Billionaire's Match (by Tangy Candy) novel Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Khloe hesitated for a long moment, her thumb hovering over the screen before she finally typed out a message: [ Mr. Hunt, are you still awake?]

The message was sent, but it sank like a stone. She stared at her phone for twenty minutes. No reply.

Yet, his social media feed showed he had posted just a minute ago.

He was online. He was just ignoring her.

Khloe wasn’t trying to be pushy. But with wolves circling from every direction, she felt a deep–seated unease. This marriage alliance was her safety net, and she had to treat it with the same strategic diligence as a business deal. If he wouldn’t make the first move, then she would.

Suddenly, her phone lit up.

Her heart leapt she thought it was Nick. She snatched it up, only to see Trey’s name flashing on the screen.

Her thumb slipped, and the call connected before she could reject it.

It was too late. His voice was already coming through the speaker.

“Khloe, you haven’t been answering my messages. Are you still upset?”

His tone was as gentle as ever, but tonight, to Khloe, it sounded unbearably repulsive.

She quickly held the phone away from her ear and didn’t dignify his question with a direct answer.

“I was about to sleep. What do you need?”

Her cold response only confirmed to Trey that she was still holding a grudge.

She had always been so easy to placate, so obedient. When she suddenly asked for leave during a company crisis and refused to come home, he had been both surprised and irritated.

He had wanted to teach her a lesson, deliberately giving her the cold shoulder for two days.

But now the company was bleeding, and he had run out of patience. He had to be the one to swallow his pride.

“About my mother and Alicia… I didn’t consider your feelings. I’m sorry. They won’t bother you again. My father has already disciplined them, and they even called to apologize…”

“They wouldn’t dare apologize to my face, would they?”

Khloe cut him off, unwilling to listen to another word of his excuses.

Trey hadn’t expected her to press the issue. His voice grew strained, almost pleading. “You know what they’re like. If a face–to–face apology is the only thing that will satisfy you, I’ll find a way to arrange it…”

“That won’t be necessary. I’ve never forced anyone to apologize.”

That was the truth. Just the thought of Stella and Alicia’s faces made her feel contaminated.

“Then what do you want?”

He couldn’t hold back any longer–a sharp edge of impatience crept into his tone.

Khloe’s lips curved into a faint smile, her voice softening deceptively, almost taking on a coquettish lilt. ” Emotional wounds are hard to mend. But financial ones are much easier. I want half of Fox Group’s shares.”

“What did you just say?”

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For a moment, Trey was sure he had misheard.

She was actually asking him for shares–half of Fox Group no less.

Khloe repeated herself in that same unnervingly calm and quiet tone.

“Khloe, you’re not serious… are you?”

He could hardly believe it. The woman who had never asked him for anything was suddenly demanding a king’s ransom–half the company.

He didn’t even own half of it himself.

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