All Chapters of BOUGHT BY THE RUTHLESS WILD BILLIONAIRE : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

SHE DOESN'T CRY — NOT YETNora makes it back to her apartment and she locks the door and she sits on her couch in complete darkness and she doesn't turn on any lights because she doesn't want to see anything or exist in the normal illuminated world and she wants to exist in this space of complete numbness where nothing hurts and nothing matters and she doesn't have to process the reality that Dominic has moved on and is building a life with someone else without her. She sits in the darkness for hours and she's processing what she just witnessed and she's trying to understand how he could move on so quickly and how he could choose Vivienne so completely and how he could seemingly forget everything they shared in the cabin.She pulls out her phone and she finds his social media and she sees that he's posted a picture with Vivienne at some charity event and they're both dressed formally and they're looking like the perfect power couple and they're positioned in such a way that suggests in

HER RESIGNATION LETTERNora sits at her desk on a Monday morning and she's been staring at the resignation letter for three hours because once she signs it and submits it everything becomes official and irreversible and she loses the last remaining connection that ties her to Dominic and to the company that he's built with his own hands and to the world that she was briefly part of before everything fell apart. She's been working at Caldwell Corporation for months now in the position that Marcus helped her secure and she's excelled at her work managing corporate events and client relations and coordinating charity galas and she's built a professional reputation that has nothing to do with her relationship with Dominic but that's inevitably connected to him in everyone's mind because his name is on every building and every business card and every official communication.The office around her is exactly as it always is on a Monday morning with people arriving in expensive business attire

HE GOES TO HER APARTMENTDominic has been driving around the city for hours working up the courage to come to Nora's apartment and to face her and to tell her whatever he needs to tell her to convince her that he's made a terrible mistake and that he needs her to come back and that he can't exist in this life without her and that everything he's built with Vivienne is meaningless compared to what he had with her. He's been driving in circles around her neighborhood and he's been rehearsing what he's going to say and he's been trying to find the right words to communicate the magnitude of his realization and the depth of his understanding that he chose completely wrong.He pulls up to her apartment building and he sits in his car for fifteen minutes just staring at the entrance and understanding that once he goes in there everything changes and everything becomes real and he's no longer in the fantasy where he can pretend that he made the right choice or that Vivienne is actually what h

HE STANDS IN THE RAINRain begins to fall and Dominic is standing outside Nora's apartment building and he's soaked through within minutes and he's cold and he's shaking and he's pressing the buzzer over and over and he's calling out to her and he's pleading with her to listen to him and to let him explain and to give him another chance to prove that he's actually changed and that he's actually different than he was before. He stands in the rain for hours and he doesn't move and he doesn't leave and he's waiting for her to change her mind and to come down and to open the door and to let him back in and to accept his apology and to give him the redemption that he's desperately seeking.The rain falls harder and he's completely drenched and his expensive suit is ruined and his hair is plastered to his forehead and his shoes are soaked through and he looks absolutely destroyed and completely broken. He's standing in the rain and he's finally breaking in the way that he's been refusing to

HE LEAVESDominic stands in his penthouse and he's looking at Vivienne across the room and he's understanding with absolute certainty that he can't do this anymore which is stay married to someone who represents everything that's destroying him slowly and methodically from the inside out. He's been living in a performance for months now and the performance is exhausting him and the performance is making him hollow and the performance is preventing him from doing the real work that he needs to do to become someone worthy of redemption and genuine transformation.He tells Vivienne that he's leaving and he says it with calmness and finality and he can see her expression shift from surprise to anger to the understanding that he's serious about this decision. She stands up and she tells him that he's making a mistake and that he's going to regret this and that he's throwing away everything they've built together but he understands that what they've built isn't actually built on anything rea