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Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Understood?
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 60: Understood? .The first thing that comes to Archibald’s mind is that he does think Isabella is smarter than Alan, but he doesn’t say it. He would never. “In that case, I owe him an apology.” Sighing, he takes a bite of his burger. Lately, everything he says or does seems to be wrong… He just wants everyone to get along...After they’ve finished eating, Archibald visits Alan in his room. He’s is standing in front of the mirror, lifting dumb bells. “Hey… I wanted to apologize. It wasn’t my intention to show you up in front of Isabella or imply that you need his help. I just thought it would help you bond with her since you’ve been trying to make amends about the whole situation.”“Whatever,” Alan mumbles, not looking at Archibald.“I’m serious. I didn’t mean to hurt you.”“You know… maybe you should just worry about yourself and your bond with Isabella than about me and my projects I’m working on.”“What’s that supposed to mean?” Ar
Last Updated : 2024-07-12Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Aim
Ditch the Ex, Date the Billionaire .Chapter 61: Aim.Jake watched Aileen type on her phone as he sat across from her at the small dining table.They hadn’t talked about their common denominator since they figured out that Isabella was a common factor to them. He wanted to bring it up but was afraid it would set up something between him and Aileen and he didn’t want to lose her just yet. “So what are you doing?.” He asked softly. She looked up from her phone before shrugging as she set it down. “I just followed my uncle and his girlfriend on IG.”“Isabella?.” Jake arched his eyebrows surprised.“Yeah.” She nodded taking a waffle to munch on it. “Why do you look surprised?.”“Because I thought you’ll be against her. I mean, I’ve been at home when Isabella would be telling my sister about you guys reaction to her dating Archibald. I thought your family wasn’t happy with his decision.”“Alan and my mother aren’t happy with the decision. Not me!.” She corrected. **“She’s there now
Last Updated : 2024-07-13Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Ups and Downs
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 62: Ups and Downs.After all the emotional Ups and Downs in the last eleven days, Isabella braces herself to face one last challenge on Monday: going back to work. In order to avoid running into anyone with Archibald by her side, Isabella takes a ride to work a few minutes after Archibald, allowing the Bancroft’s driver to drop her off. Ignoring all the coworkers staring at her in the garage, the elevator, and in the hallways, Isabella heads straight for Hector’s office to report back on duty. Although Hector smiles kindly, he sounds a little stiff when he wishes her a good morning. “Glad to have you back, Isabella. How are you?”“Good.” When Hector raises his brows, Isabella can feel her cheeks turning pink. “I-I mean, the last two weeks were really… eventful, but I’m glad to be at work again. I just hope that things won’t be awkward between us."“Why would they be awkward?” Hector asks, leaning forward in anticipation. “Um… Becaus
Last Updated : 2024-07-14Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Conversations
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 63: Conversations ."Hector wants to be your friend?" Archibald steals one of Isabella’s fries and dips it into the ketchup. Isabella got home from work at 6:00 p.m., but Archibald had to stay for another hour because of a board meeting. Since he had something to eat there, he quickly stopped at a fast food restaurant to bring her burgers and fries for dinner."Yeah,” She answers brusquely, taking a bite of her cheeseburger.Frowning about her one-word answer, he steals another fry. "You don't sound excited about it." "I am.”“... But? ” Archibald asks when she doesn’t continue.Shrugging her shoulders, she fixes her eyes on the counter she’s sitting at. “Isn't it a little... inappropriate? He's my supervisor." "And I am like your main boss," Archibald chuckled. "Hector is a family friend. He’s… almost like a second son or would I say, one of my dad’s mentees, so I don’t think you should worry about it." "Yes, but that's different. I
Last Updated : 2024-07-15Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Arguments
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 64: Arguments .“Oh my… I’m so sorry, Alan.” Hector looks at Alan compassionately. “Even if your grand father don’t believe you, he should know that you are only doing all of these because you care for your uncle and don’t want him to be used.” “I know,” Alan grunts, clenching his fists. “But something like this was doomed to happen, imagine my grand father deciding to put me on suspension, considering how much my uncle is sucking up to Isabella. It’s what I’ve been afraid of all this time. But hey, at least now I know how low they both think of me.”Hector tries to smile encouragingly. “I’m sure he doesn’t think low of you, Alan. He’s just… a little blinded by love.”Alan snorts. “That’s not love. That’s having a midlife crisis and being desperate. But I don’t fucking care anymore. If she decides to bleed him dry, so be it.”“So… you don’t want to break them up anymore?” Hector asks, lifting his brows. “You’re just giving up?”Alan shru
Last Updated : 2024-07-16Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Who?
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire . Chapter 65: Who? . “What ended up happening to the call later? The one with the investors?” Hector asks, eyes flickering back and forth between his two computer screens as he rapidly types away on his keyboard. He’s wearing a navy suit today, his hair neatly combed back off his forehead, trademark wire-framed glasses perched on his nose. “It’s still happening today, but it was bumped to 4:30,” Isabella says. She’s sitting with her legs crossed at one of the two tables in Hector’s large office, her hair falling down into her eyes, scanning through a contract and highlighting all the points she wants Warren to review. “I sent you an updated calendar invite a few minutes ago.” “Thank you,” Hector says. He sounds distracted. “Also, sorry—did you talk to the events team about the gala? About the plants?” “Yes, I did,” Isabella says. She can feel a smile creeping onto her face, but Hector would give her hell if he saw her smirking about this,
Last Updated : 2024-07-18Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Text
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire . Chapter 66: Text .Isabella 2:36PM You must not be that busy considering you’ve spent the last 30 minutes texting me boyfriend 💖 2:37PM i needed a break from work. can you really blame me? Do you have any idea how hard it is? Isabella 2:37PM i literally have no idea what that is boyfriend 💖 2:38PM i’m honestly so jealous Isabella 2:38PM well this little conversation was nice and weird but i am starving and need to order food and get back to my job thank you boyfriend 💖 2:38PM ok! don’t forget to send me the info Isabella 2:39PM i’ll send it when i’m done with work. also to be completely serious for a moment: thank you, i really appreciate that you are coming with me boyfriend 💖 2:40PM don’t worry about it. i’ve never been one to turn down a free meal. plus i’m bulking right now Isabella 2:40PM does that mean trying to get bigger? it didn’t seem to me like you need to do that at all???? boyfriend 💖 2:41PM oh really? how
Last Updated : 2024-07-19Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire Begin
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 67: Begin .The gala is being held at a gorgeous venue on the water—all natural wood and tall ceilings and open air, decked out from top to bottom with lush greenery. The open space has been set up with dozens of tables for everyone to sit and eat dinner, along with multiple bars scattered along the perimeter, and there’s a podium near the front where most of the unit heads will give their speech and announce the annual employee award winners.Isabella decides to ride with Riven, who’s attending as Dara’s plus one. Having Archibald come meet her at Dara’s apartment seemed like overkill, so she ended up just texting him that he shouldn’t bother and telling him they could meet at the venue. When they arrive, Archibald is already waiting in the lobby, off in the corner by himself and staring down at his phone. It takes Isabella a moment to spot him, because he looks like a completely different person than what he is usually like at the of
Last Updated : 2024-07-20
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Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 143
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 143: .It happens by accident.Archibald’s out of town again for work but tries to call in the evenings when he can and Isabella, consequently, does her best to be available despite the three-hour time difference. Dara can roll her eyes all she wants — and does — but keeps her smart remarks, if not to a minimum, then to an average.(“It’s part of our arrangement!” Isabella protests noisily as if the forty-five minutes she spends holed up in her bedroom have anything at all to do with those initial terms of their relationship and aren’t simply because she misses the man like a limb when he’s gone.Dara makes an unflattering snort and digs her elbow into Isabella’s side, stealing a pretzel out of her bag while she’s distracted.“Uh-huh,” she says, “Is that what we’re calling it now, Ms. Codependent?”“I don’t think I like you anymore.”Isabella, among other things, is a liar. A bad one.)It happens by accident because Isabella’s bundled up
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 142:
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 142: .See, if Isabella’s life was a movie, this is where it would end.A great romantic conclusion tied up with a neat little bow, roll credits, and scene.But this isn’t a movie, and this isn’t where it ends.“I’m thinking about going back to school,” Isabella says one afternoon during a lunch date. She doesn’t stop stirring anxiously at her gelato until Archibald reaches out to physically stop her before it turns to soup, and she won’t like it as much.“I think that’s a good idea,” he replies.Isabella is still basically unhireable, further blacklisted professionally by the drama that came out of her father’s quick but messy trial that put him in jail for years and ruined any good reputation any of them might have had.(The man left a single furious, frothing voicemail on Isabella’s phone that could be summed up as three straight minutes of death threats that included everyone from Isabella herself to the cat to the goldfish that had o
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 141:
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 142: .“You know, I almost broke up with you last night.”Archibald’s steady calm, the largest holdover from last night, holds up even as he nods in agreement. “I know.”Isabella scowls at him.“How’d you know? I barely knew until I’d decided not to.”“Because I know you. You’ve been given precious few people in life who haven’t broken your trust, and I did that by going behind your back. It would have been an understandable reaction, and I wouldn’t have begrudged you—“Isabella slams that ocean blue tumbler down on the table with a clatter. Her eyes are bright with emotion, and her lips are turned down in an irritated scowl.“Maybe you wouldn’t,” she snaps, “but I’d sure as shit begrudge you if you just, what, let me break up with you without so much as asking me not to? What the fuck, man.”“You are an adult who can make your own decisions—““Yeah, but that doesn’t mean I want you to just let me go when I’m about to do something stupid!
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 140
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 140:.There is coffee, kept hot in the kind of insulated tumbler that costs too much and coordinates with the beachy colors of the house. Isabella has a suspicion that it was bought specifically for her, because Archibald is a crazy person who thinks about that kind of stuff. It doesn’t stop her from drinking it.“Tell me what you did,” Isabella orders before she can talk herself out of it and in spite of the very large part of her that doesn’t actually want to know. “Something something something about buying out the board?” she elaborates with a pointed stare. Because Chantelle, of all people, wouldn’t be bailing unless the ship is sinking. The ship might already be sunk if she’s that willing to abandon what she sees as her birthright. A birthright that she’s always seen as a competition, even though she’d won right out the gate and Isabella’s so stupid that it took literally being disowned to see that she never stood a chance.“Oh, th
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 139
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 139: .Isabella and Alan had settled many a disagreement with an angry tussle in bed that was worth the drop afterward for being able to get a little of her own back, to feel seen and heard. Except that Archibald already makes her feel seen and heard, and right now Isabella just sort of wants one of them to hurt, and she’s not sure who.“Stop, stop, enough,” Archibald orders, kinder than Isabella deserves, and wipes the beginnings of tears out of the corners of Isabella’s eyes before she even realizes that she’s about to cry. “I know, baby. I know.”“You don’t know anything.” It comes out way less cool and way more pathetic when Isabella’s voice cracks on what is definitely an overtired, strung-out sob. “You don’t know anything.”“I know that you’re exhausted and running on fumes and that you’d rather have the kind of sex that’s not good for you and that you don’t even want than get what you need,” Archibald tells her. “I’d say I know pl
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 138
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 138: .The only tears Chantelle’s ever shed have been of the crocodilian variety, as purposeful a tactic as any insult. Even after she’d forced herself to learn how to stop, she’d never managed to wield emotion like a weapon. At times like this, Isabella sort of wishes that she had.Isabella trembles and wraps her arms around herself, chilled even underneath the blanket. The edges are getting wet with saltwater and crusted with sand, and she would bite anyone who might try to take it from her.Archibald doesn’t touch her, but Isabella can feel him practically vibrating with the way he wants to. Right now, Isabella would be happy to bite him, too.“I don’t think you’re stupid.”“Well, it sure feels like it.”Archibald literally wrings his hands in open distress, and even now, it doesn’t feel remotely like a win. Isabella’s gotten exactly what she’s asked for—space and someone else being the one to hurt, but it doesn’t lessen her own, not e
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 137
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 137:.It's still pitch black outside, but Isabella finds herself at the edge of the water anyway. The ocean doesn’t give a damn about Isabella’s battered foundation and rolls happily up the night-cooled sand, leaving only foam and bits of seashell behind.Isabella sits at the shoreline and tucks her knees up under her chin.She wonders, miserably, where Chantelle plans to go.God, she hopes her sister gets as far away as she can.Isabella's spent her whole life loyal, but Chantelle? She’s fanatical to a degree that Isabella could never quite manage, and she wonders if putting her loyalty into a cage match with her relentless drive to protect herself finally did what nothing else could—crack that fanaticism. She’ll never know; it’s not her place now, and even if it was, Chantelle would never let her.God, she hopes Chantelle got as far away as she possibly can.Mai, with much derision, refers to it as Isabella's "better place theory." Mom
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 136
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 136: .“Oh, please. Because your boytoy just woke up and bought half our board and their corresponding shares out from under us for some weekend summer fun? I didn’t think you had it in you, but I guess you had to grow a spine sometime.”Isabella’s brain goes blank. Chantelle’s words land with all the delicacy and grace of anvils, pinning her down under their weight like a butterfly in a box.“I didn’t—you’re wrong,” she protests.“Sure, okay. Keep telling yourself that. Anyway, don’t bother saving this number; I’m ditching the phone once my plane boards. Congratulations on your win, Izzy. We always knew you’d ruin the family, but I didn’t think it’d be like this. Have a good rest of your life, I guess.”There’s a click and then a dial tone. Isabella tries to call back, but it goes straight to a generic voicemail that she knows won’t ever be checked. At best it’s a burner phone; at worst it’s Chantelle’s regular phone that she’s willing t
Ditch the Ex and Date The Billionaire CH 135
Ditch the Ex. Date the Billionaire .Chapter 135: .There’s the temptation after breakfast to go back to bed and find another way to entertain themselves, but Archibald shuffles her to go shower instead.“It’s about ten miles to get into town,” he says when Isabella protests in an appropriately dignified manner, definitely not pouting at having to put pants on. “You’ll like it.” Isabella does pout, then, and is rewarded for her bad behavior by being hoisted up onto the bathroom counter and thoroughly kissed until she’ll say yes to just about anything. And she does say yes, eventually, and delays the inevitable by about ten minutes by sticking her hands down the back of Archibald’s pajamas.Isabella’s never had this kind of domesticity in a relationship before, and it should feel strange but it doesn’t, just scaffolds its way up the norms built in by months of getting to know each other. It doesn’t feel weird at all for Isabella to snag Archibald by the wrist and tug him into the sho
