Jilted Wife Returns As A Billionaire Heiress novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Come Over
Elsie put her phone under a dish towel on the counter, with the red recording dot facing the ceiling.
Darius stood in the bathroom doorway with the light off and the door open the width of a hand.
"Say nothing," she told him. "Whatever you hear."
"Elsie."
"Whatever you hear."
He nodded once and stepped back into the dark.
Imogen knocked, two taps and a third, and then let herself in with the key, as she always did.
She had a paper bag of takeout in one hand and a lemon tart in the other.
"Pad thai," she said. "And the tart you like, because you sound awful. Come here."
She hugged Elsie hard, and Elsie let her.
Imogen smelled of the same vanilla she had worn for six years.
"Tell me," Imogen said, sitting on the edge of the bed with her shoes still on. "What did Trent do now?"
Elsie set the folder on the counter, open to the list of wires, and turned it around.
"Thirty-six payments," she said. "One on the first of every month, from I. Crane to Rafferty Row."
Imogen looked at the page.
She looked at it for the length of one breath, and her face did not change at all.
"That's not me," she said. "Love, somebody's using my name. People do that."
"The memo on the last one says Done."
"Elsie."
"It's the week he asked me for the divorce."
"Okay, listen." Imogen stood up and took both of Elsie's hands. "You're exhausted, and you have two newborns, and a man you hate has put a piece of paper in front of you. Think about who gave it to you."
"Darius gave it to me."
"Darius Ames." Imogen's voice softened. "Honey. He's the chief executive of a company, and you are the thing standing between him and the chair. Of course he'd want you to hate me."
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