The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 330

Blind in Love 

ALISTAIR POV: 

I held a private party for Vesper that day. 

It was not public. The reporters were still crazily following her around, camping outside hotels and restaurants, printing lies about the two of us. So I kept it small. A rented penthouse overlooking the city, a few close friends, good champagne with soft music to go with. 

But once things calmed down, once the world moved on to the next scandal, I planned to throw her an even grander party. The type of party that people talked about for years. Something worthy of her. 

Vesper arrived in a silver dress that caught the light like water. Her hair was pinned up, her neck bare except for a thin gold chain. She looked like something out of a dream. 

“You did all of this for me?” she asked, her voice soft and warm. 

“All of this and more,” I said. 

She smiled, and I felt that warmth spread through my chest. 

The evening passed in a blur of laughter and champagne. I watched her move through the room, watched her charm my friends, watched her light up every corner she entered. She was magnetic. She always had been. 

At some point, I realized I had forgotten something. 

The gift. 

I had bought her a bracelet, something delicate, something expensive, something that had caught my eye in a shop window weeks ago. I had left it in the car. 

“I’ll be right back,” I told her. 

She touched my arm, her fingers light against my sleeve. “Don’t be long.” 

“I won’t.” 

“Alistair. You startled me.” 

I walked toward her, my eyes on the phone in her hand. “Is that mine?” 

She looked down at it, then back at me, and her expression shifted into something casual, almost dismissive. 

“Oh, yes. I picked it up by mistake. They look so similar, don’t they?” 

They didn’t. Her phone was rose gold, smaller, with a cracked screen protector. Mine was black leather, larger, unmistakably mine. They looked nothing alike. 

But I looked at her face. At her smile. At her eyes, wide and honest and full of light and nodded my head. 

Vesper would never lie to me.