Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 178

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Emmy stared at Abriella, barely believing what she’d just heard. “Wait—you’re telling me… Evelina, with a prostitute?”

Abriella nearly doubled over laughing. “Oh yeah, you heard right! Even though her mom, Claudia, pulled every string she had to keep it quiet, you know me—gossip has a way of finding me. There’s no way something this wild was staying a secret.”

“I bet this isn’t even Evelina’s first time. If the cops hadn’t gotten an anonymous tip last night about a, you know, certain illegal gathering, they never would have caught her in the act.”

All at once, Emmy remembered what happened last night—Evelina had tried to drug James.

Wait. Was James the one Evelina was trying to… hire?

Emmy’s whole expression went cold.

She’d already given up Dean to Evelina, and now Evelina wanted to get her hands on James too?

Was Evelina just determined to take everything from her, one piece at a time?

Abriella’s voice snapped her out of it, her tone dripping with curiosity. “Oh, by the way, did you catch the news today?”

Emmy pulled herself back to the present. “No, what happened?”

“Girl, have you really been that busy? You haven’t seen the bombshell about Starlight Corporation?”

“Starlight Corporation?” Emmy felt a knot form in her chest.

She quickly grabbed her phone and opened the news app.

Right at the top, the headline screamed in bold: Nelson Corporation Announces Full Takeover of Starlight Corporation.

Emmy’s eyes went wide.

“Nelson Corporation is buying Starlight? Where did that even come from?”

Abriella was already theorizing on the other end. “I’d bet anything your dad pissed off Mr. Nelson. The article says Nelson Corporation is keeping all the subsidiaries and employees, but they’re kicking out the entire upper management—every last one.”

Emmy clutched her phone tighter, trying to make sense of it.

In her last life, Starlight and Nelson Corporation had nothing to do with each other—at least not until Dean took over.

Why did it feel like everything was spinning out of control in this life?

Abriella continued, “Honestly, I think this could be good. Starlight’s been going downhill ever since your dad took over. Maybe with someone like Mr. Nelson running things, it’ll actually get back to its glory days.”