How to Divorce a Grumpy Billionaire

How to Divorce a Grumpy Billionaire

last updateLast Updated : 2023-08-28
By:  Sofia CastellaCompleted
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Despite being forced by her parents to marry in order to save her younger sister fron the same fate, Rose Springs has a very clear plan in mind: she will remain married to the cold and rude billionaire Aaron Vamcap for only one year, to ensure that the contract her parents want so badly to be concluded and, than, she can file for divorce. Which shouldn't be difficult, since her husband and his entire family visibly hate her. However, the more time she spends in that isolated mansion, the more Rose is surprised by the fact that everyone there seemed to think she was the worst person in the world, but also happy to realize that she is getting them to really know her. So much, when the time to leave comes, a part of Rose feels strangely sad to leave the Vamcaps behind, including her grumpy husband. However, inexplicably, what she thought would be a peaceful situation turns into a mess when Aaron refuses to give her a divorce. But, wasn't he the one who said that she would never be a Vamcap, when they met? What was wrong with him?

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Chapter 1

Prologue - Rose

“What does that mean?!”

The sound of her husband’s growl made Rose swallow hard, but not out of fear. After spending an entire year preparing for this moment, she really had thought that she would be calmer and even content at this moment. But, as she turned towards Aaron, Rose realized that the only thing she had done was fooling herself. Because, seeing him standing in the middle of that office, his suit jacket tossed aside, the top buttons of his shirt undone, his dark brown hair disheveled and his eyes as dark as a moonless night covered in na expression of revolt , as if she had just cheated on him, Rose couldn’t help but remember the day they had become husband and wife in that same office. Of course, the version of Aaron that was before her now was very different from the man she had met that day and, maybe that’s why her heart was so tight when she had to say that sentence.

“These are the divorce papers.” She explained, adjusting her glasses nervously on the bridge of her nose, “I thought it would be a good idea to move them forward, as the one-year deadline we both agreed on is almost up.”

Her voice sounded terribly shy and shaky even to her, which made Rose struggle even harder to try to pull herself together. After all, it was absolutely ridiculous that she was acting this way because of the end of a marriage neither of them had chosen. As much as she’d grown to love the Vamcaps and consider each one of them the members of the big family she’d always wanted... Surely Aaron wouldn’t want to stay forever married to a woman he’d been forced to accept. Just like she didn’t want that for herself either... Did she?

“What you mean?” Aaron’s question, spoken in the middle of na incredulous snarl, as if she’d just said something crazy, surprised Rose so much that it not only snapped her out of her confused thoughts, but also made her raise na eyebrow.

“I’m talking about our agreement.” She answered slowly, though she knew there was no way he really didn’t remember, “That our marriage would last a year, until you got the documents my father promised you. I even thought about suggesting we end it when you got them, but since Andy said it would be good for you to argue that you were now married, when you had to go to court again, so I...” she continued admitting, again full of hesitation, but Aaron didn’t seem very interested in that particular subject.

“That was a year ago!” he argued, as if the whole thing was nonsense, which only made her even more confused.

“Uh… Yes.” Rose nodded, not understanding “Didn’t you hear what I said? The deadline is almost up, so I thought it would be best...”

“The situation was very different back then.” Aaron continued to talk, starting to pace back and forth as he gripped the papers she had handed him with rather exaggerated strength. “We were both very different back then!” finally, he stopped, his back to her, slamming his hands on the wood of the table. “Was it your parents? Are they trying to force you to do this by threatening your sister?”

“No, that’s not it.” Rose hastened to explain, knowing he was probably worried that the Springs might be trying to interfere in the Vamcap court battle yet again, “Actually, that’s the last thing they want me to do, since you’re still sending money for Grace. But, don’t worry, Aaron, I promise that no matter what they try to do to stop me, I won’t give up until we get a divorce...”

As she spoke, Rose took a few tentative steps forward, until, just as she was about to gently touch his shoulder, Aaron caught her by surprise by suddenly turning around, getting so close to her that their lips were literally inches away. From distance. So close that, feeling the heat of his body, almost inviting her to hug him, Rose can’t help but remember that night by the pool, where they almost...

With a gasp of sheer embarrassment, she finally managed to force her body to move away from him... Or at least try to move, because the moment she took the first step back, Aaron’s hands flew to her waist, holding her in place with a gentle touch, yet still firm enough to make it impossible for Rose to try to pull away from him again.

“Why?” Aaron snarled, bringing his face even closer to hers, with that intimidating and sullen expression that she knew so well.

“What?” she stammered, anxiously trying to look away from his lips, to keep that warm feeling creeping up her spine from driving her crazy.

“Why don’t you want to be a Vamcap anymore?” he asked again, those eyes as dark as na obsidian Stone iana burning in hers “You said you'd do anything for us. That we were your family.”

“And you are!” Rose tried to argue, feeling her heart break as she saw the betrayal in his eyes, couldn't help but wonder what she had done wrong to make him feel that way, just because she was willing to fulfill their agreement "I always I'll be here for you no matter what, but... Today, after what happened...” she murmured sadly “I realized that maybe it was better not to give Alec false hopes about the relationship between the two of us... I want him to know that he can always count on both of us and that we love him, even if we're not a couple anymore. I thought if we started the separation process gradually it would make it easier for him... And, well, for us too.” She bit her lip hesitantly "When we get back to our lives..."

“Are you in love with another man?” Aaron asked suddenly, with a murderous edge to his voice that, oddly, after eleven months of being with him, Rose was perfectly able to identify was not directed at her.

“Uh?” she blinked, more confused than ever.

"But what kind of piece of shit approaches a woman knowing she's married..." Aaron snarled, furious, his expression getting darker and darker and his eyes fixed on her hands crossed over her chest, with the gold ring sparkling on one finger “An idiot who doesn’t care about this doesn’t deserve you...”

“Aaron. This has nothing to do with a man.” Rose finally managed to recover from the shock enough to speak, although she was still wondering why he was acting so strangely “I'm not doing this for other people's sake. I'm doing it for both of us. Do not you remember? You said that you wanted your life back after a year.” She reminded him, trying to stop her heart from aching as she reminded herself that Aaron had every right to want to be a free man again, "I appreciate it if you're worried about what's going to happen to me and my sister when I get out of here, but i could never keep living here knowing you are forcing yourself to stay married to me. Therefore, I think it would be better for everyone if the two of us ended this trap my parents created for you once and for all.” She flashed a smile, trying to be positive and confident, "After all, I promised you that I wouldn't let this marriage become a prison for us and I'm going to keep that promise no matter what..."

“Do you feel trapped, here with me?” he cut her off, though his whisper was so subtle Rose had to concentrate to understand.

"What? No, of course not." She tried to reassure him, worried that she had chosen the wrong words to express herself “How could I? You welcomed me into the family and we became friends...”

"Well, I'm sorry to inform you, Rose, but you're not just my friend." The hands on her waist gripped her even more firmly, while Aaron's eyes narrowed in a way that made her swallow hard. “You are my wife. A Vamcap. A mere year isn't going to change that...” turning his determined expression toward the table, Aaron pulled away from her just enough to reach the nearby divorce papers and rip them in half before Rose's incredulous gaze. “And much less a piece of paper. Your place is here, with all of us. There will never be anyone who can offer you all that I can, take care of you like I do, or…” His words became more and more intense, almost as if he was about to start pleading, when suddenly he interrupted himself.

"Aaron..." Rose brought her hand closer to his face, worried "What's wrong...?"

"This! This is all wrong, Rose.” He looked away from her, though Rose could clearly see how tense his jaw was “You are my wife. And it's not going anywhere!" Aaron growled one last time before walking quickly away from her, slamming the office door behind him before Rose could even try to keep him there or even find an answer for what had just happened there.

"But..." stunned, she talk to herself, diverting her attention to the ruined papers on the carpet "You were the one who made me promise that we would get divorced!"

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Guille C
Can’t the stories be corrected once published. Now with your huge success with the Disabled CEO you will have more readers. This can boost your books, this is very good but will help if you correct it. Very good indeed.
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between chapters 38 & 39 is chapter 65
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Iteresting and intriguing
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krabbe
A very interesting book so far but I’m quite disturbed by the constant mix up of pronouns.
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87 chapters 8/13/23
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Just starting reading, interesting.
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Very interesting story I will start reading this novel hopefully I will not get dissatisfied as I progress reading.
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how often do you update
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Guille C
This book is very good in the plot but terrible in the grammar at some point it makes it very hard to follow. Good Novel should provide the tools to correct it to the author and to readers to be able to read it correctly. Such a disappointment.
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105 Chapters
Prologue - Rose
“What does that mean?!”The sound of her husband’s growl made Rose swallow hard, but not out of fear. After spending an entire year preparing for this moment, she really had thought that she would be calmer and even content at this moment. But, as she turned towards Aaron, Rose realized that the only thing she had done was fooling herself. Because, seeing him standing in the middle of that office, his suit jacket tossed aside, the top buttons of his shirt undone, his dark brown hair disheveled and his eyes as dark as a moonless night covered in na expression of revolt , as if she had just cheated on him, Rose couldn’t help but remember the day they had become husband and wife in that same office. Of course, the version of Aaron that was before her now was very different from the man she had met that day and, maybe that’s why her heart was so tight when she had to say that sentence.“These are the divorce papers.” She explained, adjusting her glasses nervously on the bridge of her nose
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Chapter 1 - Rose
All her life, in movies and romance novels, Rose Springs had been told so many times that her wedding day was the happiest day of a woman’s life that, even subconsciously, she had believed it would probably be hers, too. But, at that moment, looking down at the mothball-smellingwhite linen pants her mother had forced her to wear, she could only think it was a shame that little dream wedding myth couldn’t apply to her right now.“What the hell, Rose! Fix that posture of yours! Do you want Mr. Vamcap see you bent over like a shrimp and give up on the marriage?” as if that irritated snarl wasn’t enough, a pair of rough hands grabbed onto Rose’s shoulders and straightened them forcibly, surely eliciting a cracking sound from her bones that couldn’t be heard, because her mother still hadn’t stopped her litany. “I told your father those etiquette lessons would be missed at a time like this! But he had to want to skimp on something so important…”“I doubt that Mr. Vamcap would mind if I was
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Chapter 2 - Rose
Rose imagined many things as she walked through the halls of the huge and imposing Vamcap mansion, being followed by her mother, cousin and sister, arm in arm with her father of the huge Vamcap mansion, while thinking about what her future husband would be like. She imagined him as a decrepit and disgusting old man, as na immature and arrogant boy her age and even as a frightening and ghostly figure, like Bram Stoker’s Dracula. However, when the four finally stopped in front of a large solid wooden door and an elderly man dressed as a butler allowed them to pass, Rose discovered that reality was very different from what she had imagined.Inside the room, which she realized was na office, there were only two people. One of them was a pleasant-looking woman dressed in a well-tailored suit who was arranging various papers on the table, so averse to the uncomfortable atmosphere that prevailed there that it wasn’t hard for Rose to guess that she was probably just responsible for validating
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Chapter 3 - Rose
Growing up with parents like Michael and Elisabeth, learning to be patient and mask her emotions was not only a necessity for Rose, but also a way to survive, mostly. Which didn't mean, of course, that she had simply become immune to negative feelings and that, from time to time, her temper didn't threaten to get the best of her. Like at that moment.“So, what are you saying…” she took a deep breath before continuing to talk to Jullian, knowing that he wasn't to blame for the situation, as he had even tried to inform her in a gentle way “It's just that your boss won't allow me to leave the mansion because he's afraid I'm working as a spy for my parents, but he won't walk around freely either, because my presence disturbs him?"“Uh…” Jullian looked away, as if he was embarrassed “Those wouldn't be the words I would choose. But, yes, in short, Mr. Vamcap thinks it would be wiser if you could avoid going out too far and avoid certain specific wings of the mansion, as I mentioned yesterda
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Chapter 4 - Rose
For a few moments, she even thought that her attempts weren't working, but, just as one of the small paper airplanes she was throwing in the air ended up hitting the back of the boy's hands and landing in his lap, Rose hid a smile, as she continued to pretend she wasn't paying attention to him, continued to sit on the grass folding paper into origami figures and more and more paper airplanes and boats. Out of the corner of her eye, she watched the little boy fearfully catch the little plane that had crashed into him, watching him in fascination, before shifting his gaze in her direction and looking closely at the way her hands were moving and folding the paper, until, as she imagined, he began to undo the folding that was in her little hands and try to imitate what she was doing, without much progress, of course. Again with a secret smile, remembering how she and Grace had done the same thing when they were his age and learned to make those paper toys, she started to make an even big
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Chapter 5 - Rose
"Are you sure it's safe this time?" Rose asked with a sigh, as she accompanied Jullian through the halls, to where he had promised her there would be a library where she could spend her time without disturbing the all-too-sensitive Vamcap.“This time I made sure it did. There will be no more slips of that nature again, I assure you.” the butler assured, in a tone as troubled as hers, "Young master Alec shouldn't be in the garden this morning..."“I wasn't mistreating him.” she felt the need to say it, though she knew anyone with eyes could have seen it, watching the two of them playing together.“I know not. In fact, I haven't seen Alec this excited about something in a long time." Jullian smiled, speaking of the boy as fondly as if he were her own grandson, “He would certainly love to see you again, but… Mrs. Vamcap is the matriarch of the family and her word is law, as much as Mr. Vamcap. So there is no possibility of
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Chapter 6 - Rose
Seething with rage, Rose stormed away from there as fast as she could, stomping on the bright carpet, clutching her notebooks in her hands like she wished she were squeezing that hateful bastard's neck, right now... “Rose!” a childish voice, low and excited, called to her nearby and, startled, Rose froze at the head of a hallway she had just entered and, looking to the side, noticed Alec's smiling face peering through the crack of the door just to the right beside her, almost like he was on a secret mission to find her “Hi!” “Hello to you too, Alec.” she chuckled softly, deeply grateful that he and his lovely presence were helping her to clear out all that pent-up anger inside her. "It's so good to see you again." bending down so that their faces were at the same level, Rose reached out and gently stroked his hair. "But, you're not going to get in trouble for talking to me now, are you?" "Well... Jullian told me I couldn't come out to play with you anymore... But he never said anyth
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Chapter 7 – Rose
"You won't be able to find me this time!" Alec secured behind her, making Rose smile, her face pressed against the wall, as she listened to the sounds of his fading footsteps down the hall."Nine, ten! Ready or not, here I come!” she announced loudly as she started down the hall, pretending not to see Alec's shoes peeking out from under one of the curtains nearby, or his soft chuckle, as if he was sure he'd already won her over.Luckily for Rose, unlike the other two times, Jullian was right when he said that Aaron would be out of the mansion for some time, which meant that she was free to read in the library in the morning when Alec was at school, and play with him in the afternoon. However, as much as this routine that they had developed in the last three days was being great for her sanity, Rose still knew perfectly well that it wouldn't last forever. That's why she was devoting her blood, sweat and tears to finding a way to build a future for herself and Grac
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Chapter 8 - Rose
As stunned as she was feeling at that moment, Rose could only remain where she was for a few seconds, blinking compulsively. However, just when she even began to question whether she was delusional or needed to clean her glasses, as that was the last thing she expected from someone who looked as proud as Adele Vamcap, they both noticed that she was there and, with a gasp, they pulled away, staring at her with horrified faces.Not understanding why they were reacting that way, since it was really surprising for her to know that they had a relationship, but it certainly wasn't the end of the world either, Rose raised both her hands, almost in a peace sign."I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you." she explained, as Adele's previously horrified expression turned into a grimace of pure hatred "I don’t knew there was someone here...""You!" Aaron's grandmother roared, furious "You shouldn't be here!""Uh... I... I got lost on the way to the library."
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Chapter 9 - Rose
“You know, if you have something to talk to me about, just say so.” Rose said, not even needing to turn around to know whose presence it was behind her, who had appeared while she was sitting at her bedroom desk, reading a book.“I… I'm sorry.” Jullian sighed, and finally she turned to him, realizing that her expression matched his troubled tone perfectly."What are you sorry for? For the way your boss treated me? Or your girlfriend?” Rose put the book aside, still a little irritated, though she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the man who was old enough to be her grandfather.“Both of those things… And a lot more, actually. You helped us by keeping it a secret, and there was nothing I could do to stop Adele and Aaron from offending you like that. Also, I should have trusted my gut when I got the distinct impression that you weren't what we'd imagined, but I still chose to treat you like a criminal rathe
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