The Ex-Wife’s Billion Dollar Comeback Novel

---- Chapter 202: Rose Wants Half ~ Rose ~ Calum practically dragged her out of the mansion. It was so degrading! "The driver will take you to your parents' house, and don't think for a second that | won't try to take back what's mine, because | will! You've bled me of enough money!" Calum barked. Rose's face was stained with tears. Still in her home clothes, she knelt before Calum and begged, "Please, Calum. It was just one mistake, and Sage was really being disrespectful-" "Lies, lies, and more lies!" Calum declared.

"Just like when you made me believe you had a successful fashion line, but most of your salable dresses were designed by someone else!" Rose's eyes widened as she leaned back. "What do you mean? | don't know what you're talking about." "| got the contracts from your ex, the ones from other designers," Calum revealed. "You made me believe you had talent, but in reality, you were stealing credit for designs you never created! You fooled me, Rose. You fooled everyone!" "And | spoke to the manager at Butter & Crumb Café.

He told me everything, how you orchestrated for Soraya to miss our meeting so that Sage would feel down," Calum added. "And guess who | visited today?" Rose tried to figure it out, but Calum gave her no chance to think. "Claire," Calum divulged. "She told me everything, including your past and her purpose of introducing you. Then, she told me about your fake pregnancy report." ---- At first, Rose was stunned, but she managed to retort, "That's a lie! She's lying to get back at me because | stopped giving her money!

The pregnancy was real!" "We'll see about that," Calum said through gritted teeth. "For now, | want you out of my life-" "Calum, don't you love me anymore? We loved each other!" Rose tugged on his trousers. "I would have been Mrs. Whitmore by now if | hadn't fallen in love with you! | gave up so much to be with you!" "You mean you gained billions of dollars after being with me!" Calum shot back. "You know what, Rose, if only you didn't scheme against Soraya, and if only you hadn't hurt my daughter, | would have turned a blind eye to the money | had lost.

But what you did to Sage is unforgivable. Who knows how many times you've threatened my daughter-" "That was the first time, | swear!" Rose tried to convince him. "That doesn't matter!" Calum shot back. "If you can hurt my daughter and lie to my face, who knows what else you're capable of?" A housekeeper turned up with Rose's luggage, and Calum ordered the driver, "Take her to her parents' house. Now!" The sharp sting of humiliation crawled up Rose's spine as the household staff watched in silence. Her pride wouldn't let her leave quietly. No, not like this. "You want a divorce?

Fine!" Rose finally got up from the ground, her whole body shaking with anger. "But if you divorce me, Calum, I'm taking half of your money and assets! You hear me? Half!" Rose figured that if she was going down, she was going down with glory. ---- Who cares if she got a divorce? At least she would end up a billionaire. seek ~ Calum ~ When Calum went back inside the house, he first checked on his daughter. Sage was crying in Belinda's arms. Amanda had to rest because her blood pressure had gone up, and Cedric stayed by her side. "Get us some water, Belinda,' Calum ordered.

When Belinda left, Calum comforted Sage. He hugged her tightly and kissed her forehead. "I'm sorry, Sage. | really am." Sage still cried, but when her tears ran dry, she looked up to him and asked, "So what Grandma said is true? That Aunt Rose ruined our family-you, me, and Mommy?" Calum couldn't bring himself to respond. His throat went dry and his chest tightened. He pulled his daughter into another embrace, saying, "It's Daddy's fault. | didn't love your Mommy enough." "Why didn't you?!" Sage snapped, and her cries restarted. " Why didn't you love Mommy?!" She sat up and took a step back.

"If you loved Mommy, our family wouldn't be ruined! | wouldn't end up hurting Mommy!" Calum reached for his daughter, but she pulled away. "I want to go to Mommy! | want to go to her now!" Then Calum remembered how Soraya was already married. He said softly, "It's not that easy. Your mommy now has her own family. Plus, you still have school. You can't miss school ---- "But | want to go to Mommy! | want my mommy now!" Sage said, almost screaming. "| miss my mommy. | want to go to her now!" The whole scene broke his heart. In the end, he called his ex- wife. Soraya answered on the second call.

Calum immediately explained, "Sage wants to go to you. She's been crying." "What happened?" Soraya asked. He took a deep breath and admitted, "Rose hurt Sage. | caught her grabbing Sage's face. Thankfully, her nails didn't leave any wounds-" "Calum!" Soraya scolded. "If only you had listened to me!" "| know, | know," he said firmly, feeling the weight of everything that had happened that day. "Please, I've had enough people telling me 'I told you so.' Can you give me a break?" There was a moment of silence before he said, "I'll talk to Sage's school and maybe excuse her for a week or two.

Maybe they'll agree to let her study from home for now. But now more than ever, Sage needs you." The next day was a whole new war altogether. The Beckets came to the old Montclair estate to throw a fit. Silvia and Reginald declared that if Calum dared to divorce Rose, they would fight him in court for half of his fortune. It was a complete mess, one Calum had never expected from them. The audacity of Rose's parents! After he had spent millions on them and billions on Rose's fashion line, this was how they repaid him. But he set things aside for Sage.

After getting clearance from Sage's school, he brought his daughter to Burnell. There, he ---- and Soraya had a serious talk about his situation. Despite everything, he never imagined that Soraya would still help find a way out for him.