She Got the Marriage License and I Got 99 Broken Promises Chapter 07

She Got the Marriage License and I Got 99 Broken Promises Chapter 07

Nolan clenched his fist until his tremors stopped. 

“I said I’m not seeing her.” 

But Sabrina was already standing in the doorway. 

She wore her new–money wealth like armor, her 

eyes scanning his disheveled state with a cruel 

smirk. 

“What, are you really committing to this little act 

now? She dumped you for real, didn’t she?” 

She tipped up her chin and let the sarcasm drip. 

“You’ve starved yourself and wrecked yourself 

over Tessa, and does she even know? Does she 

care?” 

Nolan grabbed the vase beside him and hurled it 

across the room. 

It shattered against the wall in an explosion of 

porcelain. 

The crash was so loud that birds outside the 

window scattered into the air. 

“Get out,” he rasped. “Get the hell out. You don’t get 

to say her name.” 

Sabrina stepped forward and came down on a 

shard of broken porcelain. Pain twisted across her 

face, but she laughed anyway. 

“For all you know, she’s in bed with another man 

right now. You think she’s sitting around missing 

you? Please.” 

Nolan stared at her with pure hatred. 

“This is because of you. If you hadn’t gotten 

pregnant behind my back, Tessa never would’ve 

been pushed away.” 

That made Sabrina laugh harder, until tears 

gathered in her eyes. “Ask yourself something honestly. Was it really me who drove her away?” 

She took another step toward him. 

“Who was it that said you needed an heir? Who 

whispered that Tessa was ‘stable‘ but I was 

‘soul–stirring‘? 

Her smile sharpened. 

“You were greedy. You wanted the home–cooked 

meals and the high–society mistress. You wanted 

the saint and the sinner.” 

Nolan stared at the woman in front of him. 

The one who looked soft and gentle on the 

surface and poisonous underneath and rage nearly swallowed him whole. 

“So that’s why,” he said through his teeth. 

“you begged me to take you to that auction the day Grandma Evelyn was dying. That’s why you made sure I never found out she’d already 

passed.” 

“Tessa had just lost the person who mattered 

most to her, and when she needed me more than ever, you used the baby to keep me tied to you.” 

His voice dropped, raw and shaking. 

“How could you be that cruel when you knew. 

exactly how much that woman meant to her… and 

to me?” 

Sabrina didn’t deny it. 

Her eyes filled with tears, but her voice stayed 

steady. 

“I didn’t want to become this kind of person either. 

I did it because I loved you. Nolan, you’re an 

executive now.” 

“Yes, she stayed with you through the broke years, through the worst part of your life. But she was 

still just a homemaker.” 

* She didn’t understand your world. She was never 

good enough for where you are now.” 

She wiped the tears from her cheeks, and when 

she looked at him again, her eyes had gone cold 

and deep. 

“And don’t forget, you owe me. Back then, when 

you approved that fraudulent policy and almost 

got caught, I was the one who covered for you. I 

even recorded it. Every detail.” 

At that, Nolan’s eyes narrowed. 

He crossed the room, backed her into the corner, and yanked her head up by the hair until she had 

no choice but to look at him. 

“Then you’d better pray your silence lasts as long as my patience.” 

He flung her away from him and wiped his hand off with naked disgust. 

Then one of the housekeepers stepped forward, 

glancing nervously at Sabrina before speaking. 

“Mr. Hayes, while cleaning, we noticed several of 

your watches are missing. The expensive ones 

from the display stand. Ms. Vale was the only 

person who went in there around that time.” 

That was enough to set the room buzzing. 

“My cousin works at an auction house,” another. 

maid said immediately. “She saw Ms. Vale bid on 

a jade set worth millions.” 

“She’s from a bankrupt family,” someone else 

muttered. “Where would she get that kind of 

money?” 

“She also went into Ms. Quinn’s dressing room,” another added. “She stayed in there for almost 

two hours.” 

“I checked afterward,” one of the staff said. “A lot 

of expensive pieces were missing.” 

No sooner had the words left her mouth than the 

rest started whispering over one another. 

“No wonder he kicked her to the curb.” 

“No wonder he stopped letting her into the house.” 

“She’s a thief.” 

“Guess her hands weren’t exactly clean after all.”