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Josh.

The clinic had been busy all week. Fall always seemed to bring a mix of colds, coughs, and the sort of fatigue people carried after the summer freedom wore off. I spent my mornings moving between exam rooms, one patient after another, each with their own story, their own worries. Some days it felt like I was holding half the town together with nothing more than a prescription pad and a calm voice.

But every evening, when I locked up the clinic and drove home, there was something waiting that made the exhaustion worth it. Stella’s laugh when she teased the kids into finishing their vegetables. Eli’s nonstop chatter about soccer practice. Emma’s questions that always seemed three steps ahead of her age. Even Patch, who now greeted me like a watchdog turned teddy bear, tail wagging like he was counting the hours until I walked back through the door.

And then there was Anna.

She had become a steady presence, not just in my life, but in the kids’ lives too.

One Thursday evening, a
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  • Divorced by my Billionaire Ex, Now He Wants Me Back!    195

    195Alex.I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the screen, the sergeant’s words repeating in my head like a relentless echo. His face was haggard, lines etched deep from years of worry, fear, and the weight of knowing he’d been forced into silence. The drive whirred quietly on my desk, the hum somehow louder than it should have been, as if the apartment itself was holding its breath. “The driver was only a pawn,” he said, voice cracking in the gaps between sentences. “The orders… they came from someone who had influence in both the police and the Marwood business network. I refused to file the original report, and… I was forced out.”I pressed pause, leaned back, and rubbed my temples. Every instinct I had screamed that the world I knew—my family, my company, my carefully structured life—was no longer intact. The Marwood empire I’d built, the business alliances, the people I trusted—they all now seemed like fragile glass under the weight of an unseen hand, and Eleanor’s death wasn’t just

  • Divorced by my Billionaire Ex, Now He Wants Me Back!    194

    194Stella.I woke to the faint hum of Alex’s car engine leaving the driveway. It was early, too early for anyone in this house to have business to conduct. The twins were still asleep, curled up under their blankets, their breaths shallow and even. I watched Alex slip into his suit jacket, grab a leather briefcase, and step out into the crisp morning air.He paused at the car, glanced back at the house, and gave me a look that he clearly meant to reassure me. “I have a meeting. Business,” he said, his voice clipped.“Business?” I repeated, not buying it for a second. His tone didn’t match the gravity of the past weeks, didn’t match the tension I could see tightening his jaw. “At this hour?”He offered nothing more, simply nodded, and drove off. But the pit in my stomach told me that wasn’t the full story. He was hiding something. Always had a reason, always had a strategy. But this time, I wanted to know. Quietly, I followed, making sure to stay just out of sight.The city blurred pa

  • Divorced by my Billionaire Ex, Now He Wants Me Back!    193

    193Alex.The envelope on the table earlier still weighed heavy on my mind, a grim punctuation mark that refused to let me sleep. Most people would have been intimidated by it—by the photograph of Harold Price crushed in his car, and the note underneath: “Stop digging, or you’re next.” Most people would have retreated, stopped asking questions, stopped following the threads. But me? That wasn’t an option. It never had been.If Harold had died because of the truth, then the truth would not die with him.I moved quietly around the house, careful not to wake Stella or the twins. My hands were steady, my mind sharp, as I opened the secure laptop Marcus had set up in the study. It was time to start connecting dots—tracing the driver, the crash, the financials, the people who had passed through the Marwood estate that fateful year.The driver. Harold had left me a stack of files, meticulous notes detailing inconsistencies in the accident report. The braking distances didn’t match the car. W

  • Divorced by my Billionaire Ex, Now He Wants Me Back!    192

    192Alex.Three days had passed since Harold Price vanished, and I could feel the weight of it pressing down on every corner of my life. It was subtle at first: I woke before sunrise, checking my phone repeatedly, hoping for a single message, a missed call, anything. Then it became more obvious—pacing in the study, tapping pens against the desk, scanning the news endlessly for any hint of Harold’s whereabouts. The twins noticed my restlessness; they asked questions I couldn’t answer without sounding paranoid. Stella noticed too, the way my jaw tightened and my fingers drummed endlessly on every surface.“You’re acting like a man possessed,” she said one evening, resting her hand lightly on my arm as I paced yet again.“I can’t just wait,” I muttered, my eyes darting to the phone lying on the table. “Harold… he knows things. Things that matter. And he hasn’t returned a single call.”She frowned, her brow knitting in that way that always made me stop, just for a second, and take stock.

  • Divorced by my Billionaire Ex, Now He Wants Me Back!    191

    191Alex.I met Harold Price in a quiet café on the outskirts of the city, the kind of place that looked like it hadn’t changed in fifty years. The neon sign flickered faintly above the door, and inside, the smell of old coffee and worn leather filled the air. He was already there, a stack of folders beside him, his gaze scanning the room like he expected trouble at any moment. And with my life lately, that didn’t feel impossible.Harold was old-school. I could tell immediately. No laptop, no tablet, not even a smartphone in sight. Just folders, a notebook, and a man who looked like he had been in law enforcement for longer than most people could even imagine. He had a slow, deliberate way of moving, like every gesture carried purpose. And the calm in his eyes—I’ll admit—it was oddly reassuring, given everything else that had been chaotic in the past months.“Alex Marwood?” he asked, his voice gravelly but measured. He stood as I approached, offering a hand. I shook it firmly. “I’ve h

  • Divorced by my Billionaire Ex, Now He Wants Me Back!    190

    190The house felt heavier than usual, the kind of weight that settles in your chest without warning. After everything—the kidnappings, Caleb, the van, the chaos of almost losing my children—the quiet should have been comforting. Instead, it pressed in, an invisible tension that made me jump at every creak in the floorboards.The twins ran past me, their laughter bouncing off the walls, chasing each other with reckless joy. I watched them for a moment, standing in the doorway of the living room, and tried to breathe in the normalcy. It felt fragile, like a soap bubble ready to pop, and I wondered if Alex felt the same tension gnawing at the edges of his mind.I did. I knew him too well. And that knowledge made me uneasy.He was distant. I noticed it at dinner the night before, the way his fork hovered over his plate as if every bite required calculation. The words he spoke to the twins were gentle, but there was a tension in his eyes, the kind that made me want to reach across the tab

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