
{"id":26938,"date":"2026-02-04T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:16:27","slug":"the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-417\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire\u2019s Checkmate Novel Chapter 417"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 417<\/h1>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 417 \u2013<\/p>\n<h1>Love Demands Honest Hearts \u2014 Yash Malhotra 417<\/h1>\n<p>Chapter 417\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lenny really couldn\u2019t keep up the pretense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nick\u2019s body hadn\u2019t fully recovered. Yet, he\u2019d called him in the middle of the night. Lenny had assumed Nick wanted to return to the Hunt family estate. He hadn\u2019t expected his boss to go to an apartment near the office instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Nick\u2019s convenience, two standalone apartments had been kept near the company for him-to rest or receive important guests at any time. The decor was simple, almost like the front lobby of the company, but daily cleaning kept everything immaculate, comfortable, and orderly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the way there, Lenny had tried to ask questions, cautiously probing, but every attempt died before it even began. Nick had only instructed him to prepare some things-he would stay here for the next few days. No going home, no going to Khloe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The whole ride, Nick kept his eyes closed, radiating a tense, suffocating aura.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until Khloe messaged to check on him that Lenny could confirm his suspicions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d had a fight, then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, even newlyweds as sweet as Nick and Khloe weren\u2019t immune to arguments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once Nick settled in, he dismissed Lenny, reminding him not to say a single word about anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lenny understood perfectly-this was information Khloe must not know. And a marital quarrel was sure to worry the elders; the grandparents could never find out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, when Khloe asked, Lenny carefully played along. He even emphasized that Nick wasn\u2019t feeling well, hoping Khloe would reach out to him herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the way she questioned him so intently made Lenny suspect it wasn\u2019t that simple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, couple fights were normal. No one divorces over one spat, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe hadn\u2019t slept well all night. She had planned to take the day off, but by noon, she still went to the office. Several projects had meetings scheduled anyway, so she decided to sit in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But by the time the last meeting ended, the day had slipped by, and Khloe realized she hadn\u2019t absorbed anything meaningful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Charlotte came over with the meeting reports, Khloe looked at the numbers and data, feeling completely unfamiliar with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKhloe, I thought you were on leave for a few days. Aren\u2019t you supposed to stay home today?\u201d Charlotte asked,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>curious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaven\u2019t finished organizing some things,\u201d Khloe replied quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was only then that Charlotte noticed how worn she looked\u2013the dark circles under her eyes were pronounced. And her hand\u2026 it was wrapped tightly in bandages. No wonder she had kept her sleeve over it during the meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>112\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 417\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this, Charlotte couldn\u2019t help but ask in concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe explained she had accidentally cut herself while cooking the day before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMust have made Nick worry sick. But anyway, you don\u2019t need to cook at home. Khloe, you really shouldn\u2019t be doing these things anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To Charlotte, Khloe was someone to admire. Her hands were too delicate, too beautiful to be used for chopping and stirring even if it was for Nick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright,\u201d Khloe said, her lips curling slightly, though the smile was forced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you head home and rest now? I can pull out the key points from today\u2019s minutes and send them to you anytime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks, Charlotte. I\u2019ll leave a bit later.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She did want to rest-but with Nick gone, the person she wanted to be with wasn\u2019t around. Staying home would only feel like torture. Coming to the office was a way to distract herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seeing that Khloe wanted to be left alone, Charlotte swallowed her worry, reminded her to prioritize her health, and left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Silence settled over the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khloe slumped over her desk, defeated. She pulled out her phone and stared at the black screen, sulking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 418\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 417 Advertisement Read Billionaire&#039;s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 417 \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-26938","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\/26938","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=26938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}