Billionaire Ex-Wife – Episode 9

BILLIONAIRE Ex-Wife

Billionaire Ex-Wife – Episode 9

[ Fatal Attraction…. ]

Tags; Marriage, Love, Billionaire, Hate, Suspension.

Theme; Billionaire Love

©Authoress Funmhi Library

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A maid was standing waiting for them at the front of the house. She wore a black dress with simple 3/4 length sleeves and a white apron. Her clothes where neatly pressed and her raven hair was pinned into a tidy bun on the top of her head.

Her smile was warm and inviting. Katherines feet seemed to speed up at the sight of her.

“Katherine welcome home we have missed you so much” elenas arms opened wide and she embraced katherine in a warm hug.

She couldnt help but smile at the woman who was like a mother too her when she lived here.

“I wouldn’t call it home elena but its close enough” she grinned trying to wiggle out of elenas hold.

“Sorry hun am i sqeezing you too hard?” Elena chuckled lightly letting go of katherine. Her eyes roamed her up and down and concern spread quickly across her face.

“My god child how thin are you and your skin is so grey. What has happened? Are you ill?” Her questions startled katherine most peoole didnt notice but elena was lile a hawk she paid attention to details.

She shook her head “no no i was a little ill last week with a stomach bug so i havent eaten much and have been a little under the weather although im feeling much better now”

Katherine was supprised at how fast the lie came to her and how easily it rolled of her tounge.

Elenas face shifted and her warm smile was back. She looked down at ella and her eyes widened.

“Oh katherine she looks just like him.” She gushed grabbing ella in for a hug too. Which ella was more than happy to return. “How could you keep this little one a secret?”

Katherine felt guilt trickle through her for a second realizing she kept such an important woman from her baby. Elena had a little girl herself she loved children and treated katherine as her own.

“Im sorry elena its just that the way things ended with james i didmt want to be anywhere near this house.” She felt her eyes tear up but remembered ella was still there so quickly smiled and wiped her eyes dry.

Elena looked at her with a look in her eyes full of pain and sadness. “Katherine i hope things between you two improve. You were so in love and when you left the house was in shambles. He hasn’t looked at a woman or entertained the idea of another relationship.

He is still in love. Wether you are or not is another story.” Her eyes looked at katherines expectantly and it seemed like katherine wore her heart on her sleeve her eyes lightened and she smiled at katherine. “Im sure you two will work out. Now come its time for you two to settle in.”

Elena lifted ella up and walked into the house.

The house was just as katherine remembered. Modern light and open planned. The stairs where marble and the walls an off white colour to compliment the stairs. There was a cabinet in the hallway katherine stopped to look at it. Her eyes widened in shock when she saw it was exactly how she had left it. She bought it in an antique store ina small town on the way back from thier honeymoon. She fell in love with the decorative details laced all over it. There where little hearts on the shelves and little swirls inside of each heart. James thought it was too feminine but katherine had argued he got to choose the sofa and bedroom she wanted to give the house a feminine touch. So james agreed. When it was delivered a few days later katherine spent all day trying to find the perfect place for it. After hours she decided the main hallway was perfect everyone would see it as they walked through the front door. She wanted to display something beautiful on it

so she put pictures of her and james together. Wedding photos and photos with thier families.

She couldnt believe james had kept all thier photos up. Even the selfies she snapped of him nuzzleing her neck and her smiling. It stood tall on the third shelf.

It warmed her heart a little at the thought that maube he was really sincere when he said he still loved her.

She heard elena talking to ella and ellas giggling upstairs so katherine hurried to keep up with them.

When she found them ella was standing in the middle of a pink room looking around. Here eyes wide and her face bright.

The room was a baby pink colour and had a giant queen sized bed in the middle. There was a corner full of the newest toys and a walk in wardrobe full of beautiful dresses and outfits. Her shoes had their own wall there where that many.

“I think ella will be happy to play here whilst we show you to your room” elena smiled over to katherine and they walked out.

“It has been arranged that you sleeo in your old room katherine” elena spoke slowly unsure of katherines response.

Katherine wasnt sure thats what she wanted but she nodded if she got ti thier room and thought she didnt ljke it there were pleanty of guest rooms for her to stay in.

Elena lead the way although katherine knew where she was going.

As the door to her and james’s bedroom came into sight she felt little butterflys appear in her stomach. She was

nervous.

Elena opened the door and katherine couldnt help but gasp. The room had been repainted the coulor she had picked out before leaving. She had the paint bought but never got round to getting the walls painted. The dresser in the corner still had all her makeup on it. Her jewellery still sat on the bedside locker which was once hers.

A pair of her heels still sat at the end of her bed. It felt strange. Like she was in the past. Just as she had left it her things where exactly im the same place.

“He wouldnt let me clean them. He did it himself.” Elenas voice behind her startled her.

“What?” Katherine was beyond shocked.

“Yes its true and the wardrobe is exactly the same too” katherine was speechless

“I know its strange but i couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it. I kept clinging on to the hope i would get you back someday”

She turned to the door when she heard james husky voice.

She was leaning against the frame hands in his pocket looking straight at her.

“I dont think its strange james although i feel bad that you didnt feel you could remove my things” she felt guilty. What would happen when… she was gone.

Would he keep her stuff in the room. Lock it up. Move on?

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James stayed for a while talking to katherine lightheartedly but her mind was somewhere else.

Her face paled when she had looked back up at him after he had walked into their bedroom. He had heard elena talking about it to katherine. Everything she said was true. He trusted elena with his life but katherines things where all he had left of what little love he had seen in his life.

He grew up in wealth. His mother a big shot fashion designer and father a buisness tycoon much like himself. They traveled alot so james had had a nanny. He was an only child. And his childhood was lonley and his life had always been materialistic all his things where the one stability he had that he knew he owned. His parents knew little about a childs imagination and raised him up to focus on studies and business.

He jumped from woman to woman through the years. He normaly had a different one each night but never jad a stable relationship Ikmger than two weeks. He knew he was pathetic but he had no other outlet onone to comfide in. It was in summer a few years ago he got word from his human resources team that he had a new secratary starting in september. That She was young a few years younger than him and on her placement year of college.

He expected her to come in barely dressed like all the others but she didn’t. Instead katherine had worn a black skirt just above knee length and a pale pink blouse. The most provocative thing she wore was a pair of black christian louis bouiton stilettos which had made her legs look even longer and sexier. He had noticed.

He was drawn to her immediately. Her doe eyes. Her long wavy hair. Her petite body. Her sassy attitude. He loved it all.

She didn’t put up with the ludicrous demands he made each day. She put im in his place and more often than not he found himself obeying her orders.

She certainly wasnt submissive anyway.

She was still exactly the same fiery woman that he used to know. There was only one thing different about her and he couldn’t seem to lay his finger on it. He had noticed the day he met her in the law firm but couldn’t pin point exactly what it was.

he walked down the hall into ellas room. she was sitting in the corner playing with the new toys he had bought for her. she deserved to be spoilt. he had only known ella a matter of weeks and she already had him wrapped around her finger.

She looked up towards the door at the sound of his footsteps and grinned jumping up from the ground.

“Daddy, daddy my room is so cool” she sqeeled as james lifted her up in his arms

She wrapped her tiny arms around his neck giggling as he tickled under her chin

This is what he had been missing out on. Watching his little girl grow up all because of those pictures.

A scream sounded through the house just after a loud thud.

James looked back towards the door and ran out of ellas room still holding her.

Elenas scream sounded again and frantic wailing out for james.

James felt his heart begin to race as he reached his room and saw katherine passed out on the floor and elena kneeling beside her trying to wake her up. He rushed up to katherines side and set ella down beside him.

“Mommy wake up” ella began crying at the sight of her mother laying on the floor.

“Elena call an ambulance and take ella to her play room and look after her” james instructed panic evident in his voice. How could this happen. Elena stood up grabbing ellas hand and ran out of the room.

James felt a wave of emotion as he sat beside katherines lifless body. Her breathing was slow her pulse weak and her eyes closed as if she were in a deep sleep. The thought of loosing the woman he loved again broke him. He wrapped her body in his strong arms and rocked her kissing her cheek lightly waiting for the ambulance to come.

It was five minutes later he heard the sirens and another five until the paramedics appeared in the doorway.

They placed katherine on the streacher they brought and wheeled her out of the house. James stayed with her in the ambulance holding her hand the hole journey.

His mind raced with things he wish he has said to her.

Things he wished he had done. His heart broke a little more every minute that passed which he didnt get to see her open her beautiful eyes. Eyes that told a story of thier own. Eyes that held you captive. Eyes that james hadnt been able to get out of his mind the past five years.

The nurses hooked her up to an iv and heart monitor. The constant beeping was the only thing that could reassure him she was still alive. No matter how many times the nurse said it. It was the beep that held the most importance to him.

The paramedics fed the nurses information. The nurses took the information down on clipboards and ran for the doctor.

James sat outside the room as katherine was examined by the doctor. Doctor sharky was the bast apparently at his job what that was james wasnt sure but the nurse had reassured him that his wife was in good hands.

The door opening startled james and he stood quickly from the wooden chair he had been resting on which made a noisy screech as he moved.

He rubbed his sweaty palms on his trousers as he waited for thw doctor to speak.

“Well how is my wife?” His voice was ragged concern etched on his face he had been waiting hours for news.

“Your wife is stable mr saunders. But the growth is rapid and the medications are not going to be enough. I dont think she will make it out of this hospital sir.” The doctor hung his head low. And james furrowed his eyebrows in confusion

“Growth, what growth? What do yku mean she won’t make it out of the hospital?” The pressure in his chest increased by the minute and he felt his heart shatter as doctor sharky gave him a confused look before he completely ruined his life.

“Your wife has cancer mr saunders”

TBC…….