
{"id":26566,"date":"2026-02-04T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-49\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:56:27","slug":"the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-49\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire\u2019s Checkmate Novel Chapter 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 49<\/h1>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 49 \u2013<\/p>\n<h1>Love Demands Honest Hearts \u2014 Yash Malhotra 49<\/h1>\n<p>Chapter 49\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trey froze for a moment. He rarely checked group chats, and all the old class and alumni groups were muted. Yet now, even before he finished scrolling through the messages, his phone buzzed with several pings from old classmates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Has something happened to Khloe?]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Is she okay?]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Does anyone know what\u2019s going on with her?]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His chest tightened. Panic rose, and all other thoughts vanished. He grabbed his phone, ready to call Khloe immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhloe won\u2019t be hurt,\u201d Angela said casually, her voice laced with a teasing note. \u201cShe had the time to attend a reunion but ignored you. She\u2019s just messing with you-maybe this whole thing was deliberate, waiting for you to come find her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angela\u2019s words hit harder than she realized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trey paused, the tension in his chest easing slightly. So she wasn\u2019t in danger-she was deliberately holding back, controlling the situation, testing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It made sense. It was late, and calling her now might just make him look desperate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their chat window had been silent this whole time, save for Trey\u2019s messages. He\u2019d already risked his mother\u2019s and sister\u2019s anger for her sake, even offered Fox Group\u2019s shares. Yet she refused to give in, refusing to let him step forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He clenched his jaw, frustrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what the hell happened?\u201d he muttered, putting his phone away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seeing he wasn\u2019t going to call Khloe, Angela spoke up again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeems like Khloe had a conflict with Denise at the reunion. Afterward, Denise posted a video of herself apologizing to Khloe and then left the alumni groups.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Angela had tried messaging Denise. Denise had deleted everyone except Angela, but she hadn\u2019t responded\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>to any messages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenise?\u201d Trey asked, brow furrowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t remember? She was in your class. I taught her. Smart, pretty, but\u2026 often compared to Khloe. Maybe that\u2019s why she got singled out at the reunion again,\u201d Angela explained, her tone soft, yet filled with sympathy for Denise and a subtle jab at Khloe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trey watched the video. Denise looked miserable-head down, voice barely audible. Fear and panic eclipsed any sense of injustice. It was uncharacteristic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He remembered Denise as someone bold, headstrong, not the type to bend so easily. She had even pursued him once, and after he rejected her, confronted him angrily in person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she do something to wrong Khloe, get caught, and now she\u2019s self-destructing with this video?\u201d Trey murmured, frowning thoughtfully.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angela snatched the phone back immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 49\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe hasn\u2019t contacted Khloe in two years-what could she have done? Nobody would post a video like that without being pushed. You\u2019ve been completely brainwashed by Khloe!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hearing Trey defending Khloe, Angela nearly snapped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhloe wouldn\u2019t bully anyone,\u201d he insisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trey\u2019s mind wandered to Khloe\u2019s image. She had been the campus goddess, but he hadn\u2019t kept her close simply for her looks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He recalled the first time he saw her. On a rainy day during enrollment, the registration hall swarmed with students who had no umbrellas. A fragile-looking girl was carrying a pile of thick documents when a beggar in tattered clothes accidentally bumped into her, scattering the papers into the rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People rushed past, indifferent-or worse, amused by the commotion. Some even shoved the beggar to the ground, shouting at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trey, then a member of the student council, hurried to intervene. But the first person to dash into the downpour wasn\u2019t him-it was Khloe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe had rushed into the rain and helped the girl collect the scattered, soggy papers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 49 Advertisement Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 49 \u2013 Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-billionaires-checkmate-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}