Divorced Heiress
Chapter 101

Vincent's green gaze paused for a few seconds on Abby, after murmuring her name with that last name so that only she could hear it, looking her up and down, with her messy hair like mine, the mark of fingers on her cheek, and the obviously torn navy blue lace dress, then he looked at me the same way, furrowing his brow before tilting his head as if secretly accusing me.

Okay, I thought he already knew what happened between us just by looking at us.

-Abby, can we talk alone?- I asked her before someone could distract her, and when I said someone, I meant Vincent, who seemed hesitant to go with her or stay silent scolding us with his eyes.

Abby's gaze finally settled on the others, and her smile was replaced with a look of astonishment as she saw the twins observing her curiously.

-Oh no, this can't be. The slap is making me see double.- She said when her gaze landed on the Lancaster brothers, and I had to hurry to take her arm and lead her to a place where we could talk alone, but she stopped me when Alexis spoke. -She is the friend you've talked about, Vincent. I don't think we've been properly introduced. I'm Alexis Lancaster.-

Abby raised her eyebrows in surprise, and I didn't know if it was because Alexander's twin was introducing himself or because Vincent had referred to her as his friend.

-Friend. Alexis. Lancaster. My head is going to hurt, and it's not because of the hair-pulling we did.- Abby murmured dramatically for me to hear, but quickly smiled at Alexis.

-Of course! Alexis, the good twin. I'm sorry, Alexander, I'm not saying you're bad, but there should always be one that's better than the other. I'm Abby, the friend of everyone you see here, and of course, Vincent Grey... I mean, Lefebvre, and now, I'm also your friend. You're so lucky, welcome to the friends club.-

Abby approached him, passing in front of Vincent, taking the opportunity to "accidentally" step on his foot, and shook hands with Alexis without any care, as if she was taking out her anger on the poor man who wasn't at fault, and left Tristan in Alexander's arms. -Excuse us, friend, I have a pending conversation with my friend.-

This time, she took my arm and pulled me, all while keeping up a fake smile.

-Sorry, I'll be right back.- I apologized before disappearing from the room towards the hallway that led to the office, and Abby's fingers dug into my skin forcefully.

-You're hurting me.- I said once we were inside the office, where no one could hear us or interrupt us.

-When I think I've seen it all from that idiot, he comes and surprises me. One day he says I'm his girlfriend, passionately kisses me in front of a lawyer tied to a chair, and the next day, he tells the first person he sees that I'm his friend and completely ignores me. I swear he's testing my patience, which is already wearing thin. I hope one of these days his little Grey stops working and... No, I'm not going to wish that without trying it first. But what the hell am I saying? Where did I leave my dignity? Did I leave it lying down with the slap?-

I rolled my eyes as I sat on the desk with my legs crossed, waiting for Abby to finish venting in her own way.

-Are you done?- I asked calmly, and Abby looked at me with a flushed face of anger and nodded.

-Did you get any information? You came back sooner than I imagined.-

Abby sighed heavily and collapsed on the couch as if she were exhausted, closed her eyes for a few seconds before fixing her gaze on me.

-Paul has no idea that the lawyer was going to betray him.- She said confidently, but I wasn't completely convinced of that until she gave me more details.

-At first, I was convinced that he knew something about the paper lawyer, as he began to insist that Attorney Richman take on the case, but I cried to him while making up a story that I couldn't trust another woman because they were the first ones to want to destroy us. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it seriously.- She said, embarrassed with me, and I waved it off, downplaying it.

-It doesn't matter, keep going. I asked as I stood up to sit in the chair behind the desk.

-He agreed that Richman would be the lawyer in charge of the lawsuit and called him, his phone was ringing, but he didn't answer. Paul wouldn't have done that if he had disappeared, I know him like the back of my hand.-

-Without getting an answer, he called the law firm to ask about him, but no one has seen him since yesterday morning. He called his house and got no response either, finally, he called his wife, the cheater answered immediately, but her response wasn't positive; the last time she saw him was this morning, she said he left home earlier than usual without saying where he was going, and since then, she doesn't know anything about him.-

-To be honest, Paul seemed so interested in filing a complaint against you, we tried to locate him by any means necessary, but it's as if the earth swallowed him, no one knows about him and his wife got worried.-

I crossed my fingers on the desk, thinking about what Alexander had told me in the car and now that Abby confirmed that Paul had nothing to do with it, I didn't know what to think anymore.

If there was something more behind this, what was it?

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't find a logical answer, the only thing that came to mind was an accident, a robbery, or maybe he was involved with other dangerous people and they were settling scores.

We were left without an ally and without evidence that could definitively sink the Dubois, the only thing left for me was Rachel's collaboration with justice and I prayed it wouldn't go wrong, that she wouldn't regret it at the last minute, it was my only resource before rushing to report the Dubois for embezzlement at Doinel, which was the only thing I could prove.

-Are you sure? Couldn't it have been a distraction?-I asked, doubting even my own name, and Abby stood up from the couch to sit in the chair in front of the desk and look me in the eyes.

-Lately, I know when Paul is lying to me, he has lied to me so many times with such ease, that I detect it right away with his body language, with his gaze, his facial expressions. Besides, knowing him as I do, he wouldn't risk alarming an entire law firm and his wife, no matter how unfaithful she is, with the disappearance of a lawyer, what do you think would happen?-

The question was unnecessary. It was clear that they would investigate until they found the true culprits, Paul wasn't foolish enough to dig his own grave.

-Sari, the lawyer disappeared for another reason or because of other people. Or on his own.-

I let my back drop heavily and closed my eyes thinking about what I would do now. For the moment, I had the recording, if I presented it as evidence in Rachel's statement, along with the recording Alexander made of Paul's conversation with Rachel, it could lead to an investigation against the Dubois.

God, I needed a break from all of this.

-Could you leave me alone? I need to think.-I asked, opening my eyes to look at her tiredly, and she took my hand while giving me a half-smile.

-I'm going to change, your designer dress got ruined.-

I looked at her with a raised eyebrow, realizing that the dress that I had torn was mine and she didn't have the audacity to tell me before.

-Goodbye.-

-Abby!-

Before she could receive my complaint, she stood up from the chair and vanished from the office, leaving me alone, with a mess in my head, and regretting breaking that dress.

Well, it was just a dress, I had bigger problems to solve.

I took a deep breath and turned the chair to look at the family photos,

I smiled nostalgically as I examined the face of each one from my seat

and without hesitation, I took it to read the note he wrote for me. "Happy 30th Birthday to the Doinel heiress. With love, your father." His words when he handed it to me resonated in my head as if I were "You can open it when you feel like things aren't going the way you wa And honestly, nothing was going the way I wanted.

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