Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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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."

Winona is safe," I warn, my voice low and

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her further over the edge," I admit, running a hand through my hair

say, my voice breaking slightly at the

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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.

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on it, but he doesn't have any hold over the company now.

made by the man 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. Maybe I'll never understand it. All I know is that I suffered all those years and I didn't have to. My

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

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to try despite her being older. She's just been bored while Abby's been here with us. Plus, Abby will go

some solid proof he's been deprogrammed. I know Winona would be very

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

don't care what she wants anymore. She's not running my life. I have a session with the hypnosis therapist next month.

I have enough going on. I need to go see Ashlyn and start her believing that it's

I drive. 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

waiting, her eyes lighting up when she sees me. I