Divorce Time

Chapter 13

Speakily glancing at Vesta while hastily retreating to lean against the wall, Charlene’s colleagues were intimidated.

Vesta caught a glimpse of Charlene too, but she quickly looked away, unimpressed, and headed to the elevator surrounded by a group

of managers.

Charlene’s colleagues sighed with relief before eagerly diving into gossip as the elevator doors closed.

“Was that Mr. Henderson’s girlfriend? Wow, she’s stunning and draped in designer brands. They must cost a fortune, right? No wonder she carries herself with elegance and confidence, a true mark of the elite. She’s simply in a different league compared to us.”

“Absolutely!”

They then quietly asked Charlene, “What do you think, Charlene?”

Charlene said,

of Charlene’s father. Calling Vesta a product of an affair might not be entirely accurate. After all, when Charlene was eight, her father, determined not to let Vesta and her mother suffer, divorced Charlene’s mother to marry Vesta’s mother instead.

lived with her mentally ill mother and was

her uncle’s business faltered, the Hawkins family’s enterprises thrived.

childhood, her father spared no expense in giving her the best of everything and invested a fortune

once illegitimate

the life of an heiress for over a decade, Vesta exuded an aura of nobility that even Charlene, the original

match.

Vesta would end their association. But fate seemed to favor

tried, Thorne never saw her the way he instantly

you okay?” Seeing Charlene’s pale face,

to

were nearing their divorce, and whoever Thorne would love from

on the matter between Thorne and Vesta

overtime until around nine, and her phone rang as she was wrapping up. It was her best friend, Connie, calling to say she