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Chapter 135

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CARRIE

I didn’t know how long we stood there with me holding Leo, Shane staring at him as if he were witnessing a miracle he didn’t believe he deserved. The silence was thick, trembling, almost sacred. Leo blinked at him sleepily, unconcerned about the emotional earthquake happening in his living room.

Then Shane looked at me, truly looked at me with an expression I had never seen on his face before. Not even in the early days, when he loved me.

This was awe.

And grief.

And shame.

And something deeper, something wordless.

Something that hurt.

“Here,” I whispered, my voice barely a breath. “You can… hold him.”

His knees nearly buckled. I saw it, his body locking for a split second as if he couldn’t believe what I’d said.

I stepped closer, carefully shifting Leo’s sleepy weight toward him.

Shane extended his arms slowly, reverently, like he was touching something holy. When Leo’s little bottom settled onto his thigh, Shane froze.

Then he broke down again. .

Not loudly, not violently bu
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  • Billionaire's Remorse: My CEO Ex-husband Wants Me Back    Chapter 137

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