LOGINShare
Chapter 25 - The Park
publish date:
2026-11-09 14:12:22
Latest chapter
He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant Chapter 27 - Under Evaluation
Virelle's POVI scrubbed the same patch of kitchen counter four times before I noticed I was doing it. The apartment was already clean. I had cleaned it the day before, and the day before that. Still, I stood there at six in the morning with a sponge in my fist, scouring a spot that had nothing on it, because a woman with a clipboard was coming and I had no idea what she would call dirty."Okay," I whispered to the empty room. "Think like a stranger."I walked through it with fresh eyes. The crib in the corner looked too small. The curtains looked cheap. The faint smell of fried onions drifting up from the diner suddenly seemed like proof that I was raising a baby over a grease pit. I opened a window. Then I closed it, because the street noise was worse.Lucien watched me from his bassinet with his wide dark eyes, calm as a tiny monk."You're not helping," I told him.He yawned. I wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.Desmond came by at noon with a thick folder and a face that sai
He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant Chapter 26 - Someone Else's Move
Virelle's POV"What is it?" Kael asked. He had already stood up, his hands half raised, like he was ready to catch whatever was about to fall.I turned the phone toward him. He read the message from Desmond, and I watched the color leave his face in slow stages."That's not mine," he said."Kael.""Virelle, I swear on my son's life. I did not file anything. I haven't touched that case in weeks.""Then who did?""I don't know." He pulled out his own phone, thumbed through it fast, and swore under his breath. "Vivian hasn't sent me a thing. Nothing from her office at all."Ezra was already crossing the grass. He had left his coffee and his newspaper on the bench, and he stopped beside me with his eyes on Kael, calm and hard at once."What happened?""A new filing," I said. "Not from his side.""Whose side?""That's what we need to find out."Lucien had started to fuss against my shoulder, a thin, tired sound. I bounced him without thinking. Kael stared at the small hand gripping my coll
He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant Chapter 25 - The Park
Virelle's POV I got to the park forty minutes early, which was ridiculous, because I had set the time myself. The carousel hadn't started yet. A man in a striped apron was wiping down the painted horses, and a few toddlers were already running in circles around their mothers' legs. I picked a bench near the path with a clear view of every entrance and sat down with Lucien tucked against my chest, his blanket pulled up to his chin. "Okay," I told him quietly. "Just an hour. That's all this is." Lucien blinked up at me, solemn as a tiny judge. Thirty feet behind us, Ezra dropped onto a different bench with a paper cup of coffee and a newspaper he clearly had no plan to read. He caught my eye, lifted two fingers off the cup in a small wave, and crossed his arms. He looked like a bodyguard trying very hard to look like a man on his lunch break. "Subtle," I mouthed. He shrugged. I almost smiled. At ten fifty, I saw him. Kael came through the east gate on foot, with no car idling beh
He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant Chapter 24 - Ready, Maybe
Virelle's POVThree weeks passed without a single filing, a single call, a single sign that the custody case was anything but dead weight sitting quietly in a courthouse file somewhere."I've checked the docket twice this week," Desmond told me over the phone, and I could hear the cautious relief in his voice, the kind that still refused to fully relax. "Nothing's moved. No new motions, no activity on their end at all. It genuinely looks paused, Vera. For now.""For now," I repeated."I can't promise you forever. I can promise you what's in front of us right now, and right now, it's quiet."Quiet. I didn't know what to do with quiet anymore. I'd spent so many months bracing for the next blow that stillness felt almost more unsettling than chaos.It was somewhere in that stillness that Kael's note started weighing on me differently. I'd kept it folded in my dresser drawer since the day it arrived, pulling it out some nights just to read it again, four words that refused to stop echoing
He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant Chapter 23 - Father and Son
Kael's POV"Sit down," Franklin said again, and I ignored him again, standing in the middle of his office with my hands clenched so tight my knuckles had gone white."You don't get to call this protecting the family," I said. "You've turned my son into leverage. You've turned Virelle into an obstacle to be litigated out of existence instead of a person who nearly died giving birth to your grandchild. That's not protection. That's cruelty dressed up as strategy."Franklin's face didn't change. That was the thing about my father that had always terrified me more than anything else, how still he could stay in the middle of a storm he'd started himself."Everything I built," he said, "this company, this family's name, the life you've lived your entire existence inside of without ever once having to worry where your next meal was coming from, exists because I never let sentiment slow me down. Not once. Not when it would have been easier. Not when it would have felt better in the moment to
He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant Chapter 22 - No Lawyers
Kael's POVI wrote the note myself, by hand first, three different drafts crumpled into my trash can before I typed something simple enough to not sound like it had come from a man with a legal team on retainer.I'd like to meet him properly, when you're ready. No lawyers… I almost signed my full name. Something stopped me, some instinct telling me the fewer formal markers attached to it, the more it might actually read the way I meant it.K.I had it delivered through a private courier, not Vivian's office, not anyone connected to Hartwell Group at all, paid in cash through an assistant who didn't ask questions and wouldn't think to report it to my father.Then I waited.I'd never been good at waiting. Four years of marriage had proven that in a hundred small ways I only understood now, looking back, all the times I'd pushed for an answer instead of giving Virelle room to arrive at one herself. I made myself sit with it anyway, phone face up on my desk, checking it so often that Roma
You May Also Like
The CEO's Addiction To Love
Moonlight City959.5K viewsCEO Husband's Crazy Love For His Little Wife
TSI1.5M viewsThe Wrong Woman
Ginny Not Genie1.2M viewsThe Breaking Point of Love
Cloudsearcher4.8M viewsBound To The Ruthless CEO
Lerato R.Ngobeni192 viewsHe Wanted An Open Marriage Now He Wants Me Back
Chloe Hart 12 viewsThe Outlaws' Favorite Girl
Eso24 viewsMy Crazy Life as the CEO's Wife
Mir184 views
