Chapter 47: Chapter 47

Chapter 47

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Bloomcrest,

Hunter was working on his laptop. He was engrossed in his work when his phone blared loudly. Lazily he lifted his eyelids and located his phone beside his mug of black coffee.

Zara calling…

A small frown settled between his eyebrows as he stated at it. Since that night he unwillingly spent with Zara watching a movie, she was after him like a shadow. Asking him about his days and work, about his meals, about everything he didn’t want to share with her.

He wearily grasped his phone and put it on silent. Then he placed it behind the heap of files on his left so that even if the screen lit up with another call he wouldn’t be able to see it.

Hunter went back to focus on his laptop again. But a knock on the door interrupted him. He asked whoever it was to come in and heard, “Sir, Mr. Wordsmith is here to meet you. He says it’s important.”

“Let him in.” He replied and resumed his work.

Hunter was least interested in Cole’s reason to visit him. Since his divorce, Cole behaved more as a pissed off human being who was in support of his ex–wife, and less of a friend he needed in this time.

The sound of his approaching footsteps made Hunter look up. Cole was as usually dressed in casuals with some patches of clay on his hands and sleeves. What amused Hunter was the serious and stressed look he was wearing.

“So grim. Did you mistakenly ruin a drying sculptor in your studio and came here to vent on the?” Hunter rested back in his, chair as he rocked sideways.

“This is not the time to try your bad sense of humor on me, Hunter Macintyre. You will have a worse reaction if I told you the cause of it.” Cole sat across from him while drawing his brows together.

Hunter chuckled, “Am I trending again for a bad reason?”

“It’s not a new thing. I’ve been trending for a while and I couldn’t care less.”

Seeing his carefree behaviour Cole slapped a hand on the desk, You will care all in the world once I break the news to you. You will want the earth to open up and swallow you whole because what I am about to share with you will make you wish that you didn’t exist to see this.

Silence prevailed between them. Except for the constant vibration of Hunter’s ringing phone nothing could be heart.

Cole gnawed his teeth together as he turned Hunter’s laptop towards him. He typed on the keyboard and after a second he turned the screen back to Hunter who was still regarding his best friend and his startling reaction.

“Pray that you don’t explode seeing this.” Hunter watched Cole say with a twist of his lips before he smoothly lowered his gaze to the screen of his laptop.

He ceased all motions as his eyes hardened and a muscle at his jaw quivered.

Ever so terrifyingly, his hands clutched the side of his laptop. Hunter yanked it close and read the article Cole opened on a

The headline was- Bloomcrest’s King’s beauty is now RavenMoore’s Lord’s babe,

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His eyes set afire as he saw the blurry pictures of Claire standing in close proximity with Tyler Murphy. They were awfully close like two lovers would. That fucker’s hand was around her delicate frame while he was leaning into her to kiss her.

Fury flooded Hunter’s veins. He hurled the laptop across the room with a horrifying roar.

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surprised as he was looking forward to this reaction. No man, after all, in his position would like to see his recently divorced wife swaying in the arms of his arch enemy. He was deeply thrilled though because Hunter didn’t love his ex–wife. He didn’t so much as wiggle an eyebrow when she was bound to him.

Then what was that reaction for?

“What the hell is Claire doing in RavenMoore? How did she get in touch with that bastard? And who took these pictures? I will kill the fucker whoever wrote this article about thy wife. He spat angrily while turning to the wall of windows overlooking a spectacular view of Bloomcrest.

Cole noticed his muscles releasing as if he realized he had no right to call Claire his wife or react so angrily over the article.

“I’m glad you realized the woman in the pictures is not your wife any more. She is free to meet whoever she wants. But ye

yeah. I must say this is going to create complications if that man is indeed Tyler

“That is Tyler the fucking Murphy in the pictures. I can recognize him from a thousand miles away. Hunter whirled around again to gerhis phone.

“Going to my wife a few days after my divorce.

“He went too far this time to bother me.” Hunter muttered while dialing a number.

Cole scratched his temples as he rose to his feet. He gaped at the broken laptop, imagining the scenarios of a possible war between the two powerful men of their own countries.

“Don’t blame Tyler Murphy. He’s not doing anything to bother you. It’s Claire. She went to attend his grandmother’s anniversary party with her brother and his best friend who is Tyler’s younger brother.”

Hunter lowered the phone and grimaced over his shoulder. He was red and his eyes have darkened to a deeper shade of black.

“You think I will buy your stories?” Hunter said while fisting his fingers.

“They’re not stories but in fact secrets that I managed to get out of Claire’s one and only confidante. Penelope Baker

“Penelope Hunter bared his teeth. “Do you really think she would give you the truth! She’s Claire’s friend not vou

She will never do anything that does not benefit her friend.”

Hunter chuckled madly, “Why am I even standing here talking to you? I need to know why I was not made aware of Claire’s departure? She left the country under my nose and my source didn’t update me.”

He was about to grab his coat and leave when Cole turned him around with his arm.

“You need to listen to me, stupid Macintyre. Else you will make bigger mess this time and no one will help you clean it.” Cole snarled at him.

Then he told him everything Penelope told him about Claire’s tactic to seek revenge.

Luck was most likely on Cole’s side because Penelope was getting wasted in a bar when he called her last night. He intended to talk with Claire who had changed her number. But Penelope told him things she shouldn’t have in the impression of alcohol.

“This little demon Scott. He could only find my rival to play my Claire’s fake lover?!” Hunter threw a punch in the air while Cole’s eyes narrowed, hearing him call Claire his.

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“He is successful in his attempt to bring Claire and Tyler together but I don’t get this one thing why is she agreeing to this? She knows he’s not a man who can be trusted. Cole sat in the chair again and clutched his hair.

“Even if it is to piss you off, she’s putting herself at stake. I assumed she’s a clever woman. But here I can see she’s walking right into the field covered with mines.

Cole then raised his accusing eyes at Hunter, “You pushed her to do this, idiot. I can’t blame her alone when I know she’s got. the guts to do so because of your actions.”

Hunter quietly listened to his accusations. Then what Claire had said about avenging him echoed in his head.

“I will make you pay, Hunter. You will pay with blood, life and soul.”

That does not mean she’ll handover her body to my rival! He thought.

All the undesired memories of Claire with Tyler clouded Hunter’s mind. She went to Tyler to bother him. She was getting closer to the man he despised so she could see him suffering.

Why him? Hunter trembled in a fit of overlapping rage. There are many other ways to make him pay. Why through Tyler?

Why give to him? To him… The man with a good face but evil intentions.

More than that, Hunter was feeling wounded because she had found a man for herself while he was still trying to come to terms with their divorce.

Was he not the man she loved? Didn’t she promise to love him all her life?

Though it was strange that he was thinking about those questions when he never recognized her love. But they were married for two years.

She didn’t even wait two months before walking in the arms of another man. That too…. That man, Tyler Murphy!

“You can’t do this to me.” Hunter seethed as he shook his head.

“I am not doing anything to you. Cole responded as he assumed it was said to him.

But when he saw Hunter dialing a number on his phone, his heart jumped in his throat. He thought the call was being made to Tyler.

“Don’t be a stupid, Hunter. Put your phone down. Claire will hate you more if she hears about this call from Tyler.”

Nevertheless, the deed was done. The call was made, and connected too.

eet voice coming from the phone caused Hunter’s shoulders to slack.

“Hello?” The sweet

He sat down on the desk and closed his eyes as a feeling of profound relief filled his being at the sound of that voice.

He felt like life was blown back in his body.

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