
{"id":26782,"date":"2026-02-04T14:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-261\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:09:03","slug":"the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-261\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire\u2019s Checkmate Novel Chapter 261"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 261<\/h1>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 261 \u2013<\/p>\n<h1>Love Demands Honest Hearts \u2014 Yash Malhotra 261<\/h1>\n<p>Chapter 261\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael didn\u2019t respond to Winnie. \u201cI\u2019ll drive you home. I\u2019ll explain today\u2019s events to Mr. Olson as well. You won\u2019t get any complaints.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hearing this, Winnie\u2019s expression softened just a little.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The drive was silent. Winnie kept glancing at Michael as he drove, noticing how he occasionally rubbed his arm. She remembered the way he had seemed hurt earlier. The words hovered on her tongue all the way, yet she didn\u2019t say a thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forget it. It wasn\u2019t her business. A small injury wouldn\u2019t kill him. Besides, she wasn\u2019t exactly a good person; it was normal to have no sympathy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But even though she didn\u2019t speak, Michael drove to a nearby 24-hour pharmacy. Seeing him get out made Winnie\u2019s chest tighten. Had the injury been that bad?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When he returned, she immediately turned her head away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie froze. The bottle in his hand wasn\u2019t a painkiller or bandages-it was a hangover remedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fine,\u201d she said, her voice softening despite herself, her chest tightening. He was concerned about her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though you already threw up, it\u2019s better to be safe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie glanced at his shirt, ruined from her earlier mishap. She didn\u2019t protest. Quietly, she thanked him and took the medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll replace your shirt. If Lindsay needs anything\u2026\u201d she began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t hear me? I\u2019ve already broken off the engagement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s voice was cold, his expression unreadable. He didn\u2019t even look at her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie took a deep breath. \u201cI can\u2019t be blamed this time. Lindsay seems ruthless. You won\u2019t be able to control her. Better to give up early.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need you worrying about who I should be with,\u201d Michael replied flatly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, whatever,\u201d Winnie muttered. She had only herself to blame for overstepping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When they reached the Olson family villa, Michael didn\u2019t drive to the door. Instead, he stopped the car and turned off the engine. Winnie tensed slightly. He obviously had something to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you working at the store?\u201d Michael asked directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2026 Weren\u2019t you aware?\u201d she replied. \u201cThat\u2019s why you brought your fianc\u00e9e today\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it because Veronica bullied you? Or did you get into trouble again and get punished?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael turned to look at her, his gaze deep, his tone stripped of the earlier coldness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 261\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By custom, she should have said, \u201cNone of your business.\u201d But after so long, he had finally opened a conversation, breaking the ice. She felt a faint pang of reluctance at the thought of losing this moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t pass the yearly assessments. I\u2019m already twenty-four. If I don\u2019t leave the Olson family soon, insane.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll go\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie tilted her head, her voice calm despite the weight of her words. She didn\u2019t want to seem incompetent, yet the truth was undeniable\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael knew some of her situation. All of her mother\u2019s assets were in the Olson family\u2019s hands. Winnie had no personal wealth. Her mother\u2019s conditions for inheritance had been strict because of matters concerning\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie\u2019s father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Winnie came of age, the foundation set up by her mother had evaluated her every year. Any serious misbehavior would prevent her from leaving the Olson family\u2019s control. Otherwise, it would be seen as a voluntary forfeiture of her inheritance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnie had never gotten along with Veronica and had always wanted to leave the family. Michael knew this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Olson family\u2019s control seemed strict, but in reality, it was a mix of indulgence and suppression. That\u2019s why Winnie had grown into the scandal-prone heiress of the high society in Goldmont City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even if she did nothing, staying in the Olson family until thirty without meeting inheritance conditions would cost her the right to the estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What exactly those inheritance conditions were, Michael didn\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COIN BUNDLE: get more free bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u65e5\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 261 Advertisement Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 261 \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-26782","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\/26782","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=26782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}