All Chapters of His Ex-wife Returned... Powerful!: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

“I won't.”I had to suck in a breath of patience, jaw locked. “Are you sure?”“I'm not ending what we have. This is the one thing that connects us, and I'm not going to lose that.“At least not without a fight.”He sounded serious.Really serious actually, that I just had to exhale lowly.“Alright then,” my hands dropped to my side, “we'll take this to court if that's what you want.”“What I want is to stay married.”My lips pressed in a thin line. At that point, I was tired of wondering what was wrong with him.He could be an asshole for as much as he wanted, I was done caring.All I knew was that I didn't even want to spend one extra day married to this jerk.But I was going to wait till the project's launch on Monday, so I didn't let anything distract me from its success.I nodded. “Alright then.”“What's going on here?” A voice called from behind.I stared over him to where a familiar looking woman stood on the first stair, her face in a frown.It was hard to not remember her, but

My gaze shifted from the bag to him, a pucker forming between my brows. “Why would you bring it?”“We've been working all day and you haven't had anything to eat, so I got you this.” He just went back to his seat, retrieved his phone and began scrolling through it like he didn't just do whatever the hell this was.“If I was hungry, I'd have asked Irea to get me something, I don't need this gesture from you.” I said, voice a little sharp.He only shrugged, eyes on whatever he did on his phone.“I'm not accepting this. Keep it to yourself.” I pushed the bag to him, and he frowned.“You can't reject it. I already bought it for you.”“Well you shouldn't have. Did you forget that we are nothing but business partners?”“‘Married’ business partners.” He said, like that made this any better.In fact, they only made my fist clench. “Stop it.”He didn't say anything for a second, before holding my gaze. “We're still together, Lisa. Whether you like it or not doesn't change that fact, and I know

“Cassie?” I frowned just as my brain snapped.There was no way I could let her see Imogen. I wasn't going to risk anyone from that family knowing about her.Especially not Cassie.Imogen was still asleep. Thank God.“Stay here with her, and make sure she makes no noise if she wakes up.” I ordered the driver. “Do not let her leave this car unless I say so, do you understand?”When he nodded, I pushed the door open and got out.Cassie was standing by her car, arms folded over her chest in a calm and composed position, so I decided to return the favor.I strode over.“How did you find me?”She shrugged once. “All I had to do was have my men trace your location, and here I was.”“So you stalked me?” She actually stalked me. I decided there was no use beating around the bush, so I asked, “What do you want?” “That's no way to greet someone—”“Oh shut the hell up and get straight to the point.” As it was, I had things to do.She sneered. “You really have grown wings now, haven't you?”I co

By evening, I had Irea drop Imogen off at Rachel's place, then went straight to my car where I drove off to the restaurant.Drex and Erica were already there when I walked in, and he smiled upon my arrival.I tried to ignore that, and just sat on the chair across from his.“Thank you both for finding time in your schedule to honor my invitation.” I said, just as a waitress headed over with a short head bow.She took our orders, then left, returning after with the meal and a bottle of an expensive wine. She poured us each a glass, before leaving.“This is my treat and way of appreciating each of your efforts in the success of this project.” I lifted my glass, so Erica did the same.Drex, however, stared at me, the side of his lips hitched up slightly.“It was our pleasure to contribute to this divine project.” Erica spoke after taking a sip. “And even more, having the opportunity to work closely with you, even if it was only for a few days.“This project has clearly increased my compan

“You're contradicting yourself, Drex.” I mumbled out.“What?”“You say you care about me, but do you remember your exact words that day? Five years ago?”“Can you please forget about that day?”“Forget?” A disbelieving scoff left me. “The only thing I can remember, Drex, is that day.“Right now, I don't care what's gotten into you, but I know all this shit you're spilling… I won't fall for it.” I pointed a finger at him. “You made it clear that you hate me. You hate everything about me. Ever since you opened the veil to my face, you had hated me.”He shook his head. “No, I-I didn't mean any of it.”The corner of my upper lip lifted in disgust. “Oh? When you looked me in the eyes and said them, you clearly meant each word, and now you suddenly didn't?” I huffed, while he ran a hand through his hair.“I know. I know that I sounded furious… That I made it seem like I despise you, but—”Erica coughed, hand moving to rub her eyes, before they opened.“Wh-What’s going on?” She asked slurrie