The Ex-Wife’s Billion Dollar Comeback Novel

---- Chapter 120: Not Soraya's Character ~ Amanda ~ "Do you dislike mistresses, Rose?" Amanda asked, crossing her arms against her chest. Her brows raised and her eyes rounded. "Um." Rose gulped and answered, "It's just that Mr. Grayson is a family man. He and his wife have kids. | don't know what Soraya was thinking. Not only is the senator a public figure, but he is a middle-aged man. So, of course, it's never right to be the other party." "But aren't you my son's mistress?" Amanda asked, and it prompted Calum to call her attention. "Mother!" Calum spoke.

"The situation between me and Rose is different. You know well, Soraya and | never had a real relationship. We were just... married on paper! | never loved Soraya." "Amanda," Cedric said, rubbing her shoulder. "We already talked about this." The last time Amanda and Calum had a confrontation about Rose, she had a heart attack, one that later required her to have bypass surgery. So, she wasn't going to lose it again. It wasn't worth it. "Listen to me, Rose. Whatever that is in your video, it's clearly a misunderstanding," Amanda said. "Cedric and | have known Soraya since she was young.

She was deprived of a real family. She knows how it feels for her parents to be taken away from her. So, she would never become the kind of person she grew up hating." "Soraya will never be a mistress; she will never be someone ---- who steals families,' Amanda pointed out. "It's not in her character, and it's not in her morals." "That's true," Cedric said.

"Soraya is a good person." "If Soraya really had it in her to commit such shameful acts, then she would also have had it in her to go public with her marriage to Calum, to make everyone see that you were the one who ruined her family-our family,' Amanda corrected. " But did she? No. She left quietly. She didn't even file a lawsuit against you when she could have." "Under the law, she had every right to charge you with adultery. Under the law, she was Calum's wife, and that makes you... the mistress. She could have smeared your name and dragged your family down with you.

But did she?" Amanda pressed. "She didn't. That alone speaks volumes of her character," Amanda added. When she turned to her son, she saw how he was about to speak, but she cut him off. "Besides, Soraya is now in anew relationship. Cedric and | have met him." Amanda panned to Rose, describing, "Soraya is in love with a younger and capable man. Soraya's boyfriend is nothing like the senator. She's not interested in you and Calum, or your affairs. She is happy with her life! So, why don't you... just leave her alone." "Let's go, Amanda.

Let's not waste our time on her," Cedric said, urging Amanda to walk out of Calum's office. Perhaps that was better. Because the second she stepped out, her blood was boiling, not because of Rose, but primarily because of Calum. When they reached the car, Amanda cried. "Why couldn't Calum see how great Soraya is? Why did he immediately believe Soraya caused the drugging incident years ago?" ---- Cedric rubbed her back, saying, "I think we already know the answer to that." "Calum had always known that Soraya liked him when they were young.

And from the start, we have always hinted at how it would be great if they were together. After that night, they slept together. He assumed the worst because the investigation results were pointing to Soraya," Cedric said. " Even if it was all circumstantial." "You may be right, Amanda. Marvin and my sister could have made it look that way,' Cedric concluded. ee ~ Calum ~ The revelation took Calum aback. 'Soraya has a boyfriend? It's... official? And his parents had already met this man?' He gulped, putting two and two together.

He remembered Silas's post and his previous suspicions about Soraya. Calum shouldn't care, but it bothered him. His jaw tightened, and his hands balled into fists. 'Is it Doctor Sharma?' "So, Soraya has a boyfriend, but she is also seeing the senator?" Rose muttered, her face evidently flushed in anger. "It must be Silas Ward." Calum paused. He turned to Rose and said, "It's not Silas." Rose frowned and asked, "How do you know?" "| just know," Calum said softly. "Looks like your parents still don't believe me, even with proof. What should we do, Calum?" Rose asked. "Why don't we talk to Mrs.

Grayson, and maybe she can convince your parents?" ---- Frankly, Calum had been thinking about it too. So, he casually said, "I'll work on it. For now, let's not try to provoke my mother. Her health is my priority. Let's wait and let the truth unfold on its own." He spoke with conviction, unaware that the truth itself would betray him. Moments later, they left for the Vanguard Galleria and inspected Rose's new boutique. The staff were cleaning up the place, carrying boxes of mannequins and racks of clothing, wheeling in mirrors and display stands.

It seemed that Rose was ready for her relaunch, and she appeared excited about it. While they were there, Calum was distracted, his mind wandering back to his mother's words. He hissed, moving away from Rose and just staring out the glass windows of the shop. Then, he overheard the employees talk about the latest news. "Have you heard? Annette Grayson filed for divorce against her husband. It was shocking. The senator was having an affair with his wife's assistant!" "Oh, my god! How awful!" "| read it too! There were photos of the mistress, and she...

is very pregnant!" "And this assistant had been working for Mrs. Grayson for ten years!" "How shameless!" Calum snapped his head toward the gossiping employees, his brows meeting as his face twisted with frowns. 'What? What did they say?" ---- He immediately stepped out, his fingers searching over the internet using his phone. There it was, the headlines: [Annette Grayson has removed her last name from her social media accounts. She has kicked her husband out of the company and is taking over Summit Workforce Solutions.

The divorce filings attached pieces of evidence of the senator's scandalous affair.) Calum scrolled down and saw photos of Thomas Grayson being intimately close with another young woman, but none of those photos were of Soraya. "| don't understand this," he said through gritted teeth. The videos Rose had shown him were real. "WHAT. HAD. HAPPENED?" He couldn't shake off the uneasiness in his chest. He wanted answers, and he wanted them now! Leaving Rose behind, Calum left for Aegis Core Systems, and the second he got there, he asked to speak to his ex-wife,