Pampered by my Billionaire CEO Husband
Chapter 81: Hot topic

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Hot topic

I snapped my head around to find myself coming face to face with none other than Blake who had this smug look plastered across his face and I couldn’t wait to wipe that smirk off his face.

His grip around my arm tightened as a smirk played on his lips as his eyes held mine captive. "Are you perhaps...afraid of me?" He questioned with a raised brow, deliberately drawing out every single syllable as if he was savouring each word.

I let out a loud scoff as I glared at him and quickly yanked my arm out of his tight grasp.

"Why would I be?" I retorted, my sharp voice slicing through the tension that was lingering in the air between us as my eyes gleamed with a mixture of determination and defiance. "You don’t scare me at all."

There was a brief pause before a deep chuckle escaped from his lips as he continued to mock and taunt me relentlessly. "Are you sure about that? Then why are you rushing off? Do you have somewhere to be?" He questioned intensely. "I swore I saw you speed walking past me while you kept your head hung low. It was almost as if you were... avoiding me," he snarled, arrogance laced his voice as he smiled.

I let out an exhale, an incredulous look was now stretched across my face as I kept my gaze steady. "I don’t have to answer to you," I replied coldly with a distant look etched onto my face. "We have been divorced for some time now and we have nothing to do with each other now, remember?" I answered curtly, my tone carrying a sharp edge to it.

He scoffed loudly too, still remaining arrogant as he spoke.

"We may have nothing to do with each other but you are still carrying our child in our stomach, you can’t escape from me, Aurelia. You can try but it’s not going to work," he sneered with a disdainful scorn, as his face got dangerously close to me and I could even feel his hot breath fanning the nape of my neck. "One day, the child is going to find out that you are hiding a secret from him, you are forbidding him from reuniting with his own biological father while you raise him with that useless man. Doesn’t that sound terrible? How are you going to explain and redeem yourself then?" He asked, his voice dropping to a hush whisper as each word that left his lips was dripping with malice.

My features hardened and I clenched my jaws tightly. Before I knew it, I raised my hand and landed a hard slap across his cheek, the sound of the impact echoing in the lobby and eliciting gasps from the people who were watching.

"Don’t you dare threaten me with our child," I warned through gritted teeth as he stared at me with a fiery blaze swirling in the depths of his icy blue eyes, it was almost as if he wanted me dead. "I don’t need your fake concern and sarcasm."

"Have you fucking lost your mind?!" He screamed loudly, so loud that his voice cracked towards the end of the sentence. His face began to turn red and he clenched his jaws tightly. "Who gave you the right to slap me?" He spat the words out of his mouth as he drew in deep breaths in an attempt to calm his racing heart.

I let the corners of my lips twitch upwards to form a small smile and my eyes twinkled with a knowing look. "Maybe I did lose my mind..." my voice trailed off as my eyes were still fixated on him. "Are you going to do something about it?" I taunted as the smirk on my face grew wider within the next second.

"You!" He stepped forward raising his arm up high but before he could even come close to me, my voice snapped him back to reality, breaking him out of impulse.

"Look around you, Blake. Everyone is watching you, people have phones out here recording. Are you sure you want to hit me?"

A scoff erupted from his throat and his lips curled upwards despite his unhappiness. His eyes darted around to scan the place, sure enough, almost every single person had their eyes on them, watching them closely with an anticipated look hanging on their faces. Some were even whispering among themselves, casting judgement looks their way as the air was filled with hushed murmurs.

"Wait... isn’t that Blake? Didn’t he used to work in our company?"

"Oh my god, you are right, it is him. I heard he had a thing with his first love and his wife divorced him."

"Serves him right!"

The words and accusations circulated in the air that crackled with tension, the two of them were a hot topic on everyone’s tongue at that moment.

Hearing all these insults hurled right at him, he couldn’t hold back his emotions or control his anger any longer. He clenched his fists tightly beside him, his knuckles were even starting to turn white. In a split second, he burst out in rage, yelling at the top of his lungs, startling everyone.

"That’s enough!" He screeched, and silence immediately fell upon everyone, so quiet that maybe one could even hear the sound of a pin falling onto the ground.

I looked over at him and I could almost see the veins at the sides of his head popping out and his eyes bulging out from his eye sockets.

"You don’t know what you are talking about!" He shouted again, anger coursing through his body as his heart was thumping loudly against his chest. "I didn’t have anything to do with anyone okay? That woman you are talking about, she was only just a friend!" He hissed, his voice trembling with rage and his eyes darkened visibly, a storm forming inside of him.

He jutted out his finger this time, pointing directly at me as he glared at me with wide eyes.

"She was just insecure and jealous the whole time! And she was the one who went out marrying another man the day after our divorce!"