He Said Don’t Wait, So I Married Someone Else Chapter 20

He Said Don’t Wait, So I Married Someone Else Chapter 20

“Then you’re choosing war,” she said coldly, all pretense of civility gone. “You will regret this, child. Be careful. You stand to lose far more than you can possibly imagine.”
The line went dead. I stood there, listening to the dial tone.
“Maya?” Noah’s voice broke through the ringing in my ears. He took the petition from my hand, folded it neatly, and dropped it into the trash can. His face was like stone.
“It’s time to fight back.”
He didn’t give me a moment to wallow. He took my hand and led me into his study.
It was my first time in the room. There were no awards on the walls, no photos with smiling politicians, just floor-to-ceiling bookshelves crammed with legal texts and case files. The entire room felt like a cold, precise machine.
He didn’t turn on the light, just flipped open the laptop on his desk. The screen’s glow illuminated his grim profile.
“Do you remember the ‘Emergency Plan’ I sent you?” he asked.
I nodded. The encrypted file he’d sent when we first got married.
“That was just the highlight reel,” he said, opening a folder on his desktop.