Mr. CEO Your Wife Has Wanted a Divorce for a Long Time (by Zora Pradeep) novel Chapter 616

Chapter 616

“Not even close, Ms. Everly. I’ve got a long way to go before I’m at your level.”

The Everly family had already sunk serious money into this project. And yet here was Daphne, throwing away one of their few genuinely strong potential partners without a second thought, purely on personal feelings. If anyone wanted to talk about having nerve, Maggie couldn’t hold a candle to that.

Daphne seemed to know exactly where Maggie’s head was at. She smiled. “Confident, aren’t we, Miss Miller? Sure, Cole is a solid option domestically. But we have other choices.”

he stood up, still smiling. “Since Cole isn’t up to handling our project, I won’t take up any more of your time. Until next time, Miss Miller.

Maggie had no interest in trading any more jabs. “Take care. Don’t let the door hit you.”

ohnny came back that afternoon and asked how things had gone with Everly Group. Maggie gave him the short version.

>hnny stared at her. “Daphne came in hot against you? She was there to start trouble on purpose?”

That’s how it felt.”

he Gray family and the Everly family didn’t have much history. Johnny didn’t know a whole lot about them, but he had a decent enough read on where veryone stood in the circles they ran in. He also knew Maggie’s world pretty well, and he knew she and Daphne had never crossed paths before.

rom what he’d heard, Daphne had spent most of the last several years studying in France. Given the attitude she’d walked in with, Johnny thought about it for second. “You think she’s tight with Julia? Came here just to get under your skin for her sake? Or is this about Franklin?”

laggie said, “My gut says the first one.”

God, that’s actually funny.” Johnny curled his lip. “Picking fights with potential business partners over some so–called sisterhood. This Daphne isn’t exactly laying with a full deck. Though honestly, if Everly Group is handing a project like this to someone who runs on pure emotion, working with them probably ‘ould’ve been a headache from start to finish. We’re probably better off.”

laggie said, “Yeah.”

he next day, Maggie and Johnny had a lunch scheduled with one of their partners. When they got there, the last people they expected to see were Julia and aphne, already there.

hnny crossed his arms and leaned toward Maggie. “Looks like we weren’t wrong. Those two really are close.”

aphne and Julia spotted them at the same time.

ilia’s face stayed blank, like they didn’t exist. Daphne, on the other hand, curled her lips into a lite smile and gave a slow, taunting wave, then walked in staurant with Julia like she owned the place.

hnny stared after them. “She’s got a screw loose.”

laggie said, “Let’s just go in.”

ver lunch, their partner happened to bring up the Everly family.

made sense. The Everlys had been off the New York scene for years while they shifted most of their operations overseas, the chest return. In the 43 ad been making quiet waves in the industry.

And of course, talking about the Everly family meant talking about the big project they’d come back to push “Word is they rame back ready to move hey had a partner team lined up from France well in advance. They arrived yesterday, actually And apparently a P–MAL”

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