A Vengeful Ex-Wife novel Chapter 437

"Don't play dumb!" Colby sneered. "You cheated on me and slept with another man. I tried to divorce you, so you paid professional killers to assassinate me! How dare you?!"

"I didn't pay..." Rosa's words trailed off. Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she tried to explain rationally, "I did pay killers, but their target was supposed to be Maria, not you!"

Colby harrumphed, not believing her. "Then tell me, why is Maria completely all right while I was nearly killed just now?" If he hadn't tempted the killers with more money, he probably would have been killed by now.

"How should I know? How could you think that I could hurt you, Colby?" Rosa ended in a pleading voice.

Colby was still not convinced. "What a vicious woman you are! Not only did you try to hurt my son, but you also wanted to kill me. You think you'll get all of my properties once I'm gone, don't you?"

"Of course not!" Rosa quickly denied.

Colby was done talking to her. He took the printed divorce agreement and threw it onto the table in front of her. "Sign it!"

"I won't sign it! I won't!" Rosa cried out, tears welling up in her eyes. "It must be Maria who did that. Colby, don't be fooled by her. She must be stirring up trouble between us!"

"It doesn't matter anymore. We've been planning to get a divorce, anyway. I won't treat you unfairly-you will get one hundred million dollars from me. Now sign it!" Colby opened the drawer, took out a bank card that he had prepared especially for this purpose, and pushed it across the table toward her.

Rosa stared at the bank card, stunned. He even had this prepared beforehand. Colby had ten billion dollars' worth of assets, and yet he was giving her a measly one hundred million dollars. In Rosa's mind, Colby was growing senile. "Colby, you are so heartless! You're only giving me one hundred million dollars. How am I supposed to raise our daughter?"

"What? Do you think HM Group is the same as it was before? You're fortunate that I am willing to give you one hundred million right now. Besides, you don't have to raise Ines." James was dealing with HM Group, and the company's capital chain was broken. Colby had begun to sell off his assets in order to compensate for the company's losses.

'He didn't need me to raise our daughter?' Rosa looked through the divorce agreement and found a clause stating that Ines would be brought up in Colby's custody. With a banshee-like cry, she tore the divorce agreement into pieces and shouted at him hysterically, "Colby Zheng, you son of a bitch! I won't sign this! Give up!"

Bits of paper scattered on the floor like snowflakes. Then, Rosa whirled around and stomped out of the company.

As soon as she left, a woman walked into the office.

Colby's face softened a little at the sight of the newcomer. "Ask a cleaner to clean this place."

"Okay." The woman took out her phone and called housekeeping. After relaying his instructions, she stood behind Colby and started massaging his shoulders. "Mr. Zheng, did you quarrel with your wife?"

Colby felt a sharp pain in his temples. "Yes. That woman dared to hire killers to kill me."

Edith Wang, the secretary who was currently massaging him, paused and said in an aggrieved tone, "Really? Why is she being so cruel? She had attempted to hurt our son before, and she even dared to try to kill you."

"I didn't expect her to be so vicious, either. I knew she married me for money, but I didn't expect her greed would push her to treat me like this!" 'What a heartless bitch!' Colby thought vindictively. He was determined to divorce Rosa.

The cleaner came in and started to work without looking elsewhere.

Edith kept an eye on the man, a strange glint in her eyes. "Maybe she is too good at pretending to be nice, or else Maria wouldn't have gone all out to deal with her."

Her words got Colby thinking of something. "Every time I asked her about the grudge between her and Maria, she wouldn't tell me anything. At this point, it seems to me that she did something awful to Maria and she didn't dare to tell me."

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something seriously wrong with Rosa.

Silence descended in the office. Then, Colby ordered the secretary, "Ask my people in the US to take Ines somewhere Rosa would never be able to find."

"Okay."

At HQ Road

Maria was chatting with Gordon, while Bob was playing with toys by their side.

Recently, Gordon's health had been getting worse. He was just discharged from the hospital the day before.

Gazing at Bob with loving eyes, Gordon said, "Maria, there is something I know I shouldn't say. But I don't have that long to live anymore."