Ex Wife's Collapse After Divorce novel Chapter 77

Chapter 77

Ethan didn’t answer.

Julian expected anger. He expected Ethan to lose his temper, perhaps to throw a desperate punch.

Instead, Ethan stood still.

Aurora would not abandon him because of Julian’s words. Ethan knew that.

She had defended him in front of everyone. She had looked at him as if no one else in the room mattered. She had asked him to wait for her.

The question wasn’t whether Aurora would leave him.

The question was whether he would leave Aurora.

His chest tightened.

He had feelings for her. That was no longer something he could deny.

Otherwise, he would not have allowed her to cross every boundary between an executive and an employee. He would not have let her move him into her home. He would not have stood there replaying every smile, every touch, every time she had chosen him over everyone else.

But if this continued, Margaret would notice.

And once Margaret noticed, she would oppose it.

Aurora Sinclair was many things, but a suitable match for the Carter heir, a candidate Margaret would ever sign off on as a fiancée? No. And Margaret already had a candidate of her own in mind. She always

had.

That was the whole reason he’d ended up here in the first place.

Years ago he had run-run out of the family, out of that gilded, airless world Margaret ruled-because she had already mapped every inch of his life for him. Down to the woman he would marry.

He remembered the whispers. A daughter of some elite house overseas, they’d said. A girl from a top family across the water, hand-picked, arranged. He had never even seen her face.

And that was exactly what he couldn’t stomach-the idea of binding himself to a stranger, of standing at an altar across from a woman he had never met and calling her his wife for the rest of his life.

But the point stood: if he went back to Margaret now, if he told his mother that after the wreckage of Vivian he had turned around and found another woman on his own-one with no blood the family could

use……

Margaret would fight him on Aurora exactly as fiercely as she had once fought him on Vivian. Harder,

maybe.

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And would he do 1 Would he set himself against his mother again?

After the had reached down and pulled him out of the fire once already After everything she’d done to

save tim

The silence stretched

Julian warned smiling certain he was watching a man break.

At last Ethan Ifted his head and looked at firm And when he spoke, his voice was calm-cool, even, and entirely without the despar Julian had been hoping to hear

Thank you for the information, Ethan said evenly Til give the matter more thought. My relationship with

Aurora

Julian blinked, then let out a low, pleased laugh. He’d expected fury, or begging, or denial. This flat thoughtful acceptance surprised him-and flattered him

Well, look at that he said, delighted A low-life who actually listens to reason. Maybe you’re not completely without ment after all’

He straightened his cuffs, magnanimous as a king pardoning a peasant. T’ll be generous with you tonight Seeing the two of you together just now-I’ll let it slide. This once. Consider it a gift.

His eyes hardened

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