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69. Smitten
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The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 70. Flights
JACKSON~•~I was on cloud nine and it had nothing to do with being listed as the fifth richest man in their thirties.No, I was happy because of Kimberly.She had more or less opened up to me.The fact that she allowed me to kiss her meant I had broken down her walls, whether she’d admit it or not. I was one step closer to being with her again.She might dismiss it with the excuse that it was part of our act but I knew better than that. Kimberly wouldn’t let me kiss her in public just to prove a point. She’d allow me to hold her hand or her waist. The most I could do was a peck on the cheek. Any other than that, she might just crash out, so for her to let me kiss her when everyone was watching meant more to me than she imagined.After I was done with my speech, I went back to my table and the organizer called out a band to perform while the silent auction began.There was a silly smile on my face as I strode back to my table. I pulled out my chair and sat next to Kimberly, still smil
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 71. Forgiveness
KIMBERLY~•~Jackson looked shocked and I didn’t know what to translate his expression as. Was he shocked that his sister sent me an audio message of the words he said? Was he shocked that he was recorded while saying them?He finally handed me back my phone and I put it in my clutch without saying anything. He sighed, his hand rubbing down his face as he tried to put words together.I didn’t know what to make of that either. Was he trying to find an excuse?“I know this looks bad.” Jackson finally said. I arched an eyebrow. “It sounds bad but I promise, it’s not what it looks like.”I scoffed. Of course, the famous line men used when they were caught doing something they claimed not to be doing. I didn’t understand why he was pursuing me if he still wanted Paige. If he could still talk about Paige like this in a good light after she kidnapped our daughter, then that only meant one thing, no? “Not what it looks like?” I asked. “Did you or did you not say those words?”He thought I was
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 72. Caught
KIMBERLY~•~Now, how could I ever say no to that?“Kimberly?” He prompted. Without thinking much, I nodded.Jack’s eyes widened as his hand let go of mine to wipe my tears. He cupped my cheek endearingly. “Really? You forgive me, baby?”I nodded again with a sniffle. “Sit down. Stop kneeling.”He complied immediately, leaning forward. “You don’t know how much your forgiveness means to me.”His lips brushed mine but I pulled back before he could kiss me. “I have forgiven you but if you want me, you’re going to have to work hard.”Jackson chuckled. “I know that, but we can start from somewhere.”He kissed me anyway and I didn’t even have the heart to push him away. I was such a fool for this man and he had me wrapped around his fingers.I placed my hand on his chest, intending to break the kiss but I instinctively started running my hands up and down his chest. Jackson groaned into the kiss and swiftly pulled me from the car seat and onto his lap. One of his hands was wrapped around m
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 73. Ex-girlfriend
GEORGE~•~On a Sunday night, I was working my ass off in the office because after a month and a few weeks, I still wasn’t completely over Kimberly but there she was flaunting her relationship with Jackson in my face.Technically, she wasn’t flaunting it in my face but kissing him in a public setting, knowing damn well she’d be recorded meant the same thing, did it not? No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t take my eyes off the scene where they were looking into each other’s eyes as though they had been in love for years. Maybe they had been in love for years. I was just stupid to think that I ever had a chance with her.What irritated me the most was how many times she had assured me she was never going back to Jackson yet only a month after she left, she was back with him. I felt stupid as fuck. I felt very angry and I didn’t know what to do with the amount of anger running through my veins.My fists automatically clenched tightly as he kissed her and the organizer of their stupid
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 74. Lawyer
KIMBERLY~•~Jackson and I arrived at the police station at exactly four o’clock. We greeted the officers and we were soon taken to a visitor’s room. We sat next to each other and waited for Paige to show up.It didn’t take long before the door was opened and Paige was escorted in by a cop. Her hands were handcuffed too.The cop nodded at us and then left the room. Paige looked at both of us with contempt in her eyes and scoffed, sitting down opposite us.She didn’t even seem remorseful and it pissed me off more than I’d like to admit. For a moment, none of us said anything.“Why did you do it?” Jackson finally asked after a moment of silence.“What are you talking about?”“I specifically warned you not to touch Amelia, didn’t I?”“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I let out a chuckle, bringing her attention to me. She was acting oblivious, which meant she planned to deny every charge against her. “What’s so funny?” She narrowed her eyes on me. Till now, she couldn’t stand me a
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 75. Challenge
JACKSON ~•~ I hated that Paige wasn’t currently behind bars but there was nothing I could do at the moment. Kimberly was going through several emotions at once and I knew damn well rage was at the forefront. She felt she couldn’t defend her daughter and I hated that Paige made her feel that way. Paige was smarter than I thought for bringing in George, knowing his history with Kimberly. She knew it was going to shake Kim up and it worked. Her flights were just to get the cop’s attention. This was her main plan. As for George, I didn’t know why he was colluding with a criminal but that wasn’t going to do good for his reputation as a lawyer. He probably held grudges against me and Kimberly and I couldn’t blame him for that, but defending the woman who kidnapped Amelia was going too far. The past few days, Kimberly had been busier than ever. She was trying to get a warrant for Paige’s arrest and she warned me not to interfere. It was taking a long while because her business did
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 76. Park
KIMBERLY~•~A week later I still hadn’t gotten the license for my business firm. It was getting me frustrated. That didn’t mean I wasn’t already working on the case though.Paige had used a burner to contact the kidnappers even if she knew them personally. That should have alerted them that she was going to abandon them if shit went sideways but they were either too stupid or they didn’t care about themselves.I had thought that the burner phone would be a dead end, but Jackson was willing to go all out to trace it. I didn’t want his help in getting my license because I didn’t want the validity to be questioned later on, but when it came to finding evidence against Paige, I took all the help from him I could get and thankfully, he could offer a lot.He used his influence and connections to make the case easier for me. Since a burner was hard to trace, it was going to take a while and I was willing to wait. It wouldn’t directly prove that Paige was involved but we could find out her w
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 77. True love
GEORGE~•~I couldn’t stand the fact that my presence didn’t bother Kimberly much. I had said that I wasn’t petty but I hated that she was living quite well without any sense of urgency. I wanted to go back to California but Paige told me that Jackson wasn’t going to let the case die down like that. He had a lot of connections so I was surprised it was taking this long, which in turn irritated me because instead of defending their daughter, they were busy playing the perfect family of four.I wasn’t the only one that was annoyed.Paige hated that her son, Asher, was comfortable around Kimberly. The previous day, they had gone to an amusement park and for reasons unknown to me, reporters thought it was the cutest thing. I felt sick watching Kimberly stare at Jackson with love in her eyes. She never looked at me that way. She never cared that I pined over her for five years. Maybe I should have gotten the hint when she told me that she wasn’t ready for a relationship four years ago. I c
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The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 94. Emily
JACKSON~•~“Where is Emily?”Kimberly, who was in the process of taking a bite out of her burger, froze.I had been in the hospital for three days and my parents visited every day. Even Kimberly’s parents visited each day, but my sister was nowhere to be found. Sure she was an annoying little shit most of the time but I doubted she’d know I was in the hospital and not visit once.Kimberly’s reaction got me even more interested in finding out what was wrong. “Did something happen to her?” Alarm bells rang in my head. Even though I disliked her most of the time, I didn’t want to see anything bad happen to her. She was still my sister after all. “Was she in the car with me?”Kimberly was quick to shake her head. “No, she wasn’t in the car with you.” She assured me but I still had my doubts. “She’s fine.”“Then where is she?” I was getting discharged tomorrow and she still hadn’t shown up. A lot of things have changed since the last memory I had, which happened to be four years ago.Kim
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 93. My name
KIMBERLY~•~Jackson had lost four years of his memory but he was happy to see me. I didn’t know how to feel about that. It meant that when he told me he regretted divorcing me, he wasn’t bluffing. Now that his memory was fresh about things that happened five years ago, I was tempted to take advantage of it and ask him questions I never got to ask him before.He was clingy as hell. He didn’t let me out of his sight once for fear that I might not be real or that I might not come back after leaving. Even as he slept on the bed, he held on to my hand and anything I tried to unclasp our hands, he’d hold on tighter. It was almost endearing.The door was suddenly pushed open and everyone came in at once; Mr and Mrs. Clarke, Anderson, my parents, Reiya, Asher, and Amelia.I blinked in surprise. I had been expecting them, but I wasn’t expecting all of them at once.They all came to a stop in front of the bed and his mother narrowed her eyes on me. I frowned, wondering what I did wrong this t
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 92. Amnesia
JACKSON ~•~My head hurt badly. It felt like I was having the worst headache of my life. My head was pounding. I groaned as my eyes fluttered open, the brightness of the light shining harshly over my eyes. I closed them briefly and opened them again, this time able to adjust to the light.I frowned, wondering what the hell I was doing in a hospital and how I ended up here. I opened my mouth to speak but no words would come out. I took a deep breath, cleared my throat, and tried again. That was when I noticed a weight on my arm. Someone was sleeping on my arm and they had stirred when I cleared my throat. Slowly, I turned my head to the side, wondering if the woman resting on me was Paige.However, the dark contrast to her bright blonde hair told me otherwise, except she had dyed it in the few months we had parted ways. With as much strength as I could muster, I moved my left hand slightly and the wind was knocked out of my lungs when the woman raised her head.What the hell was Kimb
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 91. Hope
KIMBERLY~•~“Go home, take a bath, eat and rest.” My mother told me when she came to visit me in the hospital. I hadn’t eaten nor showered in twenty-four hours and I couldn’t even feel the effect. I was just too focused on Jackson that I was numb to every other thing happening around me.I shook my head. “I want to be here with him.”“Kimberly.” My mother called out sternly. “You have to be in a good condition to take care of him. He’s in a very fragile state and the smallest germ can hurt him even more.”I paused, considering that angle. She didn’t lie but I doubted I carried that much germs with me. I chewed on my bottom lip and looked at Jackson. He was still unconscious and wasn’t showing any signs of waking up yet. I didn’t want to leave but I guessed I had no choice.Letting out a breath, I stood up and my mother smiled at me. She had called me earlier to go back home and rest but I simply hung up on her which was why she came here personally.I turned to leave but paused. “You
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 90. Jail
KIMBERLY~•~“What is going on?” Mr. Clarke asked, bringing both our attention to him and his wife.His wife, on the other hand, looked appalled. “How dare you slap my daughter? Her brother is lying in a hospital bed and you dare to slap her??”At that moment, I didn’t give a fuck what they thought about me. Emily wasn’t just a spoiled brat. She was evil and thoughtless. She had gone too far and I would slap her again if I could.I laughed humorlessly. I hated that we were creating a scene right in front of Jackson’s hospital room but there was no helping it. “Go on, Emily. Tell them what you said to me.”Emily stayed quiet, holding her cheek.Since she wasn’t going to speak, I was going to do it for her. Thankfully, there were no passersby to spin a story on the situation. “She said she didn’t know Jackson would drive my car and it was supposed to be me and on that bed.” I spat out bitterly. Even if I didn’t want to explain my actions to her parents, they had to know exactly what the
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 89. Your fault
KIMBERLY~•~Even after surgery, Jackson still didn’t wake up. I was worried as hell and my eyes were red from crying. I knew accidents happened to any and everyone but I never imagined Jackson would be lying down on the hospital bed, unconscious.His surgery was successful. Well, successful in the sense that nothing went wrong during the process and he didn’t die. I stayed with him in the hospital all night, unable to sleep. By the next morning, everyone in New York knew about Jackson’s accident and I was getting so many calls at once.I had already informed his family of the accident and they would be arriving this morning. I had also received a call from Reiya and after answering her call, I put my phone on silent. People called a lot whenever there was bad news and it irritated me a lot.There was a knock on the door and the door opened to reveal the doctor. She smiled warmly at me. “Good morning, Mrs. Clarke. I’m here to check up on the patient. If you could please step out of th
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 88. Fatal blow
KIMBERLY~•~It had been an hour since Jackson left to go get tampons but he still wasn’t back. By now, the kids were dozing off while I was still up waiting for Jackson.When I called his number several times and he didn’t answer, I started to get worried. I was still on my period though, which was why I went upstairs to search through the closet to see if I had a menstrual cup. I didn’t like using them, but I had no choice.I tucked the kids in and went to the bathroom to do my business. When I was done, I started calling Jackson’s line again and it still wasn’t going.Fuck. We should have exchanged locations after getting back together.I was calling for the seventh time when Jackson finally answered the call. “Jackson! It’s taking a long while just to get tampons. Where are you?”“Is this Mrs. Clarke?” I heard a feminine voice ask and I could feel the hairs on my arms rise. “Yeah, who’s this?”“I’m a nurse at the city hospital.” My heart dropped at those words. “Mr. Clarke was in
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 87. Black
JACKSON~•~Despite being six years older than my sister, I grew up with her after all and she hadn’t changed a bit, which was why I could tell that she was raging inside.I had thought that with time she was going to develop a brain and start acting like an adult. I thought she was going to be civil with Kimberly even if she didn’t like her but clearly, I was wishing for too much.I didn’t want a wedge between me and my family but she was too damn insufferable and it was pissing me off.She glared at me hard but I merely arched an eyebrow, waiting for her response. She had already ruined the mood at the beginning and she was making things even worse. I needed to shut her mouth with duct tape or something.My mom laughed awkwardly. “Don’t be rude to your sister, Jackson. She came here to celebrate Thanksgiving with you.”I chuckled humorlessly. This was exactly why she still behaved like a child. My mother was there to pardon her wrongdoings. In fact, she made her feel like she didn’t
The Billionaire’s Regret: My ex husband wants me 86. Thanksgiving
KIMBERLY~•~Thanksgiving was my second favorite holiday. There was something about families gathering at a table to eat that made me feel at peace.For the past five years, I wasn’t able to celebrate Thanksgiving as I liked. It was always just me and Amelia. Reiya had to be with her family and George had to be with his, which was why this year excites me to the point that I offered to do the cooking for Thanksgiving. Of course, Caro was going to assist me.It wasn’t just our immediate family. My parents and Jackson’s parents were going to be here. I didn’t like the idea of Emily coming around but after Jackson made his father cut down her allowance, she had been pretty obedient. It was crazy that the only thing that made her behave was the hope of getting her allowance back. It was going to be dinner for nine people and I was more than excited about it.Caro and I spent the whole day cooking. Jackson offered to help but after I yelled at him more than three times for doing something
