Reborn to Dodge the Bad Marriage novel Chapter 65

Chapter 65 I Don’t Get Jealous

is.”

Finished

you could put her back in the oven until she’s done,” Nora said. “Then we can talk about how young she

Victor hadn’t expected her to embarrass him like that with Julian sitting right there, and his face went dark.

He couldn’t lose his temper in front of Julian, so he kept his voice pleasant. “Your mother and I built that company together, and you hold shares in it.

“You can’t stand there and watch it go under.”

Nora gave a cold laugh. “A minute ago you were telling me not to bother Julian with something this small. Now you’re begging me to.

“Which is it, Dad? You can’t have it both ways. Or are you just using the fact that he’s my husband to guilt him into it?”

Victor didn’t have an answer for that.

He sighed and backed off, which was its own kind of pressure. “Forget it. I pushed too hard. That company is the only thing left of your mother and me, and all I’ve done is put you in a corner over it.

“Let it go under. I’ll sell this house and settle the debts.”

Nora made a face and turned to Julian. “That’s enough of that. Don’t go out of your way to help him, and don’t go out of your way to squeeze him either.”

She wasn’t doing Victor any favors.

If she let Julian keep the pressure on, Mandy would simply go running to Adrian.

The Westons and the Pierces were close to evenly matched, and they worked different industries, so plenty of those partners would take a call from Adrian.

It was better for that favor to come from her and Julian than from Mandy and Adrian.

Julian nodded. “All right. Your call.”

He gave in so easily that Nora felt awkward about it, and she huffed twice to make it clear she was still angry.

Victor heard him give way and finally let out a breath.

He had learned something from the evening too. Julian wasn’t as hard to move as people said, mainly because he listened to Nora.

Clearly, it was time to start treating her better.

Still, one thing kept nagging at him, and the longer he turned it over, the deeper the worry went.

If Nora ever learned what he had done, with Julian’s kind of power behind her, he would be finished.

He came back around to the same answer every time. Mandy mattered more, and Nora couldn’t be the one

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who ended up better off.

would have to do something about it.

Once the meal was over, neither Julian nor Nora stayed the night.

Victor wrote Julian a large check and sent them off with an armload of gifts.

None of it was anything Julian needed, but that was what a father did when a newly married couple came for dinner.

They drove back in the same silence they had come in.

Julian took the wheel while Nora sat in the passenger seat with her head turned to the window, and everything about her said she wasn’t speaking to him and wasn’t finished being angry.

Julian spoke first. “Still mad?”

“No,” Nora said. “Why would I be mad at you? This whole marriage is temporary.”

With anyone else, he wouldn’t have had the patience to ask in the first place.

Since it was Nora, he kept going, and he took his time about it.

“Don’t sit on it. If it’s my fault, yell at me, hit me, whatever gets it out of your system. Then tell me what the problem is and we’ll fix it together.”

Nora scowled at the window. “I said I’m not mad. I’m not mad.”

She was still watching out the window. She hadn’t looked at him once since she got in the car.

“Fine,” Julian said. “You’re not mad. But I am.”

That got Nora upright in her seat, her head snapping around to glare at him.

“You have the nerve to be mad?”

“We’ve been married three days. There’s nothing between us, fine, but we’re still married. If you want to flirt with someone else, do it where I can’t see it.

“Instead Olivia moves into the house, and the two of you go running in matching outfits! You had your arm around her!”

Nora stared at his hand on the wheel and thought seriously about taking it off at the wrist.

“And last night you never came to bed. Who knows what you were doing. It’s disgusting.

“And you have the nerve to be mad!”

It all came out of her at once, and by the end she wanted to kick him out of his own car.

She looked ready to detonate, and Julian laughed. “Are you jealous?”

Nothing had ever thrown Nora this far off balance. Adrian had never once done this to her.

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Her own laugh came out flat. “I don’t get jealous. You’re dying anyway, so fool around all you like. When

are gone I’ll send a thousand gorgeous women down after you.

“You can have a harem in hell. Seventy-two of them, if that’s what it takes!”

He could hear how angry she was, and he answered her seriously. “My grandmother is the one who brought Olivia into the house. She says she has a treatment plan for me.

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