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Chapter 40: The Discretion Service
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Divorced By My Billionaire Ex, Pregnant With His Twins Chapter 69: The fight I owe myself
Olivia POV"Tell them yes," I say, and Renata's pen stops halfway across her notepad."I haven't even read you the offer.""Read it, then tell them yes."She sets the pen down and lifts her tablet, her eyes already narrowing. "Canale Milano wants you on Evening Hour tomorrow night. Fifteen minutes, one-on-one with Giulia Rossi, no panel, no other guests. The producer says they'll address 'the paternity story and the recent controversy.'""The controversy being Isabella.""The controversy being Isabella, and a question about the children, and probably about Damian." Renata sets the tablet on the worktable and folds her arms. "Olivia, it's been twenty-four hours since you wanted to say nothing at all.""Twenty-four hours since I let a woman in a grey blouse talk me out of my own name." I pull a pencil from the jar and snap it in half, not out of anger this time, just to feel something decisive in my hands. "I'm not doing that again. Call them."Nadia looks up from the couch, a pastry ha
Divorced By My Billionaire Ex, Pregnant With His Twins Chapter 68: The Woman Who Stopped Hiding.
Olivia POVMy phone is ringing before I've opened my eyes, and Renata's name glows across the screen like an alarm."Tell me you've seen it," she says, with no greeting at all."I saw it at six.""It's on four more sites now. A radio host in Rome read the post on air, and Isabella gave an interview to a trade podcast at seven." Her voice is raw with anger and no sleep. "She's saying she 'wishes me well' with a tone you could cut glass with.""What are people saying?""Enough that I'm going to come over there and watch you eat breakfast." She hangs up.I sit on the edge of the bed in my robe, the phone hot in my hand, and open the comments myself. The first dozen are kind. The thirteenth says I always wondered how a woman gets that much attention after a divorce. The fourteenth just says planned.My hands go cold.I know this feeling, and it isn't new. It's the feeling of standing in the Sterling dining room while Richard's guests whispered over the soup, of smiling and passing the bre
Divorced By My Billionaire Ex, Pregnant With His Twins Chapter 67: The Comeback They Tried to Ruin
Olivia POVThe Verve cover lands on the atelier's front counter at nine on Thursday morning, and Bianca sets it down so gently you'd think it might bruise."Signora," she says, her voice shaking. "It's here."I stand at the glass counter with my coffee going cold and look at myself in print, charcoal silk, the garnet at my throat, my chin lifted. The headline runs across the bottom in thick white letters: WINSLOW: THE WOMAN WHO STAYED."Turn the page," Nadia says, shoving a second copy into my hands. "Read the pull quote.""I know what I said.""Read it anyway."I turn the page, and there it is in bold: I didn't hide them. I raised them. Beneath it, in smaller type, Catherine has written that I spoke "without flinching and without bitterness, a rare thing in a woman with so much reason for both."Renata reads over my shoulder, her lips moving, and when she reaches the end she lets out a breath I think she has held since the shoot. "It's fair. It's more than fair. She didn't twist a si
Divorced By My Billionaire Ex, Pregnant With His Twins Chapter 66: The First Page of My Truth
Olivia POV"Chin down a little, Signora, and let the garnet catch the light," the photographer calls from behind his camera. "Perfect. Don't move."I hold the pose on a stool in the middle of the showroom in a charcoal silk blouse, with the Anna necklace resting against my collarbone, while four assistants adjust reflectors and a stylist crouches to fix the hem of my trousers. It's the first time since the scandal that I've let a lens look at me on purpose.The assistants move around me in soft black shoes, tilting white reflectors until the light sits flat and warm under my chin, and the garnet at my throat throws a small red spark across the silk each time I breathe.The showroom fills the ground floor of a restored limestone building in Milan's design district, with tall arched windows, pale oak floors that echo every step, and glass cases along the walls where the collection rests on dove-grey velvet. Late afternoon light comes through the arches in long gold bars, and the whole r
Divorced By My Billionaire Ex, Pregnant With His Twins Chapter 65: The Story Is Mine to Tell
Olivia POVThe room goes so still I can hear a camera strap rustle.I smile, because it's the only thing my face knows how to do, and I rest my fingers lightly on the microphone stand so no one can see them shake."Thank you for coming," I say, evenly. "Tonight is about the work, and the work is all I'll be discussing. Please enjoy the pieces. Every one of them was made by hand.""But Ms. Winslow, is it true the twins' father...""The collection is on display until six," I say, over him, and I nod to the stage manager. The music swells, and a dozen conversations rise to drown him out.I walk off with my shoulders square and my stomach sinking. Renata catches my elbow the moment I'm behind the curtain."Don't stop," she says through her teeth. "Not until we're in the back."We don't stop until the dressing room door is shut behind us. Then my legs give out, and I lower myself onto a velvet bench with the necklace still clasped at my throat."Who gave him that?" I ask, staring at the ca
Divorced By My Billionaire Ex, Pregnant With His Twins Chapter 64: One Question Away from Disaster
Olivia POVBruno Carter's courier hands me the black case at 6:40 in the morning, and my fingers shake so badly that Nadia has to hold the lid steady while I open it."Tell me it's not another flaw," I whisper."Look," Renata says, gripping the edge of the table. "Just look."The garnet sits in its hollow of gold, deeper and clearer than the first, glowing as if it were lit from inside. Bruno recut it overnight from a stone in his own vault, and the note under the velvet says only: Anna would have approved. Go.My eyes sting. "He didn't even charge me.""He charged you a visit in the spring," Nadia says, wiping her cheek with her sleeve. "I read the receipt."By two in the afternoon I haven't slept in thirty-one hours, and I stand in the changing room at the Milan fair in an emerald silk dress with my chignon pinned so tight my scalp aches. Renata fastens the necklace at my throat, and the cold weight of the stone settles against my collarbone."Breathe," she says, her voice low and u
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