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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?"

her eyes locked on Alistair's retreating back. His figure was

I never see

had whispered to her came rushing

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

cracked open inside her. Like someone had scooped out

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it echoing.

Still hung

had a thing for

like a curtain falling on a

sharp. "I'll ask one last time-are we getting married

and met his gaze head-on. "No,

not."

what they said-people only

couldn't have.

Richard was

she once adored, and all she could feel

Richard snapped, yanking open the car door. "You'd better not come crying back to me when

to get in, his eyes caught the

wasn't mistaken,

been chauffeured around in a Maybach the

outside Daniel's school?

rides. And

some kind of

in school, he was dirt

years just to scrape together

dollars?

Unless...

Richard's mind raced.

if he was a lost son of some rich

divorce?

jealousy twisted in his

he

came a new

that comforted him just enough to smirk

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being kept. He's got a sugar mama. One

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

ex really hit the jackpot,"

pretty face finally

Rebecca opened her mouth.

I'm not in the mood anymore. We'll talk about the whole getting registered thing some other

to leave.

raise her voice, didn't

it, calm

Richard froze.

out a bitter laugh, slammed the door shut,

Then he walked away.

crouched to pick

knew-he was

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all his arrogance,

somehow, she didn't

Not even a little.

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