Semua Bab Dumping My Ex For His Uncle: Bab 41 - Bab 50

EVELYN My whole body went rigid with embarrassment. Not again. Why did this man always end up seeing me in my worst and most humiliating moments? First, there was the night at the hotel when I’d drunkenly stumbled into his room and mistaken him for a gigolo. Then there was the hospital, where he’d found me drenched in the rain, watching Julian drive away with his pregnant mistress. Then Kayda had shoved me in front of the entire department, and he’d been there to witness that too. He was even the one who caught me before I reached the floor. And now this, waking up in his house wearing his clothes after nearly getting hit by his car because of my carelessness while running away from my own husband. As if that wasn’t humiliating enough, he wasn’t just Julian’s uncle anymore. He was also my boss at work. “Why do you look like you’ve seen a ghost?” he asked, one eyebrow lifting slightly as he studied my face. There was a faint trace of amusement in his voice, though his expression

EVELYNI opened my mouth, then closed it again, the words sitting right there on my tongue but refusing to come out a second time. Saying it once, even half of it, had already cracked something open inside me that I wasn’t ready to deal with. Saying the whole thing out loud, admitting it completely to someone else, felt like it would make it permanently real in a way I couldn’t undo.And then there was Viktor himself, sitting across from me with that unreadable calm on his face, the same calm that had cracked for just a second when he saw Julian’s name flash on his phone. If a name alone had done that to him, I didn’t know what hearing the full truth might do, and some small, frightened part of me wasn’t ready to find out.“I really don’t want to talk about it anymore,” I said, avoiding his eyes and hoping, probably foolishly, that he would let it go this time.He studied me for a long moment, long enough that I almost regretted saying anything at all. Then, to my surprise, he didn’t

JULIAN“Sir, she still hasn’t been spotted at her apartment.” Daniel’s voice came through the phone, calm and professional, though I could hear the slight hesitation in it, like he already knew this news wasn’t going to make me happy.I kept pacing back and forth across my bedroom, my hand gripping the phone so tightly that my knuckles had gone pale. I had sent Daniel over to keep watch outside Evelyn’s apartment hours ago, thinking she’d have to show up eventually, but so far, there was nothing. And now the clock was working against me because it was only a few minutes until the time I had booked at Viktor’s restaurant, and I still hadn’t heard a single word from Evelyn since she ran out of the house last night.“Keep watching,” I told him, even though I already had a sinking feeling she wasn’t going to show up. “Call me the second you see her.”I ended the call and dropped onto the edge of my bed, running both hands through my hair. Paige had already been by Evelyn’s apartment earli

JULIANGrandpa turned his attention to Chloe, studying her with the same sharp curiosity he used on everyone. “And who might you be, dear?”Chloe opened her mouth immediately, that same bright smile still fixed on her face. “I’m…”“She’s the wife of Gerald, a good friend of mine,” I cut in quickly, the words leaving my lips before I even had time to think them through properly. I had no idea where that particular lie came from, but the second it left my mouth, I realized how well it actually worked. Saying she was just a friend would have sounded thin and easy to question, especially with her standing there visibly pregnant. But a friend’s wife explained the pregnancy without raising any obvious red flags. At least, I hoped it did.I couldn’t let someone I had only ever seen as entertainment ruin years of careful planning, not when everything I had worked toward with Grandpa, the company, the inheritance, all of it, was still hanging by a thread.“This is my grandfather, Chloe,” I sai

KAYDA I arrived at the company earlier than usual, mostly because I hadn’t slept well the night before, my mind was still stuck on everything that had happened over the last week. The withheld pay still stung, more than I wanted to admit to anyone, but what really kept me up at night was the humiliation of being forced to compete against Evelyn on the Riverside project, someone who had just spent a week at this company and now the new boss decided she deserved a shot at going head-to-head with me. Years of hard work, and suddenly I was being treated as if my seniority meant nothing at all because of one mistake Evelyn had happened to notice and correct. I pulled into my usual parking spot, gathering my bag from the passenger seat, when I noticed a familiar black car pulling into the parking lot and parking in the space reserved for Mr. Sullivan. My chest tightened slightly, a small, hopeful thought crossing my mind. Maybe I could catch him before the day got too busy and remind him