Chapter 55

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“Ethan is so handsome. The way he looks at me… oh… it makes my heart melt,” a

remarked.

from their tour group

“I still can’t decide what is the color of his eyes! Grey? Blue?” this girl had a dreamy look on her face.

Valerie was listening to all of them but wasn’t saying anything. She was sitting there as if she was deaf.

After enjoying the cruise for one week, their tour leader escorted them to this hotel that had all the greenery around it.

Right now, they all were enjoying the sun on the huge terrace of the hotel.

Valerie was getting tired of all this. Keeping Rafael happy so that he won’t leave her. Keeping his mom happy so that he won’t divorce her.

Trying to conceive so that they let her stay in the Sinclair family.

All this havoc was enough to make her exhausted. Nina Sinclair never talked to her so rudely but last

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night she wasn’t her usual self.

Valerie needed to think about something. If Rafael was cheating, then maybe she shuld catch him

red–handed and that could help immensely in claiming half of his property after divorce.

Though she studied about Ethan Lockwood on the internet. He was also the only son of a big industrialist.

She didn’t need money if Ethan was already a Richie rich. But this time she wanted to play it sensibly.

Last time she made a wrong move by leaving Rafael without a backup plan. Not this time.

“Valerie! Are you even listening to what we are saying,” a girl whom Valerie knew nothing about tried to get

her attention.

Another girl gave her sarcastic grin and waved her hand, “I think she is thinking about Ethan. Babe! If he has taken you to bed that means nothing. Ok?”

All the senses in Valerie’s body were awakened. They knew that she slept with him? But how?

“Isn’t she married to Rafael Sinclair?” another girl

mentioned her husband’s name. Most of them were

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accompanied by their boyfriends on this trip. Only a few of them were single.

Valerie and Ethan were among the latter ones.

“So how come you slept with Ethan,… when you are married? Aren’t you faithful to your husband? Do you have some shame?”

Valerie already had too much on her plate and these scumbags were taking away the last shred of her

peace.

“Can you all please stop bullying her?” a smile touched her lips when she heard Ethan’s stern voice behind her,

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“For once can you all stop poking your noses in others‘

business?”

His question was met by the hush that fell over the

group.

“Come on. Don’t sit here,” he offered her, his hand and

helped her to stand up.

Valerie didn’t take even a second to smile at him just to make the other girls more jealous. There was one girl

who had bitterness on her face.

Valerie winked at her secretly and walked away with

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Ethan.

“Thank you for saving me from those buffoons,”

“No problem,” he left her hand and placed his hands inside the pockets of his shorts.

“So… did you give it a thought?” he asked her in a whisper when he thought nobody was watching them. They were walking towards the hotel bar.

“About what?”

“Oh, you know very well what I’m talking about. I asked you to ditch your husband and come to me,”

Several wrinkles formed on her forehead, “It’s not that easy.”

She was still scared. What if Marissa would return?

Valerie always felt her eyes on Rafael. She used to enjoy the hunger she used to see in her sister’s eyes whenever Rafael was around.

There were very rare moments when she won against Marissa. Marissa had always been a bright, studious kind of child who rarely had any serious boyfriend.

According to her mom, Marissa used to study hard to

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compensate for her looks. Valerie was more beautiful,

so she didn’t need any degree.

Marissa was ambitious and always used to dream

about earning her own money while

ie and her

mom knew that she would find a rich prince charming who would never allow her to even lift a finger.

Now Ethan was offering her to come to him.

For Valerie, Rafael had been like a trophy that she could show to the world. She had seen envy in the girls‘ eyes for herself.

For the first time, she felt like she achieved something that Marissa didn’t have except the looks department.

What if Marissa was keeping a tab on Rafael? The moment she would get the news that Rafael was again a bachelor, she wouldn’t take a second to come back

into his life.

Instead of going inside the bar, they turned to the hallway that led them to the garden. She was still engrossed in thinking about the future.

Ethan stopped in his tracks and held her both hands, “Tell me. What’s on your mind?”

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She swiped her tongue on her upper lip and clicked her tongue inside her cheek, “Rafael will never let me walk away with any of his money. He might spend on me extravagantly, but h uld never let me have a chunk of his property.”

“So why wait, Valerie when I have got everything,” he was so down to earth that he wasn’t telling her about his loaded family and the industries he owned across the globe.

However, this time she wanted to step into Ethan’s life with some of her own money. And only Rafael could provide it to her.

“If I’ll prove in the court that my husband is cheating, then I think they’ll give me the half–cut.”

“No silly,” he pinched her chin, “Cheating or no cheating. Rafael has to give you half of his property.”

When she stayed silent, he again spoke. “If you prove in court that he is cheating on you then I can make sure, you get more than half.”

For a minute she felt a flash of evil in his eyes but then

it was there just for a moment.

nd how ara um

ara Ethan?”

“Because, he held her by elbows, “I’m a lawyer. Studying business was my father’s dream but taking a law degree was my passion.”

Valerie couldn’t believe her luck.

She had a lawyer by her side. A rich lawyer! Interesting!

She quickly held his hand in hers and brushed off the unseen dirt from his cheek, “I have decided to go to Kanderton directly. Will you accompany me?”

Yes. There was something fishy and she needed to catch Rafael red–handed so that Nina Sinclair wouldn’t

make a fuss.

Ethan gave a hard kiss on her mouth, “Sure. Let’s go to Kanderton,” after their hot kissing session they both became breathless.

“Let’s celebrate it in my bed. Come on!” Ethan started dragging her to his hotel room where they could make love.

She tried hard to suppress her smile, but Ethan had seen it and, in a few moments, their playful squeals were filling up the hall.