His Ex Wife is A Billionaire (Evadne and Thaddeus)

Chapter 540

In the heart of downtown, the scandal involving Byron was spreading like wildfire, despite the Chambers Group’s desperate attempts to quash it. Byron’s reputation was tanking faster than a lead balloon, and it seemed like everyone was lining up to kick him while he was down, eager for a front–row seat to the Chambers Group’s unfolding drama.

Adding fuel to the fire was the sudden appearance of a previously unknown heiress from the Ashbourne family, which only served to thicken the plot and keep the public interest at a fever pitch.

With the heat refusing to die down, Byron remained squarely in the crosshairs of the police.

Jeff had even swallowed his pride and begged the Chief of Police for leniency, but as luck would have it, the billionaire tycoon Emeric chose that moment to make a rare and explosive return to the trending news cycle!

The office TV suddenly cut to a breaking news segment.

There he was, Emeric, after the post–ribbon–cutting ceremony for a new venture, was fielding questions from the press.

A reporter fired off, “Mr. Ashbourne, regarding the live stream incident the other day, the young woman claiming to be your daughter.”

“Claiming?” Emeric’s face immediately darkened with offense, firing back without a hint of courtesy, “Which rag are you with? With that slow uptake, you dare call yourself media?”

suffocating, leaving everyone around too intimidated

trembled, with her hand that held the

blood, the youngest princess of the Ashbourne clan. Her mother is my beloved Myra,” Emeric continued; his icy demeanor softened ever so slightly when he spoke of his daughter, “To me, both Evadne and Nydia are the apples of my eye. I’ve kept Nydia out of the public eye because she’s young and still in school. Her mother and she prefer to keep a low profile, and I didn’t want to disrupt her studies. In the end, my aim has always been to protect my little

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sure had a way with

ties with Jeff, it was clear that for his daughter’s sake, Chairman Ashbourne was throwing no punches in the

fury, as he spat venomously into the camera, “Jeff, if you have an ounce of decency left, let your mongrel of

fumbled with the remote to

words.

war.

to crack,” the Chief of Police said, shaking his head. “Without that live stream, I might have been able to intervene. But now, with the whole country watching and the higher–ups in the loop, if I were to manipulate this further, not only would I offend Chairman Ashbourne, which

was annoyed. If not for the fact that the TV wasn’t

as the young couple was basking in the afterglow of a passionate night, waking up well past

towel, sat obediently in a chair as Thaddeus dried her hair. Her raven locks were smooth as satin and thick as seaweed, and it took an age to dry, comb, and treat

a hint of impatience. On the contrary, he reveled in the task, absolutely smitten

her eyes