Billionaire's Match (by Tangy Candy) novel Chapter 40

Chapter 40

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The voice carried a sharp edge. Khloe turned toward it and saw a face that felt vaguely familiar.

She couldn’t recall the woman’s name, but she remembered she’d once been Angela’s student-someone from

the same class as Trey.

“Denise, you’re just bitter,” Tina shot back without hesitation. “You haven’t had a boyfriend in years. Maybe try a blind date before running your mouth.”

“Please, Tina, you don’t understand anything, so stay out of it,” Denise Parker sneered. “Everyone knows Trey only married Khloe because he couldn’t have the woman he really wanted.”

The moment those words left her mouth, the room fell silent. The laughter, the chatter-all of it evaporated like mist.

One by one, the smiles vanished from people’s faces. The classmates who’d been so eager to talk to Khloe just moments ago suddenly found their drinks or their phones very interesting.

The air turned cold.

Khloe froze for a moment. She didn’t need Denise to tell her Trey had someone else in his heart-she had always

known that much.

What caught her off guard was everyone else’s reaction.

Normally, people would gossip, act surprised, deny it, or at least laugh it off

But this… this quiet acceptance-it was as if they all already knew.

So everyone but her knew about Trey and Angela’s relationship.

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She thought of the blessings, the envy, the congratulations she’d once received, and for a second, it all struck her as absurd.”

How funny-how pathetic-that she had once believed she was the happiest woman alive.

Tina’s face flushed bright red. “Denise, watch your mouth! If you’re jealous, at least have the decency to admit it!”

“I’m just telling the truth,” Denise said coolly. “Whether there’s love or not, I think the person involved know best.”

Her lips curved into a thin smile as she cast a deliberately provoking glance at Khloe.

“Besides,” she added, her tone dripping with disdain, “what’s there to be jealous of now?”

“You’re jealous of her beauty, her success, and the fact that someone actually loves her,” Tina snapped. “You’ve been competing with her since our university days, and everyone knows it.”

Tina wasn’t wrong.

Back in university, Denise had been quite the star herself. She’d been photographed during her freshman year— long legs, perfect figure, dressed impeccably-and had gone semi-viral online as the “Finance Goddess” of their department.

But somehow, she was always compared to Khloe. Every spotlight that once shone on her eventually drifted toward Khloe instead.

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Scholarships. Internship offers. Study-abroad recommendations. Even the admiration of others–wherever Denise went, Khloe’s name followed, and Denise always came in second.

People had joked that she was always picking up Khloe’s leftovers, mimicking her choices, her achievements, her path. And over time, that comparison turned into resentment.

Khloe had never known any of this. To her, Denise had simply been one of Angela’s bright, ambitious students- always active, always showing up at every event.

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