My Rival Bragged About Her Don Husband, But He Was My Secret Husband Chapter 06

My Rival Bragged About Her Don Husband, But He Was My Secret Husband Chapter 06

Sandro had arrived with a column of men behind him. He crossed to me quickly, took in my condition, and let something like distress show on his face as he put a steadying hand on my arm.

“I’m sorry, Miss Ava. I should have been here sooner.”

“It’s handled now.”

Well. Now everyone would find out exactly who the mistress was.

Sandro scanned the wrecked car and his face went still.

“Who did this?”

Nobody in the room made a sound.

Except Selena.

She was still holding her head high.

“Just a little lesson for whoever thought she could go after Julian. She had it coming.”

She had probably never experienced, in her entire life, what a real lesson felt like.

Sandro’s jaw tightened.

“Julian?”

“Miss Ava is the Costanzo heir. They registered three years ago. The marriage was never made public.”

Selena stood still for two full seconds. Then her lips started to shake. She turned to the room.

“I don’t know this man! How would anyone know if he’s telling the truth? Julian and I have been together almost a year – you’ve all seen him with me, haven’t you?”

Casey scrambled to back her up. “Exactly. These people could be hired for all we know. What Costanzo heir?”

Yet her tone betrayed her unease, and her voice dwindled little by little,

Outside, more than a dozen black sedans sat in the road and twenty-some men in dark suits had filled the yard.

My phone call had been cut off before I’d said three words. You don’t stage something like this.

Sandro didn’t waste more time. He dialed and put it on speaker.

“Miss Ava was insulted by your mistress, Selena. She also destroyed the car Old Costanzo left behind. We need you here. Now.”

“What?” Julian’s voice came through, barely controlled: “I I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”

Hearing his voice right now almost made me sick.

The room had gone completely quiet.

Selena kept shaking her head.

“That’s not possible. It’s not possible.”

Twenty minutes later, Julian walked in.

He saw my burned hand and stopped. Then he pushed forward quickly, reaching for it, but I moved back.

“Ava – what happened to you?”

He still had that same look, the sincere, devoted one. It suited him less now.

I turned away from him and looked at Selena.

“Ask your wife.”

Julian’s brow furrowed. He scrambled to clarify. “She – she’s not my wife-”

Then, voice dropping: “Selena. What the hell is going on here?”

Selena launched herself at him. “You kept putting off the wedding – what am I supposed to tell my family? My friends?”

Julian took a large step back.

“When did I ever say I was going to marry you?”

Selena went still.

“You called me baby in front of your friends! You bought me things! You-

“Selena.” Julian cut her off. “I think there’s been a misunderstanding. You helped me entertain clients at dinners. I paid you for that.”

“You liar!” Selena’s voice cracked into a scream.

She wheeled on the crowd of classmates, pointing at Julian.

“You all saw how he treated me! Tell her!”

Every one of them looked at the floor.

Julian’s voice was getting frantic. “Ava, this is genuinely a misunderstanding. Selena, she-”

I let out a short, cold laugh.

“A misunderstanding? She rode my horse. She destroyed my car. That’s all a misunderstanding?”

“Those were there were business reasons

He was stumbling over himself.

“I don’t want to hear it.”

–

those photos happened while I wasn’t around to-”

Most things that didn’t touch me or the family, I let go. But I was not an idiot.

And the facts were already on the table. What Julian knew or didn’t know no longer mattered.

I turned to Sandro.

“Let’s go.

Sandro tilted his chin back. A moment later, someone pulled up a backup car.

I walked toward it.

Behind me, Selena screamed.

“Ava! This isn’t over!”

“Shut up!”

Julian’s voice came right after, raw with fury. He was probably already regretting everything.

But this was just the beginning.

I paused and looked back at her. Once. Calmly.

“Go ahead.”