Billionaire's Pregnant Ex-wife novel Chapter 84

Grey Gabriel Bradford couldn’t believe his eyes. Lily was standing at the door of the

restaurant. He rapidly blinked, wondering if she was just a figment of his imagination. He couldn’t shake her from his mind after meeting her in the cemetery that morning, and he badly wanted to see her again.

Could she just be his hallucination? he wondered, his eyes still locked on the upscale door. Still, after blinking, the woman who occupied his thoughts the whole time did not disappear at all.

Annoyed, he watched the couple follow the waiter to their table.

Clearing his throat, he straightened in his seat and forced himself to look away. It must have been his thoughts of Lily that summoned her to the place where he was.

He was actually glad to see her, but not like this. She was with a man who was obviously her date. Despite trying to ignore them, it still secretly hurt like hell.

No man would ever want to see the woman he loved going out with someone else, especially when he could see that she was much happier with another man than when she

was with him.

“A penny for your thoughts, Grey,” Catrina Blackwell remarked. A soft chuckle emerged from her shapely lips afterward.

“Well, about your contract with the company-” Grey continued where he left off, pretending as though nothing had just happened. But before he finished, she cut him off.

“So she was the woman you were talking about?” she whispered. The words sounded more like a statement than a question.

“No, she is not,” he lied, trying to keep his face emotionless.

Catrina Blackwell leaned closer and said, “Liar.”

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“I told you to come here to talk about your contract, Catrina, and not to discuss my personal life,” he mused, unable to hide his irritation this time.

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Her lips slowly curved into a teasing smile. “Jealous, are you?” she murmured sweetly. Unable to contain her amusement any longer, she roared in laughter, causing the occupants of the nearby tables to look at them in wonder.

He saw Lily look at them too. He wasn’t sure if it was just his imagination, but he thought

he saw her shoot Catrina a sharp look before abruptly looking away.

Maybe he was wrong, he thought to himself before returning his eyes to Catrina.

“If you don’t stop, I’ll choose another endorser to replace you,” he told her.

Unaffected, Catrina simply shrugged her shoulders. “As if you could change me,” she

mumbled under her breath, rather confidently.

Grey ignored her remark and continued to discuss the terms of her contract with his company. By the time he finished, the glasses of vintage wine on their table were empty.

“Do you want any more wine?” Grey asked her, but Catrina shook her head.

“No, thank you. I still need to drive back to the Blackwell residence.” She let out a deep sigh and picked up her luxury tote bag. “My parents are waiting for me at home. Today is their silver wedding anniversary. They will kill me if I go home tipsy.”

“Say my regards to them,” he told her, watching as she rose from her chair.

“I will,” Catrina replied.

Grey stood from his chair and left a hefty tip on the table.

Without warning, Catrina wrapped her arms around his neck and planted a kiss on his left cheek. Taken aback by her action, he was unable to move or say a word for several seconds. When he recovered, he placed his hands on both of her waist, not to pull her closer but to gently push her away.

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“What was that for?” he asked, his eyebrows slightly scrunched in confusion as he pulled away from her embrace.

“Nothing,” she replied with a mysterious smile on her red lips. “I just made a brief experiment.” She added mysteriously, her gaze locked on the direction where he knew Lily

and her date were seated.

“What experiment are you talking about, little brat?”

“Nothing,” she replied with a shrug. However, the mysterious smile on her lips did not disappear.

Catrina seemed to want to stop talking, so Grey ceased his inquiries. They made a beeline

for the upscale door of the restaurant.

Once outside, he accompanied her to the area where her car was parked. Pulling the key

from her bag, she opened her car and climbed inside.

“Be careful driving,” he reminded her.

“I will,” she assured him.

But before she maneuvered the car away, she turned to him. “The feeling between the two of you is mutual. It’s just that both of you are stupid!” After saying that in front of his face, the car sped away, leaving him guessing what she meant by that.

“That little brat!” he mumbled under his breath, irritated.

If she wasn’t his cousin, he would never let her get away with that.

Catrina’s father was his father’s illegitimate brother—a product of a one–night stand between his grandfather and a maid. His grandfather was a respectable and prominent figure in his prime when he accidentally made the servant pregnant. To protect the family name, the truth was kept for years, and until now, no one knew about it except the members of the Bradford family.

It was their family’s skeleton in the closet.

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Everyone thought the two of them were having an affair. Grey could only laugh at the gossip he heard about them. If only they knew the truth… he thought to himself smugly.

He let out a deep sigh and made his way toward his car and got inside.

The beep on his phone told him he had a message. He read it and placed his phone on the

dashboard.

The message informed him that Natalia had finally arrived home. He’d been waiting for her to return, and finally, she did.

They had an important matter to discuss.

Natalia Romani paced back and forth across the length of her plush room. She couldn’t believe that Lily De Silva was still alive. She was no longer a De Silva but a Phoenix! Who would have thought she was the long–lost daughter of a very influential family?

Despite the icy–cold air blasting from her air–conditioning unit, beads of sweat formed on

her temples.

It wouldn’t take long before Lily got her sweet revenge on her.

Thinking about Lily made her throat tight and dry. With trembling hands, she reached for the wine decanter and poured herself a glass. The golden liquid spilled onto the mini bar counter, but she continued to pour until the glass contained a generous amount of whiskey.

The family doctor had forbidden her from drinking whiskey, but she couldn’t help herself. She was filled with tension, and she needed a glass to ease the heaviness inside her.