The Billionaire's Secret Baby(31)

Roman felt no sorrow for the way that he was speaking to her. She had earned every bit of it and more, over the years he had been married to her.



She glared at him and jumped up off of her chair. "How dare you throw me out into the street!" she shouted. "I'll take you to court and I will get everything you have! All of it! I'll tell them how beastly you've been to me and then I'll get every red cent you have and this house, and the cars and boats and everything else with it! All of it! It's all going to be mine if you try to kick me out, and then you know what, jackass? I'll kick you out onto the street!" she laughed wickedly at him.



Roman just shook his head at her. "You're really not the sharpest nail in the box, are you, Denise?" he asked calmly.



She shot daggers at him with her eyes. "What are you talking about?" she demanded.



He took a deep breath and sighed. "Do you remember that really big stack of papers that you signed before we got married?"



She looked at him blankly and he knew then that she didn't remember it. "It was a prenuptial agreement. You signed a legal document stating that you would not get anything if we ever divorced for any reason. Nothing. You get nothing at all, and you signed your name to the legal document that states that."



Denise shook her head and screamed at him at the top of her lungs.



He didn't flinch at all. "So tomorrow, you and your bitch mother get the hell out of this house and then I don't want to see you again until we go to court for the divorce. I'm done here, Denise, and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner."



She shrieked and threw a pillow at him. He only turned and walked out of the door, closing it behind him.



The next morning he left the house early and called his attorney on the way to his office. He told him he needed to get a divorce started and his attorney said that he would get the paperwork underway and call him back when it was finished.



When he walked into his office, he called both Allen and Janine in to have coffee with him.



They sat down and looked at him expectantly. It was unlike him to call them both in for a meeting unless something really big was happening.



"I want to thank you both, first for everything you've done for me; the two of you really kept this place going while I was in the hospital and out for recovery, and that loyalty means a lot to me." He handed each of them an envelope with a sizeable bonus in it.



"Second, you've both done everything you could to help me with the situations that have arisen both in my personal life and here with the business, and I want you to know how much I appreciate it. There are going to be more changes coming up in the immediate future."



They looked at him watchfully, waiting to hear what was going to happen.



"I'm getting a divorce. I contacted my attorney this morning and it will be official as soon as he can get the paperwork done. She signed a prenuptial agreement before we were married, so no matter what she says, she gets nothing." He took a deep breath and sighed.



Both Janine and Allen stared at him in shock. Neither one of them ever thought that Roman would be getting a divorce, no matter what his bitch of a wife put him through.



Roman looked at Janine. "If she calls, there's nothing I have to say to her, and nothing she needs to say to me that's important enough for her to get through this office line to me."



Janine grinned at him. "Got it!" she said happily.



He continued. "If she comes into the office, I want her arrested. She has no business in here."



Janine looked like it was Christmas morning and she had gotten everything on her list.



Roman looked at Allen who wasn't doing anything to hide his smile either.



"As far as the Senator goes, please call him immediately and tell him what's happening. Assure him that Denise will not be contacting him ever again, and if she does, she has absolutely no affiliation with us. Make that clear to him." Roman sat back in his chair and looked at them both.



"I'm really glad we are such a good team,” he said in a tired voice. He excused them and Allen left right away to go call the Senator. It wasn't thirty minutes before Allen was back in Roman's office with an ear to ear grin on his face.



Roman asked him to sit down.



Allen could not have been more pleased. "I called the Senator and told him what's going on. He was surprised at first, and he said he felt like it wasn't really his business what was going on, but when I told him that Denise would no longer be affiliated with us whatsoever, he got so excited. He wants to meet us down at the boat today with a check for the whole purchase. In fact, he asked if we could join him there for lunch."



Roman's eyebrows raised up in surprise. "Wow, you weren't waiting around for that at all! Well, let's book a lunch date with him. We have a lot of business on the books right now, but nothing at all as important or as significant as the Senator. If he wants us there for lunch, we'll be there."



Allen saluted him and ran off to make the arrangements. Roman's morning looked like it was turning around already, and he felt better, too; like he had been tethered to an old decaying dock and had finally broken free and was headed for a new horizon.



Lunchtime came quickly and Allen and Roman rode together to go meet the Senator. Edward and Carmen were waiting for them on the dock with Captain Heatherwick, and were delighted to see them.



Edward extended his hand to Roman. "I'm so sorry about your current personal situation,” he said kindly.



Roman shook his head. "I appreciate that. I should have done it a long time ago."



Edward nodded. "Well then, I hope it all works out for the best for you." Roman could see that he meant it.



"Well, you didn't come here to talk about me; let's all head over to the real reason that we are here!" Roman said with a smile, and every one of his associates smiled back at him and they all headed onto the yacht.



Janine had worked out a catered lunch, and they all sat in the dining room eating Thai food and talking about the boat and other various things. Jonathon and Edward found themselves sharing stories about old sea-faring days and entertaining the group, and their lunch stretched late into the afternoon. Janine and Allen cleared it away and Edward and Carmen presented Roman with a check for the full sum of the cost of the yacht.



The couple invited all who were aboard to come back and visit them, mentioning that they would all be asked back regularly, and everyone was pleased to hear it.



Allen and Janine went back to the office to close up for the day while Roman went to the bank to deposit the Senator's check.



He got a call when he left the bank and saw that it was from Janine.



"Are you busy?" she asked happily.



Roman thought he heard something different and strange in her voice. "No, I'm free; what's going on? Is everything alright?"



"It is now." Janine said. "'The Wife'... wait, I'm going to start calling her 'The Ex'. Anyway, while us cats were away on the yacht this afternoon, the little 'Ex Mouse' came to play. She broke into the office, and I can prove she broke in because the first thing I did this morning after our meeting was have the locks changed at the office. When we got back from our meeting this afternoon, Allen and I discovered her rifling through every single paper in your office. All of your file drawers were dumped all over the floor, from the cabinets, from your desk, and even from my desk."



Roman stopped his car and pulled over. "You're kidding! What in the world was she doing? Has she lost her mind?"



Janine began to chuckle. "No, Roman, she hasn't lost her mind. She said she was looking for her prenuptial agreement. She was going to destroy it, I think. I have no idea why she thought you'd keep something like that here. Isn't one copy in the safe at home and the other copy with your attorney?"



Roman shook his head and covered his face with his hands. "Yes, that's where they are. She doesn't know about the safe at home."



Janine laughed right out loud then. "She doesn't? This might be one of the best days of my life! Anyway, we came in and found her rifling through everything and I called the police and had her arrested."



Roman sat straight up and stared out of his windshield without seeing anything in front of him. "You what?!" he asked in surprise.



"I had her arrested for breaking and entering and destruction of private property." Janine was sounding extremely smug.



He sat there in his car in utter amazement. "You're kidding. Wow. I can't even imagine that."



Janine was thrilled. "You should have seen them cuff her and read her rights to her, and then put her in the back of the police car. I got photos on my cell phone and put it up on my Facebook page and Twitter account already."



Roman gasped and coughed simultaneously. "You're kidding! You didn't do that!" he almost sounded as if he was scolding her, but then she knew he wasn't.



"I most certainly did. There goes her ride to the top of the social climbing ladder." Janine chuckled again.



Roman shook his head in disbelief and then finally let loose a laugh and a sigh of humor. "Well, are you two going to be at the office much longer?"



"No, Allen already went home. I just started picking things up. It looks like a hurricane came through here; but don't worry, I got photos of it before I started cleaning it up. Evidence, you know. Hey Roman," Janine said, sounding slightly concerned,