After He Bought His Intern a $100K Bracelet Chapter 11

After He Bought His Intern a $100K Bracelet Chapter 11 Full Circle

Grayson stood frozen in place, watching Ivy walk away on Sebastian’s arm.

The wedding invitation from Ivy sat heavy in his hand.

With her legal papers clutched in the other, he had no choice but to accept that Ivy truly wanted nothing more to do with him.

She wasn’t just marrying a man he could never hope to measure up to.

On top of that, she wanted back the 300 thousand dollars he’d taken to buy Chloe a Mercedes.

He’d only bought Chloe the car because he’d slept with her and didn’t want to own up to it.

It wasn’t like he had that kind of money lying around.

Ever since Chloe joined his company, he’d footed the bill for her handbags, her meals, her rent, all of it.

His own spending had always run high, and between that and what he put into their joint account, his 20 thousand a month left him with almost nothing.

He was still drowning in panic when it happened.

Chloe came rushing over instead, frantic.

“Grayson, what do we do? Ivy’s the owner’s wife now. What if she comes after me to get even? I still haven’t gotten my internship signed off. What if she just keeps me from graduating?”

He looked at how clueless Chloe was. Was now really the time to fuss over her internship paperwork?

He couldn’t stomach her stupidity for one more second.

His lip curled in disgust and he snapped a single word at her. “Out.”

Chloe had never swallowed that kind of insult in her life, and she rounded on him at once. “Grayson, you actually have the nerve to yell at me? Fine. I’m going straight home to tell my mom and dad.”

With that, Chloe ignored every company rule and stormed out of the building.

Grayson watched her go, his scalp prickling, and for the first time he understood a little of what Ivy must have felt saddled with her.

Aching with desperation, he bribed a security guard for access to the surveillance on the owner’s floor, and he finally found his chance to catch Ivy alone.

He made his way straight over to her.

He found Ivy sitting by herself on the rooftop terrace with a coffee, and for reasons he couldn’t explain, it struck him. Back when they’d lived together day after day, he’d thought she was so plain, so ordinary, and if she hadn’t been so thrifty and good at keeping a home, he’d have left her ages ago.

But looking at her now, he saw a calm, unhurried grace to her that he’d never once noticed before.

His eyes rimmed red, and he walked straight over to her.

“Ivy, I already told HR to let Chloe go. Please, can you forgive me?”

Ivy nearly jumped out of her skin.

The second she saw it was Grayson, her face twisted with disgust. “What do you want?”

Grayson grabbed hold of her hand before he even thought about it.

“I was wrong. I know I was wrong. Chloe blinded me, that’s the only reason I ever treated you so badly. I’m sorry. I’m begging you.

“Please don’t marry our boss. Have you forgotten? We promised each other over the holidays that we’d get married this year.”

Ivy felt sick just standing near him.

She couldn’t believe Grayson was still going on about marriage even now.

She curled her lip in a mocking smile. “Did you forget, Grayson? We agreed I’d bring you home to meet my parents on our fourth anniversary. And what were you doing instead? Off tangled up with your buddy’s little sister.”

With that, Ivy pulled out her phone and opened the video Chloe had sent her.

“You think I didn’t know? Your precious little Chloe shared every last thing the two of you got

up to.

“I’m the one who posted the video at the office. I sent it to your family group chat, too.

“Since you and Chloe were so set on betraying me to be together, I’ll just wish you a lifetime of wedded bliss.”

Grayson trembled where he stood, rooted to the spot.

He’d never dreamed Chloe was the one who’d sent Ivy the video, and in that instant his hatred for her hit its peak.

In the half-second his focus slipped, a sharp pain exploded across his gut.

“Aren’t you something, Grayson. Coming after my fiancée again and again.”

With that, Sebastian drove a few more punches into his face.

Grayson took the beating and didn’t dare hit back.

He could only lie there on the ground, howling and writhing in pain.

But what terrified him even more was the folder Sebastian tossed down at him.

“Having fun taking bribes, Grayson?”

Grayson’s eyes went wide with terror all over again.

The next moment, he watched several police officers walk in.

He barely opened his mouth to claim he’d been framed before they hauled him out.

Sebastian read the look on Ivy’s face and felt a flicker of jealousy. “Does it still hurt you to see him?”

Ivy laughed at once. “Not a chance. Grayson made his own bed.”

Sebastian was dead set on pressing charges. Grayson sent people again and again to beg Ivy to let him off the hook.

But Ivy never once budged.

If Grayson had the nerve to take bribes on the job, then he could face the consequences of breaking the law.

Three months after Grayson was hauled off to the station, the court handed him a full three years for financial crimes.

By the time he walked free again, his whole life would be in ruins.

After Grayson went to prison, Chloe turned out to be pregnant.

Between that and the leaked bedroom video, her parents were so humiliated that they took her to the hospital that very day to end the pregnancy.

Chloe was reported for helping her company superior break the law, and the school expelled her without a degree.

Four years of college, and she didn’t even walk away with a diploma.

Watching how Grayson and Chloe ended up, Ivy understood at last how good it felt to have someone in her corner.

So when Sebastian carefully asked whether she’d be his girlfriend, she already knew her answer.

Ivy nodded without a moment’s hesitation.

Being spoiled by Sebastian like this was a feeling she’d wanted to hold onto for the rest of her life.

The End