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

in his devotion. She knew he'd mistaken her

Rachel realized something was off-deeply, disturbingly off about

mind the fact that he was mentally unstable, his moods

devoted to her. All because, by chance, he'd overheard her playing "Moonlight" in the garden, and decided she was some sort of salvation-his

her, no

had been in love with her, maybe

another man showed clearly whatever he felt for her it wasn't love. Or at

witnessing the lengths Joshua would go to, Rachel only grew more

was a threat-dangerous in ways she couldn't fully

he ever discovered the truth, if he realized she'd been lying to

still didn't know who had actually

was the

named Raven, a

Hall of Fame. It was her magnum opus, but

face; all Rachel knew was that

had

adopted

competitions

university. Rachel adored

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