Ex Wife's Collapse After Divorce novel Chapter 74

Chapter 74

The air froze solid.

Ethan’s brow drew tight. He didn’t like the way Julian said middle manager, as though the words themselves were something scraped off a shoe.

Aurora didn’t flinch. “Yes,” she said, her voice cool as glass. “Of course.”

Julian’s smile cracked at the edges. “Is that appropriate?”

“Of course it’s appropriate.” Her voice cut clean through his. “And before you go looking down on someone else, Julian, maybe you should look at yourself. Do you honestly not understand why I’d rather sit across a dinner table from a middle manager than spend one hour at your little party? Because at least he doesn’t bore me. At least he doesn’t need to buy his own confidence by stepping on people

beneath him.”

The words landed like a slap.

For a heartbeat the heir to Blackwood Capital simply stood there, choked on his own retort, his

handsome face flushing a slow, ugly red.

Aurora didn’t wait for him to recover. She turned to Ethan, her expression softening in an instant, and

reached lightly for his sleeve. “Let’s go.”

But before they could take a step, hurried heels clicked across the marble.

“Ms. Sinclair.”

Aurora’s secretary came hurrying through the thinning crowd, tablet clutched to her chest, her face tight with something between apology and urgency. She drew close and lowered her voice, but not so low that Ethan couldn’t catch the gist.

“I’m sorry to interrupt. It’s your father. He’s arrived downstairs-unannounced. He’s asking for you.”

The transformation in Aurora was immediate. The warmth drained from her face, replaced by a flat, cold

displeasure.

“Now?” she said. “What does he want, showing up here at this hour? I don’t want to see him.”

“Ms. Sinclair, I really think you should.” The secretary hesitated, then pushed on. “It seems-it seems your sister has caused some kind of trouble. He’s quite upset over it. Heartbroken, honestly. He came here to have someone to talk to. It would look bad if you refused him now. Whatever else is between you, he is still your father.”

Ethan watched her quietly. He knew almost nothing about Aurora’s family, only that she never spoke of her father. Now he saw it, that shadow crossing her face.

At last Aurora exhaled through her nose. “Fine,” she said tightly. “I’ll go.”

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Then she turned back to Ethan, and just like that the shadow lifted, replaced by a smile so warm and bright it caught him off guard.

“Wait for me?” she asked, almost sweetly. “There’s a VIP lounge upstairs. Rest there a while, and once I’m finished we can head back together.”

He genuinely could not work out why Aurora had spent the last five minutes acting as though the two of them were joined at the hip-sweet, possessive, practically glowing at him in front of the entire company. It wasn’t like her. But he saw no harm in it. If she wanted him to wait, he’d wait.

“Sure,” he started to say. “I can-”

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