MY BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND INVITED ME TO CHRISTMAS TO MOCK THE “POOR WIFE” HE LEFT BEHIND
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Chapter 12 - Seven Years After Losing My Husband, I Discovered We Had Become Better Parents Than We Ever Were as NewlywedsOur marriage became stronger.
We talked.
We disagreed.
We listened.
We apologized.
We celebrated small things.
One night, after the boys fell asleep, Cole asked:
“Do you think we would have been happy if this hadn't happened?”
I thought.
“Maybe.”
“But?”
“We were both young.”
“I was stubborn.”
“You still are.”
He laughed.
“You were ambitious.”
“Still am.”
“That helped.”
“What?”
“The hotel empire.”
I smiled.
“You're proud of me?”
“Always was.”
I looked at him.
“Why didn't you tell me?”
“I thought you knew.”
“No.”
He reached for my hand.
“We wasted years assuming.”
“Yes.”
“I don't want to waste another minute.”
May you like
I kissed him.
Neither of us wanted to.
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Chapter 13 - The Christmas Party That Almost Destroyed the Hartwell Family Became the Night We Chose to Forgive Each OtherOne year later, we hosted Christmas.
Chapter 14 - The Two Boys Who Had Arrived With Me on an $800 Million Jet Became the Most Loved Children in the Hartwell FamilyYears passed.
Chapter 15 - I Returned to the Christmas Mansion as Cole Hartwell’s Wife, and This Time Nobody Asked Me to Leave—Because the Twins Beside Me Were the Future We Chose TogetherSeven years earlier, I had arrived in Seattle pregnant and broke.
