From Broken Husband to Three Sisters’ Zillionaire Heir

Chapter 126

While Anna admired the diamond earrings, turning them this way and that to catch the light, Noah watched her with an expression of attentive devotion. But behind that carefully maintained facade, his mind was working through calculations that had nothing to do with romance or genuine affection.

Noah Patterson was many things, but genuinely in love with Anna Morrison was not one of them.

Oh, he liked her well enough. She was attractive, well-connected, and ran a successful company that generated impressive profits.

But his interest in Anna was fundamentally transactional rather than emotional.

She represented opportunity—a pathway to the wealth, status, and comfort that Noah believed he deserved but had never quite managed to achieve on his own merits.

Noah had spent his entire adult life looking for shortcuts, for easy paths to success that didn't require the grinding hard work and self-sacrifice others seemed willing to endure.

He'd gone through multiple failed business ventures, alw