Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 119

Chapter 84 The Reckonma

Chapter 84: The Reckoning

(Author’s POV)

The room was very quiet.

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“In that same period, the defendant’s total expenditure on his wife and their household did not exceed five million dollars.” Gavin looked at the judge. “This constitutes deliberate dissipation of marital assets. We are additionally filing a civil action against the third party for unjust enrichment and fraudulent transfer, and we are requesting damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

Nobody moved.

Sienna’s fingers were white against the bench. One of her acrylic nails had cracked under the pressure. She hadn’t noticed.

Victoria was staring at Sienna. Not with the protective fury she’d walked in with. Something colder. Five hundred million dollars. Her son had spent five hundred million dollars on this

woman.

Jasper’s attorney stood and objected to the admissibility of the financial records.

“These were subpoenaed through the court and certified by the issuing institutions,” Gavin said. “There is no basis for challenging their authenticity.”

The judge looked at the defense table. “Objection overruled. The records are admitted.”

Jasper sat very still. He’d known Aurora had a good attorney. He hadn’t known she had this. The evidence was airtight, the financial records were devastating, and the judge’s expression had shifted in a way that told him everything he needed to know before any ruling was

announced.

He’d walked in expecting to win. He wasn’t walking out that way.

Aurora sat through all of it without moving. When Gavin returned to his seat, she didn’t say anything. But the corner of her mouth lifted – just slightly, just for a second.

She’d done it. They’d done it.

After the session adjourned, she stood in the corridor while Gavin gathered his files.

“Thank you,” she said. “Seriously.”

“Don’t thank me yet. We still need the ruling.”

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“You know how it’s going.” She paused. “The bank records – how did you get them? A subpoena takes time, and those records were comprehensive. I know what you’re capable of, but that was-”

Gavin glanced up. He raised an eyebrow, and something shifted in his expression – not quite a smile, but close.

“On my own?” he said. “I couldn’t have moved that fast.” He clicked his briefcase shut. “But your boss could.”

(Aurora’s POV)

The courthouse corridor was empty except for a janitor pushing a cart near the far end. I stood there, Gavin’s last words still settling in my head.

“Phineas,” I said. “It was Phineas who got those bank records.”

Gavin didn’t confirm it with words. He just looked at me, and that was enough.

I didn’t say anything for a moment. I’d known Phineas was involved – I wasn’t naive enough to think Gavin had pulled five years of certified financial statements out of thin air. But knowing it and hearing it confirmed were different things. He hadn’t told me. He’d just done it. Quietly, precisely, and with the kind of reach that made a five-hundred-million-dollar paper trail appear in a courtroom like it was nothing.

“You did well in there today,” Gavin said. He adjusted his briefcase strap. “As long as the judge rules fairly, the outcome should be in your favor.”

“How much of a share are we realistically looking at?”

“Getting him down to nothing isn’t legally possible, and you know that. But given his conduct – the affair, the asset dissipation, the patent income on your side – your share will be significantly higher than what they were offering in mediation.” He paused. “Considerably higher.”

I let that land.

I’d walked into this process braced for a fight over scraps. I’d told myself to be realistic, to not expect fairness, to take whatever the court gave me and move on. Hearing Gavin say it plainly – that I would walk away with more than I’d dared to hope for – felt like something loosening in my chest. A weight I’d been carrying for months finally lifted from my shoulders.

“Thank you,” I said. “For everything you did in there.”

He gave me a dry smile. “Don’t thank me yet. Wait for the ruling.”

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Outside, the morning light hit the courthouse steps. I scanned the street automatically and found Leo before he found me standing in front of the coffee shop across the road, hands shoved in his jacket pockets, watching the door.

The second he saw me, he moved.

He crossed the street at a near-jog, and by the time he reached me, he’d already read the answer off my face. His shoulders dropped. The tension he’d been holding since last night visibly left him.

“You got it,” he said. Not a question..

“We don’t have the ruling yet. But yes. It went well.”

He exhaled hard through his nose and looked away for a second. When he looked back, his jaw was set. “Good. That’s good.”

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