From Divorce To Dominance (Natalie Xavier)

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"Yeah, Natalie sighed, feeling drained.

Now it made sense why she'd been acting so weird lately. Darren snorted, "But let me tell you, don't bother! I'm not marrying you again." You b

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better drop those plans to mess up my wedding! Or else you'll be sorry!"

"Yeah. Are we done?" Natalie packed her makeup bag. "I'm leaving now. Mr. Luther, you didn't really follow me to the ladies' room just for some privacy, did you?" She winked playfully and held out her hand. "After you-don't hold it in!"

Darren's expression turned serious at that and he changed the subject. "Hold on. You still need to explain about that sugar daddy." He'd overheard the earlier chat between two ladies.

There was no way Natalie had that much cash; with her flashy lifestyle, it was clear she was having a sugar daddy. "I can't believe you've sunk this low. No wonder you won't leave Greton, he said, disgust clear in his voice. "So who's this sugar daddy!" Even though he didn't t care about her, the idea of her being someone else's mistress bothered him.

A sly smile appeared on Natalie's face. "My grandpa lived to be 120. Wanna know why?"

She was clearly dodging his question, but Darren blurted out, "Why?"

"Because he didn't meddle ddle in other people's affairs."

Darren was sat a a loss for words

I mean is

I is I'm done with you. From now on, mind your own business. If you keep bothering me, does that mean you have

There's no way I'd ever like

fall for me; I wouldn't know how to handle

"Don "Well, good! Just

eyes as he watched her walk away. He thought that she was

head and pulled out his phone as he headed toward the

than Natalie. She was desperate to know their relationship. She had worked so hard to get to this point -she was finally about to marry Darren and wouldn't let anyone

the performances were wrapping up. Besides those who

The six members of Group A would select

huge margin and quickly formed her team. After two more picks, it was Tessa's

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meant when they said she had a sugar

They quickly chose contestants based on rankings until their team

which wasn't too low. But when others started picking

in the background. No one was dumb, so Natalie ended up getting left out along with the other unselected members, automatically joining Group Six. The leader of Group

she had sung a love song and had a decent voice, but she didn't catch her name. Natalie glanced at her name tag: Susan

box. The six team leaders took turns approaching it. Since this was a team competition, it was likely that two groups would end up with the same song. Natalie's team, by sheer bad luck, ended up picking the same song as Tessa's group. The strength difference between the two

was

Tessa was multi-talented, but

for her. Her main focus now was to win Darren's heart. It was funny that they'd been together for so long, but he hadn't even touched her. No matter how much she hinted for him to stay

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