The Best Revenge It Wasn't Even Your Child novel Chapter 247

Aaron had worked with Lance for years, but they’d never talked about anything except business. Personal stuff, especially romance, was totally off-limits.

After that night when Catherine and Lance unexpectedly slept together, Lance had Aaron draw up a prenup almost immediately. Aaron wasn’t stupid. Even if nobody said it out loud, he knew exactly what was going on. Lance married Catherine because he felt he had to. Catherine married Lance… so she could be taken care of? Or maybe, just because she didn’t have a choice?

“Lance, have you been drinking?” Aaron asked, picking up on the faint smell of alcohol.

Lance shot him a sharp look, clearly annoyed. Aaron could tell he’d just asked the wrong question, or maybe he just wasn’t saying what Lance wanted to hear.

“I don’t really know Catherine all that well,” Aaron admitted, his nerves getting the better of him under Lance’s glare. Still, he forced himself to keep talking, even though he knew this was dangerous territory. “But you were the one who brought up marriage. She couldn’t exactly say no, could she? You’re her boss.”

That was how Aaron saw it. In his mind, Catherine had been forced into the marriage. It was the classic story: a woman sleeps with her boss, and then, afraid of making things worse, she ends up marrying him. At least Lance wasn’t some old, bald, sleazy guy. If he had been…

“So, you think she didn’t want to marry me?” Lance’s voice turned icy.

Aaron tensed up, panic creeping in. Had he just said something completely wrong?

“No, of course not! You’re successful and good-looking. Any woman would want to marry you. Catherine definitely wanted to.”

But did she? Lance thought back to that moment. When he’d asked Catherine if she would marry him, she’d hesitated for a long time before finally saying yes. What was she thinking about? What would have happened if she’d said no?

“Lance, you and Catherine have been divorced for ages. Why are you bringing this up now?” Aaron tried to steer the conversation away from his earlier blunder. Even as he said it, he couldn’t help but mutter under his breath, “Catherine never said anything about this to me…”

When he thought about it, Catherine really was the most restrained person he'd ever met. She’d been his coworker, his subordinate, even his ex-wife, but she never once crossed any lines or acted out of place.

The office was so quiet Aaron felt his own words linger in the air. But Lance caught them.

“If you think you know so much, then tell me why she wanted a divorce.”

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