Divorced by the Billionaire, Pregnant with His Heir
Elena Marlowe spent three years trying to win the love of her cold and powerful husband, billionaire CEO Adrian Blackwood. But on the day he hands her divorce papers and admits he loves another woman, Elena finally gives up.
She signs the papers, walks away, and disappears.
What Adrian doesn't know is that Elena is pregnant with his child.
Five years later, Elena returns to the city as a successful businesswoman—with her four-year-old son, Lucas.
The moment Adrian sees the boy, he notices the familiar eyes, the unmistakable features, and a resemblance he cannot ignore.
A DNA test confirms the truth.
Lucas is his son.
Adrian wants his heir. But more than that, he wants the woman he once pushed away.
Elena refuses to become his wife again.
Yet as Adrian fights to earn back her trust, a dangerous secret begins to surface. Their divorce was never simply a matter of falling out of love.
Someone deliberately destroyed their marriage.
And the person behind it is closer to Adrian than Elena ever imagined.
Can Adrian win back the woman he lost?
Or will the secrets of their past destroy their second chance forever?
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Chapter: Chapter 120 — EnoughChapter 120 — EnoughMorning arrived quietly.No alarm.No system message.No impossible light.Just pale sunlight creeping across the bedroom wall.Lucas woke in the chair beside Elena’s bed with his neck aching and one hand still wrapped around hers.For a few seconds, he did not understand what had changed.Then he noticed the silence.Not the room.Her.He looked at Elena.Her face was peaceful.Eyes closed.No tension around her mouth.No effort in her chest.“Mom?”Nothing.Lucas squeezed her hand.“Mom?”Still nothing.He already knew.That did not stop him from asking again.“Mom.”The word broke.He leaned forward and pressed his forehead against her hand.There was no Genesis.No archive.No possibility system waiting to catch the moment.No retained consciousness standing nearby.No future Elena arriving to explain death.Only Lucas.And his mother.And the fact that one of them was gone.He did not call anyone immediately.For ten minutes, maybe fifteen, he sat with her.H
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Chapter: Chapter 119 — The Last Night at Blackwood HouseChapter 119 — The Last Night at Blackwood HouseThe envelope arrived the next morning.Lucas placed it on the kitchen table.Elena recognized the handwriting on the front.RETURN TO ELENA BLACKWOOD.She frowned.“What did I lose?”Lucas handed it to her.“You tell me.”Elena opened the envelope and found the folded paper.She read the sentence.The greatest mistake we made was believing survival and continuation were the same thing.She remembered writing it.Barely.The library.The exhibit.The sunlight.Her exhaustion.Lucas leaned against the table.“They could have kept it.”“Yes.”“They didn't.”Elena smiled.“Good librarian.”“What are you going to do with it?”Elena looked toward the fireplace.Lucas immediately raised a hand.“Before you burn anything, remember we have smoke detectors.”“I wasn't going to burn it.”“You looked like you were.”“I was thinking.”“Historically dangerous.”She laughed.Then folded the paper and put it in her pocket.“For now, I’ll keep it.”“Why?
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Chapter: Chapter 118 — The Things We Choose to Leave BehindChapter 118 — The Things We Choose to Leave BehindThe phone stopped ringing.Nobody called again.Elena remained in her chair, Lucas beside her, their hands loosely joined.Outside, children continued playing.One shouted.Another laughed.A bicycle crashed into a hedge.No universe trembled.No system awakened.Elena smiled.“What?” Lucas asked.“Nothing.”“You've been saying that a lot lately.”“I’m beginning to appreciate nothing.”Lucas laughed.“You spent most of your life terrified of it.”“Yes.”Silence had once meant a system was preparing something.An unanswered message meant danger.An empty archive meant someone had been erased.Now silence could simply mean nobody needed anything.Elena liked that.The following morning, Justice Reed died.Elena received the news from Anna.Natural causes.Ninety-three years old.At home.Her family had been with her.Elena sat quietly after the call.Justice Amara Reed had once looked across a courtroom and told the Blackwoods something
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Chapter: Chapter 117 — The Child Who Owed Nothing to the FutureChapter 117 — The Child Who Owed Nothing to the FutureLucas did not become a father immediately.Elena was grateful.Not because she doubted him.Because for several months after their conversation beneath the old tree, Lucas approached parenthood the same way he approached engineering problems.Research.Lists.Schedules.Financial projections.School districts.Medical questions.Housing.Legal frameworks.Elena watched silently until one afternoon he arrived at Blackwood House carrying a folder almost as thick as something Root would have produced.She stared at it.“No.”Lucas frowned.“You haven't even seen it.”“I raised you badly.”“What?”“You made a parenthood dossier.”“It’s preparation.”“It has tabs.”“Tabs are useful.”“Root infected you.”Lucas looked offended.“Root was efficient.”Elena pointed at the folder.“How many pages?”“Eighty-seven.”She closed her eyes.“Your future self also liked eighty-seven pages.”Lucas froze.Then slowly lowered the folder.“That was u
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Chapter: Chapter 116 — What Remains After the EndingChapter 116 — What Remains After the EndingElena opened her eyes.Lucas was still holding her hand.For one confused second, she thought nothing had happened.Then she heard the monitor.Steady.Ordinary.She was still alive.Lucas leaned forward.“Mom?”Elena blinked.“You look disappointed.”He laughed through tears.“You fell asleep.”“Oh.”“For eleven minutes.”“That dramatic?”“You stopped answering me.”“I’m eighty-six. I’m allowed to nap.”Lucas wiped his face.“You could warn me.”“No countdowns.”He laughed again.Then the door opened.A nurse entered, checked the monitor, adjusted Elena’s blanket and smiled.“Everything looks stable.”Stable.A word that had once meant universes surviving.Now it meant an old woman had decent blood pressure.Elena preferred this version.Three days later, she went home.Against Lucas’s objections.Against her doctor’s recommendation that she remain another night.Not against medical advice.Just at the earliest medically acceptable moment.
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Chapter: Chapter 115 — The Life After GenesisChapter 115 — The Life After GenesisGenesis did not look dangerous anymore.That was almost insulting.The chamber beneath Blackwood House was quiet.No alarms.No collapsing walls.No white fields.No voices claiming to be gods.Just machines.Old machines.Some older than Lucas.Some older than Elena.Some built by people who had spent their lives believing humanity would eventually need something larger than itself to survive.Root stood beside the primary console.Jonathan was on her left.May on her right.Charles had been permitted to attend under supervision.Edward was absent.His trial had begun that morning.Adrian stood beside Elena.Lucas stood between them.Elena looked down.“You don't have to be here.”“I know.”“You can go upstairs.”“I know.”“You’re nine.”“I know.”She sighed.Lucas smiled.“Also, I brought snacks.”He lifted a bag.Adrian whispered:“Best-prepared Blackwood.”Root looked offended.“I prepared seventeen contingency documents.”Lucas held up the sna
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