She Took The House The Car And My Heart

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Chapter 142 She Has Nothing To Do With You

Gerard blinked, caught off guard by how little Melvin seemed to care.

"You're aware of my boss's reputation, right?"

Fraught with concern, he couldn't mask the worry etching his voice. He leaned in, dropping his voice to a whisper. "Listen, if he catches wind of you chasing after Ms. Briggs, trust me, he won't let you off easy."

"But they're no longer together, right?" Melvin's response was straightforward, cutting through the caution with a hint of defiance.

"Yes, they've split, but it's not as simple as you think," Gerard replied, struggling to find the right words. He looked earnestly at Melvin, his hands gesturing helplessly. "Just trust me on this one, Melvin. For the sake of your own future, it's better if you back off now."

"I can't do that," Melvin declared, his resolve firm.

"Melvin!" Gerard's voice rose sharply, a note of desperation creeping in.

They're divorced now, which means Freya's officially back on the market," Melvin said firmly, his tone steady and resolute. "And since she's single, I've got every right to go after her."

Gerard gave him a wary look. "My boss wants to patch things up with her."

Melvin scoffed, eyes narrowing, "And why exactly should I give a damn?"

"You know how he is-once he sets his mind on something, he doesn't back down," Gerard noted, trying to sound calm, but his voice carried a warning edge. "If you seriously go after Ms. Briggs, he's got a thousand ways to keep the two of you apart."

Melvin's jaw set stubbornly, his final words ringing with conviction. "I'm not backing down. If your boss has a problem with that, he can come and see me himself."

Gerard hesitated, words catching in his throat as Melvin's retreating figure blended into the shadows of the corridor. The decision loomed heavy over him.

Melvin, stubborn to the core, was a man of unyielding conviction once his mind was made up.

Yet, Gerard's loyalty to his boss tangled him in a knot of indecision.

Trapped between the steadfastness of his friend and the authority of his boss, Gerard wrestled with his conflicting emotions.

After going back and forth in his head a hundred times, he finally yanked out his phone and dialed Kristian's

number.

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His logic was straightforward-since Melvin had no intention of backing down, the only smart move left was to give Kristian a heads-up.

This way, there would be no underhand tactics-just a fair battleground for both of them.

holed up in the office, working late into the night

eye of the document while his brows

was far too generous-it was a

of his desk. "Can someone explain to me how this contract even got approved?" he asked, voice low but sharp, the

them could react, the sudden buzz of Kristian's phone sliced through the tension in the

screen-Gerard's name flashed urgently. With a sense of

understand that a

going on?" Kristian's voice

replied, his voice

marred by a disastrous contract negotiation, and now Gerard's grave

out on a date," Gerard informed after a heavy sigh, his words slow

misheard. A

disbelief, the question slipped

"No."

who?" Kristian pressed, his curiosity

on the phone tightened, his knuckles turning white as images he'd long tried to suppress came flooding back in a relentless tide. He managed to ask through gritted teeth, "Where

silence stretching

which made him hesitate. Finally, he asked, with a hint of caution in his voice,

second, the frost in

Freya was his ex-wife! Why the hell wouldn't

wrong way but I think it's something we need to talk about," Gerard renlied tone earnest, believing deeply that Freya,

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that he was just a man who hadn't yet

emotions.

was for Freya

vein in his temple twitching. His patience was

resh. Kristian didn't answer right away. His deep

silence hung heavy, Gerard pressed on. "If you're unsure about your feelings for her, then perhaps it's

was low and dangerous as he asked,

her." Gerard always believed that happiness came before anything else. "If you haven't come to terms

family, praised for

life, he was envied. With his striking looks, athletic build, and enviable wealth, admiration followed him wherever

proud, a little too used to getting his way, and (frustratingly set in

they wouldn't find happiness together. "Address!" The command came from Kristian

might have been a tangled web, but his resolve was clear-he could not let Freya slip

their past. Each memory of Freya, no longer his, constricted

was a man unacquainted with true affection,

belonged to

Gerard observed Freya and Melvin quietly dining, he

reach them. With a reluctant sigh, tempered by a sense of inevitable resignation, he

the address.