Gold Digger vs Gold Saver My Man's Double Life novel Chapter 83

Chapter 8

My departure gutted Stellar Industries.

The company was barely limping along, a shadow of its former glory.

Jasper’s first day back in Manhattan, his desk was buried under resignation letters.

Most of the senior management were people I’d personally recruited and mentored.

These loyal employees watched him fire me-someone who’d given everything to the company-while promoting Madison, who couldn’t even operate a coffee machine without breaking something, to Head of Technology.

They were done.

With the core team gone, the company was paralyzed.

Jasper had to throw ridiculous money at headhunters to fill positions.

Their savings evaporated in months.

Desperate to turn things around, Jasper bet everything on a livestreamed product launch with Madison as the keynote speaker.

Last year at the same event, my solid expertise and professional presence had landed us fifty thousand orders on the spot-half a year’s profit in one night.

Before going live, Jasper gripped Madison’s hands, his voice intense:

“Everything depends on you now. The company’s life or death-it all comes down to this moment.”

Madison had prepped hard for this launch.

She walked on stage radiating confidence.

Too bad the audience was packed with automotive industry experts.

The very first technical question left her stammering like an idiot.

Sensing blood in the water, the journalists pounced with brutal follow-ups.

“Ms. Clarke, if you can’t answer basic questions, did you buy your degree online?”

“Word is your only job responsibility was ordering coffee. How’d you end up taking credit for everyone else’s work?”

“Internet users are calling you ‘the ultimate nepotism hire.’ Care to comment?”

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The livestream chat exploded.

The screen flooded with comments calling her “fraud” and “daddy’s girl”-her face went ghost white.

Before Madison could even attempt damage control, camera flashes started strobing like a disco from hell.

She finally bolted off stage.

She barely made it backstage before a vicious slap sent her sprawling.

Madison hit the floor hard.

Before she could recover, someone grabbed a fistful of her hair and yanked.

Jasper’s mother was screaming:

“You little curse! If you hadn’t pissed off the Carter family, my son wouldn’t be ruined!”

Madison’s face contorted in pain.

Jasper rushed to intervene.

“Mom, stop! How can you dishonor her dead parents like this?!”

His mother shoved him away with a bitter laugh.

“You still believe the Clarke family saved your life?”

“If I hadn’t heard this little bitch talking in her sleep last night, I never would’ve known-she was the one who pushed you in that lake! Her parents only jumped in because they were afraid you’d drown!”

Jasper froze like he’d been struck by lightning.

It took a long moment before he mechanically turned to Madison, his eyes blazing with pure rage.

“Your whole family lied to me?”

Seeing the writing on the wall, Madison tried to bolt but got blocked by cops who’d appeared out of nowhere.

“Madison Clarke, you’re under arrest for assault with intent to harm,”

Her little boiling water stunt was good for three to five years behind bars.

As they cuffed her, Madison finally spotted me in the crowd.

She broke down completely, wailing:

“Liv, I was wrong! I know I screwed up!”

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“Just forgive me and I’ll be your slave forever, I swear!”

I said nothing, just watched them load her into the police car.

She wasn’t sorry.

She was just sorry she got caught.

Stellar couldn’t escape bankruptcy.

Dad was impressed with how I’d handled everything and started handing over major operations at Kingsley Corp.

I threw myself into work completely.

Figured the Jasper Reed chapter was closed forever.

Until security told me someone had been camping outside our building for three days.

When I saw Jasper again, Manhattan’s former golden boy looked like a homeless guy-scruffy beard, wrinkled clothes, dead

eyes.

The second he saw me, he started crying.

“Liv, I was wrong. When Madison first came to me, she said she was dying and just wanted to spend her last days with me.”

His smile was bitter as hell.

“I never thought it was all a lie.”

I studied Jasper quietly.

The face I used to love looking at now just made me tired.

“What’s the point of saying this now?”

“If you’d just been honest instead of playing games with two women, maybe we wouldn’t be here.”

“But I always loved YOU!”

Jasper got desperate.

“I messed up before, but I can make it right. You loved my cooking-I’ll cook for you every single day…”

I cut him off coldly:

“Enough! I used to lie to myself too, thinking you were just helping Madison out of childhood loyalty. But instincts don’t lie.”

“When it got cold, your first thought was whether she had a jacket. When it rained, you worried if she had an umbrella. And me? I kept waiting for you to show me that same care. Never happened.”

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