She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 142

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 when his

his fingers tapping the eye of

that was far too generous-it

as he locked his gaze on Chaz and Richie, both standing tensely in front of his desk. "Can someone

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

urgently. With a

Gerard well enough to understand that a call at this late hour meant

going on?" Kristian's voice was

replied, his voice

disastrous contract negotiation, and now Gerard's grave tone added to his growing frustration. "Out

a date," Gerard informed after a heavy

he'd misheard. A date? The

question

"No."

who?" Kristian pressed, his curiosity piqued

Swain." Gerard's voice trembled ever so slightly as the name slipped from his lips. Kristian's grip 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

the silence stretching between

with a hint of caution in his

the frost in

ex-wife! Why the hell wouldn't he want to

but I think it's something we need to talk about," Gerard renlied tone earnest,

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edges, Gerard felt that he was just a man

emotions.

Freya to find

in his temple twitching. His

a resh. Kristian didn't answer right away. His deep eyes gave nothing away, as if they were bottomless wells, impossible to

"If you're unsure about your

was low and dangerous as he

happiness came before anything else. "If you haven't come to terms

by his family, praised for his academic brilliance, and steadily rising in

struggles. In boardrooms, he was applauded; in daily life, he was envied. With his striking looks, athletic build, and enviable

a little too used to

even if he remarried Freya, they wouldn't find happiness together. "Address!" The command came from Kristian in

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

the melancholy days that followed their separation, Kristian had been lost in the echoes of their past. Each memory of Freya, no longer his, constricted

affection, yet

belonged to

Freya and Melvin quietly dining, he took a

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

the address.