Divorced Heiress
Chapter 120

I returned to the table naturally, just as the show ended. I made sure that Monica hadn't noticed my p Suddenly, I remembered the day Paul was arrested. He was talking to Monica behind closed doors in "I hope you understood. Do your job well and don't give me any more problems. Otherwise, don't bot But of course, he was upset because Monica wasn't delivering results. That meant the plan had been i Was he not going to give up?

After greeting some executives and thanking the audience for their presence, and introducing Alexand I wasn't afraid to confront her, even though she was working for such a dangerous man. I was going to "I apologize, I have something to do." I apologized to the guests who approached to congratulate me I gripped my cell phone tightly as if I were afraid of losing it at any moment, losing the evidence recor "Sarah, where are you going? Some of my New York guests want to speak with the president. They're i Julian's voice stopped me when I was just a few meters from the dressing room door, and I exhaled th "I can't attend to them right now. Abby and Alexander can handle the matter perfectly." I quickly repli smiled, as if my words didn't affect him at all.

"Sorry, Julian, I'll be with them in a second. I have to do something first."

"Alright, I understand. I'll go back to them and..." Julian's words hung in the air as a couple of models "Are you serious, Monica?" The redhead asked incredulously, unaware that Julian and I were nearby. H "I'm dead serious, Romi. My romance with Alexander Lancaster is clandestine. We have a great time to won't let the opportunity slip away."

My cheeks heated up listening to shameless Monica shouting about her romance with Alexander.

If I didn't know what was behind all of this, I would have probably exploded. But everything was clear. "Sarah, if you want, we can go and..."

te or heard the conversation where her bad intentions and Paul's plans were exposed, despite him being behind bars.

ce, and I interrupted them. I still remembered Paul's words to her, and everything started to make sense. ming to make your cheap excuses because you will be fired immediately. Is that clear?"

on longer than he had imagined.

the new partner of Doinel and myself as the company's president, I made the decision to confront Monica.

er in check because I wouldn't allow them to continue hurting my loved ones or me. It was time to take control of my own life.

successful launch, and I walked determinedly toward the dressing room.

it that exposed her.

ed in doing business with Doinel."

hadn't realized I had been holding while thinking about the right words to use.

nting to cut the conversation short and continue on my way. But Julian's look of confusion made me realize how rude I had been at the table, and he just

out of the dressing room, almost unnoticed by us, if it weren't for the topic of their conversation.

r, I noticed that Monica noticed our presence, and the corners of her lips curved slightly before she responded to her companion.

I give him what his ex-wife can't, and he's just using her to benefit from her company and power. We're talking about Mr. Leonardo's living heir, of course he

wanted to do the same thing he did years ago with Rachel, but this time I didn't fall so easily.

I saw Julian's clear intention to take me away from that place, thinking that the conversation would affect me. It seemed like a nice gesture on his part, but I interrupted him, shaking my head and giving him a slight smile filled with confidence, leaving him confused and worried about the situation, which perhaps for him was proof of Alexander's infidelity, considering that he had seen both of them coming out of the same place.

For anyone who had no idea what was behind all this, it would be more than evident, but they were far from reality.

"I will talk to Monica and we will go wherever you tell me." I interrupted, and he stood frozen in his place, not knowing exactly what he could do now to avoid such a conversation, but he had no choice but to stay and observe. "You command, I'll be nearby if you need anything."

I nodded my head, giving him a grateful smile before he took a prudent distance, where he would be close enough but far enough to not witness what I was about to do, and without further ado I approached that woman who couldn't stop spewing nonsense from her mouth, pretending not to notice my presence.

"Ms. Romi, if you have nothing to do in this area, I ask you to leave." I spoke with a cold voice, taking Romi by surprise, and she paled at my arrival, it seemed like she was about to faint at any moment.

"Yes, Ms. Doinel, sorry for the inconvenience. Let's go, Monica." Romi stumbled clumsily and quickly took Monica's arm, who had a look of arrogance, to pull her away and disappear in less than a second, but I stopped her before they even took a step.

"I only gave you the order, Romi. Monica stays." I said firmly, causing the poor woman who was innocent in all this to tremble slightly, and I looked directly at Monica, who looked defiant.

"Of course! Goodbye, Monica." Romi immediately let go of her companion's arm, as if it suddenly burned her, and disappeared as quickly as possible, getting rid of a situation in which she had nothing to do, the only thing she was guilty of was being a gossip. Monica didn't care at all that her companion left her alone, on the contrary, something told me that she had been waiting for the right moment to be alone with me, and now that we were, she wasn't going to waste the opportunity.

I crossed my arms as I looked at her indifferently, holding back her expression of arrogance that didn't disappear for a second, but I was going to wipe it away in an instant.

"Monica, I need to talk to you woman to woman." I spoke as calmly as possible because the last thing I wanted was to make this problem bigger than it already was. I would do everything nicely, unless she showed reluctance. "Oh! I'm sorry, this wasn't the way I wanted you to find out, but..."

I let out a dry laugh. Did she really think I bought the whole story? Even if I didn't know her true intentions, it wouldn't make sense.

"What are you talking about, Monica? I'll go straight to the point because the truth is, you're very bad at lying. I'll give you the opportunity to tell the whole truth, everything that is hidden behind your flirtation with Alexander. I want to hear it from your own mouth." I interrupted her, leaving her frozen, but she masked it with a confused expression, pretending not to know what I was talking about.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Doinel, I don't know what Mr. Alexander would tell you to get out of this or what excuse he would come up with, but he's not as innocent or as saintly as he appears, he has reciprocated my feelings. You have no idea how much it hurts me to be the one to tell you this, but we couldn't help the chemistry between us." She spoke with such confidence and acted as if she was hurt for getting involved in the relationship.

But my amused expression didn't change at all, and it seemed that nerves were starting to affect her, I could see it in the constant playing of her fingers.

"Ah! He reciprocates your feelings?"

Monica nodded her head more times than she should have, and I let out a tired sigh, she wouldn't be foolish enough to cooperate right away, so I had no choice but to take this to the next level.

"So, the lipstick on his shirt is yours? The hidden messages and calls, the secret evening outings, it's all thanks to you." I lied about the events, playing with her mind before debunking it. I could tell from her eyes that with that, her nerves dissipated and the confidence she had almost lost returned.

"Yes, and you don't know how much I regret it, as I told you, it was inevitable, I could even say that we are in love. I admit my guilt, but he is also to blame. They say that a leopard never changes its spots."

Just as I had thought, Monica used the false events I gave her to make her story sound believable with "evidence" in hand.

"It's you, it has been you all this time, so these audios must be yours."

Without thinking twice, I took out my phone and played the recording of her conversation with Paul, pretending to be affected by learning such a thing.

Then, her victorious expression vanished when she recognized her voice, yes, but the conversation was not with Alexander. She recognized the words used in that call and her face immediately lost color. Her gaze reflected fear of being discovered by me, by her future victim, by the person she was supposed to destroy under Paul's orders.

"I'm not so sure about what you said, 'a leopard never changes its spots. You don't give me a chance, believe me, I have been very direct. My task is complicated because he only has eyes for his ex-wife... Don't be foolish, I can have anyone I want in the palm of my hand, but... You are asking for too much and I haven't seen my first payment... I don't give a damn that you're in prison and that you lost control of the company that was never yours, I'm not interested. You want results, I want my money, I'm not risking my career for nothing."

She knew that I already had the certainty that the person she was talking to was Paul, and that they were talking about Alexander and referring to me as his ex-wife.

I put my phone in my bag when the recording ended and looked at her calmly, waiting for her to say something, to defend herself or to deny everything as she did at the beginning.

"I... I. That's not... not." Monica couldn't even complete a single sentence, her face was as pale as milk, as if she had seen a ghost. Before it was Romi, but now it was her who wanted to disappear from the face of the Earth.

"Is everything clearer now? I know everything, Monica, you don't need to keep lying, and I know that Alexander hasn't given you a single chance because I saw it, I saw how he ruthlessly rejected you over and over again. I was there when he threatened to fire you if you kept insisting, are you going to deny it?"

There was nothing she could do to escape the situation, she was completely exposed and, of course, she was trembling in fear, not only because she had been unmasked but because I had evidence that she was working for a criminal awaiting trial. Her career was in danger for a few dollars that she would never receive from the ruined Paul.

"Obviously, you're not going to say anything about it, but I will. Today, I'm in a very good mood because of the launch, so I'll give you two options. One, continue with Paul's plan, ruin your career by following the instructions of a criminal, and don't expect him to pay you a penny because obviously he won't, can't you see it? He's broke, without a single penny. And option number two, confess everything you know and leave Doinel in a good way, with your career intact, without any memos and with a pristine resume. You know me for being good, don't make me show you how I can be bad. It's your choice."

I was giving her an opportunity to leave everything as it was, but to disappear forever from our lives. I wasn't going to ruin her career or life if she showed genuine remorse for what she was doing. She would have to be very foolish not to accept such an offer. She wouldn't be harmed despite her futile attempts to portray Alexander as the cheater he has never been.

Monica didn't have to think too much, she immediately snapped out of it and with trembling hands, she responded.

"Paul offered me two million dollars to get close to Alexander, charm him, and make him make decisions that would harm the entire Doinel family. I would greatly benefit from this by ending up with a successful and wealthy businessman. This is not a complicated task for me, but in this case, it was different. Mr. Lancaster never gave me any chances, on the contrary, every time I approached him, he told me to focus on work and that our only dealing was professional. The task was impossible until the last minute." Monica confessed everything with teary eyes, but not a single tear escaped.

In a way, I understood that she felt trapped, afraid of losing her modeling career by following the orders of a man who would never fulfill his promise to pay her that amount of money. He had nothing to give. I looked at her with pity for what she was capable of doing for easy money, for surrendering so easily to the idea of the possibility of being Alexander's partner and taking advantage of it, not only would she get two million dollars, she would also keep the golden goose, as if she had won the lottery, but she did not achieve any of her objectives.

Another victim of Paul.

"I expect your letter of resignation on my desk, your career will not be affected. I appreciate that you chose the best option for yourself, that you confessed, but I don't want to risk having people who work for Paul close to me, you are a risk to my family and my company. The fact that you have spoken now does not assure me that tomorrow they will plan something worse." I explained in the best way the risks that I am not willing to take and a couple of tears slid down her cheeks.

Monica nodded, accepting her fate and without saying a word, she left through the same place that her colleague left a few minutes ago.

I took a deep breath, trying to feel more relieved now that Monica was gone, but that didn't mean that Paul would be satisfied, something inside me told me that he would continue trying to harm the Doinel family and I didn't know what to do to stop him. "That was very generous of you, you show me every time that you have a big heart that doesn't fit in your chest." Julian's voice exalted me and I looked at him not knowing what to say.

"Did you hear everything?" I asked without knowing what was going through his head and he nodded in response. This was not a conversation that I would have liked him to hear, but I couldn't do anything about it.

This world is full of bad people, why be one more?