Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 345

Abriella could barely speak through her tears as she poured out the story she’d kept hidden for so long. Emmy just sat there, silent, her own eyes blurring with tears. In the background, the cartoons in the living room were suddenly quieter—James must have turned down the volume. Ollie was curled up in his lap, those big eyes fixed on Emmy, worry written all over his little face.

It turned out that before her mom ever met Cooper, she’d first fallen for Andrew. They met at college orientation, lost in the crowd, but both dreaming about changing the world with technology. They spotted each other right away, like they just knew they were the same kind of person.

They ended up joining the same club. During some intense military training under the blazing sun, Teresa fainted from the heat, and it was Andrew who rushed to pick her up and carry her straight to the clinic.

From then on, they were basically inseparable. Late nights in the library, working on experiments together, even building a robot that ended up winning a national competition. Everyone on campus thought they were a couple. Their feelings were obvious to everyone but themselves—quiet, powerful, never said out loud, but always there in the things they did for each other.

Everything changed when Claudia showed up. She was a girl from the countryside, only able to go to college thanks to Teresa’s mom’s help. But she attached herself to Teresa, acting like the perfect friend—always helping out, always by her side. Teresa treated her like a sister in no time.

Claudia started dragging Teresa out to try street food and experience things she’d never done before. That’s how Teresa met Cooper, who was working part-time at a barbecue stall. Claudia kept talking him up, saying how smart and handsome he was, how he was going places even if he came from nothing. And honestly, Cooper really was good-looking and brilliant back then.

He went all in, chasing after Teresa with the boldest, flashiest moves. Singing love songs under her dorm window with his guitar, lining up a hundred candles in the shape of a heart—every over-the-top romantic gesture you could think of, he did it.

For Teresa, who’d only ever known that gentle, unspoken bond with Andrew, Cooper’s passion was a shock to the system. It made Andrew anxious, too. He finally confessed how he felt.

But the very night they finally admitted their feelings, before they could even tell anyone, Claudia took Teresa out to a bar. The next morning, Teresa woke up next to Cooper.

That same night, Andrew was telling his family he wanted to marry Teresa. But by then, the rumors about Teresa and Cooper were everywhere.

Andrew’s family, the Aldridges, were old money—strict, traditional, obsessed with reputation. There was no way they’d let him marry a girl who was the center of a scandal. They didn’t hesitate—they sent Andrew abroad and cut him off from everything at home.

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