The Call He Never Took
A Billionaire Marriage-in-Crisis Romance of a Pregnant Wife, Ex-Wife Betrayal, Divorce, Revenge, Public Grovel & Second ChancesBy Whitney Cortez
Length8h 23m
About this audiobook
She called him eleven times from the floor of that barn. He answered none of them.
Cleo Barrett married into a billionaire dynasty with one hand always on the door — because a woman who has been leaving people since she was nine knows the trick to surviving abandonment is to do it first. For three years she wore the Barrett name like a coat that never fit.
Then, on the worst night of her life — pregnant, bleeding, alone in a dark stall at midnight — she called her husband. And Elliot didn't come. He was somewhere else, quietly cleaning up his manipulative ex-wife's latest manufactured crisis, the way he always had. In secret. Every single time.
Now Cleo is twenty-four weeks along and signing the separation papers with a steady hand. She's not surprised. She was never surprised. That's the whole tragedy of her.
But Elliot has finally listened to the voicemail she left that night — and it has wrecked him. This time, there's no cheap apology. No forgiveness handed over for free. If he wants his way back to her, he's going to pay for it, in public, in full, before she ever takes his hand again.
You'll never have to watch the betrayal. That door stays shut. What you'll feel is the missing — and the long, satisfying reckoning of a man who has to earn every cent of his way home.
One-click for the call he finally takes, and the voicemail he plays out loud.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dear Reader
1917. Done Paying Her
2Prologue: He Comes Too Late
2018. A Small Crack
31. Before The Missed Call
2119. Choosing The Cost
42. The Voicemail I Leave
2220. The Whole Truth
53. Where He Was
2321. Present, For Once
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64. What He Won't Say
2422. On The Threshold
75. Her Manufactured Crisis
2523. Pay Or Ruin
86. Leaving First
2624. Bracing For Collateral
97. I File The Papers
2725. Owned In The Open
108. Flowers Fix Nothing
2826. My Wound Says Run
119. The Father Who Left
2927. He Refuses To Leave
1210. The Story Won't Hold
3028. The Pattern I Break
1311. The Ex-Wife's Name
3129. The Call He Takes
1412. He Listens Too Late
3230. I Stop Rehearsing
1513. Woman To Woman
3331. This Time He Comes
1614. What The Voicemail Says
3432. He Plays It Aloud
1715. The Crisis Was False
35Epilogue: The Man Who Answers
1816. Something I Distrust
36About the Author
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