The Woman From Hell

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Chapter 57 His eyes immediately sparkled. He enthusiastically sat up straight and lookeddirectly in the eye. “Let's talk about you! Like, did you miss me? And when are you getting a divorce?” | was dumbfounded, “When did people start asking such sensitive questions so bluntly? Don’t you wanna seebe happy in life?” “Why not ask you that? You're not happy with him. Besides, I've been waiting for you for a while now, so of course I'd be concerned about it.” He propped his head up on his hands as he smiled teasingly, | kept quiet, not entertaining his questions.

Stop denying reality! Look at yourself! You're pretty and you're gentle mannered, so why would you make yourself look so miserable for Theo Grant's sake? Trust me, a divorce would d o you good.” He caught my face in his hands, forcingto meet his eyes.

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Our closeness maderealize that other than his flawless face and his enticing smile, Xander had extraordinarily beautiful eyes too. Once, a fan had commented that it was like there was a sea of stars hidden in his eyes.

The heavens were clearly on his side when they gave him sof the most unrivaled features in the entire world.

After sipping on my water, | looked at him and remarked, “Even though it may b e a competition, it’s all just for show. | still hope you'll end up being the spokesman.” Ahh.. He slammed his hands on the table in frustration. Why didn’t my famed beauty charm work on you?!” I grimaced, ignored his flustered states, and continued, “Be serious. I'm telling you this so you know you'll have to try your hardest. | don’t want people to think that we've manipulated the results.” He pouted and sprawled out lifelessly on the table. “It’s my break tright now. | refuse to talk about work!” | cocked an eyebrow and smiled laintly.” Fine, I'll cfind you personally at Nectarine once the contract is ready.” “Up to you,” he replied casually. His chin rested in his palms as his cyes narrowed a t“You've never taken my words into serious consideration, nor have you've ever cared for me, right?” | really did not want to discuss such matters, so | stood up and said, “I've still got things to settle, so I gotta run.

You've been working hard for a long tnow, s 0 go hand rest early, okay?” He grasped my wrist, just on the edge of being too tight. “Wait,” he drawled, his eyes fixated on a point outside the restaurant | followed his gaze to see Theo's cold eyes boring intofrom behind the window. | scanned his surroundings and realized that Cindy Reed was beside him. | averted my gaze.

It was just about the most unfortunate unexpected run-in one could experience. | returned to my seat, not wanting to bump into them on my way out.

What | had not seen coming was that The would bring Cindy to our table and sit down right in front of us. | lowered my head, pretending I did not see them.

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Cindy looked at me. After what had happened last time, she did not even bother to pretend today. She glanced at m e coldly, hostility piercing through her It was better forif she did not bother pretending. | did not want to pay any attention to them, so | played with my phone, my head bowed down low.

“What a coincidence, President Grant!” Xander, however, greeted Theo chirpily.

A dull fire burned within me. | asked him i n a low voice, “What are you doing?” Xander smiled quietly. He turned to Theo and said, “Since it’s so rare for us to be able to meet in a setting like this, let's have a meal together. What would you like to eat? I'll order it for you.” Theo's gaze swept overto look at Cindy. He asked, “What would you like to the ‘most searched’ lists of any online search engine “Fine.” | gave in.

“You're the best boss ever!” Xander hugged my shoulder gleefully. | subtly wiggled out of his grasp.

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