The CEO’s Regret My Ex-Wife is a Tech Goddess novel Chapter 59

[Please forgive me for not joining you for dinner, Dr. Rossi. My nephew is handsome, owns property, drives a nice car, holds a stable job, and is very emotionally stable. I arranged for the two of you to be alone so you could get to know each other. I hope you'll seriously consider him.]

Get to know each other?

A blind date?!

When those words registered in her brain, Alaina nearly dropped her jaw. She choked violently on the mouthful of water she had just swallowed.

She turned sideways, hacking so hard her face turned scarlet. It felt like she might suffocate, taking forever to catch her breath.

Silas lifted his gaze, throwing her an icy glare that was ninety percent disgust and ten percent pity.

She finally managed to get her breathing under control, but inside, an underwater volcano was erupting. It felt like she was being roasted over magma, making it impossible to sit still.

A blind date with Silas Summers? It was the most absurd joke on the planet.

What sane human being would ever want to marry him?

Uncontrollable snippets from horror movies flashed through Alaina's mind.

A heroine in a wedding dress, bound and shoved into a palanquin while demons played bone-chilling music.

When she was finally pushed before the King of the Underworld, he opened his blood-soaked jaws and asked, "Are you ready, my corpse bride?"

......

Alaina's pupils shrank, snapping back to reality. She looked across the table at the 'King of the Underworld'—no, Silas—unable to mask the sheer terror in her eyes.

Silas had already finished his meal. He set down his napkin and stared at her with an even more indifferent expression, as if deliberately emphasizing just how little he cared about this situation.

"You aren't even officially divorced yet, Dr. Rossi. Are you really that desperate for your next catch?" Silas asked, shattering the silence.

Alaina froze for a few seconds, genuinely insulted by his venomous remark.

Before she could even say a word, he had already taken the high ground.

"Desperate? Absolutely," she fired back, completely dropping her earlier panic to flash him a tight, entirely insincere smile. "Thanks to your little reminder, my time is precious, and I can't afford to waste a single second of it."

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