《The Heiress Returns: My Billionaire Ex-Husband's Regret》全部章節：第 21 章 - 第 29 章

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

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

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

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

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