Mission: From Divorcee to Millionaire

Chapter 871

Selena stayed quiet for what felt like ages.

"Have you stopped loving him?" she finally asked.

Alexa kept her gaze down, matching Selena's silence. The villa was hauntingly quiet in the middle of the night.

"When a lover stops being a lover, and love gets tangled up with resentment and doubt, it just becomes torture," Alexa said, her tears falling silently. "Now when I think of him, all I feel is fear. How can we continue like this?"

Selena watched her, feeling as if she was looking into a mirror, seeing her own reflection in Alexa's eyes. Her relationship with Everett, while different, seemed to be heading down the same rocky path.

Alexa no longer believed she and Blaine could start fresh. Just like Selena...

"What do you need from me?" Selena asked softly.

"Please," Alexa's voice was almost a whisper, "help me change my identity. I'll leave and make a life for myself and my child. I just want Blaine and I to become strangers, to forget each other."

"If I'm 'dead,' he won't have any reason to hold grudges. And if he finds someone he truly loves, he can find happiness."

gaze out the large window into the night. After a long pause, she

be back in about two months. I can only buy

her death, Blaine wouldn't be easy to fool. He'd dig deep to find

to rely on her own strength

is the last time I can help you. Whatever happens between you and

consequences of their choices. No one can intervene

nodded, closing her eyes

of dawn crept into the sky. Exhaustion clung to her, and she fell asleep the moment

Her dreams were a jumble of memories-some joyfulmoments with Joy, others with Everett. They had once

up, the sun was setting, painting the sky in

and her pillow was

the bed for a while, gathering her thoughts before heading to the bathroom

downstairs, the aroma of food filled the air.

surprised to find Everett, apron-clad, standing beside a table

All her favorite dishes.

Everett's lips. "Hungry? Come, join me

realized the villa was empty except for the two of them. Everett must have arranged for this