After She She Stopped Loving Him

Chapter 119

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Yolanda murmured, “Vivian is your business partner.” Her lashes were lowered, her tone steady and matter- of-

fact, like she was simply stating the truth.

“But you're my wife,” Charles replied firmly.

“Charles, | know the company is always your top priority. | don’t want to put you in a tough spot,” Yolanda said,

her voice barely above a whisper.

Charles paused, then pulled her into his arms, saying nothing.

Yolanda caught a faint whiff of another woman's perflingering on Charles. She didn’t say a word.

Instead, tears slid silently down her cheeks, soaking through the fabric of his shoulder.

Charles gently cleaned up her wounds, then reached out to softly ruffle her hair. “Get srest,” he said.

“Okay,” Yolanda replied quietly.

She lay down slowly, her lashes still wet with tears.

Charles watched her for a few seconds before finally leaving the room.

‘Whatever he’s up to, doesn’t matter to me,’ Yolanda thought, turning over and falling asleep without another

word.

When Vivian got Charles's message that he was coming over, she could barely hide her delight-her eyes

sparkled with surprise and anticipation.

It was already past eleven at night, but she quickly did her makeup and sat waiting for him in the living room,

nerves buzzing in her chest.

Charles arrived in no time. The moment she opened the door, Vivian was so excited she almost leapt into his

arms.

“I knew it! You still care about me,” she blurted out, hope shining in her voice.

But in the next second, Charles shoved her aside and brushed off his suit jacket, as if trying to wipe away

something unpleasant.

Vivian's face instantly turned pale, “Charles, what's that supposed to mean?” she demanded, her voice shaking.

“Where's Yolanda’s earring?” Charles asked, his tone cold and unwavering.

Vivian couldn't believe her ears. ‘Is Charles actually backing Yolanda up?‘ she thought, totally stunned.

She let out a scoff, her scalp prickling with anger. “Do you really think Yolanda is any better? | told her right to

her face-I slept with her husband-and she just pretended like nothing ever happened! Charles, you never used

to take her side! You must've totally fallen for her tricks.”

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Charles knew all too well that what Vivian was saying was the truth.

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I've heard all that before, but | never let myself believe it, Yolanda thought. She was always the quiet, obedient

type-she just chucked the clothes away, started sleeping alone, and kept all her pain bottled up

inside.

Charles's eyes grew frosty, but no matter how mad he got, he'd never let himself explode in front of someone

like Vivian. He just gave a quiet laugh. “The carring.”

Vivian was shaking all over. Even though Charles hadn't said anything cruel, she still felt gutted inside, like his

coldness was cutting her to pieces-it hurt so much she could barely breathe.

“I threw it out! Why would | hang on to sworthless, filthy thing like that?” Vivian shot back, her voice full of

contempt.

She was openly provoking Charles now.

Charles locked his gaze on her for a few seconds, his lips curled into a cold, distant smirk. “Funny | never realized

it before-women like you makesick.”

Vivian's eyes shot up in complete shock. Seeing the sheer disgust in his eyes, she felt dizzy-like she might just

black out right then and there.

Charles had always been a gentleman, a bit of a ladies’ man. Saying something this harsh to a woman?

Unthinkable.

That is, unless he hated her so much, he didn’t care about hiding it anymore.

“You... what did you just say?” Vivian gasped, her voice trembling.

Charles sneered, “Are you deaf or something?”

Vivian snapped, totally losing control. “It’s all because of Yolanda! | swear I'll ruin her! Charles, you won't be able

to protect her. Just wait-I'll make that bitch wish she was dead!”

Vivian, the CEO of the Andrade Group, had never suffered a setback like this in all these years. In her mind, it

was all Yolanda-she was the one who'd wrecked everything and stirred up all this trouble.

When a woman loses her head over love, you can forget about her playing it smart-she’ll burn it all down if

she has to.

Vivian screamed, lunged for Charles, grabbed his collar and tried to kiss him.

Charles's eyes grew icier by the second. He sidestepped her kiss, then peeled off his suit jacket with a look of

utter disgust and tossed it straight into the trash like it was contaminated.

That was the moment Vivian completely lost it.

Vivian snapped, tears streaming down her face, her features twisted with fury. “Fine, just great! Watch me—I'll

make sure that bitch Yolanda disappears from this world!”

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What Vivian didn’t get was that every word she screamed out was goading Charles-and she was even

challenging the entire Sinclair family without realizing it.

Charles undid the top button of his shirt, letting out a cold, dismissive laugh. “You can try.”

With that, he left without looking back.

Once he got in the car, Charles rubbed his temples and spoke to Jack up front. “Order ten more pairs of emerald

earrings

Jack felt even stranger now. The CEO really is acting different toward his wife lately, he thought.

He just kept quiet and nodded.

The next morning. Yolanda was still curled up in bed, refusing to get up.

Charles pushed open her bedroom door, walked over to her side, and asked softly, “Still feeling down?”

Yolanda didn’t answer.

Charles strode over and gently pulled Yolanda up from bed. “I got you snew earrings. As soon as your ear

heals, you can wear them.”

Yolanda responded with a soft “Mm,” then wrapped her arms tightly around his waist. “Baby, you're the best.”

Charles stiffened for a moment. To be honest, he'd always treated his lovers better than Yolanda. But Yolanda

never wanted much-so it took very little to make her happy.

His heart fluttered a little. He gave her cheek a light squeeze. “You're so silly.”

Charles thought. With all the resources and connections | have, she never even tries to take advantage of any

of it’

Yolanda got up, had breakfast, and noticed Charles was still around. She couldn't help but ask, “Aren't you

headed to work today?”

“Isn't spending more twith you a good thing?” Charles teased.

Yolanda didn’t respond, but in her head she was thinking, Wish he'd leave already, I've got to get over to

Starlight Entertainment soon.

Starlight Entertainment’s upper management was in chaos. Word had gotten out there was a new CEO

parachuting in, so everyone had been on high alert for half a month, ready to put up a fight and see who'd come

out on top. But the new boss never showed. The ones itching to give their new CEO a hard twere starting to

think maybe the whole thing was just corporate gossip gone wild.

Yolanda knew exactly what she was doing-let them burn through all that bluster, chip away at their confidence,

and then stroll in on srandom day when nobody’s expecting it. She thrived on psychological

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“But I've got plans at Starlight Entertainment today,” Yolanda chimed in.

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She'd been married to Charles for two years, but out in the real world, no one had any clue who his wife even

was.

Sure, the inner circle knew her name, but almost nobody had seen her up close-she pretty much kept to herself,

living the stay-at-hlife and rarely going out.

Rumor had it she was a plain Jane, not exactly memorable or fun to be around-no wonder Charles barely paid

her any attention.

Charles slid a glass of fresh juice over to her, a little smirk flickering at his lips. “Wow, really all about your career

these days?”

Yolanda lowered her lashes, hesitated for a long moment, then finally asked, “If anyone from upper management

tries to bad-mouthto you, would you do anything about it?”

“You wantto step in?” Charles teased.

Yolanda glanced up at him, her cheeks going bright red. “I want you to just ignore them, don’t meet with anyone,

don’t even look at the news coming out of Starlight Entertainment. Just letmake my own mess and figure it

out myself.”

She was clearly trying to work up her nerve, but her voice still shook a little. “If | totally screw up and run the

whole thing into the ground, would you...”

Before she could finish, Charles caught her lips between his fingers. “Starlight is barely even a blip for me. If

keeping out of it makes my wife happy, I'll pretend | don’t see a thing. Sound fair?”

His eyes were overflowing with warmth as he pinched her lips and gave them a playful tug. “You've got that

mouth for a reason, you know? Those other folks can’t cgriping to me, but you can always tellanything,

okay?”

No wonder every woman who ever tangled with Charles ended up crazy about him-when he decided to spoil

someone, he'd say whatever sweet things it took.

Yolanda nodded, then picked up a little bun and placed it on his plate. “Baby, you really are good to me.”

Charles looked at her with that gentle, adorable look on her face and let out a soft laugh.

Yolanda’s mature, level-headed ways were a world apart from Vivian's hysterical outbursts. Honestly, what guy

would ever pick someone like Vivian over her?

Men-yeah, they're just that practical in the end.

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