at the chair across from me, knowing that that was where she would sit and that was where I was going to meet the woman I had spent years missing.My chest tightened. What am I supposed to say to her? Hi, Mom? Where have you been? Why didn’t you come home? Do you remember me?The questions crowded my mind until I couldn’t tell which one hurt the most, the door ope

DANTEI watched June walk toward me and the first thing I noticed was her eyes, they were red but they weren’t the kind of red that came from exhaustion or a sleepless night, this was softer. It was the kind left behind by tears that had already fallen but she was smiling, although small and fragile but it was the first real smile in days. That alike was enough to tell me that the meeting had gone better than I had feared. Something inside my chest loosened and I hadn’t realized how tightly I had been holding my breath until I finally let it out. She reached me without saying a word, I opened my arms and she walked straight into them. Her body disappeared against mine, and the moment her cheek touched my chest, I wrapped my arms around her and held her as tightly as I dared.She buried her face against me. “She’s alive.”That was all she said and my eyes closed as I held her tighter. “I know.”Her fingers curled into the back of my shirt. “She doesn’t remember me.”My jaw tightened

JUNEI walked toward him and he didn’t notice me until I sat beside him.His thumb brushed over the edge of the photograph. “She would have loved to be a part of this.”My throat tightened ans I smiled sadly. “She… they still can,” I assured him and he raised his head to look at me. “At the reception.” I touched his shoulder. “This is just a precaution.”His eyes lingered on mine then he nodded and neither of us said anything else, honestly, we didn’t need to.The next morning, I woke with a strange mixture of anticipation and fear sitting in my stomach. I got ready slowly because today, I would be seeing my mother again.Dante had a meeting he couldn’t avoid, he kissed my forehead before leaving.“Call me if you need anything,” he said. “I will,” I replied with a small smile. Raphael and Enzo accompanied me, the drive was quieter than usual and I kept looking out the window as my mind wandered to the last meeting and how she had hugged me and touched my cheek, I held onto those mem

JUNE“It’s time to leave,” Angelo let out, his voice cutting through the tension in the room.I looked at him, hardly believing what I had just heard and my mother was sitting right there. Ares had just started saying something that could change everything I knew about her disappearance, and Angelo had suddenly decided that my time here was over.“Her time isn’t up,” Raphael said immediately, he and Enzo had come in when they heard the noise.Enzo stood beside him, his expression hardening “She only just got here,” he added, glaring at Angelo. Angelo’s eyes moved between them, then he let out, “it is when I say it is.”Something inside me twisted and I looked towards Ares trying to get through to him, but he was still standing behind Angelo, looking confused and slightly frightened by the tension surrounding him.I wanted to ask him what he had meant because I needed to know but I knew it was hopeless getting him to talk in that moment.“The hell it is,” Enzo snapped. “That’s her mot

DANTEBy the time I left the boardroom, my patience was hanging by a thread because Angelo was swinging two ways and he had already found another way to make himself a problem.While he kept June occupied with her mother, while he made sure every conversation around us somehow led back to the wedding, he had been making moves against my company and today, he had taken it a step further.A motion had been raised during the board meeting accusing me of financial misconduct… money laundering. Why the hell would I even be laundering money from my company?The words had barely left the man’s mouth before the room had gone still because apparently, a substantial amount of money had been transferred into one of my accounts.Money I had never seen, one I hadn’t requested nor could I explain how it got there. Hell, I didn’t even know about the money. Someone had done it deliberately because they wanted a paper trail that pointed straight at me.Fortunately, most of the older men on the board k