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Chapter 12
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Bella's POVI had been careful about what I allowed into my mornings since I left.No Hayes Conglomerates alerts. No quiet checking of things I had told myself I was done with.And I had been disciplined about this, but the algorithm doesn't care about discipline.I was sitting at the kitchen table with my tea going cold beside me and my laptop open to a financial analysis I had been annotating since six in the morning. I had been awake since five forty-five because the twins had decided that five forty-five was an appropriate time to begin their gymnastics.The headline was small.Actress Samantha Chen and Hayes Conglomerates CEO Ethan Hayes announce engagement at star-studded industry event.I read it once and clicked on it.Then I picked up my tea, took a small sip, and set it back down.The photographs loaded slowly on my connection. The island's infrastructure was good but not fast, and for a few seconds, the images came in as grey placeholders that filled themselves in piece by
Divorced While Pregnant with the Billionaire's Twins Chapter 18
Ethan's POVI knew about this event in the abstract way you know things that are happening around you when you aren't paying close enough attention. Calls behind closed doors. A publicist appearing at the house. Conversations that stopped when I walked into the room and resumed after I left.I didn't bother asking her questions, and she also doesn't tell me about it.The venue was a rooftop space in the center of the city. She only called my number at work and told me to start coming. By the time I arrived, it was already full.Industry people. Press. The particular mixture of cameras and smiles.Samantha was at the center of it in a red dress. She moved through the room the way she always moved through rooms—with the ease of a woman who had learned very early that attention was a resource and she knew how to manage it.When she saw me arrive, her smile widened.She crossed the room and reached for my hand, and I gave it to her.The speeches started at nine.Her publicist spoke first—
Divorced While Pregnant with the Billionaire's Twins chapter 17
Samantha's POVI had been planning this announcement for three weeks.The party was in ten days, which was fast approaching but not impossible when you knew the right people. The venue, the lighting, the guest list, the dress—when there is money, things move quickly.It started the night of the family dinner.I had sat at that table and watched Mr. Hayes look at his son with grief in his eyes, and I had understood something that I don't think Ethan understood yet—that the old man's patience was not unlimited, and that the company, which Ethan had always treated as a birthright so secure it required no maintenance, was quietly becoming conditional on Bella.I had driven home from that dinner with my hands perfectly steady on the wheel and my mind moving fast, the way it always did when I identified a problem that needed solving before it identified me.The problem was simple.Ethan was slipping.I had torn the photograph because I needed him to stop looking at it.I called the publicis
Divorced While Pregnant with the Billionaire's Twins chapter 16
Williams' POVMy father arrived on a Thursday.Clara had flagged the flight details two days earlier, forwarded by his assistant abroad.I didn't go to the airport.I told myself I was busy with work. The kind of thing a man running a company was supposed to prioritize over airport arrivals.I was in my study when I heard the car pull into the drive.Samantha had organized dinner.I came downstairs at seven to find the table set with the kind of careful attention that communicates effort — the centerpiece she had bought last week and placed with the authority of someone furnishing a space that belonged to them. She was in the kitchen speaking quietly to the cook.She looked up when I walked in."He's in the sitting room," she said. "He's been there for an hour."I said nothing."Ethan." She set down the wooden spoon. "Whatever this dinner is, I need you to tell me how to handle it.""There's nothing to handle," I said. "It's just a dinner."She looked at me for a moment with an expres
Divorced While Pregnant with the Billionaire's Twins Chapter 15
Williams' POVI missed the meeting by thirty minutes again.I knew it before Henderson said anything. I had known it since the third week of the quarter, when I had sat at my desk with the preliminary reports open on my screen and found myself reading the same paragraph four times without retaining a single word of it.Henderson was the oldest board member. Seventy-one, silver-haired, the kind of man who had attended enough of these meetings to understand that how you respond to a number matters.He looked at the figures on the projected slide for a long moment. Then he looked at me.Across the table, Marsh cleared his throat."The overseas expansion projections seem optimistic given current—""They're accurate," I said, cutting him off.Marsh looked at his copy of the report. Then at me.His pen moved to the margin of his page and made a small mark.The meeting ended at half past twelve.The board filed out with the particular controlled energy of people who had things to say to each
Divorced While Pregnant with the Billionaire's Twins Chapter 14
Bella's POVThe apartment was small.Deliberately so.I had chosen it that way—two rooms, a narrow kitchen, a window that looked out onto a street busy enough to feel safe. The kind of place that exists in the middle of a city without being part of it.I had been here four months.Four months of learning how to sleep on a mattress that was not the Hayes family's imported Italian linen. Four months of grocery shopping without a household account and cooking without a staff.Four months of being nobody's wife.It felt like the first real air I had breathed in three years.I was at the table when the discomfort started.The particular weighted fullness that had become my constant companion over the past weeks, the feeling of carrying something enormous in a body that was quietly rearranging itself to accommodate what it had been given.I pressed both palms against the sides of my stomach and breathed through it.The doctor here had been thorough. Careful. She had looked at the scans with
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