After the Affair Falling into a Billionaire's Arms novel Chapter 148

Chapter 148

Before Louisa could respond, Marlee was ready to snap back at Teresa, but Louisa stopped her with a gentle hand.

“Ms. Hughes,” she smiled coolly, “if you’re going to play these hypocritical games, at least be clever about it. This is so basic I can’t even be bothered to

respond.”

“You” Teresa began, but Louisa was already walking may

I’m busy. I don’t have time for idle chat with you.”

Back in the office, Marlee couldn’t contain her indignation. “Ms. Forbes, that woman was clearly trying to intimidate you right to your face! Why didn’t you

light back?”

Louisa shrugged, unbothered. “She can intimidate all she wants. What’s that got to do with me?”

“But you were the one who resolved the worker issue, even at the cost of that scar on your head!” Marlee protested. “How can she just take credit for your work and get promoted? And Mr. Tudor- thought he was different, but he’s been fooled by that witch too, unable to tell right from wrong.”

ver this?”

Louisa laughed and playfully pinched Marlee’s cheek. “Why get so upset over

“But doesn’t this mean all our work was for nothing?”

“How could it be for nothing? This situation isn’t over yet.”

Marlee’s eyes widened. “Do you have something else planned?”

Louisa raised an eyebrow with a mischievous smile. “It’s not a backup plan–it’s that everything hasn’t even began. What’s happening now is just the appetizer. If Teresa wants to eat that, let her. We’re saving room for the main course.”

She gave Marlee a flirtatious wink that made the younger woman cling to her arm. “Can you give then hint?”

Just as Louisa was about to speak, her desk phone rang.

“Hello?” the answered.

This is the front desk. Ms. Forbes, someone’s here to see you. Could you come down?”

“Did they give a name?‘

“Vivian Price.”

Louisa froze, stunned. She hadn’t expected Vivian to be out already. But thinking about it, it made sense–a few days ago, she’d asked Julian to remove the people blocking the Price family.

With their resources, they could certainly manage to get their precious daughter released.

Although her own divorce hadn’t gone through, Vivian could still be a useful chess piece.

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With a cold smile, Louisa headed downstain.

The lobby was bustling with end–of–day traffic as Louisa arrived

Vivian sat in the waiting area, dressed in her wealthy heiress clothes with an elegant princess hairstyle, though her two weeks in prison had clearly taken

She’d lost considerable weight, and her anxious expression made her look so haggard she might collapse in a light breeze. Most noticeable was the

bloodstained bandage around her wrist.

Playing the victim card, Louisa thought

it with a cold smile as she approached.

Before she could speak, Vivian spotted her and dropped dramatically to her knees, instantly drawing countless stares from Tudor Group employees.

Louisa looked down at her with cool composure. “Ms. Price, aren’t you kneeling to the wrong person? George and I are already divorced. If you want to be his mistress, that’s none of my business. No need for this display.”

Vivian was momentarily stunned, not expecting Louise to guess her purpose and strike first.

People around them, sensing a spicy drama, stopped in their tracks, pulling out phones to record the scene.

Vivian’s eyes immediately welled with tears. “Please stop recording,” she begged before turning to Louisa.

“I’m sorry, it was all my fault. I shouldn’t have been with George and hurt you. But we’ve split up now, and I’ve given George back to you.

I’m beggi

Isn’t it too much for you to have Mr. Tudor target my family’s company? I’m begging you, please talk to Mr. Tudor and ask him to stop going aher my

family’s company!”

With these words, she’d painted Louisa as someone who still had a husband but was sleeping with her boss, abusing power for personal vendettas.

The onlookers–all Tudor Group employees–began looking at Louisa with disgust and contempt.

Louisa understood now. Vivian had come to throw mud at her under the guise of being a victim, to ruin her reputation so thoroughly that she couldn’t stay.

This scheme seemed too clever for someone as foolish as Vivian to have devised on her own

“It seems your half–month in prison has made you smarter,” Louise said with a gentle yet comful smile. “Let me clarify what you re claiming.

‘First, you admit you interfered in my marriage and had an affair with my husband. Now you’ve realized how shameful it was to be the other woman, so your conscience has kicked in and you we backed out, right?

“Second, you re claiming my personal life is impure–that despite having a husband, as sleeping with someone else.

“Third, this person I’m supposedly having an affair with is none other than the CEO of the Tudor Group. You’re suggesting I seduced Mr. Tudor and manipulated him into abusing his power to target the Price Group. Is that right?”

setting a

This brilliant summary left Vivian stunned. Somehow the same words sounded completely different coming from Louisa’s mouth, as if she were set

trap.

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Vivian could only stare at her with venomous hatred, breathing heavily as if she wanted to tear her to pieces.

“What’s wrong, Ms. Price?” Louisa laughed. “Thid prison make you forget what you’ve done? Let me refresh your memory.”

That last sentence seemed to snap something in Vivian. She immediately covered her ears, shrieking. “Shut up! Shut up! I dont want to hear it!

“It seems you remember everything now,” Louisa said, her voice suddenly razor–sharp. “But you’re posing as a me, and these people around us don’t know the truth yet.”

Vivian was startled by this sudden shift in tone and instinctively glanced at the growing crowd of onlookers.

victim while spreading malicious rumors about

At some point, their contempt had shifted from Louisa to Vivian, the mistress. Everyone now pointed their phone cameras at her.

Vivian’s face turned ashen as she trembled, unable to speak.

With a confident, domineering gesture, Louisa placed one foot on the coffee table next to Vivian and looked down at her. So it wasn’t that your conscience kicked in and you honorably resigned‘ from your position as mistress.

“You never broke up with George. It was me I was the one who refused to keep a tainted man. I didn’t want him anymore, so 1 divorced him. Do you

understand?‘

As she spoke these last words, Louisa bent down and patted Vivian’s cheek with a sharp, crisp sound,

For a moment, Vivian was genuinely intimidated by Louisa’s presence. But she had come here today to destroy

her-

Why should Louisa be living well while she had suffered so terribly in prison? Even if it m

her.

meant her own destruction, she wanted to drag Louisa down with

Abandoning her victim persona, Vivian scrambled to her feet and screamed, “That’s not true! I don’t know if you divorced George or not, but you climbing into Julian’s bed to seduce him, making him repeatedly take revenge for you and go after my family’s company–that’s a fact, isn’t it?

“You’re just a shameless slut! A slut!”

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