After Divorce, I Return As CEO
bly before he slowly turned. His piercing gaze raked ove
ed low in his chest like dis
"I said let's get a divorce." Her voice
e grand clock in the foyer. Then Gadreel's lips twisted in a
o her. "Because I missed your little celebration? Or our precious anniversa
ng her chest constrict painfully. Hot tears threate
laugh. "I'm setting you free. Isn
on before she lost her nerve: "Evangeline's back in P
AC
impact vibrating through her body. His eyes burned with
a man who would never love her back had drained h
el sneered, completely blind to her inner deva
ly flinch. She willed herself to hold steady, but his proximity was overwhelming-the crisp bergamot scent
she hated how her pulse betrayed her, hammering agai
th venom. "The entire city knew Evangeli
chance like a vultu
her lips as he spoke, a
are play the w
al in her. Years of suppressed fury s
ng to his broken body while society p
ive years of devotion while weeping
eel never awakened, would his precious Ev
d it matter now? She'd chosen this path li
tone. Her fingers dug into the table's edge as she til
t for the first time, the storm i
n ace," she continued, lips curling in a mi
asn't the trembling mouse
" he snapped. "N
verything, he still reduced her to a gold-digger, just like the
uneducated stand-in, barel
massaging his atrophied muscles, reading to his u
r like acid. But it wasn't too late-she'd carve her freedom from his arro
her lips curling into a razor-edged smile.
ot through her at the flash of shock in his eyes. Let him choke on his own hypocris
st like a steel manacle, his pupils dil
ut he only tightened it, forcin
a sexless marriage is four years and ele
out warning, he seized her chin, dragging her face so
esting, probing-as if discovering
s voice dropped to a velvet-rou
notice, too absorbed in the way her lips yielded under his touch. They were
hought aside, his e
r legs for strangers," he sneered. "Tell me, Ivory-wo
m connected with his cheek before she coul
pat, "maybe your dick should
e, gripping its edge until
You belong with Eva
ware rattle. No one-no one-turned their back on him after striking his face. The heat radiatin
ned across her lips, laced with whiskey and venom. "That
're nothing. A placeholder. A s
icious. Ivory's vision blurred, but she refuse
Gadreel sneered, finally releasing
cuffs, the gesture d
me stop you. Just remember-when you come crawling
each one a hammer strike to her composure. Onl
ing her palm. Blood welled-crimson beads against porcelain skin-but the physical pain ba
oll, Ivory finally surrendered to the sobs clawing
r lips and the blood on her hand
r ag
o believed love could bloom in barren soil. When she rose from t
im. Not f