The Billionaire Ex-Wife and the Beggar He Became novel Chapter 266

"Now get some rest," he said, standing to leave. "I'll go find out what's happening."

Felicity nodded. "Thank you, Xander."

Xander left the Shepherd family home and drove straight to Julian's house. He had a good impression of Winona and had learned a lot about her recently. He didn't believe she would do something so provocative. He had to find out the truth for himself.

On the way, he pulled out his phone and called her. She answered quickly. "Mr. McCarthy? Is something wrong?"

Xander cleared his throat. "I had an emergency surgery at five this morning and just got out of the operating room around ten. Then I saw…"

"You saw that I'm a trending topic now? A famous celebrity?" she finished for him, her voice tinged with gratitude. "It's okay, Mr. McCarthy. Thank you for your concern."

"Where are you now…?" he asked, though he already knew the answer.

"Julian rescued me from a mob of reporters. I'm at his place right now…" She paused, then let out a bitter laugh. "Which was also my home for six years."

"Mr. McCarthy, would you believe that I've only been gone for three months, but this place already feels so foreign to me? I don't feel like this is my home at all… Every minute I spend here… I feel suffocated. Humiliated. I just want to escape… but I can't…"

Her voice trailed off, and she laughed again, a sound devoid of humor. "There are dozens of reporters camped outside my apartment building, waiting for me…"

"Mr. McCarthy, I'm about to divorce Julian. Why can't they… why can't Felicity and her friends, that Mr. Frank, just leave me alone? Why?"

Xander understood. Winona had no idea about Felicity's breakdown. She didn't know that at this very moment, Felicity hated her with a murderous passion. In Winona's mind, Julian's house was still, in a way, her own. And Julian was still her legal husband. What was so wrong with answering her own husband's phone in her own home?

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