All Chapters of Too late to want me back,Ex husband : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Mara's POV "Sign it."The divorce papers landed on the marble desk between us like a verdict already decided.I didn't flinch. I'd been practicing not flinching for three years, through cold silences at breakfast, holidays spent alone in a house too large for one person, nights I'd learned to stop listening for his footsteps in the hallway.Ethan Croft stood at the floor-to-ceiling window, his back to me, hands folded behind him the way he always stood when he'd already made up his mind and was simply waiting for the world to catch up. The morning light cut across the skyline behind him, turning him into a silhouette, broad-shouldered, impeccable and unreachable, to he way he'd always been."I heard you," I said."Then pick up the pen, Mara."He called me by my name, Mara, not sweetheart or even Mrs. Croft. Just my name, clipped and efficient, the way you'd address someone you were dismissing from a meeting.I pulled the papers closer and scanned the first page without reading it. My

Mara's POV The leak had a name by morning.Daniel sent it in a single text at six forty-three, no preamble, no softening: Sofia Reyes, your housekeeper's daughter. She's been on Ethan's assistant's payroll for three months.I read it twice, sitting on the edge of the bed in my temporary apartment, still in yesterday's clothes, coffee untouched on the nightstand.Sofia, twenty-two years old, shy smile, always offered to carry my dry cleaning down to the lobby.I typed back: How deep?“Deep enough, she photographed documents from your desk twice. The receipt was probably photographed before it ever reached the dry cleaner.”I set the phone down.She'd been watching me for three months, which meant Ethan's suspicion hadn't started yesterday. It hadn't started with the receipt. It had started sometime around the time I'd begun making quiet, careful preparations to leave, and someone had noticed before I thought anyone was paying attention.I picked the phone back up.“Does she know what

Mara’s pov“Mara mara,Mara can you hear me”I heard Daniel voice faintly as i finally can back to reality “Yes yes i can hear you”“what happened you just stalled all of a sudden,who was on the other end”his face flushed i could tell Daniel was immensely worried.“It's was Vivienne,i stammered she says she wants meet up tomorrow alone ”“Why for what reason?”“She knows Daniel she knows” my voice was almost fading out,”she went ahead to mention how she knows something i don't know about my marriage and why Ethan married me”.“Did this motherfuckers play me for a foolWas i not enough all of my sacrifice for three years was tied to something Please tell me am dreaming and this is a joke Daniel”My emotions were all over the place,my mood shifted from being scared to being angry then finally sad.“Three years,three years of carefully curating this plan and this little bitch thinks she can take it all from me She has already taken my home,my husband what more does she want?”I was agi

I woke up to the latest headline in town.It was on every blog,social media platforms and newspaper that ever existed.BILLIONAIRE CEO OF THE CROFT INDUSTRIES TAKES HIS WIFE TO COURT FOR A MISUNDERSTANDING RELATING TO THEIR ONGOING DIVORCE…I was stunned that Ethan was really going to bring this to the public,was he really going to drag the croft legacy in the muds like this.The first person that came to mind immediately called,it was my lawyer Margaret.This was no longer a divorce but now a war putting us in a tight spot, especially my exit plan. I picked immediately “Have you seen the headlines”“Tell me about It”i responded I placed my phone in my ears using my shoulder to wage it as i poured myself some coffee.“What happened?”“I thought we were going to take the safe route?”“His lawyers and his girlfriend are terrible advicers i must confess”“I'll start getting the papers ready and I'll need every information i can get from you,so please if you have anything to tell me my

Mara's pov “What are your plans with Vivienne”Daniel asked.My thoughts are always cloudy and if there's one thing i knew it's that Vivienne is alot to take down alone but i too wasn't a walk over.“I don't know yet Margaret says i must close every leaks that knows about the baby”.“But how do we get Vivienne to keep shut that the question”.“Tough,i don't know i just need to go home, sleep and think this whole thing over honestly”.“Yeah we should get you home”“We?Hell no you obviously had a long day dan you should go home”“But…”“I insist”“Ok then drive safe”“I will”i smiled at him you could see the contemplation in his body movements“Goodnight”he said as he walked backwards gently”“Night Daniel”I chuckled,it was cute but i was doing quite fine not until i turned to the pigeon hole to see my phone ringing it was Vivienne.I picked with a slide“What do you want?”“You could atleast let out a greeting. It shows courtesy hmm weird for some one who claims to be off class”“I'm