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NARA

Nobody moved for a second.

My father’s fake smile was still sitting on his face and Camille had gone completely still while Danielle was looking at Jared with wide eyes with me just standing there in the middle of all of it, bruised and tired and trying to understand what I was looking at.

Jared came for me?

I turned that over in my head and it still didn’t make sense.

“Jared!” My father stepped forward with his arms open like they were old friends. “What a wonderful surprise. Please come
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  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   34.

    NARADAYS LATERI ambled into Jared’s parents mansion on the main side of the family’s estate for breakfast. Ever since I and Jared’s fall out in his car , we barely saw eye to eye. We were both strangers living in the same home. Anytime I felt like things between us were getting smoothened out, something just happens that throws me back to the starting line.I was still deeply hurt by his harsh words, and he remained wrapped in his cold, unyielding pride. I didn’t even want to be here but I just had to. Because in this family, appearances matter more than anything else. Even if you were suffocating, you were expected to do what was necessary.Which was why I couldn’t refuse the invitation to join the family’s breakfast with Jared. I would have rather much preferred to eat in the solitude of my home. As we walked in, I sighted his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. They sat at the head of the long mahogany table. Cassie was there too, looking bored as she scrolled through her phone.I p

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   33.

    NARA The restaurant was just the kind of place that really didn’t need to try. No flashy signs, no crowded entrance, just a quiet elegance that announced itself in the way the lighting fell soft and golden over everything, the way the staff moved like they had been trained never to rush, the way the air itself smelled faintly expensive. Every table was set like something out of a magazine. Every person seated at those tables looked like they had been born knowing which fork to use first. I walked in beside Jared and tried not to look like I was looking at everything. He had his hand at the small of my back guiding me through, and one of the restaurant staff appeared almost instantly, leading us toward a section in the back that was half partitioned off from the rest of the room. Reserved. Private. The kind of spot you didn’t get unless someone already knew your name before you arrived. Three people were already at the table when we got there. Two men and a woman, all dressed with

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   32.

    32NARAThe kitchen was warm and the garlic had been going long enough that the whole room smelled like something actually worth coming home to.I stood at the stove stirring slowly, keeping my eyes on the pot, keeping my voice easy and light.“So how long have you both been working here?” I asked. “In this house.”The younger maid looked up from the vegetables she was chopping and smiled. “Three years for me ma.”“Almost five for me,” the older one said from across the counter where she was arranging the side dishes.“Almost five.” I nodded like I was just making conversation, just filling the silence. “So you were both here before I came. When it was different.”“Yes ma,” the younger one said.I stirred again to let a few seconds pass.“What was it like?” I asked. “Before.”The younger one’s knife slowed down barely.. Just enough that I noticed.The older one kept moving the dishes around the counter with the dedicated focus of someone who had suddenly found the task extremely impor

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   31

    BETHANYI couldn’t stop thinking about what Ophelia told me.I sat on my sofa with my legs pulled under me and just replayed the whole thing. The tea, the sitting room, the way she had leaned forward like she was letting me in on something everybody else was too blind to see.That marriage is hollow.I said it out loud just to hear how it felt.“That marriage is hollow.” and It felt good.Those pictures had genuinely scared me. I’m not going to pretend they didn’t. Jared and Nara walking into that gala hand in hand, his body turned toward her, every blog in the city running with it like they had just discovered the most beautiful love story of the year. I had sat in my living room and felt something cold move through me that I hadn’t felt in a long time.But Ophelia words was all i needed now.. She knew Jared, she knew what was performance and what was real and she had sat across from me and told me plainly that what the world was seeing was not what was actually happening behind clos

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   30

    The car rolled to a stop and the chauffeur came around to open the door.Nara stepped out first, one hand gathering the hem of her dress, as the night air hit her face while she just stood there for a second and breathed.“God, I’m tired… Who knew smiling could hurt this much?” Nara cursed under her breath.The gala had looked beautiful with its fine attention to fancy details, candlelights a d women wearing dresses that probably cost more than most people’s yearly rent. But none of that mattered once you were standing in the middle of it.It was just a draining circle of smiling, shaking hands, saying the right things and more smiling. Her feet still ached from the heels, and her cheeks felt sore from holding the same polite expression all night.Jared came around the car and they walked inside together, neither of them speaking. The house was quiet with the staff already settled for the night, just the sound of their footsteps through the corridor and up the stairs.In the room Nar

  • The Billionaire’s Replacement Wife   29

    NARAI had been giving Jared the cold shoulder for days now.Not in a dramatic way, not in the way where I slammed doors or refused to cook or made scenes.. I was too tired for any of that. I just… stopped. Stopped eating with him at the table, stopped making conversation when we passed each other in the hallway, stopped trying. I did everything I was supposed to do, I prepared his meals, I kept the house running, I managed the staff, I showed up in every way that could be expected of me. I just didn’t talk to him while doing any of it.I just couldn’t.. every time I looked at him I felt his hand in my hair again. Felt my knees hit the floor. Heard myself screaming and not recognising my own voice. I couldn’t just smile and sit across from him at dinner and pretend that didn’t happen. I couldn’t do it. So I stopped pretending.The gap between us had stretched even further than it was before. Which I honestly didn’t think was possible but here we were.On the days Jared went to work t

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