Untouchable ex-wife of the ruthless billionaire CEO
Lillian reappeared.
This was beyond what he could have dreamed; he had not known what to anticipate tonight or why Ashford Holdings had asked him. His body stopped as he fixed her, a weird, alien tsunami of feelings slamming into him. He wasn't sure whether it was something else totally, relief, uncertainty, or rage.
He could not, however, turn away.
Lillian's arrival changed the whole mood. Her appearance had changed the energy in the room; the clamour of the gala vanished into the background. The abrupt force of her strength seemed to have thickened the air itself. Every exchange had stopped, every eye pulled to her.