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THE EX - WIFE'S RECKONING CHAPTER 47
“You're not so smart. Anyway, I heard about your predicament.”It's been five days since the encounter that froze the blood in her veins, yet that sonorous voice keeps playing like a broken record in her head, on repeat. A lot of questions screamed hard in her head. But she couldn't find answers.Work became a little interesting since she settled in and accepted fate as a junior staff. At least, she won't be the log of wood in Natasha’s journey to the top as she pushed for.“How did that bastard do it?” She kept questioning herself silently, almost tearing up. Unfortunately, Natasha knew her onions, regardless of how greedy, selfish, and rude she may be, her works did spark conversations around the city. Shorty Blacks' music video album sparked interest because of the madness in fashion creativity Natasha had delivered with the team.“hmm.. this would have been me.” she hovered over the flying articles about Natasha that kept following her on every social media platform. Her blood
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The pen hovered over the last signature line.Naomi’s fingers trembled while she forced herself to press the ink onto the page, the final step in dissolving five years of marriage. Across the brown mahogany table, Ethan Carter sat still, his sharp jaw clenched with his eyes locked on hers with an intensity that made her pulse quicken.She tried to ignore the way his expensive cologne still sent a shiver down her spine. She also tried to forget the countless nights she had spent in his arms, tangled in silk sheets, legs spread across his body, whispering promises that had all crumbled to dust.The lawyer cleared his throat. "Ern ern, Mrs. Bennett…" He corrected himself. "Miss Bennett. Just the last page now." He said.Naomi exhaled sharply. It’s just a signature. Just ink on paper. But as she signed her name, she couldn’t ignore the way it felt, like carving a wound so deep it might never heal. Did she still love him?As she slid the document across the table to Ethan, he took it witho
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The morning after should have felt different.Sunlight filtered through the massive windows of Ethan’s penthouse office, casting golden streaks across Naomi’s bare skin. She stirred, muscles aching deliciously from the night before, she still had the remnants of their passion still humming in her veins. They had been together throughout the previous day, ever since the lawyer had gone. She wasn’t his wife anymore. She was supposed to walk away. She thought.Ethan was already awake too, leaning against the edge of his desk, fully dressed except for his loosened tie. His gaze raked over her, unreadable and intense, like he was committing every inch of her to memory and to the memory of the previous night.Naomi pulled the sheet higher over her chest. “You’re staring.“ She said…He smirked, a slow, knowing curve of his lips. “So are you.”She scoffed, rolling her eyes as she sat up. “Last night was a mistake.”Ethan’s expression darkened. “Is that what you tell yourself every time?”Eve
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Naomi barely felt the elevator descend. Her pulse thundered louder than the hum of the machinery, her thoughts a chaotic mess of regret, confused desire, and passion to get more, she had to control herself. Whoever made women inferior.She had meant to walk away and be done for good. But her body still ached for Ethan’s touch, her skin still burned where his fingers had lingered. Worse, her heart still wanted him. What does one do when the spirit is willing, but the heart does not wish to let go?The doors slid open, revealing the sleek marble lobby of Carter Enterprises. Naomi forced herself to step forward, past the knowing glances of the receptionists who had seen her come and go too many times before.As she pushed through the glass doors into the crisp morning air, her phone buzzed twice.She pulled it out, expecting a message from Ethan. But it wasn’t him.Instead, it was Damian.Damian: Brunch today? I missed you last night.Guilt coiled in her stomach, cold and suffocating. Sh
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Naomi’s fingers tightened around the phone. A chill slithered down her spine, but she forced herself to stay still, to not betray the fear racing through her veins.“What do you want, Damian?” she asked, keeping her voice level, even as her pulse hammered wildly in her chest.“You, Naomi.” His voice was a whisper of steel, just as always. “I want you to remember who you belong to.”Her stomach twisted. “I don’t belong to anyone.”A low chuckle. “That’s where you’re wrong, darling.”The call disconnected.“Pom Pom Pom”, came the sound of the disconnectionShe stood frozen for a moment, her skin crawling, Damian’s possessiveness suffocating. Then, she did the only thing she could and wanted, she called Ethan back. She wanted to feel even.He answered immediately. “Naomi?”Her voice came out in a whisper. “I need to see you, I’m weak.” She said.Ethan’s penthouse was exactly as she remembered, dark wood, glass walls overlooking the city, and the lingering scent of him, smoky, masculine,
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Naomi sat on the edge of the bed, gripping the invitation so tightly that her knuckles turned white. The air in the room was thick due to tension and unsaid words. Ethan paced near the window, his jaw set in a hard line."You’re not going," he repeated, his voice low and dangerous.Naomi exhaled shakily. "Ethan, you don’t understand. Damian doesn’t make idle threats. He just showed up, represented by someone else at your door. If I don’t show up, he’ll retaliate. And knowing him, it won’t just be me who suffers."Ethan stopped pacing and turned to her, his gaze sharp. "Then we play this smart. You’ll go"She shook her head violently. "No. No way. I just told you""…but you won’t be alone," he finished, stepping closer. "You think I’d actually let you walk into his territory without protection?"Naomi blinked up at him, heart pounding. "He said to come alone."Ethan smirked, a dangerous glint in his eyes. "And you think I play by his rules? Are you not scared?"Before she could argue f
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Naomi’s hands trembled slightly as she turned the card toward him. The words were elegantly scripted, but the message was anything but refined.Meet me on the rooftop alone. Or someone you love will suffer.Her stomach twisted. Damian wasn’t bluffing. He never did.Ethan took the card from her, reading it before his jaw clenched. “He’s trying to isolate you.”Damian smiled. “Such a smart man, aren’t you, Ethan? But then again, you always underestimated just how well I know Naomi.” He stepped closer, lowering his voice so only she could hear. “You and I both know you’ll come. You always do.”Naomi forced herself to remain expressionless, but inside, panic swirled. Damian always had a plan, and now, she was trapped in it.Ethan stepped protectively in front of her. “She’s not going anywhere alone.”Damian chuckled. “We’ll see about that.” Then, with a lingering glance at Naomi, he turned and disappeared into the crowd.Ethan turned to her immediately. “We’re not playing his game.”Naomi
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The rooftop was quiet, save for the distant hum of traffic below. The night air carried a sharp chill, but Naomi barely felt it as she stepped forward, her heart hammering against her ribs. She shouldn’t have come. Ethan would be furious if he knew. But Damian was right about one thing, she always came.A shadow shifted near the rooftop’s edge. Then, Damian stepped into the dim light, his presence commanding as ever. The city lights cast sharp angles on his face, highlighting the smirk that curled his lips.“I knew you wouldn’t disappoint,” he murmured, hands in his pockets, exuding effortless control. “Still so predictable, Naomi.” He said.Her fingers clenched at her sides. “What do you want, Damian? I don’t need you”His smirk widened. “Straight to the point. I always loved that about you.” He took a step closer, his voice dropping. “I wanted to see for myself if Ethan still had his hooks in you. If he made you forget what we had.”Naomi swallowed, forcing steel into her voice. “We
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THE EX - WIFE'S RECKONING CHAPTER 47
“You're not so smart. Anyway, I heard about your predicament.”It's been five days since the encounter that froze the blood in her veins, yet that sonorous voice keeps playing like a broken record in her head, on repeat. A lot of questions screamed hard in her head. But she couldn't find answers.Work became a little interesting since she settled in and accepted fate as a junior staff. At least, she won't be the log of wood in Natasha’s journey to the top as she pushed for.“How did that bastard do it?” She kept questioning herself silently, almost tearing up. Unfortunately, Natasha knew her onions, regardless of how greedy, selfish, and rude she may be, her works did spark conversations around the city. Shorty Blacks' music video album sparked interest because of the madness in fashion creativity Natasha had delivered with the team.“hmm.. this would have been me.” she hovered over the flying articles about Natasha that kept following her on every social media platform. Her blood
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Naomi's blood stopped! Her heart jumped into her mouth, throbbing with an adrenaline rush. The whole room felt heavy for a split second.“Who's that?” Ethan whispered to Natasha’s ears.“Why is she hiding her face?” Natasha sparked in curiosity, flickering her eyes around Naomi who had covered her face in shame.Naomi made quick steps with a reduced height, heading to the exit door. “WE APOLOGISE FOR THE UNFORESEEN DISTRACTION, DO RELAX AS EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL NOW”The Master of Ceremony called back the attention of the crowd to the spot she was standing, facing them.Naomi moved quicker, hoping for the ground to open and bury her from the shame she just encountered, hoping to fly her way to her room where she could absorb what just happened until she bumped into a huge figure.“Naomi Laurent?” The figure called out in a calm and ruthless tone; his right palm was comfortably tucked in his pocket, and his left palm flew way up to his head level, tugging its hair backwards.Naom
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In a moment, she was living her dreams, an hour later, her sweet dreams became her worst nightmare.Now reduced to a mere junior assistant. That's pure robbery. Her eyes were swollen from crying herself to bed the previous night. Naomi had gotten dressed, and ready for the move, regardless of how she was feeling.The only thing that sprang a laugh on her face was the moment she realised the last district bus was about to leave.She ran to meet up, only to meet an old woman in her late 70s cursing the driver and calling him names until she mentioned, “This is how you rush in and rush out. Two seconds man.” Naomi’s face reddened in laughter; she let free of it from her lips, which had been pressed into a thin line; her pumped cheeks could have blown up if she had held the laughter a second more.“What are you laughing at, you Gen. Z baddie? Me? Oh common, I know these things.” she let a cheerful grin on her lips, which graduated to a laugh, exposing her scanty dentition of about twenty
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Blood flushed from her face to her ears, leaving her face pale, she felt her stomach drop to the base, and goosebumps ran over every visible spot on her skin, leaving her face out.The screen before she blinked, calling her consciousness back to her skin. She tried masking the surprise with a smile when she heard voices approaching, but her lips now felt like lifting a heavy weight each time she tried spreading them.Quickly, she clicked the ‘close’ button on the screen and made for the window that was three steps from where she stood, stunned.Her gaze met the sky, not blue, but dark, heavy and damp like it was about to cry water on earth. Her heart and eyes could relate to what the sky was going through, too. Holding such a load, yet, not breaking into a cry.A familiar voice came calling from behind, that one voice that caused her insides to curl into frustration. She held her breath, rehearsing a smile that did not agree with her, a smile that refused to reach her eyes, and slowly
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Naomi's heart has never been any lighter now than it had been in the last frustrating 10 months. She felt alive and could wear a genuine smile that came to stay since the day she received a trial invitation to style the International music maker Shorty Black. Someone she admired all through her stay in Fashion College, as the students usually shortened.She got to her duty post early enough, the almighty Divinity Fashion House- DV, her dream came true after the first got shattered by some powerful drunk man. She smirked when a thought of the suddenly nice Damian crossed his mind. She felt the touch of guilt and anger. Guilty for being the reason he lost the contract, and angry that he shattered her first-ever fashion mall.Her shoulders shrugged, and so did her thoughts as She walked in cat-style, swaying her hips from side to side with a reason to smile again.“Hi, Miss.” The receptionist greeted me with glinting eyes and a beaming smile on her face.“Hi, Girl. Hope I'm not too la
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“Natasha, you fucking know how dear that contract is to this family at this trying time. We are facing more than we can handle. And you went out there and added salt to the wound. Wake up, bitch, there's more to life than love and sex! Argh!”A curt thud meddled with the air as he landed his last word, causing his teeth to restrain the anger that accompanied his words. He had pinned Natasha's hands to the wall with his powerful grip whilst his right clenched fist rested against the wall a few inches away from Natasha’s ear.His chest kept panting faster than his breath. His eyes went blank and anger was definitely reading loud in them.Natasha? Relax. Undisturbed. Embracing the spot she was captured, biting her lower lips, letting a slow moan that could wreck the strongest man on earth. Then she let a mockery scoff which encroached into cackles.“What's funny?” He lifted his clenched fist from the wall and retracted backwards, holding it in the air. Then he dropped it on the wall, re
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Each day in the past 9 months only felt like a day after forever. Never did a day pass without the brewing conflict shooting through her mind with a deep torture of guilt, pioneered by her own greed to have both chocolate and vanilla. The report files strongly suggested that the baby had died, weeks before she was captured and left to die in a deep pool of water. And the cause? Her!“I did not kill my child, Ethan, I did not.” she echoed beneath her breath, lost in her spiral thoughts. She could barely see a soul in the room aside from Ethan. An invisible Ethan. “Is everything okay, ma'am?”Consciousness took a flash trip back to her body, which looked electrocuted, causing her to jerk steadily, just enough to shake off the suspicion that things weren't going well.“Oh. Oh.. uh.. I am very fine.” She stuttered flickering her eyes about the client's face and away, observing if any other person was watching.She raised her head, pulled her shirt together, and stole a smile that did n
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“Here’s the file, sir. These are the reports and highlights of the last meeting Natasha filled up on your behalf; our top investors and shareholders are threatening to withdraw from the company if the exponential growth of their investments doesn't come in handy.”Rex stretched a blue cover file to Damian who was buried in his office chair, rocking it from side to side, running his palm to and fro around his jaw lines, drawing an invisible pattern.“Drop it on the table.” He directed with a calm soothing voice. One could tell he wasn’t fine. But his body language and facial expression had told a different story.“uhm. Sir. I made findings about Naomi.”“Okay?” He barked, seeming uninterested in the topic, raised. But his blood pumped to the radar on hearing the name, ‘Naomi’ from Rex, so raw, without initials attached like he used to. He swallowed the remaining words that had made their way to his gut. Then he caught himself in the act, caring about how Rex addressed Naomi. Is that s
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“It all balls down to your court, let her go or lose the contract deal.” Aunt Carmen forced out words from her throat like grunts accompanied by mild pains in her voice.“Just let her go, son.” Her voice crackled, and hot tears gathered around her eyelids; her palm went in search of his grip, and she tilted her head, searching for his eyes to read if the firm grip around her palm was an assurance that he'd accept defeat for the prize.But on reaching his eyes, they were so relaxed and unreadable. She let out a loud cry. “Have you planned your funeral yet, Aunt?” Damian reminded her of the consequences of raising her blood pressure again with this petty attitude she exuded.****Her exams have been smoothed, at least, she can rest her mind a bit. Just a bit because her last encounter with Ethan did things to her that she can not explain.She had just returned from the market, alone, now seated on her bed lost in her thoughts, hoping for a miracle and a suitable hug. But nothing.Ethan
