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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

never see

whispered

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

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

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it echoing.

Still hung up on your ex?

a thing for him,

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

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

and met his

not."

it was true what they said-people only wanted

couldn't have.

she once felt for Richard

adored, and all she could feel

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

the sleek black Bentley parked next to

mistaken, It

Alistair been chauffeured around in a Maybach the

outside Daniel's school?

suits. High-end rides. And now-being called

some kind of

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

for years just to scrape together two

dollars?

Unless...

Richard's mind raced.

of some rich

divorce?

jealousy twisted in

he get

came a

just

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kept. He's got a

giggle like hyenas.

really hit the

pretty face

Rebecca opened her mouth.

the mood anymore. We'll talk about the whole getting

to leave.

didn't raise her voice, didn't

it, calm

Richard froze.

slammed the door shut, and tossed the keys

Then he walked away.

crouched to pick them

she knew-he was

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arrogance, probably wouldn't

she didn't

Not even a little.

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