Chapter 33: Clicking Trouble

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Alex could not stop smiling.

Even during the meeting he had which showed that he had lost a sizeable amount of his stocks in a company in Europe, a news that should have made him sad, he continued to smile. He could not help himself.

Seeing Christine after all this time was the best thing to happen to him today. Well, after getting married to his wife that is.

When Ruth had asked him to let her go and get Christine back to New York, he had agreed without a second thought.

He had guided his agreement under the veil that Ruth needed her best friend since she had always been a part of Ruth's life but actually, he had not agreed because of that.

In fact, the thought of Ruth needing Christine especially to settle down in her newly made marital home was absurd and something he would never have tolerated but he needed to see her.

He had offered Ruth his private jet to go and get Christine because he could not wait for the delay a commercial airplane would pose.

And when Ruth had asked tha