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."

safe," I warn, my

Before long she'll be

the edge," I admit,

forever," I say, my voice breaking

be in jail where we can't protect

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,"

you through my

it's

echoing in the empty room. Looks like I'll be back running my company very soon wonder if Gus has used his contacts to know I've bought ownership back in Brennan Industries? #4 How

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be finding out soon enough. He may fight me on it, but he doesn't have any hold over the company now. Even

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 mother had better have

will, of course, go back to Winona's townhouse when I leave, and I think, after some time, Bobby and Sarah may be

Anne.

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

trust Bobby with Abby anytime soon. I need some solid proof he's been deprogrammed. I know Winona would be very wary

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

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

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

Ashlyn. My mind is a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions as 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 push

Ashlyn is waiting, her eyes lighting up when she sees me. I put a fake