
{"id":26730,"date":"2026-02-04T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:02:29","slug":"the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-213\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire\u2019s Checkmate Novel Chapter 213"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 213<\/h1>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 213 \u2013<\/p>\n<h1>Love Demands Honest Hearts \u2014 Yash Malhotra 213<\/h1>\n<p>Chapter 213\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick\u2026\u201d Khloe felt herself completely undone. She didn\u2019t know how to respond, so she simply pressed herself closer to his face and closed her eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had never wanted to get involved in love again-but Nick was different. He was too good, too perfect, too impossibly himself. Good enough that she couldn\u2019t rein in her heart. Even if it meant being hurt in the future, she only wanted to surrender fully and without reservation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, just as the sky was lightening, Khloe was awakened by Nick\u2019s kiss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Opening her eyes, she saw him already dressed, sitting at the edge of the bed, his arm around hers. \u201cGet up. I\u2019m taking you somewhere today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d Khloe glanced at the clock on the nightstand. It was still early-only six-thirty. She tilted her head to look at him, and in the soft morning light, the usual sharpness of his features seemed somehow softened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see my mother,\u201d Nick said quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe froze. She knew his mother had passed away long ago. That loss was a wound he carried deep in his heart. For him to suddenly say he wanted to bring her here\u2026 the meaning was unmistakable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, she nodded. \u201cOkay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving, Khloe arranged a bouquet of flowers. She asked Nick about his mother\u2019s preferences, wanting to prepare something more, but he simply held her hand. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to prepare anything else. Just seeing you will make her happy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, Nick\u2019s car arrived at a quiet cemetery in the suburbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He spoke little along the way, holding her hand tightly. Khloe could feel it-the closer they got to the destination, the more he restrained his usual cold, commanding presence, and the rarer, fragile loneliness shone through. She said nothing, simply accompanying him silently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the grave, Nick placed the flowers and half-knelt, brushing away the thin layer of dust on the headstone. The cemetery was silent, the morning mist not yet fully lifted. He moved carefully, as if afraid of disturbing the eternal rest of the one beneath.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe stood a step behind him, her chest tightening with an ache she couldn\u2019t name. Here, she saw Nick not as the powerful, feared man of the business world, but as a child who had finally let his guard down, revealing his vulnerability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His mother had been frail, and she had died from complications caused by giving birth to him. Nick had never known her, yet even in childhood, he carried the heavy shadow of her death as his own burden. \u2013\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Loretta had spoken about this, she had been subtle, but Khloe had understood: the strained relationship between Nick and his father, George, stemmed from his mother\u2019s passing. George had never wanted his wife to risk her life to bear a child, and after her death, he had even tried to avoid seeing Nick. Young Nick had grown almost entirely in isolation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe could not imagine what it must have been like for a small child to process the kind of hurt and blame powerful enough to consume him. Her heart ached uncontrollably.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 213\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She looked at the tombstone. The photo depicted a gentle, beautiful woman, her features faintly reminiscent of Nick, her smile soft and warm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nick gazed at the photograph for a long time before finally speaking, his voice huskier than usual, as if whispering to his mother-or perhaps introducing her to Khloe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, I brought someone to see you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He turned slightly, holding out his hand to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe placed her hand in his cool palm. His grip was firm, as if drawing strength from her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s Khloe,\u201d he said, his voice steady now, carrying the weight of a solemn entrustment. \u201cShe\u2019s my wife.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe knelt lightly on the grass beside him, ignoring the dew that might dampen her clothes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, Mom. I\u2019m Khloe,\u201d she said softly, her voice full of sincerity. \u201cDon\u2019t worry. I\u2019ll stay by Nick\u2019s side and take good care of him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 214\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 213 Advertisement Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 213 \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-26730","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\/26730","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=26730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}