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Divorce Me? Pay Ten Billion Dollars First

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 850    |    Released on: Today at 17:07

slammed his car keys onto the marble entryway table.

, and stalked toward her. "What was tha

ments deliberate. "I was just giving you a t

s voice bouncing off the high ceilings. "In

angerously quiet. "Insulting yo

urged again. He grabbed her by the shoulders, h

of fear in her gaze seemed to unnerve him more than any fight would have. He let her go

thed. He turned on his heel and stormed down the hall to the guest bedroo

e that had carried her through the evening drained away, leaving behind a bone-deep exhaustion. But beneath th

re Harris had grabbed her. Methodically, she took out her phone and photographed each one, the images timestamped and automatically uploaded to her secure cloud. Leighton had t

uddering breath. Then she straightene

n the same house but moved in different orbits, never speaking,

out the window for hours. She picked at her food, pushing it around her plate until it grew cold.

r her, reported everything to

ed sense of satisfaction. He believed he had broken her. His coldne

Harris emerged from the guest room. He pushed open

in a troubled sleep. A single, glisteni

ossessive sort of pity. She still loved him. This was

beside her. He wrapped an arm around her

sleep, tensed instinctively. It was a p

ips close to her ear. "Don't," he whispe

ardon, a king forgiving a foolish

orced her body to relax, to go limp in

p of her head. "I know you only did it because you care so much," he mur

"This weekend, we're going to the Hamptons. Just the tw

question. It

ug her fingernails into her own palms, the sh

nt, sleepy-soundi

oser. He was asleep within minut

is embrace, staring at the ce

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Divorce Me? Pay Ten Billion Dollars First
Divorce Me? Pay Ten Billion Dollars First
“For four years, Kasie Carlisle played the flawless wife to the wealthy Byrd family heir. Then, a notification on their shared tablet shattered everything: a photo of her husband, Harris, naked in bed with her college friend. Before Kasie could confront him, her mother-in-law called. She'd known about the affair for months. She'd already prepared divorce papers. One million dollars to disappear quietly. "For a girl from your background, that's more than you could earn in a lifetime." Kasie smiled. Cold. Sharp. Terrifying. "My price is ten billion. And half of everything." She had the evidence. She had the leverage. And Margo had no choice but to sign. So Kasie played the oblivious wife while Harris, blind to the trap closing around him, paraded his mistress through their home, laughed as his friends mocked her in public, and dragged her across a ballroom floor when she finally fought back. Then came the black SUV, deliberately ramming her car off the highway. Bleeding and concussed in the hospital, she watched Harris storm in-not to comfort her, but to accuse her of staging a suicide attempt for attention. He threw her blood-stained anniversary dress in the trash. He whispered sweet nothings to his mistress on the phone while she lay in the next room. He never suspected a thing. Lying in the dark, Kasie felt the last ember of her love turn to ash. She had almost died, and he only cared about how it made him look. So she stopped fighting. Feigning complete defeat, she resigned from the family business, told Harris she was emotionally broken, and asked for a solo trip to Italy to clear her head. As Harris smugly booked her flight, believing he had finally tamed his disobedient wife, Kasie picked up her phone and texted her lawyer. "The fish is on the hook. Initiate phase two." He never saw it coming.”