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The tension cracked the moment Richard came storming out after

Rebecca.

He spotted Alistair and immediately scoffed, his lips curling into a sneer, "Well, what do we have here?"

No one answered.

Rebecca's eyes were already red, but the second she saw Alistair, her expression wavered, and they brimmed with deeper hurt.

She looked devastated.

When their eyes briefly met and Alistair turned away without a word, she looked even more heartbroken.

Richard hated being ignored-by anyone. Whether it was Rebecca or Alistair, it bruised his ego all the same.

"Alistair, let's be clear here. You're divorced. You've got no reason to be here, so stop hanging around like a stray dog."

Alistair glanced at him-once, lazily, with the kind of contempt

that said more than any insult could. His eyes all but spelled out the word- pathetic.

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Richard reached for Rebecca's wrist. "Don't bother with him. Let's go."

She yanked her hand back with a glare he didn't recognize. "Get away from me." Alistair, who'd already turned to leave, paused mid-step.

Wait. What?

Weren't they supposed to be the kind of couple who couldn't keep their hands off each other, the type who fed each other dessert in public and called it romance?

If they argued at all, it should be over Richard glancing too long at a waitress- Rebecca would lose it, accuse him of betrayal, and then make him beg for forgiveness.

But this? This looked like a breakup. Like she wanted him gone for good.

Did I get this all wrong?

Then again, it didn't concern him.

"Let's go, Alban," he said quietly.

"Yes, sir. This way."

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Alistair didn't miss the sharp shift in atmosphere behind him. He

smiled.

Alban had done that on purpose.

That one word-sir-had effectively shut down the argument

behind them.

Richard blinked. "Wait-sir?"

His figure was tall and elegant, his stride steady, his whole

did I never

Cordelia had whispered to

to see their child suffer. Rebecca, if you ever come to your senses-if you want to reconcile with Alistair-we won't stand in your way. He's proven himself. He passed every test your father and I could throw

cracked open inside her. Like someone had scooped out her chest

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it echoing.

"What now? Still hung up on your ex?

thing for him,

down like a curtain

ask one

chin slowly and met his gaze

not."

what they said-people

couldn't have.

for Richard

face she once adored, and all she

"You'd better not come crying back to me

the

he wasn't mistaken, It was

around

outside Daniel's school?

High-end rides. And

Alistair some kind of

track. Back in school, he

just

dollars?

Unless...

Richard's mind raced.

if he was a lost son of some rich family, only found

divorce?

jealousy twisted in his

he get

came a

just enough to smirk

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get it now. Alistair's being kept. He's got a sugar mama.

giggle like hyenas. That's it. That's the only

hit the

pretty face

Rebecca opened her mouth.

Too bad. I'm not in the mood anymore. We'll talk about the whole getting

turned to leave.

She didn't raise

calm and

Richard froze.

out a bitter laugh, slammed the door shut, and tossed the keys at

Then he walked away.

crouched to pick them

knew-he was actually

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with all his arrogance, probably wouldn't

she

Not even a little.

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