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Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 706
Nick's POV When the social worker finished the sentence about the "current court order," something primal rose in me. An instinct to grab my daughter and disappear. Martina made a soft, broken sound. Gwen went completely still, her hand resting over her stomach, like her body had absorbed the blow before her mind did. Bella was wrapped around my legs, her face buried in my pants like I was the only safe place left in the world. I ran my hand through her hair slowly, repeating "I'm here" more for myself than for her, because I needed to remember I could still stand upright. She lifted her tear-soaked face and looked at me with a clarity no child should have. "I don't want to go," she whispered. The words hit me like something solid. The man with the folder shuffled his papers. "Mr. Valemont—" "I understand," I cut in, without raising my voice. "I just need a minute." I crouched down to Bella's level. "Princess…" I said, and it took everything in me not to let the w
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 705
Gwen's POV The coffee still tasted bitter going down when I opened the first tag. The page loaded with one of those layouts that pretended to be journalism but ran on the same fuel as gossip. Certainty without proof. Assumptions dressed up as facts. I skimmed fast, scanning the damage. [COO of Kensington Valentia Involved in Child Kidnapping] I scrolled. [Sources close to the biological mother…] [Experts say cases like this often involve parental alienation…] [Gwen allegedly manipulated the child into rejecting her mother…] Manipulated? I read it again to make sure that was really the word. The narrative was neat. Gwen, billionaire, calculating, pregnant, jealous of the ex-wife. I scrolled further. [Suspiciously, amid the disappearance, the executive was the only one who 'intuitively' knew where to look…] [After the public commotion, she positioned herself as the savior…] And then the line meant to slice clean through: [It is difficult to believe that, wit
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 704
Gwen's POV The drive back to Florentia felt fast. Bella was in the backseat, clutching a pillow like something soft could convince the world to be less hard. Nick drove with both hands tight on the wheel, his entire body still locked in alert mode. I sat in the passenger seat with my phone in my hand and my mind split in two places: here, under the seatbelt… and back there, in the sentence I had murmured to the police officer. Strange men. I kept repeating it in my head, trying to figure out which drawer it belonged in. What kind of strange? What kind of men? What kind of visits? I glanced in the rearview mirror. Bella was asleep, mouth slightly open, exhausted from being brave all day. Her hair stuck to her forehead, and there was a faint smudge of dried gelato on the corner of her shirt. Nick caught my look. "She asleep?" he asked, without taking his eyes off the road. "She's asleep," I said. He exhaled slowly, like it was the first real breath he'd taken in hou
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 703
Nick's POV When we stepped out of the barrel cellar, the late afternoon air hit my face like I'd just come up from underwater. Bella was in my arms, clinging to me the way children cling when the world turns dangerous. Her face was pressed into my neck, her small hands fisted in my shirt like I was a wall. I didn't have the strength to ask her to let go. I didn't want to. In the courtyard, the lights were already on. The sun had fully dropped, leaving that last stretch of day that looks like the end of a movie. Except no movie ends with paperwork waiting in the middle of your property. The police were still there. Two men with the posture of people who do this every day. Clipboards. Phones. Authority filling the space. When they saw me, both moved at the same time. "Mr. Valemont," the older one said. His tone was neutral. Not aggressive. Not kind. "Is the child all right?" "She is," I answered. Bella lifted her face just enough to glance at them, then buried it in
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 702
"Gwen?" Her voice was small, coming from deep inside the cellar, like she was afraid even the echo might scold her. "Are you sick? You screamed." I froze for a second. It was like my brain had forgotten how the world worked. Bella was standing there, half-hidden behind a row of barrels, her backpack still on her shoulders, her face smudged with the kind of dirt you get from trying to be brave all day. Her eyes were too big, too alert for a child. "Bella!" The word tore out of me, raw with relief. I ran to her. The stone floor was cold and damp, but I didn't feel any of it. All I felt was the weight of panic cracking open when I reached her and wrapped my arms around that small body so tightly I scared myself. "Oh my God…" I whispered into her hair, like I needed to confirm she was real. "Oh my God, sweetheart…" She went stiff for half a second, then her arms locked around me with a strength that didn't match her size. I swallowed back a sob. "Everyone's been so wo
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 701
Gwen's POV When I stepped out to the outer wing of the estate, the air felt colder than it had minutes before. The sun was sinking behind the vineyards, washing everything in a glow I would normally call beautiful. Tonight it felt like mockery. Nick stood in the courtyard a few yards ahead, speaking to two police officers. I recognized his posture from a distance. Body steady. Head slightly inclined. The stance of a man answering questions while trying not to shake. He barely gestured. He handed over details like he was building a map. I paused in the doorway and watched for a second. I could cross the courtyard. Interrupt. Say what I was thinking. "I know where Bella might be." I could. But the sentence, in my head, came with an invisible warning. Might. It was just a theory. A guess built on a detail. Offering hope without certainty felt wrong. Worse than wrong. Cruel. And there was something else. That conversation with the police could take time. They woul
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 158
When Christian came back into the waiting room, I noticed right away that something had changed in his expression. He looked tense, yes—but also focused, as if he'd just heard something serious that left him both worried and resolute. "Everything okay?" I asked as soon as he sat down beside me, se
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 145
I never thought it was humanly possible to uproot an entire life in less than twenty-four hours. But there I was, staring out the window of a private jet as Solara Bay shrank beneath us, my whole world reduced to a few suitcases packed away in the cargo hold. We'd managed to pack everything in a s
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 130
The silence after Christian's words stretched endlessly, heavy and suffocating. I stared at his bruised face, my mind struggling to process what he'd just said. It wasn't an accident. Someone had tried to kill him. "How can you be sure?" I finally asked, my voice trembling despite my best effort t
Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire Chapter 136
I was still adjusting the zipper on my dress when I heard Christian grumble from the bed, his voice thick with frustration—and something that sounded a lot like barely hidden jealousy. "It's pathetic," he said, and I could feel his gaze burning into my back. "Watching my wife get ready for a date
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