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Her life was perfect, and her marriage to Rowan Reynolds was everything she dreamed of-until a single picture brought everything crashing down. Framed for an infidelity she never committed, Channel is cast out by the man she loved while secretly carrying the very child she had waited years to conceive. As love turns into hatred, Rowan Reynolds transforms from a devoted husband into a ruthless executioner, determined to destroy the woman who once owned his heart. Just when despair pushes Channel to the edge, a stranger appears in the park-wealthy, cold, arrogant, and dangerously confident. Calvin Blackwood doesn't offer sympathy. He offers a deal. A contract marriage. With no time to think and nowhere else to turn, Channel signs her freedom away to a man she doesn't know, stepping into a future more uncertain than the one she escaped. Now trapped in a life built on secrets, contracts, and unanswered questions, Channel believes she has left her past behind. But when Rowan realizes she's gone, the game of power, revenge, and love is only just beginning.
I stared at him, my eyes getting misty, my heart hitting hard against my rib cage as my trembling hands gripped the lying pictures.
"Do you believe I did this?" I asked, my voice coming out in a whisper.
Rowan gave me no reply as he stared back at me, his eyes red, his face hardened.
"Isn't the evidence so obvious? "Why wouldn't he believe?" Rachel, Rowan's sister, answered for him. "Face it, Channel, you have been caught. I have always known that you are a whore, but I didn't expect you to keep chasing after men after being married to a man that loves you and accepts your problem." She scowled, eyeing me disdainfully.
"For Chrisake! This isn't me! "I didn't cheat on my husband," I screamed in a shrill voice filled with despair. "Rowan, I can't cheat on you; I don't take your love for granted." I cried out in dismay.
Something wasn't right. Someone had framed me. I was holding a picture of me in bed with another man.
"This can't be me? I don't know this man!" I said, frantically switching my gaze from Rowan back to his sister and then back to Rowan.
Walking towards Rowan, I raised my hands to hold his arms, but his cold warning made me flinch. "Don't you dare touch me." He growled, his voice sharp like the blade of a sword.
It sliced my heart. The coldness of his voice cut through my heart down to my soul, and unable to handle the pain, I crashed down onto my knees, sobbing softly as the tears that I was trying to push back now escaped my eyes.
"Sign those divorce papers and leave my house in less than thirty minutes." Rowan commanded, and without sparing me a glance, he walked unhurriedly with a bunched fist towards the elevator.
"Believe me. I didn't cheat on you." I cried out, clapping my hands together in a frenzy while calling out to my husband, who was walking away from the sitting room and, obviously, away from my life.
The event that was unfolding right before my eyes felt like a dream. This wasn't how I planned this evening to be.
I had come back home from the hospital hoping to share the good news of finally getting pregnant after three and a half years of childlessness, but on getting home, I was greeted by a furious husband and divorce papers.
"Sign those papers before he gets down; otherwise, you wouldn't like the state you will find yourself in if he should come back and meet you in his mansion." Rachel said before taking a gulp of the alcohol by her side.
Looking at her happy face, it was obvious that she had planned it. She had done something that resulted in me being in bed with another man.
I still couldn't understand what she had done because I had never gone out with her. Rachel and I were far from being friends.
She hated me like I was a plague. She found nothing good in me, and she didn't waste any moment to tell me that I was a good-for-nothing being.
Her brother, Rowan, who was my husband, was constantly against her behaviour toward me. He was my support, my devoted loving husband, and my backbone. He was everything I could ever wish for, but this evening, he was a different man.
A sharp sting of pain stabbed my heart, and I gripped my chest, howling out softly.
What was I to do? How was I going to free myself from this accusation? I had done nothing to deserve this. All I ever did was to love Rowan and hope that one day I would give him a child.
That one day was getting so close because I was presently carrying his baby, but I hadn't announced the good news to him.
Still weeping on the soft rug with my head bowed, the calm but heavy footsteps of Rowan made me raise my head.
I gazed at his towering figure with teary, pitiful eyes, hoping that he could see through me and believe me, but my hopes were dashed when he marched towards me, grabbed me by the hair, and forced my face down to the rug, making my eyes stare at the divorce papers, which Rachel had been kind enough to help drop on the rug.
"Sign this now!" He thundered.
"No," I refused, shaking my head, which was under his grip. "You have to listen to me; I didn't do..."
Crack!
A stinging slap landed on my face, blinding me for a few minutes.
"If you make me ask you to sign these papers again, I promise you, I'll snuff life out of you." Rowan threatened, pulling my head backwards so he could bark into my face.
Torrents of tears flowed down my eyes. Not from the pain of the slap but from the pain of knowing that it was my ever-loving husband that had slapped me.
Rowan had never raised his voice at me, not even to think of slapping me. For three years till this evening, I had been the apple of his eye, the woman he loved amongst every other woman in the world.
He saw me as a priceless jewel whose beauty couldn't fade and whose glow couldn't die.
What changed? I screamed in my head.
He shoved a pen into my hands, and with his hands on my neck, which was eager to squeeze life out of me, I couldn't help but sign those papers in fear.
"We are done. There's nothing between us again, not in this life, never in the afterlife. I regret the day I met you, and I totally regret not listening to my mother. I wish you could just die." Rowan spat at me, a bittered look on his face, which was scrunched up in disgust as he threw me and my luggage out of the gate of his mansion.
"Get ready to see my lawyer because I am going to make sure I take everything-every fucking thing you have, including your life, as compensation for betraying and cheating on me."
With a final and determined tone, Rowan said, "Get ready for your death in my hands."
Return of the Billionaire's Ex-wife.
Fave Nelson
Billionaires
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Chapter 2 Two
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Chapter 3 Three
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Chapter 4 Four
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Chapter 5 Five
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Chapter 6 Six
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Chapter 7 Seven
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Chapter 8 Eight
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Chapter 9 Nine
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Chapter 10 Ten
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Chapter 11 Eleven
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Chapter 12 Twelve
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