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

mean is

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

There's no way I'd ever

what you said. Please don't fall for me; I wouldn't know

Darren laughed. "Don "Well, good! Just Darren narrowed

he watched her walk away. He thought that she was

he headed toward the exit.

stall was none other than Natalie. She was desperate to know their relationship. She had worked so hard to get to

studio right as the performances were wrapping up. Besides those who were eliminated, sixty contestants

needed to form teams. The six members of Group A would select teammates based on their rankings. The contestant

girl group and super talented, she led by a huge margin and quickly formed her team. After two more picks, it was Tessa's turn.

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said

They quickly chose contestants based on rankings

But when others started picking teammates, everyone suddenly preferred contestants from Group D

along with the other unselected members, automatically

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 "Alright, teams

by sheer bad luck, ended up picking the same song as Tessa's group. The strength difference between the two groups was obvious, and most members of Group Six looked disappointed. Seeing this, Chloe couldn't resist

was

was multi-talented, but Natalie was

Natalie unpopular 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

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