A Vengeful Ex-Wife novel Chapter 67

James did ask Maria not to take pills. She wanted to take some anti-inflammatory pills that night. That would help the pain in her knees. But he advised her not to.

Maria knew the best path to revenge was to find out what the other party cared about and wanted most. She must hit a nerve to reach the goal.

Since birth, Alina had been spoiled. She did whatever she wanted. Anything she wanted she got. Anything except for James, who became her lifelong obsession.

The more she worked to gain James' heart, the more Maria wanted to use him to hurt Alina. She was the nerve she wanted to strike. So she made it look like she and James were having an affair—that would definitely anger Alina.

She wasn't going to have Alina beat her to it.

Alina had the magazine in a death grip. She wanted to tear the offending page in that issue to pieces. "No way. I don't—" She didn't believe what Maria said.

"Don't believe me? Isn't that what you were going to say?" Maria took out her phone and tapped on the screen a few times. Then she found a few photos and sent them to Alina on WeChat. She left right after that.

The new message tones on Alina's phone sounded. She picked it up and swiped to unlock her screen.

As promised, Maria had sent her something. First up, some pics of Ronald's orgy. The next two photos were of James. It was a rainy night and the camera captured him as he headed into the hotel where Maria was staying, carrying her in his arms.

Alina was on the verge of a breakdown. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't do that in public. She had to struggle to maintain control.

The ferocious expression on her face still revealed her hatred.

Alina couldn't do anything though. She couldn't go to James every time Maria pissed her off. That man was always uncaring and cold. The only thing her fit would do was annoy him.

Alina asked herself why she hadn't poisoned Maria to death.

Maria hadn't left the cafe yet. Instead, she wandered around until she found a private booth and sat down. She opened the WeChat app on her phone and sent James an angry message. "I won't bug you anymore. Get engaged to whoever you want!"

Maria was patting herself on the back for her bravery. At this moment, she hated James to the core. How could he trash talk her like that to Alina?

As she expected, James didn't answer back.

Maria had no way to vent her anger, and gradually calmed herself down.

That evening, her phone buzzed. Maria picked it up. The number on the caller ID meant business. "Ms. Song, our project in T Country hit a snag. The CEO of HL Group is negotiating with them personally, but they're still not committing to anything."

Maria thought for a bit and realized that it was necessary to bring Mr. Wang in on this. After all, he was in charge of the project.

After hanging up, she called Mr. Wang. "Good evening, Mr. Wang. Do you remember me? It's Maria."

She smiled, and but she was cursing the man inwardly.

"Oh, Ms. Song! Long time no see!" The man on the other end of the line pretended to be earnest and spoke very politely. Maria guessed that someone was with him.

She continued in a gentle tone, "Indeed. Mr. Wang, I have something to discuss with you."

"Go ahead!"

She talked about the charity project with him. The next day, Maria was out of her mind. She opened her WeChat app again and sent a few more words to James. "I'll keep bugging you. If I don't, I can't even survive in H City. I don't want that."

The man who saw the message just thought she was just a drama queen, and ignored it. He really wanted to delete her from his WeChat contact list.

But he remembered Arthur, and decided not to.