All Chapters of Ex-Husband, You Cheated. Now, Watch Me Love Your Uncle: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

~Eliza~And again, Madame Grace outdid herself.As I turned to look at myself in the mirror, I couldn’t help but marvel at just how good I looked… for the second time that night.While my hairstyle remained unchanged, this time, I was dressed in a silver counterpart to my earlier blue outfit. And my makeup was changed to a smoky-eyed look that gave me a fierce air.Somehow, without knowing what happened, Madame Grace figured out exactly what I needed. With this new look, I felt better prepared to face Atlas’ family, including my ex-husband and sister.The madame had been almost gentle while she and her staff worked on making me look presentable once more. Perhaps the slight sadness in my eyes had given away the truth.No matter, I was simply glad for this second chance. Earlier, I had allowed Daniel and Isabella to get under my skin.Despite my thought that I had gotten over everything those two did to me, I was starting to realize that I still had much to do. There was still—There wa

~Eliza~It has been about one hour since I met Atlas’ father and I think I want him to adopt me.The man has already offered me everything from a glass of ridiculously expensive wine to the latest model of a fast car. All while talking trash about his son in a fond, adorable way.Atlas himself lounged beside me, his arm resting on the back of my chair. His entire posture was relaxed, at least, outwardly. But I could feel the tension radiating from him even though none of it showed on his face.I stole a glance at him and saw he had his head slightly cocked as he paid attention to what the woman sitting beside him was saying.She had been introduced as Robin, the daughter of someone or the other. Honestly, after a few names and faces, I lost track of who was who.But Robin had been decidedly cool towards me when we met. She had run her baby-blue eyes over me in a dismissive way that, despite my best intentions, stung. Then she tossed her mane of platinum blond hair and looked away befor

~Atlas~Something was wrong.Eliza was still her usual self, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that she had changed. Somehow, her morning smiles now looked forced and way too polite.And I was losing my mind, wondering if maybe, I was just seeing things.I cleared my throat and dropped my cup of coffee. “So, uh, how’s the food?” I asked in a casual tone.Eliza looked from her plate and gave me a blank look. Then she blinked and smiled. “It’s alright.” Then she resumed eating, her shoulders hunched over her food.Instead of the usual grimace whenever she had to eat the abominations I regularly made for us, she was cool. There was no hint of complaint on her face and she seemed almost happy to be eating soggy pancakes.I had even made today’s meal extra disgusting to draw some form of reaction from her, but Eliza remained distant and unaffected.I stared at her bent head like I could dig out the answers I needed with the force of my thoughts only. But no matter how hard I watched, she gav

~Eliza~Luca froze mid-reach into his pants’ pocket and stared at me like I had lost my mind.An irrational giggle rose in my throat as I slowly drew back the hand I had instinctively shot out. At that moment, it struck me just how funny the situation was.Surprisingly, he hadn’t seemed freaked out by my intense reaction to what probably looked like nothing.But right now, he was wide-eyed, gaping at me as if he was one more word away from running out of the office and away from me.A snort escaped me at the image of Luca screaming as he raced out of here. I clamped a hand over my mouth and gave him an innocent smile. At least, I hoped it would pass off as innocent.“What I meant was that there’s no need to bother Atlas,” I said smoothly and made my lips stretch into a wider smile.“He’s probably busy and all that, so don’t,” I added and paused to slash my hand in the air between us. “Do not call him.”Luca’s head started to bob up and down before he caught himself and narrowed his eye

~Atlas~Sitting in the dark inside my office, I felt completely drained and sick to my stomach.Being the head of a multi-billion dollar empire involved countless meetings. But there were some times when it meant I had to do things that were disagreeable to my basest instincts.That would be torturing a young man for the knowledge he was too terrified to divulge.Cole had been nearly out of his mind with fear only a few minutes earlier and he had quickly revealed everything I needed to know.And now that I did, I felt deeply disgusted by what I discovered. Some people really went lower than hell just to get something that doesn’t even belong to them in the first place.I flipped my phone in my hand, lost in thought as I planned how best to handle the situation. Going headlong into threats would be disastrous for Cole and his sister.But at the same time, letting that horrible pig go scot-free went against everything inside me.I had to do something, fast, before it got too late.Then a