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The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return Ch-27
027Fredrick’s POV A frustrated groan slid past my lips. I pursed my lips and even counted down to ten and back again, but it didn't work. In fact, it seemed to be intensifying my anger all the more. “This is bullshit.” I hissed out loud. My glare rested on the laptop and I battled a lot of intrusive thoughts. For a quick second, I wanted to toss the damn gadget out of the window, or even stomp on it till the bits were scattered all over my office floor. As tempting as that sounded, I knew it wouldn't be forthcoming with anything good. I needed to help Alora and doing all of that wasn't going to birth anything good. After so much inner thoughts, I closer the laptop. I was going to visit it later. “Sir?” A small knock infiltrated my thoughts. I raised my head just in time to see a young man standing at the door. “Can I come in?”“Of course.” It took nothing to put myself together. “Come in.” My smile widened as he walked in. I made sure to give him a couple of minutes to hims
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028Alora's POV I hated being restless, that's why I strived to do everything that would keep the emotion far away from me. It had been working for quite some time now, but I guess it was only a matter of time before whatever luck I had would wear out. What I didn't know,was that my luck was going to run out very soon, and all it took was Cynthia's visit to confirm it all. Shit. I hadn't been this ruffled up in ages. This wasn't the first time Cynthia was threatening me. We grew up together, and in a household where she believed that she had to have the best things or anything I had. I knew Cynthia was all talk and no action, but this time, it felt different. Was it the way her eyes narrowed into slits when she spoke, or the grave tone that encompassed her each and every word? Maybe it just had to do with the subtle threat she left hanging in the air before she walked out of my office. I'd watch my back if I were you. Now, it wasn't unlike Cynthia to drop threats, bu
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-01-15The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return Ch-29
029Alora's POV Just when I thought things couldn't get more worse, life just had to pull another fast one on me.Shit. The air was tense, with neither me nor Fredrick saying anything. The entire atmosphere was shrouded with something thick and acrid and it didn't look like it would be dissolving anytime soon. I stared at the phone in Fredrick's grip. For a moment, I was tempted to think that I was only imagining the whole thing. Maybe somewhere in between Cynthia's subtle threat, I had drifted to sleep and had started dreaming of worse, hallucinating. I blinked back a couple of times, before giving myself a punch in the air. The painful sensation that spread around that spot was all I needed to know that I wasn't dreaming. This was real. The phone call and the pictures were real. Oh good Lord. I didn't watch a lot of movies, but I'd heard stories and read things that revolved around this situation I was in. Usually, when mysterious calls came in, they always ended in…“I
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030Alora's POV For the next thirty minutes or more, only one phrase repeated itself over and over in my mind. 20 million dollars. The words were painfully sharp and clear in my mind. You have two days, just two days. Experience really was the biggest bitch and one of the best teachers too. You never really could relate to something until you found yourself in a similar case or worse. Right now, I wasn't even sure where I stood, in the similar case, or worse.I wrung my fingers in front of me. I'd been doing that since the call ended, and if I was being honest, my fingers were beginning to hurt, but it couldn't even be compared to the pain that bloomed in my chest. I had no idea what it was, but I knew for sure that it had everything to do with the man sitting across from me. I wasn't the only one who had been quiet since the call ended. In fact, if there was a quiet competition, Fredrick would have won it hands down. For a moment, I was led to think that he had stopped brea
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031Alora's POV Maybe I was a little extreme in the way I handled my last conversation with Fredrick. While I agreed that there were some things I shouldn't have said, I could beat my chest and say that I wasn't exactly wrong. Fredrick had caused the line by saying the things he did and acting like that, and I, on the other hand, might have ended the argument on a more extreme basis. I will arrange for a press release and notify them to not expect us together anymore. And for the money, I'll figure it out myself.My own words replayed in my head. Up until yesterday, it made a shit ton of sense and I had spent the entire night figuring out what to do. I had even told my personal assistant to schedule an interview with one of our trusted reporters in the city's news station. But now, as the day slowly ticked by, I couldn't help but wonder if I'd done the right thing. Was a press release really my best option? Right now, just three people knew about those pictures; me, Fredrick,
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-01-18The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return Ch-32
032Fredrick’s POV. I was losing my mind, but to the rest of the people in this conference room with me, I was perfectly fine. How ironic. I bit back a sadistic smile, just lingering on the tip of my tongue. It would be totally wrong of me to even let it out, and for so many reasons too. On the inside, I was a complete mess and even on the outside, I still couldn't afford to laugh. We were currently discussing the company's stocks, and right now, things weren't looking too good. “Sir?” someone's voice was all it took to pull me out of my thoughts. I blinked, just to come face to face with one of my employees. “Are you still here?”“Yes, Richard.” I nodded once. Richard was the head of the business and income division of our company. He had recently just assumed that role and in only six months, the progress results have been massive, except now, that is. “Do go on, you have my attention now.” “Thank you.” He nodded curtly. He allowed a couple of seconds to go by, before he c
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-01-18The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return Ch-33
033Eliaz’s POV Evil really did pay off with the best results, no one could tell me otherwise. Up until a couple of days ago, I was convinced that karma was back to kick me in the chin, or where it would hurt the most, but all I needed to remind me that karma was barely a social construct, was the inside news I'd been getting recently. Thanks to shadow, we'd managed to get a mole in Alora and Fredrick's company. I'd been skeptical about the idea at first, because ever since her arrival, everyone had been craving to be on her side, even the big dogs I always saw as unapproachable. It didn't even take him up to twenty four hours and he'd planted someone to do our dirty job for us. Even after reassuring me in his crooked and twisted ways, it did nothing. Until I started getting results, that is. Thanks to our little spy, I was aware that the last meeting had ended in a deadlock. He didn't have the specifics yet, but I already knew that something was bothering Fredrick and it wa
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-01-18The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return Ch-34
034Alora's POV A lot of words have been used to describe me while growing up. Beautiful, pretty, hardworking, industrious, smart, hotheaded, kind, and sometimes, even crazy. I never really resonated with the last one, until now that is. My heart hammered in my chest as I watched the time tick by slowly. In fact, I'd been doing that all day, specifically since after I'd gotten the text. I found it particularly hard to concentrate on anything else and could you blame me? I doubted that. There was nothing I hadn't done to be able to distract myself from what lay ahead. But no matter how hard I tried, I found myself circling back to the text and the burner phone. If I said I understood how it had been possible to be in this position, then believe me that just had to be the biggest lie of the century. I had so many questions, with no one to answer them. Well, no one aside from my mystery texter that is. Who was he anyway, and what were the odds that he or she just had to reach ou
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The Billionaire Ex-Wife’s Return 160
160Alora's POV I couldn't believe my ears, at all. I'd heard of moments when one would be so shocked, that one would be forced to think that time had somehow rolled to a halt. I'd experienced my fair share of that moment, but I never thought another occurrence could top the charts of the most shocking one. If anything, what had just happened now was something I wouldn't be forgetting in a long time, even if I died, or went into a coma. “You’re alone now, Alora.” his words echoed painfully in my ears. “Abandon Fredrick, sign over your shares to me, and we could go back to being a couple”. The words seemed to be on loop, and the more I tried to get his voice out of my head, the more they settled into my mind. As they did that, I struggled to find the motivation behind it all. Was he really that audacious for him to think that I was going to agree to his terms? Or perhaps he was delusional and was only playing a prank on me. I raised my gaze to meet his face. My eyes scanned the
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159Alora's POV I was conscious, but for the life of me, I didn't even want to open my eyes. Call it embarrassment, or probably depression, I didn't care. All I knew was that I didn't want to feel like this, at all. I couldn't even remember the last time I felt this way. I'd been through hell and back, literally, from the contract being ripped from me the first time, to bring framed for something I had no idea about, to you g to jail, to dealing with Ethan and a whole lot of other troubles I didn't wabt to remember, I wasn't sure I felt the way I was feeling now, and i hated it. I let out a deep breath, before finally forcing my eyes open, and the all too familiar sight of my ceiling greeted me. I knew I should be happy, or at least feel a tiny bit of comfort, but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't summon it. All that ran through my mind, were the events that led to this moment. It wasn't a lot, but it was still embarrassing. I'd passed out in the Inspector's office a
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158Fredrick’s POV A small groan slid past my lips as I slowly peeled my eyes open. A dull throb spread through the back of my head, and all around me, but I didn't let it get to me. My body ached, and I felt like I was going to pass out again. My lungs burned, and even the side of my torso too. I had no idea why it hurt, but for the life of me, I couldn't even bring myself to check. More groans slid past my lips as I forced myself into a sitting position. My back came in contact with the wall behind me, and I regretted it immediately. Something slimy seeped into my clothes, and I jerked forward immediately. Even that wasn't a good choice, because the moment my hands came in contact with the floor, a burning sensation raced up my body. I scrambled to my feet, and my legs ached. I tried to walk to the other side of the room, but I just couldn't. With all the strength I could mutter, I found myself limping to a part of the tiny room I felt was clean enough. Once there, I pressed
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157Alora's POV I paced around the room, my footsteps slapping loudly against the clear tiles. I hadn't expected the sound from beneath my shoes to be so loud, but in my defense, I also hadn't expected to end up here of all places too. What the hell was wrong with my life? Why was there always some evil plan lurking around in the background and waiting for the right time to rear it's ugly head? I pinched the bridge of my nose as I continued my pacing. While I did that, I didn't miss the angry glares that the other people in the room threw my way. Did I care? Not in the slightest. It was selfish of me, but if nothing was going well for me, then I honestly didn't mind ruining a couple of other people's day too. I shook my head slowly. For the past hour now, I struggled to comprehend what the hell had just happened. One minute, things were going relatively fine, if you excluded the missing funds, and the next, Fredrick was being arrested. Fucking arrested. My mind darted back t
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156Alora's POV An additional week had passed since we started the real estate contract in earnest, and I knew I should be glad that things were beginning to shape up, but I just couldn't shake off the unease that lodged itself in my chest every now and then. It didn't always come when I was distracted, I only seemed to feel that way anytime I set my eyes on our two new employees, Marcus and Phineas. They'd been eagerly at work, making choices and decisions that were sometimes out of my reach, but there wasn't a lot I could say. I didn't agree with half of their thought process, but Fredrick was always ever ready to back them up. “This is the new innovation I was talking about.” He'd said. “let's just let them do their thing, I'm sure it'll come out great.” I had so many questions, but for the sake of global prace, I'd decided to shelf them, until today that is. I'd arrived at the office like any pretty normal day. Once in a while, Fredrick and I often did routine checks, to
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155Alora's POV It'd been a week since we started the real estate contract in earnest, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't proud of myself. It was stressful and overwhelming, and in the past week, I could swear I'd lost count of how many times I wanted to give up. From the preparations, down to going to the site and managing the workers, everything was a lot. I'd cried to Fredrick more times than I wanted to, and at a point, i honestly deliberated giving it all up. “Do we really have to do this?” I'd said to Fredrick a couple of days back. “Is it really too late now?” “Yes.” Fredrick had let out admit a series of chuckles. “We can do this Alora. We fought so hard for this, from the very beginning too. We can't give up now. You're saying all of this because you're stressed. I'm sure once your vision starts coming to light, you'll forget all about it.” To further support his reassurance, Fredrick had taken me out to dinner. He insisted it wasn't a date, but just an avenue
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154Alora's POV I wasn't one to look forward to office days, but I would be lying to myself if I said I wasn't excited this morning. I couldn't even hide it even if I wabted to. From the moment I woke up, I'd been in a beautiful mood, and nothing, absolutely nothing was going to change that. Apparently, my excitement had been passed to Fredrick as well, but he was doing a good job at keeping his in. After the interview slash live session a couple of days ago, it felt like our luck had turned around significantly. We had more partnership deals than we'd ever had since we got back and our stocks profit had skyrocketed more than expected. Fredrick and I had finalized the details for the real estate contract, and we officially supposed to start the project today. Fredrick had headed to the office earlier than me, just to make some final decisions before my arrival. I was so excited, that I literally completed my morning routine with twenty five minutes extra to spare. I tapped m
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153Cynthia’s POV The sun was up, and shining, and I couldn't help but bask in it. I mean, who wouldn't, especially when I had a huge dick sitting on one of my fingers. I'd been wanting to get this ring for a while, but Eliaz never really came around to getting it for me. Now, I didn't have to wait around to be able to get what I wanted, I could easily get it for myself, and through Halo too. A wide grin made its way to my face at the mere thought of it. To the people at the counter and probably the other customers miling about the mall, they would probably think that I had gone psycho, but I knew better. I was psycho, but in a happy way. While the total cost of my goods was being calculated, I couldn't help but recall the events that led me to this moment. I saw my world crashing down the moment Eliaz thrust those DNA reports in my face. When Alora had said she was going to expose me, she really did mean it. I'd run her over just to stop her, but I guess I let a tiny detail
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152Henry's POV A pungent smell hit my nose, and I fought the urge to throw up. I pressed my fingers against the bridge of my nose and my nostrils, but it did nothing to stop the stench from getting in. The stale stench had hit my nose the moment I got in here. One would think that with how posh the building looked from the outside, a small part of it would be bearable, but I guess I knew better now. I cursed underneath my breath as I walked to the other side of the shoebox of a room I'd been tossed into. Maybe the rancid smell wasn't coming from every part of the room. Perhaps I'd been unfortunate to walk to one of the walls where the stench was more prominent. But I was wrong, very wrong. Every part of this stupid room felt like it had been forsaken by both God and the devil. In fact, if someone were to walk up to me, just to tell me that this place used to be a dumping site for every sort of waste product you could think, then I wouldn't even bat an eyelid to doubt him. In
