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บททั้งหมดของ The Heiress Returns: My Billionaire Ex-Husband's Regret: บทที่ 21 - บทที่ 30

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Chapter 21

Damon had released a statement at noon. I pulled it up and read it once.I wish Mireille nothing but happiness. This is a difficult time for everyone involved and I ask for privacy as I process—I stopped reading.I knew that statement. I knew the specific words he had chosen and what each one was d
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Chapter 22

Nine PM.Isabelle had gone at seven. Sebastien's team had cleared out at eight. The building was quiet around us.Just the two of us and the table covered in paper and the city going dark outside the windows.I was closing out my last document when he said: "Fontaine."I looked up.He wasn't looking
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Chapter 23

Four days after the gala and the building had developed its own gravity.I noticed it Tuesday morning. I was in the elevator going up to the conference room and I caught myself calculating whether he was already there. Not for a professional reason. Just — calculating. The way you track something wi
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Chapter 24

He walked me through it. Clear argument, solid reasoning, two supporting documents. I listened. Asked two questions. He answered both without hedging.We had it resolved in thirty-five minutes.He closed the folder.Picked up his wine glass.Looked at me across the table with the expression of a man
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Chapter 25

He didn't move.We sat in the stopped car for four seconds that had no explanation.Then I reached for the door.He got out on his side.We rode the elevator in silence. Her floor came first — my floor, always my floor first. The doors opened.I stepped out. Turned back.He was standing in the eleva
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Chapter 26

Sebastien's office at ten AM.Routine meeting. Board documentation, the Vande transfer finalization, two outstanding filings that needed my signature before end of week. Nikolai wasn't with me — administrative, didn't need two of us, I had told him that at seven-thirty when we finished the Vande cal
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Chapter 27

He said: "Mireille—"My phone rang.I looked at the screen.Nikolai.I answered before the second ring. "Yes."His voice came through flat and immediate. "Where are you."Two words. I had been reading him for three weeks at close range and I knew every register of his voice and those two words were
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Chapter 28

He understood.Not the contract. Not the arrangement. Not the strategy.He understood that whatever was happening was not what he had told himself it was. That there was no way back in. That the woman he had built his entire plan around was standing on a pavement next to a man who had gotten out of
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Chapter 29

I looked at him.He looked at me.I said: "You came in twelve minutes."He said: "Yes.""You said twenty.""Yes.""Why."He held my gaze.Three seconds."You know why," he said.The doors began to close.I put my hand out and stopped them.He watched me do it.I stood there with my hand on the door
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Chapter 30

I stood outside his door for longer than I should have. Not from doubt. I had made the decision in my apartment three floors down and I had not unmade it in the elevator and I was not unmaking it now. I was standing outside his door because going upstairs was one decision and knocking was the next
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