Never Have We Ever by Cynthia Dane

Author:Cynthia Dane [Dane, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Billionaire Romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2017-11-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The evidence was undeniable. For once, it wasn’t Hailey who shoved it in Valeska’s face and taunted her with the truth she had courted all along.

It was Marlene, and her countenance was grim.

“I only show this to you because it affects both of our families.” Marlene took her iPad back and flipped the leather case over the screen. Too late. Valeska had seen the truth that always knocked on the back of her mind.

Her husband. With another woman.

It had started with paparazzi photos the Reiters paid to keep out of the press. Those could have been explained either way: André often had dinner with female colleagues and kissed them on the cheek when parting, but the young blonde on his arm in Copenhagen practically whispered in his ear and stroked his cock through his pants. Valeska had coolly shoved those photos aside and thanked her mother for taking care of them on the Dubois family’s behalf. The last thing the company needed was an adultery scandal to muddle their ongoing contracts.

These? Taken by a private investigator Marlene personally hired to follow her son-in-law around? The breaking point Valeska had never seen coming.

That was most definitely Lena in the back of an unmarked car with André. She wasn’t minding the children. She wasn’t even supposed to be in Monaco, where these photos were taken. She had told Valeska she was traveling to Hamburg for her sister’s wedding. Not only did those Mediterranean waves not look a lick like the German scenery, but Valeska was fairly certain that the nanny was not supposed to be canoodling with Monsieur Dubois.

“There are two things you can do with this information,” Marlene said with finality. “You know which path I suggest you take. Ultimately, it’s up to you.”

You want me to stay married to him. Valeska got up from the settee in her mother’s parlor and pretended to be enthralled with the sights of her childhood home. This is where I lived when I became engaged to André. This is where I brought my first baby when I had no idea what to do and was too terrified to be alone with her.

This was where her childhood had ended and her innocence faded. Long before she entered an arranged marriage, but the two events now felt so connected that she could barely breathe.

“I know you genuinely love him.” Marlene hoisted herself up with the aid of a cane. “But you must think rationally. You can use this information to leverage your own advancement in life.”

A larger allowance. Access to her own extramarital lovers. A separation that allowed her to save face and acquire her own residence wherever she wanted in Europe. All three, if she really played her hand well.

Fuck you, André.

“It’s not like I haven’t suspected he’s been cavorting with other women since the day we got back from our honeymoon.” Valeska pulled herself away from the window. “This is insulting. The nanny… Mein Gott.”

“Wasn’t she a friend of yours?”

“I thought she was. The whole reason we hired her was so I had a German-speaker to talk to at home.

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