บททั้งหมดของ Billionaire Husband Regretted Faking Bankruptcy: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

Ten minutes later, the police arrived. Vivienne was arrested for manslaughter. They put cuffs on her in front of Jonathan. She lunged for his wrist, half-feral."Jonathan, Jonathan, please. We had three good years too, didn't we? Let me go. Please."He pulled his hand away."Officer, I have additional evidence to file. Three years of fraud. Vivienne and Marcus Tang conspired to drain my accounts. She caused intentional bodily harm to my wife, including the loss of our child."He looked Vivienne dead in the eye."I am not going to let this go. Your sentence isn't over."When they took her out, the last bit of light in Vivienne's eyes went out too.When he was done cleaning up, Jonathan went back to the basement studio where he and Selene had spent three years. He dropped onto the floor and breathed in, like he was trying to inhale whatever was left of her in the room.At dusk, his assistant called."Sir, we have an update. About Selene.""What?" He was already standing. "Where is she?"

Selene looked down at the ring approaching her fingertip. She pulled her hand back.It was strange. In those years when Jonathan was "broke," she'd imagined this moment hundreds of times. Him on one knee. Pulling out a ring that cost more than she could process. Promising her a real life. She had genuinely thought that would be the most romantic thing that could ever happen to her.It was happening. Right now. It meant nothing.Whatever fantasy she'd had about this moment, his lying and his cheating had taken a knife to it years ago.Selene laughed. She was laughing at the girl she used to be. The one who gave and gave and never asked for anything back. She was laughing at Jonathan too. At how dumb he'd been. The shamelessness."Jonathan," she said quietly, "please go home. My answer is no. Because I don't love you anymore."It was like ice water down his back. Every part of him went cold. “I don't love you anymore.” Five words, straight through the sternum."You don't love me? You can

There was something charged in the air between them. Damien picked up on it. He said quickly, "I'm not putting anything on you.""Liking you is my business. I've liked you for eight years. I still do. I'm not asking you to be with me. I just want you to be happy."Selene had felt the way he looked at her for weeks now. Since she'd run into him in Paris, he had been with her every single day.When she first arrived, she couldn't stop spiraling. Every memory pulled her under. Damien sat with her through all of it. He absorbed the worst of her grief and panic. He walked her, slowly, out of the place she'd been stuck in.He went with her to meet her advisor. He helped her find an apartment. He took her to buy bedsheets and a kettle and a toothbrush holder. He showed her how to navigate the neighborhood. When she didn't believe in herself, he sat there and listed all the reasons she should.When she walked with her chin to her chest, like she didn't want to be seen, he kept telling her, unt

The girl who had once shared a packet of instant ramen with him in a basement apartment and called it happiness had now, publicly, written off every year they'd spent together. The Selene up there was glowing. Confident. Beautiful in a way that felt almost unreal.At this moment, her eyes flicked across the room and landed on Jonathan. She looked away in the same beat.After the toasts, Selene and Damien took the floor for the first dance. Jonathan watched from the sidelines and felt, suddenly, that he didn't know her at all. They'd been married. He had never once known she could dance. He had taken her to none of his galas. He had never asked her to be his partner on a dance floor.Something inside him tore.The dance ended. The couple moved through the room with champagne flutes, talking to guests. After a full circle, Selene's eyes settled on him again.He didn't know where the courage came from."Selene. Selene, do you really hate me that much?"Selene and Damien were holding hands

Selene was on stage. The crowd was applauding. The atmosphere was electric. After the talk, Selene opened the floor to questions.That's when she noticed him. A very thin man in a cap and a mask, in the corner of the auditorium. He was watching her speak. Quiet. Still. His eyes had something gentle in them, something close to admiration. He didn't stay long. About fifteen minutes, and then he was gone.When her eyes passed over that corner again, it was empty. Selene kept her composure and moved on to the next question.That evening, Jonathan waited outside the venue for a long time. He finally saw Selene come out, surrounded by reporters and fans. She glowed.Over the past few months, with the depression and everything else, the business had stalled. Deals had fallen through. Partners had pulled their investments. When he tried to pull himself back together, he found he could barely go back to the past. Selene's figure lingered in his mind all the time, impossible to shake off. Distra