Chapter 21
She sneered, “Do I need one?”
After pouring the tea, he slammed it onto the table and looked up at her indifferent expression.
A dull thud rang out the second the cup collided with the expensive marble coffee table.
It echoed in the entire living room.
“Romina, you’ll be struggling after divorcing me. Have you thought about that? You’ll be a divorced woman-an ex- con, no less. I hate to break this to you, but chances are, you probably won’t get a job.”
She let out a cold laugh again.
Finding a job? Why would she do that? She was set to build her own business.
“Cut it out already. I know you’re just afraid Hayden will kick you and Kashton out.” She stood up. “I’ll call him and take the responsibility. Ms. Lambert and you won’t be blamed.”
With that, she intended to leave.
“Did I say you could go?”
Jericho sprang up from the sofa, too.
She didn’t stop in her tracks. “Mr. Bowman, please sign the papers at your earliest convenience.”
Just then, he grabbed her arm from behind and carried her onto his shoulder again.
Then he flung her back onto the sofa. His long legs straddled her slender waist, knees sinking into the fabric, while he clutched her wrists and pressed them against the back of the sofa firmly.
She found herself pinned at once.
They’d shared plenty of intimate moments before, but she was usually the one making the first move.
This was the first.
She looked up at him warily. “What do you want?”
“Stay here for the following days. Don’t go anywhere. I’m not gonna sign the papers unless we smooth things over with Grandpa.”
His voice was deep, something dangerous surging in his unreadable eyes.
“You have no right to confine me.” She kept struggling hard. “Let go!”
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Yet he didn’t loosen his grip at all, as if he hadn’t heard her.
“Jericho, that’s a bit rude. Picking on ex-wives doesn’t seem like our family’s tradition, right?”
Suddenly, an extremely magnetic, pleasant voice came from the villa entrance.
Both of them turned around at once.
Romina was stunned instantly.
Joaquin?
What was he doing here?
At the sight of Joaquin, Jericho quickly let go and stood up. “Joaquin? Why are you here?”
Romina sat upright at once and instinctively smoothed her slightly tousled hair.
“I heard Hayden had an outburst yesterday, so I went back to the mansion to check on him. Kash had stayed overnight and insisted on leaving with me.”
While saying casually, Joaquin glanced at Romina.
Their eyes locked for a second before he looked away.
He had heard the commotion when the Maybach had pulled into the courtyard, so he had asked Erick to take Kashton to the garden at the back.
“Where’s Kash?” Jericho asked.
“Do you really want him to see this?” Joaquin said while sitting across from Romina, his hands tucked in his pockets.
Her gaze instinctively fell upon him. That commanding presence of his seemed to engulf everything.
Jericho poured him some tea. “Joaquin, we were just talking about the divorce. Grandpa was furious yesterday, and I gotta calm him down first.”
Joaquin glanced at the teacup, but had no intention of picking it up.
He said, his tone tinged with indifference, “Since you want a divorce, why should others’ opinion matter?”
Jericho was stunned for a second, looking torn.
To put it bluntly, most of his empire was inherited from the Bowman family, particularly from Hayden.
He dared not disobey Hayden, who put him where he was.
“I’ll call Hayden and explain to him that the divorce is what I want. It’ll be appreciated if you don’t make this difficult for me again,” Romina quickly said to Jericho.
Then she rose from the sofa and headed out without looking back.
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Joaquin’s arrival was a great chance for her to leave.
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