Chapter 106

Anxiously, I rubbed my forehead.

“Kane Thome, I swear I despise you,” I muttered under my breath, frustration lacing my tone.

He had orchestrated this entire scheme just to ruin my reputation.

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How could he publicly spread such cheap gossip? Did he not care about his precious girlfriend? Or did he assume she wouldn’t hear about it?

That thought made me smirk. Without hesitation, I dialed a number.

“Hello?” A young woman’s voice came through the line.

“Where’s your boss? Give her the phone.”

She hesitated, clearly taken aback. “Who are you?”

“She knows me.”

A brief silence followed before I heard the voice I had been waiting for.

“Who’s this?”

“Your shameless boyfriend’s ex–wife,” I answered, grinning as if she could see me.

Ruby was silent for a moment, likely trying to figure out how I had gotten her maid’s number.

That day, when she humiliated me in front of Kane and his parents, I had taken note of the number she used to text me. It had belonged to his maid. Turns out, she wasn’t as smart as I had assumed–she hadn’t even bothered to change the number.

Not that I had told Kane about it. They deserved each other.

“Why are you calling me?” Ruby finally asked, breaking the silence.

“Guess you haven’t seen the latest headlines yet.

“What headlines?”

boyfriend getting cozy with another woman.”

ridiculous! Why would

said he wanted to make

never–especially not after the

my eyes. “Re…? What report are

“N–Nothing”

you talking about the DNA test that someone tampered with? Let me guess–was

I can’t believe you’d accuse me of something like that! You have children with

devoted boyfriend came to me last night.

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dare you!” she

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some advice–lock him down as soon as you can. Because if I

“Don’t you dar-”

the conversation in my head, I couldn’t help but

intention of ever being with Kane again. I had only said those things to shake Ruby up.

thumb, which was exactly what I wanted. With

to take a shower. I saw no reason to deal with the news myself. I had full confidence that Ruby would take care

After

my

out a beautiful white dress. I planned to

applied my makeup, my eyes lingered on my reflection, particularly on the purple

I reached out to both

grab breakfast first, so we headed to the

hotel.

me about it last night?” Axel asked, his voice

irritation.

worry,” I

he’s going to deal with him

up. “You

the news

my gaze and

was no stopping this conflict now. Kane had started it himself. At this point, I didn’t care how my

to dwell on Kane any further,

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