After My Fiancé Humiliated Me, I Ruined Him novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Formula
Ashton's car door stopped halfway shut.
He'd heard. I watched it reach him.
Then he laughed, and waved again, and drove away down the hill a little too fast.
"Grand-mère," Julien said. "Did you mean him to hear that?"
"I'm eighty-four. I mean everything."
"And the consent?"
She patted his arm.
"Ask me on the thirtieth," she said. "In front of everyone."
We went back to Paris on Monday with six weeks left.
My COO's files had come on Friday.
Every email Ashton ever sent Crestline, every price he quoted for a house that wasn't his.
Solène took them from the train to a lawyer, with the contract and her bruised cheek, and filed a complaint for fraud.
The lawyer said it would take months.
"Good," Solène said. "I have months."
Julien went up to the lab and didn't come down.
The perfume was finished, he said on the third night. Finished on a blotter.
To bottle it for a launch, he needed more orris. Old orris butter, from iris roots dried for three years.
There was one grower left who still made it. In Tuscany.
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