Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 459

Emmy’s heart thudded in her chest. She hadn’t expected James to be this sharp. With just a few words, he’d come dangerously close to the wildest truth of all.

How was she supposed to tell him that she and Dean had actually come back from seven years in the future?

It was insane. Even for her, someone who’d lived through it, there were moments when it all felt like an impossibly vivid nightmare.

He’d never believe her.

He’d probably just think the whole ordeal had messed with her head, that she was rambling nonsense after the kidnapping.

She took a breath, reining in her nerves, and settled on something that sounded less crazy.

“Dean and I… we once had the same dream. Exactly the same.”

“In that dream, we were married.”

“Maybe he thought if we died together, we’d go back to that dream.”

James’s arm tightened around her waist.

Even though Emmy tried to keep her tone light, James heard the weight behind her words, something too real to be just a dream, as if she’d actually lived it.

Suddenly, a wave of fear washed over him. He almost couldn’t admit it to himself, but he was scared—scared she might really leave him for that dream.

“What about me?” he asked, voice rough and low. “Was I in your dream?”

Emmy was quiet for a moment, then whispered, “I didn’t know you in that dream.”

James’s brow furrowed. “Was this before we met?”

His voice dropped, a note of pain in it. “Back then… you still loved him, didn’t you?”

Emmy didn’t answer.

She couldn’t deny it.

Before she met James, she’d loved Dean—wildly, blindly, with her whole heart.

But people move forward. Life keeps going. Everyone has moments when they’re lost, when they take the wrong path, but that doesn’t mean they’re stuck there forever.

She turned in his arms, somehow finding his gaze in the dark.

“Maybe the universe just didn’t want me to keep making the same mistakes. Maybe that’s why I had that dream with Dean.”

“But now that I’m awake, I’m not looking back anymore.”

She reached for his hand at her waist, lacing her fingers through his, holding tight.

“You’re the one I’m with now.”

“So… James, wherever life takes us, I want to walk it with you.”

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