The Billionaire’s Prodigal Wife – Chapter 10

Mackenna wanted to scream with frustration at his comment. Of course, it was all Dulce’s fault, she grimaced angrily to herself. Heaven forbid the man take any responsibility for his own actions.

She folded her arms over her chest defensively, tightly closing her fists under her armpits lest he see how much she wanted to throw the right hook she had learned in the class she took with Savannah.

She took a breath and spoke as eloquently as she possibly could through a jaw which wanted to remain clenched tightly shut. “I saw you with your arms around her waist and dancing provocatively, grinding on each other. I thought I would be sick, and I had to look away. It was like watching a car accident and I couldn’t not look again. I looked back and she was kissing you and not a sweet peck on the cheek, but her tongue was in your mouth. I saw you pull away and thought this was where my husband, my husband,” she exaggerated the last words, “would put a stop to it. Where I would see once and for all she was nothing to you. I was such a fool.”

d her right on the mouth and it wasn’t a little friendly kiss. You put your arms around her waist, and you pulled her to your body, and you kissed her. I couldn’t look away until the flash of a camera went off. Like waking from a bad dream.”

ped a tear off her cheek angry at herself for being so weak in front of him.

ng you permission to marry me. He saw how hurt I was. All he wanted in the moment was to make his granddaughter stop hurting.” She wiped furiously at her face remembering her grandfather crying at the airport. “My grandfather paid for my plane ticket to the States and when I landed in New York, I simply boarded the first plane anywhere.”

last part. She didn’t want to te

o her then, he could have stopped her from leaving. “Had you simply come to me and talked to me instead of running away, I would have explained.”

ould not allow him to gaslight her into believing she had done anything wrong. She wasn’t the one who was making out with another person after leaving their bed.

inted at him accusingly. “You wanted to have your cake and eat it too. Just like your grandfather. Well, it doesn’t work like that, I don’t work like that. My parents and my grandparents raised me better.”

e to me.”

er. I told you to choose, you made the choice. You would rather have your tongue down her throat than be with me.”

why now? Why did I go back then? Well Alessandro it’s taken me five years of watching every penny and scraping by just to make ends meet so I could do this on my own. I don’t care if it drains my savings to the last nickel, I will have my freedom from you and your mistress.”

never lovers, Mackenna.” He spoke quietly, refuting her accusation completely for the first time. “I know the

me into our home, uncaring of the staff being present or not just to approach me and tell me you’d loved her so well she could barely walk the catwalk the next day.”

say such things.”

told me you’d shared the hotel room and you’d made love all night and you were both simply too tired to work any longer and it was why you’d come home. You walked into the living room, dropped a kiss on my head and then went straight to bed and slept from noon

ation. “Are you suggesting Dulce told you we were lovers?”

straightforward in as blunt a language she could this was exactly what the woman had said.

e depictions were perfectly accurate. I believed her then as much as I believe her today.”

rue.” He refused to believe her. He was unsure of why Mackenna was making these allegations. It made no sen

t you think, how you feel or whether you think I’m telling the truth or lying. Your opinion of me no longer matters to me. I don’t give a damn.”

d her hair over her ears impatiently. “I want my divorce. I’m getting my divorce. God, if I wind up penniless and homeless in the process, I will be rid of you and the malicious, cruel, calculating b***h of a model you call your friend at some point before I d

vorce.”

and so I’ll ask you to leave so I can lock up my office.”

ubled with the information she was giving him. “I will investigate your allegations thoroughly.”

o go far, far away from me. Just stay the hell away from me. Any future billing questions or concerns can be managed by one of the clerks or my assistant.”

rieked in frustration, grabbed the stapler off her desk and threw it across the room.

shed quietly. “You will come home to Milan. You will fly back with me when Dulce is discharged.”

nervously. She stepped backwards and turned her face away from him, but his lips still brushed her cheek. “Get out Alessandro.”

come home and be where you belong, with your husband.” His voice was assured and controlled as he stroked her cheek before leaving her office.

ck and beg him to deny it again. To repeat he’d never been lovers with his protégé.

her head like she was trapped in a cavern?

return.

ious conversation with her heart about this masochist behavior it and her libido were holding onto. If she didn’t, then there was a very real possibility, with Alessandro hounding her, she would wind up back in his arms, back in his bed and back in Milan, right beside Dulce.