“I advised you, did not I? I advised you, I advised you, however you would not pay attention! You by no means listened!”

Camelia was screaming and pacing forwards and backwards like somebody who had misplaced her thoughts. He had by no means seen her like this, however when Valerian tried to achieve for her, she angrily pushed him away and gazed on the billionaire as if he had been leprous.

This cannot be taking place, Camelia thought in a panic. How can this man she was courting be a billionaire one second and a pauper the following?

She noticed him flinch out of the blue, and Camelia realized too late she had unconsciously spoken her ideas out loud.

Fuck.

“Is that what you are nervous about?” Valerian requested quietly. “That I am now not wealthy sufficient for you?”

Camelia determined to disregard his phrases. He already knew the reply to it, anyway. It wasn’t like she had ever tried to cover how a lot she beloved cash. “How a lot do you have to flip issues round?”

“Why?”

“Possibly I can borrow from Ignacio—-“

“Over my useless physique.”

“I do know you do not like him,” Camelia mentioned impatiently, “but when he is our solely method—-“

“Do you actually suppose I used to be not conscious that you simply had been his mistress if you first got here to me along with your proposal?” Valerian demanded.

Camelia struggled to maintain her face expressionless. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. When he put it that method, she may see now how silly she had been, to imagine that Valerian would by no means see via her lies.

“That is all up to now,” she mentioned lastly. “It is completely different now—-“

“How is it completely different?” Valerian challenged. “That man is not going to provide you with something with out one thing in trade—-“

“Then I am going to give him no matter he needs,” Camelia cried out. “Cannot you see how critical that is—-“

“I am going to flip issues round,” Valerian gritted out. “All I ask of you is to attend—-“

“You are asking me to attend for nothing!”

The best way Valerian merely stared at her had Camelia evident at him in bitter resentment. “Do not you dare make me really feel responsible over this!”

“You clearly don’t belief me—-“

“And also you’re clearly naïve, for somebody who’s speculated to be smarter than the remainder of us,” Camelia sneered. “Why would anybody belief you if you’ve at all times acted like it might be our privilege to work with you? You ignore everybody’s recommendation. You danger your life like you do not give a shit in regards to the penalties. Nobody trusts you! Nobody simply had the center to let you know since your dumb luck saved making you mo—-“

“Sufficient, Camelia.”

The softness of his voice was at all times a sign of Valerian’s mood, however Camelia was too livid herself to offer a rattling.

“No, it is not sufficient,” she screamed. “I warned you for years and years—-“

“I mentioned sufficient,” Valerian exploded, and this time, Camelia lastly did shut up, but it surely wasn’t to listen to what he needed to say.

“You are proper, Val. I’ve had sufficient of you and your silly ideas. I’ve had sufficient of you appearing such as you’re higher than all of us. Any more, it is over between us. Go search for your vilain petit canard,” she steered. “I am positive she’ll nonetheless suppose you are a catch even if you’re compelled to unload all the pieces.”

Numbness had unfold all through Valerian’s physique as he watched his girlfriend of eight years stroll out on him. Bitterness simmered deep within him on the realization of how huge a idiot he had been all these years. He had by no means been in love with Camelia, however he had been trustworthy to her as a result of he had valued her loyalty.

However he was incorrect about her, clearly, and at some point he would make her pay for turning her again on him.

At some point.

However for now, he had work to do.

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