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.

to a

sharp as a hawk’s, an immovable iceberg in his solitary might. Even

you’re going to see him?”

me,” Evadne panted, her delicate cheeks glistening with sweat.

fool for three years. Isn’t that enough? Stop

not worth it, then who

tears of pain pooling in her eyes, “He saved my life when I was eleven! On the battlefield in Zenithia, we fought terrorists side by side; he risked his life 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

idolized that 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.

that?!” Evadne was frantic, her voice

he’s done since then is out of a need for redemption, to make it up to you. And all the blood and tears you’ve shed for him over these three years, in my eyes, you’ve paid back any debt long ago. There’s no

are those even from human?!”

he have known? The miscarriage was my choice to keep secret; it had nothing to do with him! How many times do I have to say it?!”

Bennett’s expression remained

plenty of men out there better than Thaddeus, and what he offered, they can give

rivers in the world! Bennett, I’m

provoked lioness, bared her teeth, ready to force her way past. But

eye, Bennett didn’t budge an inch, simply stretching out an arm to block her path, then swiftly scooping her up by her waist with an unyielding

feet left the ground and she was hoisted onto Bennett’s shoulder with effortless ease, his back standing upright,

“Evadne, behave.”

moved swiftly, his voice low and gentle, “I’m doing this for your own good.”

of her duvet, her temples throbbing with a sour ache, and her stomach churning in revolt. Her head

Where am

21

evaporating in an instant. She looked around and found herself in an opulently lavish presidential suite that bore the unmistakable hallmark of The Abernathy Group

“Oh no, Elvis!”

hands trembled as she flung back the covers, only to find her black dress, pristine and undisturbed.

from the night before, like a still frame from a movie, was fixed on that passionate, irresistible

the spaci

a tangled mess. And the spacious room was now devoid of that carefree, confident figure.

kind of man are

in her thoughts, there was

a box of medicine, “Miss, good morning. A gentleman asked me to deliver these to you, and he

took the medicine, gripping it tightly, “What’s

pills twice a day, and don’t

that, the bellboy

welling up with tears.

by wealth and designer dresses. But those dresses were just for Avery to admire, and for other men,to

back, no choice in the matter. Her fate with Elvis was sealed; they were enemies from different worlds.

tear from the corner of her eye. Just as she was about to close the door, a hand grabbed the edge fiercely, and a