“I’ll pay you the one hundred million right now,” Charlotte said once she was sitting across from Matt in the unpopular restaurant he had picked out for them to meet. There was no exchange of pleasantries between them, just straight to business. Charlotte started digging inside her bag for her phone to make the transfer, as she tried to hide her fear. “You can stop that now,” he said quietly. “It’s too late for any of that.” “What are you talking about…?”Matt shrugged. “I don’t want your money anymore. I’m no longer interested.” Charlotte’s lips trembled. Xavier had been right. You can never pay a blackmailer enough. As long as he still had proof, Charlotte would never be free from him no matter how much she promised or gave him.“Then what do you want?” She stared to ask. He reclined in the restaurant chair and smirked at her. “I love seeing you riled up. It turns me on.” Charlotte bit her lips so she wouldn’t say something she would regret. Of all the people who could have be

It was just a stupid meeting with his ex-wife, so why was he so nervous? Xavier wondered, rubbing his sweaty palms on a handkerchief. “She’s in,” he heard Carlos say to Laura from outside. Xavier cleared his throat. This was it. He started to straighten his tie, but stopped mid-way and asked himself what the hell he was even doing. He adjusted himself in his chair that was now beginning to hurt in certain spots where it didn’t before. Sighing, he forced himself to stay still. He raised the mug of coffee to his lips, looking as poised as possible when Laura walked in. From an onlooker’s perspective, there was not a thing out of place with him. Laura stopped by the door and regarded him with a smile. Carlos stood watching him with the door open, silently assuring Xavier that he was there in case he needed anything. Laura, who hadn’t heard the sound of the door close turned around to face Carlos. “You may leave now,” she said, practically forcing him out of the room and pu

“You must be mad,” Charlotte scoffed at Matt. She stood up, carried her bag and adjusted her sunglasses to leave the restaurant, but he was right beside her in a second and holding her hand. “You don’t want to cause a scene, do you?” He asked with a chilly voice that let her know he was not afraid to create one. “Be a good girl and sit down, will you?” If looks could kill, Matt would have been a dead man, but unfortunately, they couldn’t. With a heavy heart, Charlotte did as she was told and sat back down. “You’re way too sensitive. I was just playing with you but you had to take it seriously,” he said with a chuckle. “I wonder what the big deal is. You know I’ve always wanted you and now you’re single and free. You’ve always been such an uptight bitch.” Charlotte crossed her arms and stared straight at him with a serious face without saying a word. His hurtful words were the least of her problems right now. She had so much to lose and unfortunately, he had the power to ma

“I knew you would call me back sooner or later. It was only a matter of time,” Laura said with a smirk as she sat down opposite Xavier in his conference room. “I just hoped it would have been somewhere else and not here with all your guards.” “What do you plan to do with the pictures?” Xavier asked immediately after she sat down, going straight to the reason he had asked her to come. She didn’t appear discomposed by the question at all. “I just sent them to you, to show you what you were dealing with,” she said with a shrug. “Why?” “I just wanted you to know that your wife is not the angel you think she is. If she can have an affair with a man married to her own sister…” Xavier chuckled drily. “Why are you so obsessed with me? Why won’t you just let me move on? What’s your business with who I choose to be with? So if I decide to be with a pornst@r tomorrow, you’ll send me all the clips of her work?” Laura glared at him. This was clearly not the reaction she had been

“I got you some presents,” Kate said with a smile when she stepped into Charlotte’s new house. “Thanks,” Charlotte muttered politely and took the bag her sister offered her, without looking at her face. She carried the rest of her luggage into the room next to hers and remained idle in the living room while Kate made herself at home in the room. Charlotte didn’t know how to react now that her sister was here and she was being nice. She had never forgiven herself for the stupid mistake she had made that had broken her family and her tight relationship with her sister and she didn’t think she or anyone else would ever be able to move past it. The Tv was on as it had been for a while, showing the cartoon she and Xavier had laughed at during their honeymoon. It was just a coincidence that it was the channel showing, Charlotte convinced herself. “This place is so big and it looks expensive,” Kate said, appearing in the living room and looking around. “I suppose getting married to