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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?"

locked on Alistair's retreating back. His figure was tall and elegant, his stride steady, his

did I never see

words Cordelia had whispered to

passed every test your father and I could throw at him. Compared

from view, something hollow cracked open inside her. Like someone had

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it echoing.

"What now? Still hung up on

a thing for him,

didn't answer. Her lashes fluttered down like a curtain falling on a scene she didn't

tone sharp. "I'll ask one

her chin slowly and met his

not."

true what they said-people only

couldn't have.

felt for Richard was gone, buried beneath

she once adored, and all she could feel now

the car door. "You'd better not

in, his eyes caught the

wasn't mistaken,

Alistair been chauffeured around in a Maybach

outside Daniel's school?

rides. And now-being

Is Alistair some kind of secret

track. Back in school, he was dirt poor. If he'd been

grovel for years just to scrape together two

dollars?

Unless...

Richard's mind raced.

a lost son of some rich

divorce?

jealousy twisted

does he get so

then came

comforted him just enough to

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now. Alistair's being kept. He's got a sugar mama. One of

wrinkled, perfume-drenched women who giggle like hyenas. That's it. That's the only

hit the jackpot," he

face finally

Rebecca opened her mouth.

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

turned to leave.

raise her

calm

Richard froze.

the door

Then he walked away.

to pick them

knew-he

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all his arrogance,

somehow, she

Not even a little.

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