After Divorce Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant

"If you knew I couldn't be compared to her, why approach me in the first place, Jamil." Irene stated angrily as she finished adding the accessory to go allow with her new outfit. "You easily could have found-" Clang!

The sound of something falling from outside cut her off and in seconds, her head snapped in the door's direction.

"What was that?"

"Are you asking me? Am I the one there?" Jamil answered sarcastically.

Irene ignored him and stood up, making her way to the door.

"Don't tell me, you allowed a rat spy on you? Or better yet, maybe a snake."

Snake. The moment he said the word, a certain person came to her mind, and Irene didn't waste any time opening the door, only to come face to face with the last person she had expected to see. "M-meredith? What are you doing here?" She questioned the maid who had just finished picking a fallen mop up.

"The first Lady sent me to fetch you, Mr. Romero is about to give his introduction speech."

"Oh," Irene scanned the maid from head to toe before smiling. "Tell my father I'd be right there."

"I'll do just that." Meredith bowed, not moving once until Irene had stepped back into the dressing room and closed the door.

Only after she was gone did Meredith dare to look down the Hall where Leonica walked out from where the maid had hidden her.

Raising her index finger, she pressed it against her lips, a silent command for the other female to remain silent, before gesturing for her to follow.

Without hesitation, Meredith did as her mistress requested, following the younger female away from Where Irene could potentially hear them. Back in the dressing room, Irene walked back to get her phone, picking it from its stand on her vanity mirror.

"It was just Meredith."

"Meredith?" Jamil questioned.

"My personal maid. Now if you'd excuse me, I have a debut to make." She said arrogantly, but just as she was about to hang up, Jamil stopped her.

"Irene, don't forget, you're doing this to get back at Benjamin Romero for what he did to your mother. No amount of love or riches he gives you now can make up for how your mother died loving him." And with that said, Jamil hung up, leaving Irene to think of the past.

"Yes, yes, I know," She spoke in a soft tone, putting her phone down before a smirk found its way to her lips as she admired her luxurious looking appearance in the mirror. "But the dead's the dead and the living's got to find a way to survive. You'll understand, right mother?"

without a second thought, she picked up the handbag that matched her dress

the first question Leonica asked Meredith when they arrived at a deserted part of the

"Yes, but it was only

time, Irene would have seen me. Thank you Meredith." Meredith was more than happy to see Leonica smile at her and even

the side, studying Meredith's reaction before she asked. "You

a small portion." She clarified, earning a nod

families; sibling conflict as many would call it." Leonica gently patted her on the shoulder, smiling from ear to ear. "Give her some time,

bloomed on her face. "You truly have a big heart." She suddenly

an allegiant, Leonica couldn't help but truly

you don't have to be so extreme, and please raise your head. This is no place

colored

back now, and please inform my parents that I'd

she was gone retracing her steps to the

pleasantries to fall from her face, revealing how truly worried she was by

why didn't she see that

two had nothing doing with each other, which begged the question, why were they suddenly cooperating? Who

running her fingers through her hair in the

could rule one thing out now; Irene's accomplice. It

groaned. Of course

those articles were

Florence had showed up at the Conference

did he hope to gain by doing all

She paused, pondering.

smarter, then he'd have to have some sort of a plan. And knowing him, she knew he'd never do anything

reflection against the full

and the next time they met, she'd be the one

So...was she his goal?

the thought, that was too much credit given to herself. No matter how much Jamil wanted her, his desire wasn't strong enough reason to ruin an entire family. There

see." She mused as she walked out of the room she had dragged Meredith

and who she was up against, all she needed to do now was just flush out

as Irene, it was going

like to introduce to you, the newest addition to the Romero family, a child of