Countdown to My Divorce

Rachel had always known Howard had thick skin. Aside from coming from a powerful family with plenty of people backing him, the guy had zero decency. He was basically a rich, arrogant lowlife

Truth be told, she really had no way to deal with him. As a woman, she wasn’t strong enough to take him on physically. The Lloyd family didn’t dare cross him either.

That didn’t mean she was going to let this slide.

With Howard standing there, smug and untouchable, practically radiating that cocky thug energy, Rachel wanted nothing more than to slap that grin right off his face.

Seeing no one dared to say a word, Howard got even more brazen

“Rachel, you really ought to think about marrying me: Just imagine, we’d be family, and the Lloyds would rise right up with the Zieglers. Sounds like a win–win, doesn’t it?”

This time, Rachel didn’t hold back. She spat on the ground. “Howard, you really think just because the Ziegler family runs wild in Yurelia City that every woman wants to firarry you? Let me make it clear right here, right now. Even if I end up divorced and desperate, I still wouldn’t consider you!”

Her words stung. In all his life, no one had ever dared talk to Howard like that, especially not in front of so many people.

“Rachel, are you seriously talking to me like

leash now. He was completely out

your world in bed or something? Now you think you’re too good for the rest of us? Do you even know the relationship between him and William?

you, Tyler is

behind. Howard hit

hell?” he roared.

daddy,” a man’s voice

wicked grin. “I knew it. Only you would have the balls to lay

tilted his neck. His fists were clenched tight enough to crack his knuckles. That devil–may–care smirk appeared on

right.

lunged toward him again. His fist sailed

had tried to brace for it, but it didn’t help. The punch knocked him off balance, making

inside of his cheek and