
{"id":26781,"date":"2026-02-04T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:01","slug":"the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-260\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire\u2019s Checkmate Novel Chapter 260"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 260<\/h1>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 260 \u2013<\/p>\n<h1>Love Demands Honest Hearts \u2014 Yash Malhotra 260<\/h1>\n<p>Chapter 260\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suppressed. Silent. Unable even to fight back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael had been raised with strict manners since childhood-always polite, courteous to everyone. He was nothing like her at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If it were her, whether she was right or wrong didn\u2019t matter. In an argument, she had to win. If someone made her uncomfortable, she would make a scene even if she was being unreasonable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was why Michael, when he was young, had been easy to take advantage of, easy to bully.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So when they first met, the way Michael looked at her was like he\u2019d found a savior-blind admiration in his eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael, stop pretending,\u201d Winnie said coldly, unable to push him away as she forced down the burning in her throat. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to play the nice guy in front of me. This is between Lindsay and me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay\u2019s eyes reddened. \u201cMichael, she doesn\u2019t even appreciate it. She screwed you over and still acts all high and mighty. Are you really planning to be her lapdog for the rest of your life?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet go of me!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie didn\u2019t want to be caught between the two of them. As she struggled with Michael, her body slammed backward into the sharp corner of a standing cabinet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael reacted instantly, blocking it with his arm. The impact wasn\u2019t loud, but the heavy cabinet shook violently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s brows knitted together, his face paling slightly-clearly in pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie froze. Instinctively, she turned back to check his arm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the movement, she stopped. Seizing the chance, she slipped away from his side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLindsay, there really is nothing between Michael and me\u2014\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before she could finish, Michael\u2019s voice cut in from behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur engagement is off.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay\u2019s pupils dilated in shock. Her lips trembled as she stared at him, unable to believe what she\u2019d heard. \u201d Michael, what did you just say? You\u2019re breaking off the engagement with me-for a disgraced adopted daughter?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has nothing to do with anyone else,\u201d Michael replied coldly. \u201cYou don\u2019t trust me. My past may have left you with unpleasant feelings, but that\u2019s something I can\u2019t change. And now, I no longer have any interest in getting to know you further. I\u2019ll explain everything to both our families afterward. The responsibility is entirely mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With that, Michael didn\u2019t pause for another second. He grabbed Winnie by the arm and dragged her away, ignoring her resistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay stood frozen for several seconds before suddenly turning back. \u201cMichael! You\u2019ll regret this!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 260\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael hauled Winnie out of the Starr residence. Just as he opened the car door and tried to shove her inside, she shoved him hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael, have you lost your mind?\u201d Winnie snapped. \u201cYou clearly hate me, so why are you meddling in my business? And do you even realize Lindsay will file a complaint against me? Since we\u2019re already strangers, can you stop dragging both of us down?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She turned to go back, but Michael yanked at his tie, then closed the distance in a few long strides and forcibly stuffed her into the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The seat belt clicked into place. The door locked. No matter how much Winnie struggled, it was useless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael, since when did you become like this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go back now, do you really think she\u2019ll forgive you?\u201d Michael said flatly, hands gripping the steering\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>wheel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time he had ever forced someone to do something, and his own anger was boiling inside him.\u201d Winnie, when have you ever allowed yourself to endure such humiliation? Or did things go wrong with yet another man, so now you\u2019re looking for pain again?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Michael, I hate you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His words struck her hard. Every breakup had been painful-yes, Michael had been the one who stayed with her through those nights, who\u2019d seen her at her most lost and miserable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that had never been because of those men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She never imagined that Michael had always thought of her this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did he really see her as both a hopeless romantic and a heartless player at the same time? Those two labels together-did that even make sense?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 260 Advertisement Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 260 \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-26781","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\/26781","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=26781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}