The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 490

Before, all she wanted was to push Stella out of the picture-nothing more, nothing too cruel.

But now, because of Stella, Haynes was growing colder by the day. Rachel was running out of patience.

No matter what, she'd have to get rid of Stella first.

Lost in her thoughts, Rachel was jolted back to reality by Joshua Gardner's quiet, almost haunting voice.

“I've wrapped up all my projects. For the time being, I'll be staying here at Neo- Vespera to help you out.

Rachel, you really ought to focus more on your music, not on men.

Frankly, your playing now is a far cry from when I first heard you.

It's just a man, after all. If you want, I could find you any stunning gentleman you like. Why are you so fixated on Haynes?

He's divorced, and he even has a kid. What's so irresistible about him?"

Rachel had heard this spiel from Joshua more times than she could count.

But instead of feeling pleased, all she felt was a cold, creeping fear.

Joshua Gardner was simply too good to her. Whatever she wanted, he would make it happen without hesitation, without boundaries.

asked him to kill someone, he'd probably do

basked in his devotion. She knew he'd mistaken her for someone

time, Rachel realized something was off-deeply, disturbingly

his moods

was how he could be so endlessly devoted to her. All because, by chance, he'd overheard her playing "Moonlight" in the garden, and decided she was some sort of

do anything for her, no matter

with her,

that he offered to find her another man showed clearly whatever he felt for her it wasn't love. Or at least, not love as

would go to, Rachel only grew more

threat-dangerous in ways she couldn't

realized she'd been lying to him, life would become a

worst part? Rachel still didn't know who had actually played "Moonlight" in the garden that

was the

a woman named Raven, a member of

her magnum opus, but Raven

her face; all Rachel knew was that she was a woman.

had become

even adopted as the

for competitions at

university. Rachel adored

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