The Daring Billionaire’s Wife

Chapter 106

Dominic

Vanessa just keeps staring at me and parts her lips to speak, but it seems she can't find her words.

"Hey, tell me what happened." My voice is urgent.

Shutting her eyes, she says, "I was in the ladies' room and Carmella passed by the bodyguards only because she was in disguise and I was the only one who could identify her."

Disappointed in the bodyguards, I say, "Then what's the point of having bodyguards if-"

"I'm not finished," she cuts me off, her tone a little harsh. "There was a moment where I thought she was going to attack me with an object or whatever because she lowered her hand and in the pocket of her coat, but she chose not to do so. She said it was because she had something else that would hurt even more."

"And what was that?" I cross my arms.

Opening her eyes, she says, "She had something to say."

I shake my head dismissively and raise my eyebrows. "What could she possibly have said that would hurt you?"

As I get closer to her, she takes a few steps back. She clearly doesn't want me near her.

With a painful smile, she says, "She told me that even before we got married, you planned to divorce me in a few months."

My heart instantly starts racing as I uncross my arms, my eyes going round a little in panic. Shit!

"Is it true?" she asks.

"Whatever Carmella-"

question," she cuts me

her gaze, I

only interest was to take over the company and then you would have no use for me." Her voice trembles a little. "You

supposed to be for the rest of our lives even

with a chuckle that sounds so

That's okay," she says.

She's clearly hurt by this

says, "Anyway, Mike should be expecting us soon. We

"Vanessa-"

I take longer than you do." She walks away in a hurry to

stop myself when she covers her mouth and lowers her head, like she's trying to hold

clench my jaw in frustration, hating

a few minutes before I head to

about what happened. If only the bodyguards had done their job,

thinking about the expression in Vanessa's eyes and the tone of her voice when I was in

breaths, I pick

to call Carmella and ask her why she did it, but that would just be what she wants - to have my attention and I don't want

dressed up and ready to leave, I can't seem to just walk out and get to Vanessa's bedroom door. Right now, it feels like one of the most difficult things I've ever

of what I could say when I get to her door, but nothing comes

to feel like I'm ready to speak to her with all this guilt, so I finally get to her door

long you always take. I don't want to

she says, her tone

and doesn't even have to say it. I make myself believe that with time, things will get better, so I wait righ in the same spot, thinking of all the ways I can explain myself to her. It

minutes later, I hear her coming closer to the door and that makes

with a thigh slit, some smoky eyeshadow and a glossy nude lipstick. She doesn't even look at me as she closes the door, flipping

us and to break the ice, I smirk and say. "Glossy

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