All Chapters of The Billionaire Behind My Divorce: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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ALICIAAlicia returned home with an exhaustion that settled directly into the bones, heavy and irreversible, draining warmth from her body until even breathing felt like effort. The drive back had passed in silence, yet her mind had not been quiet for a single second.Theodore’s jacket still lingered in her thoughts. The warmth of it. The scent. It was funny how it had felt so natural that she almost walked away with it.The way he had draped it around her shoulders without asking permission first, as though caring for her was instinctive enough to bypass thought entirely.Then her thoughts drifted toward Tobey waiting somewhere inside that enormous house, surrounded by people who had never cared for his existence.A sharp ache twisted inside her chest.By the time she stepped through the front doors, the light in her eyes had dimmed into something distant and hollow.Elias saw her first. He had been arranging fresh mail near the staircase when he looked up, concern settling over his

LOVE OR VENGEANCE

THEODOREHe spent all of the next day debating whether to go.His only decent shirt had sleeves slightly too short at the wrists, and his shoes looked apologetic under direct sunlight. He had no gift to bring, no clever conversation prepared, and absolutely no business standing among rich kids at a birthday party.But sometime before leaving work, he passed the shop’s waste bin and noticed a single rose set aside because the stem had bent slightly.It was still beautiful.So he took it home carefully, trimmed the stem the way he had seen the florists do, and carried it to Vermont Park that evening like it was something sacred.The party was enormous.Music floated across the lawns while strings of warm lights glowed between trees, and teenagers dressed in designer clothes crowded around decorated tables, laughing loudly enough to sound important.Theodore stopped near the entrance almost immediately.Wrong place, his mind whispered.The feeling arrived fast and familiar, crawling bene

NO CONTINGENCY

ALICIABy morning, Alicia no longer trusted her own body.The fever had dragged through the night without mercy, leaving behind aching muscles, chills that came in violent waves, and a heaviness in her chest that made even sitting upright feel exhausting. Sleep had arrived only in fragments, thin and restless, interrupted by nausea, coughing, and the constant dull ache behind her eyes.Still, she had gotten dressed.Because life, cruelly enough, rarely paused simply because someone was falling apart.Elias found her downstairs just after eight, one hand braced subtly against the kitchen counter while she waited for the kettle to boil.For several seconds, he simply stared.“Madam,” he said carefully, “you look worse.”Alicia gave the faintest hum of amusement. “Good morning to you, too.”“I’m serious.”“I know.”She reached for a mug, but the movement made dizziness sweep unpleasantly through her head. Elias noticed immediately and took the cup from her before she could drop it.“That

GREY SWEATER

ALICIABut before long, Alicia heard hurried little footsteps approaching from somewhere beyond the living room.“Mommy!”Her eyes flew open.Tobey stood before her with bright excitement bursting across his face, bouncing lightly on his feet as though seeing her had become the highlight of his entire week. Before Alicia could even sit upright properly, he launched himself into her arms, wrapping himself around her with enough force to nearly knock the breath from her lungs.“I missed you so much,” he rushed out breathlessly. “Uncle Liam said you weren’t feeling well, and I wanted to call you, but he said you needed sleep and-”The rest dissolved into noise.Alicia barely heard him.Her arms closed around him instantly, desperately, as though some terrified part of her still feared he might disappear if she loosened her grip even slightly. Tears spilled before she could stop them, hot against her cheeks while she buried her face into his hair.For several seconds, she simply held him.

HAPPY EVEN

THEODOREUncle Wu’s question followed Theodore long after he left the tea house.Even now, seated alone inside his office with the city glowing beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, the words continued circling quietly through his mind like something unwilling to loosen its grip.Is this protection… or vengeance?Theodore leaned back slowly in his chair, one hand resting against his jaw while the untouched coffee beside him released thin trails of steam into the silence.He did not answer the question.Mostly because he wasn’t entirely certain anymore.His gaze drifted absently toward his knuckles, his mind regurgitating one of the memories he'd also prayed to forget.He had been twenty-four then. Still thin from hunger. Still carrying survival in his body like a permanent state of tension.The box in his arms had nearly blocked half his vision as he walked through the narrow alley behind Uncle Wu’s herbal supply store, carefully balancing a fresh shipment against his chest while tryin

YOU NEVER WIN

ALICIABy the time Levi returned home that evening, Alicia looked better.She didn’t exactly look healthy or rested, but she was strong enough to disguise the damage beneath the surface.She sat curled into the corner of one of the smaller upstairs living rooms, the television casting soft, shifting light across the walls while quiet dialogue from an old romance movie filled the otherwise peaceful space. The room itself was warmer than most parts of the house emotionally, despite the cool air circulating gently from the built-in vent system above. Dark leather sofas framed the space neatly, shelves lined with books and decorative pieces, softening what would otherwise have looked too polished to live in.A mug of hot cocoa rested between Alicia’s hands, and half a plate of cookies sat untouched beside her.Wrapped around her small frame was the oversized gray sweater that still smelled faintly unfamiliar in the most distracting way possible.She had not realized how comforting warmth

I PROMISE

THEODOREThe hospital room was quiet except for the monitors.Steady beeping filled the silence in slow intervals while pale evening light filtered weakly through the blinds, washing everything in muted gray.Theodore sat beside Alicia’s bed without moving. His gaze rested on Alicia’s bruised neck again, then on the faint discolouration near her jaw, then on the IV attached carefully to her arm.Every mark sharpened something dark and quiet inside him.The soft shift of movement against the hospital sheets pulled him from his thoughts.Alicia stirred weakly before her eyes slowly opened.Disorientation crossed her face first as she struggled to register the unfamiliar ceiling above her. Then her gaze shifted sideways and landed on him.For a second, she simply stared.“Teddy…?”Her voice came out small and rough with exhaustion.“Is that really…?”“Yes.” Theodore immediately leaned closer, taking her hand carefully into both of his before pressing a soft kiss against her fingers. “It’

CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS

ALICIAThe house was quiet in the peculiar way large homes became quiet at night.More hollow than peaceful.Alicia sat alone at the small table near the window in her room, slowly finishing the soup Marissa had insisted she eat before taking her medication. The steam had long faded from the bowl, and so had her appetite.The hospital smell still clung faintly to her skin.Her doctor had refused to discharge her immediately after the collapse. Severe stress, dehydration, exhaustion - all spoken in careful professional tones that somehow made everything sound smaller than it felt.She’d spent three entire days in that hospital room, and Levi had not come once.Not a single call or a message, not even through Elias.But that didn’t faze her. Not even a little. In fact, it would have scared her if he had shown up.She leaned back slowly in her chair, fingertips brushing the rim of the spoon.Her mind drifted unwillingly toward Theodore again.Toward the strange stillness she always felt

HER ABSENCE

LEVILevi had been staring at the same financial report for nearly ten minutes before he finally realized he had not absorbed a single number on the page.The realization only worsened his irritation.His office remained brightly lit despite the late hour, the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him reflecting fragments of the city skyline against the glass, but the familiar view brought him none of the usual clarity it once did. These days, work no longer felt precise or orderly. It felt noisy. Endless. Burdensome in ways he had never previously noticed, as though some invisible structure beneath the company had weakened.Or perhaps not invisible… but absent.Levi exhaled slowly and reached for the pen resting beside the report, intending to sign off on the revised projections before the board meeting tomorrow morning, but the moment his fingers tightened properly around it, a sharp sting shot through his palm and forced him to loosen his grip almost immediately. The pain was not unbeara

TOYS AND TENSION

LEVIThe sharp sound of his office door opening pulled him abruptly from his thoughts.Iris entered without knocking, her expression already tense enough to sour whatever patience remained in him.“You’re still here,” she said as the door shut behind her. “I thought you would’ve gone home by now.”Levi straightened slightly in his chair, immediately sealing away every trace of emotion from his face. “What do you want, Iris?”Her eyes narrowed faintly at his tone before she crossed the office toward him. “I want to know why the divorce process keeps stalling.”Levi’s jaw tightened almost imperceptibly.The Novaris proposal remained dangerously close to collapse, and until the partnership was finalized, Alicia’s executive position within C-R needed to remain untouched for legal and financial stability. Investors were already nervous about the company’s declining numbers, and if news of the divorce leaked before the merger concluded, the damage would be catastrophic.None of which Iris k

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