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Chapter Twenty Five

Penulis: GRACIE
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-05-08 17:57:00

Jake.

I didn’t expect the kid to affect me like that.

I thought I’d be waiting in the car, maybe grabbing a coffee from the vending machine, killing time until Olivia came back down with updates. But when I saw her through the glass bent over his bed, whispering something into her son’s hair something in me fractured open.

This was my first time since I met her seeing that side of her, being vulnerable and just being a mom.

Kyle, four years old, maybe five. Worn hospital gown, flushed cheeks, skinny arms, wires looped around him like someone’s desperate attempt to hold him together.

He looked just like...

No. I shoved that thought back where it came from.

But it was there now. Lodged deep in my chest like a splinter.

I stood outside the room longer than I meant to, just watching. Not intruding. Not really. But I couldn’t seem to move.

When Olivia finally came out to meet me, her face was tired more tired than I’d ever seen it but softer, too. Her eyes red and puffed from crying eve
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  • BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET BABY   Chapter Fifty Four

    OliviaI don’t remember walking back to my office. My legs carried me on instinct numb, mechanical, as though my body was trying to protect me from the shock detonating inside my brain.I was aware of the sounds around me, the hum of printers, the murmur of conversations down the hall, someone laughing in the kitchen but they all felt muted, distant, like I was trapped underwater.Jake was Kyle's dad and he had the DNA to prove it.My mind kept circling the words like vultures circling a dying animal.I shut the office door behind me and leaned against it, gripping the handle because my knees threatened to give out. My breath came in short, ragged bursts. Not even sobs just survival breaths. In. Out. In. Out. Trying to keep myself from shattering.How?How did this become my life again?How did I allow him even an inch back into my world?I had built a life without him. A fragile, quiet, carefully

  • BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET BABY   Chapter Fifty Three

    OliviaI stared at him. Then at the envelope.Then back at him again.The words he had just said didn’t fit into my brain. They bounced around, refusing to settle, refusing to make sense.I am Kyle’s dad, Olivia.No.No.That wasn’t possible. It couldn’t be possible. I could have remembered.My fingers trembled as I reached for the papers on the table. They felt heavier than paper should ever feel. I slid the top sheet out, the edges blurring as my vision tried to adjust.My eyes scanned the text, the bold letters, the percentages. 99.98% probability.I blinked. And blinked again.My heart hammered so hard it drowned out the noise of the air conditioner humming behind us.My mouth opened. A sound tried to crawl out of my throat, but nothing came. Not a single coherent word.“How did” I began, but the rest of the sentence died on my tongue.

  • BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET BABY   Chapter Fifty Two

    JakeI watched her sit down slow, careful, like she wasn’t sure whether the chair would hold her or collapse beneath her. Truthfully, I felt the same way about myself. My palms were sweating, my throat tight, my pulse hammering so hard I could hear it in my ears.I crossed the room, forcing my legs to move normally, forcing my face to stay neutral even though the truth was tearing a hole through my chest.I sat down across from her, and for the first time in my life, I felt completely unprepared.I could run billion dollar meetings with zero notice. I could make decisions that changed entire companies without blinking. I could handle crisis, death, loss, restructuring, anything the world threw at me.But this? Telling her this?Telling Olivia the single truth that could destroy her trust, her peace, her reality?This felt impossible.I exhaled slowly, rubbing my palms against my knees before speaking.“

  • BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET BABY   Chapter Fifty One

    OliviaA week later.It had been an entire week since I had last seen him, since that night I had driven home fuming, furious, humiliated, blocking his number as if that tiny act could erase him from my world.A week since he had vanished again.Jake, my boss, had not shown up to the office once in seven full days. His absence was like a shadow draped over the entire building, everyone whispered, speculated mostly because never really missed a day at work, everyone tiptoed around the uncertainty like we were all waiting for the floor to give way.But somehow, in the chaos and the rumors, I had managed to settle back into my old routine that I knew so well.Work, Kyle., Home, Repeat.Routine was my safe place, my armor. And I clung to it with everything I had left, letting the familiar rhythm muffle the sting every time someone mentioned his name.I told myself I was over it. Over him.I told myself I didn&rsq

  • BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET BABY   Chapter Fifty

    OliviaThe city lights blurred past me as I gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white, the tires humming softly on the asphalt beneath me.My blood was still boiling, a wildfire that refused to be tamed. I couldn’t believe the nerve, the audacity, the complete disregard for anyone but himself. For a man like Jake, it was all so natural, so effortless everything revolved around him, always had, always would.I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself, but it was no use. Every thought of him made the heat rise in my chest.Every memory from the past few weeks the dinners, the teasing, the way he had been so impossibly present with Kyle twisted into anger now, bitter and sharp.Of course he was back out there, probably drinking, probably charming some woman in a cocktail dress that made her look like she stepped out of a magazine.Of course he was back to living the life I had foolishly thought I could share with

  • BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET BABY   Chapter Forty Nine

    OliviaI arrived at the office earlier than usual, a mug of coffee in hand, trying to shake off the sluggishness that had settled over me like a heavy blanket.The sun hadn’t even properly risen, but the city was already buzzing outside the floor to ceiling windows. I slung my bag onto my chair and tried to focus on my laptop, but something felt off. My gut twisted into knots I couldn’t shake.When I finally reached for my phone, I saw the missed messages and emails piling up in my inbox, but one message stood out: a note from the assistant at Jake’s office."Jake will not be coming in today."The words should have felt simple, even trivial, but instead they clamped around my chest like a vice. Not coming in? That wasn’t like him.He was always the first one at the office, pacing the halls, scanning reports, commanding the place before anyone else arrived. He never missed a day.I swallowed hard, tr

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