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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?"

retreating back. His figure was tall and elegant, his stride steady,

I never

whispered

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 at him. Compared to the people we've met

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

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it echoing.

snorted, "What now? Still hung up

had a thing for him, didn't

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

ask one last time-are we getting married today or

chin slowly and met his gaze head-on. "No,

not."

they said-people

couldn't have.

love she once felt for Richard was

at the face she once adored, and all she could feel

open the car door. "You'd better not come crying back to me when you regret

the

wasn't mistaken,

hadn't Alistair been chauffeured around in a Maybach the other

outside Daniel's school?

rides. And now-being called

Is Alistair some kind of secret

didn't track. Back in school, he was dirt poor. If

grovel for years just to scrape together

dollars?

Unless...

Richard's mind raced.

he was a lost son of

divorce?

jealousy twisted in his

does he get so

then came a

comforted him just enough to

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

who giggle like

the jackpot," he

face finally paid

Rebecca opened her mouth.

I'm not in the mood

turned to

car." She didn't raise her voice, didn't

it, calm and

Richard froze.

out a bitter laugh, slammed the door

Then he walked away.

to pick them

she knew-he was

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arrogance, probably wouldn't come

somehow, she

Not even a little.

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