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After saying that, I turned and walked away.
Jax Ryder followed me step for step.
I tilted my head slightly and asked him, “Shouldn’t you be training? Why are you here?”
“I received an invitation too.”
He lowered his gaze slightly, looking into my eyes.
“And you haven’t contacted me these past few days. I… missed you,
Eve.”
21:40 Tue, 26 Aug
I had indeed been very busy these past few days.
Busy snatching food from the tiger’s mouth.
Originally, I only came tonight to confirm if Alex was really here.
To prevent him from making any new moves right before the contract was about to be
signed.
Fortunately, I had overestimated Alex.
He had always looked down on me.
That’s why, in these four years of marriage, I had secretly started a company under his nose, acquired an e–sports team, and then brought it back to life.
Navigating between Thorne Enterprises and Harding Corp, I built up my company step by step by extracting information, finally reaching this point.
Snapping back to reality, we had already reached the doorway.
I hadn’t yet figured out how to respond to Jax Ryder’s direct words when a group of reporters surrounded us.
“Ms. Cross, are you the other person in that car photo from that night?”
“Has your marriage with Mr. Thorne ended?”
“Openly cheating during your marriage, Ms. Cross, what are your thoughts? Appearing so brazenly with your lover at such an event, aren’t you ashamed, or do you take pride in it?”
The last reporter’s question carried obvious, undisguised malice.
I stared at the male reporter’s subtly excited and disdainful eyes and suddenly laughed:
“Shouldn’t you be asking that question to Alex Thorne, who’s sitting inside?”
“From the second day after we got married four years ago, he was photographed, on average, every two months, with different new girlfriends entering various venues. What did
all say back then?”
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I tapped my chin with a finger, a look of sudden realization on my
face.
3%
“Oh, you said that high–society marriages are all driven by mutual interests, it’s normal to get what you want, and it’s perfectly normal to keep a young, agreeable person by your side.”
“If I truly cheated, then Alex Thorne was the first to violate our marriage contract. He was at fault, and I was simply retaliating.”
“Furthermore, my relationship with Jax Ryder isn’t what you’re all imagining.”
As I spoke, I subtly took a step back.
Unobtrusively dodging his attempt to take my hand.
“You’ve all been curious, haven’t you, about who the mysterious investor who acquired
his team, Sunstone Gaming, is, and who currently holds the largest share?”
The boy sharply turned his head.
In a sudden gust of cold, crisp night wind, I spoke calmly and indifferently,
“I’m his boss.”
