Karma Doesn’t Sleep: The Revenge Queen Rises novel Chapter 157

Amelia stared at the message, lost in silence.

The words didn’t even feel familiar anymore.

She remembered—before and after they got married—Clive almost never asked her out first. Every single date had been her idea. She’d always been the one to tiptoe around his schedule, trying to make things work.

If this had been before, just getting a message like this from him would have had her grinning like a fool. She’d have dropped everything to get ready, and the happiness would have stayed with her for days.

But now? She just felt tired. She didn’t want to have lunch with him.

She was about to reply, ready to tell him she was meeting Rachel at noon, when Clive’s call came in and interrupted her.

Her fingers slipped, and she answered without thinking.

“Amelia.” Clive’s smooth, familiar voice filled her ear.

She’d picked up instantly. Of course she had. She was still waiting for his call, wasn’t she?

Clive was in his office, and just hearing her voice seemed to relax him. He didn’t give her a chance to say anything. “I already made a reservation. The food’s great at this place.”

“I—”

“Amelia, meet me downstairs in ten minutes.”

He hung up before she could get a word in.

Amelia just stared at her phone, rubbing her temples.

Whatever. He’d already ordered that three-hundred-million-dollar machine. She could just treat this lunch like a meeting with a client.

In the general manager’s office, Cameron was sprawled out on the sofa across from Clive. He was there to talk business, but mostly, he’d come to share the latest gossip he’d dug up.

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