Chapter 8
As soon as Raine said those words, Bruno buried his face in her chest and began to weep uncontrollably.
Raine stayed up drinking with him late into the night.
When the alcohol had taken over, the two of them held each other in their arms as they slept. The whole night passed in
silence.
It wasn’t until the next day, when Bruno woke up with a pounding headache, that he remembered about me.
“Raine, I need to find Aelia. She loves me enough to step aside for us. You’ll do the same, right? When the time comes, you can stay at the apartment, and she’ll stay here. Everything will be just like it was before, alright?”
Bruno spoke softly, a trace of longing in his eyes.
Raine had just finished her shower and was wrapping herself in her bathrobe. She froze for a moment, then nodded slowly.
Just as Bruno was about to book a plane ticket, his phone rang. It was his assistant.
“Mr. Russell, all the money in Ms. Lawson’s account has been transferred abroad! Your agreement can’t be used at
Bruno’s phone fell onto the bed with a thud. He couldn’t believe it.
“How is that possible?!”
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Even Raine started to panic. “So that means we’re not getting the money?”
Bruno gritted his teeth, grabbed his phone, and smashed it to the floor in frustration.
Love, regret, none of it mattered!
He was obsessed–only one thought remained in his mind.
‘Aelia Lawson, how dare you trick me!‘
Not only did he fail to get the money, but he also had to fill the company’s cash flow. Some of the money he used to buy back the shares had come from the company’s finances, so now, he had to pay it all back.
When that thought crossed his mind, Bruno immediately put on his clothes and rushed to the company to take charge.
Meanwhile, Raine sat on the bed, gritting her teeth in hatred toward me.
All this time, I had no idea about any of this mess happening back home.
At that moment, I had just woken up. After my surgery, I hired a few caregivers to help me during my long recovery in the hospital Some of the caregivers were worried I would get bored, so they would take every opportunity to gossip about the
