His Ex Wife Is A Billionaire

Chapter 488

Still waiting?! The news struck Cassius like a thunderbolt!

Last night, the rain had poured down until the small hours before taking a reluctant pause, only to start anew come morning. The forecast ominously predicted a hurricane by nightfall.

Thaddeus, standing out there without a bite to eat or a drop to drink – did he have a death wish?!

“Thaddeus’s been outside the whole time? Even last night? What do you mean?!”

Evadne’s eyes were wide as saucers, her hands gripping Arnold’s shoulders, shaking him with a desperation, “Spill it! What the heck is going on?! Y’all saw Thaddeus, didn’t you? And you kept me out of the loop?!”

“Stop shaking me, Evadne! I’m gonna hurl!” Arnold’s head was spinning, his vision blurring.

“Evadne! Cut it out!”

Cassius intervened, prying her hands away and pulling her into an embrace, “Whatever Thaddeus wants to do, it’s his call. If he wants to stand out there, let him be. He can’t stand there forever. He’s gotta leave sometime.”

His words cut deep with a dual meaning.

“Even if he turns to stone standing out there, it’s his own darn fault!”

Arnold, thinking of the hardships Evadne had endured, couldn’t suppress his anger, “Sis, he’s just playing martyr, thinking he can charm his way back into our good graces! No chance! Even if lightning strikes him into a charred flower, I won’t forgive him!”

“This is between him and me! What’s it got to do with you?!”

Evadne’s eyes reddened with fury as she struggled to break free from her brother’s hold, “Did you see him yesterday? Did Emeric see him too? Did you all gang up on him?!”

“Sis, just calm down,” Cassius held her tighter, patting her trembling back.

“Evadne, what are you saying? We are bullying him? We were standing up for you, venting your anger!”

“I don’t need it!”

Evadne’s eyes brimmed with angry tears, her breath uneven with rage, “Why are you meddling? Is this for my sake? You’re just pressing down on Thaddeus to ease your own guilt!”

Those words struck Cassius and Arnold like a stab in the heart. Seizing the moment when Cassius was distracted, Évadne broke free and dashed toward the gates of Silverlake Harbor.

Casting aside her pesky sandals, Evadne ran barefoot down the ornate, endless corridor.

She hadn’t yet seen the man she loved, but her heart had already burst through her fevered chest, fleeing the gilded cage of the mansion without looking back.

Evadne skidded to a

Bennett, his gaze sharp as a hawk’s, an immovable iceberg in his solitary might. Even alone, his presence seemed to flood

going to

don’t you dare stop me,” Evadne panted, her delicate cheeks

for

it, then who

to protect me! Last year, I was trapped on Misty Mountain during a landslide, and then on HelgenStar Island, he drew enemy fire to give Cassius a chance, and took a bullet

guy since he saved you at eleven. You see him through rose–colored glasses; you’ve got this, unyielding attachment that blinds you to anyone else. I understand.” Bennett closed his eyes, taking a deep breath before looking at her with a steely resolve, “But back then, he saved you not because you were Evadne, not because he loved you. It was just

How can you say that?!” Evadne was frantic, her voice breaking.

blood and tears you’ve shed for him over these three years, in my eyes, you’ve paid back any debt long ago.

are those even from human?!”

didn’t even know I was pregnant, how could he have known? The miscarriage was my choice to keep secret; it had nothing to

expression remained cold

men out there better than Thaddeus, and what he offered, they can give you too.

from the sea than all the rivers in the world! Bennett, I’m warning you,

a provoked lioness, bared her teeth, ready to force her way past. But her slender arms and legs were no match for

an arm to block her path, then swiftly scooping her up by her waist with an unyielding grip and pulling her into his

Bennett’s shoulder with effortless ease, his back standing upright, his

“Evadne, behave.”

low and gentle, “I’m

slept through the afternoon. She groggily emerged from the cocoon of her duvet, her temples throbbing with a sour ache, and her stomach churning in revolt. Her head spun with a

Where am I?”

21

startled into full awareness, her sleepiness evaporating in an instant. She looked around and found herself in an opulently lavish presidential suite that bore the unmistakable hallmark of The Abernathy

“Oh no, Elvis!”

black dress, pristine and undisturbed. It seemed that the

last memory from the night before, like a still frame from a movie, was fixed

the spaci

quickened, her hand clutching her fluttering heart, her mind a tangled mess. And the

what kind of

thoughts, there was

her way to the entrance. A bellboy stood there with a smile, holding out a box of medicine, “Miss, good morning. A gentleman asked me to deliver these to you, and he

the medicine, gripping it

a day, and don’t skip meals.”

that, the bellboy

forming in her throat and her eyes welling up with tears. When

was a flower, living in the shadow of Avery, surrounded by wealth and designer dresses. But those dresses were just for Avery to admire, and for other

take her seriously, did they? But she had no way back, no choice in the matter.

her eye. Just as she was about to close the door, a hand grabbed the edge fiercely, and a pair