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Tsk tsk tsk!
“A perfect man, a cold-faced CEO who loves his wife so much! Only the rich can be so devoted.”
Puhaha!
Damian, your PR stunt this time is impressive!
No wonder Waylon was kicked off the board by you back then.”
“Theodore!”
Damian finally couldn’t hold back any longer.
The glass wine cup hit the floor with a crisp sound, shards of glass scattering everywhere.
The commotion startled everyone in the private room-except Claudine.
After all, she was the one who had invited them!
The way things were unfolding was just as she had expected.
Damian stood up, grabbed Theodore by the collar, and swung his fist hard at his face.
Not a single person in the room dared to intervene.
Theodore was knocked down by the punch, and blood instantly gushed from his nose.
He got up in a mess, wiped the blood from his face, looking even more frightening.
“Damian! How dare you hit me!”
Theodore rushed forward to fight back, but Damian knocked him down again, sending him crashing into the glass shards.
Damian pinned Theodore to the ground, his entire demeanor changed, the ferocity in him like an enraged beast.
“Theodore, if you just stay as the company’s parasite, I can keep you for the sake of Uncle!
“But if you dare to scheme, I’ll make sure you leave the Barrette Group penniless!”
Theodore struggled several times, but Damian held him down so tightly that he had no chance to fight back.
“Damian, you’re not that much better than me!
Claudine, do you know why Damian treats you so well!
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He made you the spokesperson this time because he made a bet with the board. If he can use this new jewelry collec- tion to make Barrette Jewelry an international top brand, the board will agree to his internal reforms!
Claudine, Damian is just using you!”
As soon as Theodore finished speaking, Damian’s fist landed on his face again.
Worried that things would get out of hand, Lindsay called several male executives to pull the two apart.
Damian tore off his tie with one hand, his chest heaving violently from agitation.
What was supposed to be a pleasant dinner ended in such a way.
The others quickly found excuses to leave.
Soon, only Damian and Claudine were left in the private room.
Damian sat on the chair.
He had already thrown his tie aside, and the top two buttons of his shirt had been yanked open.
Claudine had been watching from the sidelines the entire time.
Even when Damian’s fist was cut by the shards of glass on the floor, blood staining his white shirt, she didn’t so much. as lift an eyelid.
Damian saw all of Claudine’s indifference.
His brows were deeply furrowed, not because of Theodore’s outrageous behavior, but because of Claudine.
Now, she didn’t care about him at all.
He lit a cigarette, tossing the lighter carelessly onto the dining table.
The strong tobacco burned through his lungs, and Damian exhaled a heavy cloud of blue smoke.
His long fingers held the cigarette, and as he tapped it lightly, the ash fell onto his expensive Italara handmade leather shoes, but he didn’t care at all.
“What Theodore just said, you don’t need to…”
“Don’t need what?”
Claudine finally spoke.
“Don’t need to take it seriously? Or don’t need to mind it?”
Damian frowned and looked at Claudine.
The disdain and mockery in Claudine’s eyes made the thorn in his heart sink even deeper. There was no visible wound, but it scraped at him so much that even breathing hurt.
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He wanted to explain, to say that besides what Theodore had said, he also wanted to try to keep her, to make her give up the idea of divorce.
But he knew Claudine didn’t care!
Yes, Claudine no longer cared about their marriage.
She couldn’t wait to escape…
The private room was plunged into a suffocating silence.
Damian had never imagined that one day, he would be at a complete loss over a woman.
And it was a woman he once thought was dispensable…
He took another cigarette from the pack on the table.
He held the cigarette between his lips, but didn’t rush to light it.
After a while, he stood up, picked up the jacket draped over the back of the chair, and simply said, “Let’s go home!”
Claudine stood up and followed behind him.
At the entrance of the restaurant, Damian saw Claudine into the car, but did not get in himself.
“Go home and get some rest.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Claudine turned to the driver.
“Close the door.”
The car door closed in front of Damian, and from beginning to end, Claudine never spared him a single glance.
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Watching the car gradually drive away, the bitterness in Damian’s heart spread, making him unconsciously furrow his brows.
He didn’t know what exactly the emptiness in his heart was-no, it wasn’t just emptiness, but something more, though he couldn’t name it.
All he knew was that Claudine’s indifference and disregard felt like ten thousand needles stabbing into his heart.
He had never felt this miserable before.
At some point, snow had started falling again, landing on his face, cold as ice.
Inside a private room at the club.
Desmond Norton was having a great time with a few friends when his phone suddenly buzzed with a message from Damian: “Come out for a drink!”
Desmond found it odd.
Usually, no matter how he invited Damian, he would never come out, but today Damian actually took the initiative to ask him for a drink.
Thinking of the livestream he saw today, Desmond more or less guessed why Damian was upset.
He sent over the club’s address and waited for Damian to arrive.
After thinking it over, Desmond felt that as Damian’s best friend, he couldn’t just stand by and do nothing while his buddy was in deep trouble.
He pulled up his contacts and sent a message to Audrey.
At the hospital.
Because of the morning’s livestream, Audrey had been losing her mind all day!
Watching the video of Damian and that woman, their sweet interaction, and all the blessings from netizens.
She was nearly driven mad with jealousy!
If only she hadn’t left Damian back then because of that ridiculous pride!
Then now, the one standing by Damian’s side, receiving everyone’s blessings, would have been her!
Claudine was only luckier than her in having a better family background.
Looking at that face in the video, Audrey felt as if thousands of ants were gnawing at her heart.
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