Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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88 How Can I? (Jayden)

I punched the wall at the beach house. The impact sends a jolt of pain through my knuckles, but I don't care. Gordon Brown watches on, unaffected, his arms crossed and his expression unreadable.

"I can't do this, I can't hurt her like this." I rub the pain in my knuckles away, the ache a distraction from the turmoil inside me.

"It's the best way to get a real confession. Ashlyn has to believe you are on her side and against Winona.. Winona has to believe that too," Gordon says, his tone firm and unyielding.

There must be another way. Winona won't let on if she knows I'm pretending," I argue, pacing back and forth, the tension in my body coiled tight like a spring.

"She also won't react in the same way, and if Ashlyn gets a sniff of trickery, we lose the only chance we've got" Gordon counters, his eyes boring into mine.

"What's the next move?" I ask, stopping in my tracks and facing him.

"You take Ashlyn home," he replies, his voice steady and unwavering.

"Home?" I echo, a sense of dread at leaving Winona in the jail at Santa Monica creeping into my gut. "The penthouse?"

"Yes. Get back into normal life. Be CEO, be a doting husband. Then we'll get Winona and Ashlyn together somehow to get the confession."

sure Winona is safe," I warn, my

it. Before long she'll be back home as well and

afraid this will tip her further over the edge," I admit, running a hand through my hair

me forever," I say, my voice breaking

she won't be in jail where we can't protect her.

have at clearing Winona's name. My blindness and stupidity got her into this situation. Whatever happens because of this decision, I'll just have to deal with it later. "You can't tell anyone what's happening. I can't see you again until it's all over," Gordon instructs, his tone

you through

it's

the empty room. Looks like I'll be back running my

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he doesn't have any hold over the company now. Even though Nexus Global is

I thought was my father. Now I see why he wanted the autonomy. I'm not sure why he stayed married to my mother if I wasn't his child. It would have been far easier to divorce her and give her money.

Anne have settled back into the rental cottage. They will, of course, go back to Winona's townhouse when I leave, and I think, after some time, Bobby and

Anne.

She's just been bored while Abby's been here with us. Plus, Abby will go to preschool

some solid proof he's been deprogrammed. I know Winona would be very wary as well. But that's in the future, for now,

for a long time. I don't trust that she won't do something even more drastic to stop Winona

who's never wanted Winona and me together. I don't care what she wants anymore. She's not running my life. I have a session with the hypnosis therapist next month. The first session didn't reveal anything

made me feel better. I don't want any huge thing to be revealed. I have enough going on. I need to go

Winona's face, the hurt and betrayal that will be there when she knows what I'm doing, haunts me. It tears me apart, but I push those

me.