The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 666

Chapter 666

"Nothing, really."

Shifting uneasily in his arms, Gwyneth pretended to check the time on her phone.

"If I don't get up now, I'll be late for work. I still have a good two weeks left to make myself useful..."

Hawthorne knew exactly what she was thinking. Once she made up her mind, no one could talk her out of it. Neither of them had taken any precautions. Once their little one arrived, going back to work would be out of the question.

It wasn't that Hawthorne was chauvinistic-he just felt Gwyneth wasn't cut out for the cutthroat corporate world.

Otherwise, Yvette wouldn't have managed to scheme against her more than once. She was his wife, and he couldn't stand to see anyone push her around.

If it weren't for the old friendship between the Everhart family and Yvette's grandfather, Yvette would have been fired long ago—or even blacklisted in the entire industry, not just transferred out of the company.

Even after the transfer, the office politics and subtle discrimination followed Yvette wherever she went. There was no hope of making a comeback.

enough to know that crossing Hawthorne meant she could

was over for

at her vanity, fixing her hair and makeup. In the

feel lucky that he'd found her before anyone else realized just how beautiful she was. A few years from now, he doubted it would have been so

ponytail and slipped into her work clothes, only to notice Hawthorne watching her intently. She gave him a

you staring

answered in his usual,

cheeks. With a magician's flair, she produced a small, elegant box from behind her back

"What's this?"

A gift, from her?

always the one giving me things. I figured it was time

of her. Inside was an exquisitely

from genuine jade, his name etched at

you-you seem to have everything. So I made

and

didn't have many hobbies or bad habits. In

paper, studying her handiwork over

you restore artwork and antiques