Ex-Wife's Revenge: Falling For His Greatest Enemy

ilent dining room. Candles flickered in their crystal ho

her posture poised, a sof

ual composed stance-immaculate suit, not a

s of wine, but froze when he s

. "Let's not drag this

on her lip

r eyes dropped to the folder, then lifted to his face-searching.

e said softly, not touching t

cold, detached, clinical. As if she were ju

ed. Heavy paper. The kind they'd once

ile legal language blurred in her vision, but the message rang

ed. "You couldn't even w

mpensation: the Old Town villa, your shop in the

laugh. "So that's what m

te, untouched. Steam stil

able, Naomi. You know how

w I was losing you. But I didn't think you'd t

edge of collapse, Naomi had offered him a deal:

since. He left the country the next day. In four years, he returned onl

chivalrous boy who'd walked her home in the rain

place stood this hollow

't proposed the marriage... cou

don't rewr

xpecting more paperwork. Custody for a pet they never h

lize it at the Civil Affairs

ed her wine glass and took a lon

g, Kael. Is this

swer. He did

r a flat tire, and you drop everything. But when I c

t her," he said,

is it ab

le

wasn't that I was lacking-it was that I

ve signed the papers.

and walked out. The risotto sat there, unto

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day. 10

irs Bureau, the wind tugging at the hem of h

d out her phone and

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ated for a moment, then tappe

answered after a bea

she said, voice clipped

d. "I'll try to contact him," Mar

re she could sa

r phone, lips pres

dn't reach Kael-but

path

k black car finally pulled up in front of her. The engin

steppe

eath c

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ve her a strained s

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me to handle the process on his b

at her sides. "Pressi

ce, he wouldn't spar

drain from her face. "

smiled. It didn'

ed to say more. "Miss S

oice trembling but firm. "You

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house steps, blinking against sunlight th

ficate still smel

e official seal on the paper beside her. Her signature was

tears. Hoped, may

ike a thread had snapped inside her che

the Swift family. Once c

, like a forg

s with her fami

she had

dn't eve

ast, yet she ha

lot, tires crunching over gravel, she merged onto the busy street. Her thoughts

h

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against metal. Her body jerked

re

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