Divorcing my billionaire husband (Antonio and Grace)

Chapter 45

I'd secretly dated Antonio Kaufman, my brother's best friend, for seven years.

I always believed a proposal was inevitable.

Then I discovered he was waiting for his first love to return.

I was a placeholder, a convenient means to an end.

I followed Antonio to a bar, eavesdropping on his conversation with friends.

"Antonio, now that your true love is back, what about Grace?" one asked.

Antonio's silence hung heavy in the air.

Another man snickered, "Freddy warned us off his sis... He wouldn't let anyone hurt her."

It was common knowledge.

"Alicia dumped me. I was just trying to get back at her," Antonio finally said, his voice so cold it felt like a stranger's.

Hogan's welcome-back party, Antonio showered me with

out in tears, he shoved me

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table, scalding myself

hurting, I marched into Antonio's

room I'd been forbidden to enter in

a photo of him

I called my brother overseas. "About your suggestion of an arranged marriage,

alright?" Freddy's voice was laced

been thinking. It's time I got

the sooner the company's problems are solved. Start planning the wedding. Let's make it ... a month from now," I said. "OK. By the way, are you still in touch with Antonio? I heard his

me then: he knew about Alicia. That explained Antonio's insistence on keeping our

my voice. "We are not that

the door unlock, I quickly said goodbye to Freddy and ended

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up to meet Antonio's smiling

flatly replied. He raised