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**CHAPTER 41: FACE TO FACE**
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I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire **CHAPTER 41: FACE TO FACE**
*A pale pink coat.*Wren stood very still in the middle of the bakery.The note was still in her hand. *I did. Now I'm waiting instead.* Her eyes were still wet from crying. And now, at the bottom of the hill, Isabella Moreau was walking along the ferry dock asking every fisherman in town about a girl named Willow."Upstairs," Nora said quickly. She was already moving toward the stairs. "Go, honey. Same as before. I'll get rid of her."Wren didn't move."Willow. *Go.*""No," Wren said.Nora stopped. She turned around and stared at her.Wren looked down at the note in her hand. Then at the cup of tea on the table, with the honey spoon beside it. Then out of the big front window at the small blue houses on the hill.She thought about the old Celeste's notebook. The list of rules she had written for herself in that cold house.*Never cry where anyone can see.**Never let them see you shake.*Celeste had followed those rules for three years. She had hidden in her room. She had kept her he
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire *CHAPTER 40: THE BABY HAT**
*The ferry bumped softly against the dock at Port Haven.Wren stood at the rail and looked at the little town on the hill. The blue houses. The yellow houses. The fishing boats rocking in the harbor. The seagulls screaming over the water like they were happy to see her.She had only been gone two weeks. But it felt like a year.She walked up the hill with her paper bag of yarn in her arms. The morning air was cold and clean and smelled of salt. A few people passed her on the street. An old fisherman nodded at her. A woman with a dog smiled.Nobody stared. Nobody whispered.*Just a girl in a gray coat,* she thought. *Visiting a friend. That's all.*She turned onto Shell Street. And there it was. The small blue building with the white door. The big front window, fogged up from the warmth inside.*BELL'S BAKERY.*The door flew open before she even reached it."*There* she is!"Nora came out onto the step in her flour-covered apron and threw her arms around Wren so hard that the bag of y
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire CHAPTER 39: TWO ROADS TO PORT HAVEN**
**Adrian sat very still in the dark study.*She was your father's secretary. Until the day your mother had her fired.*"When?" he asked. His own voice sounded strange to him. Far away. "When was she fired?"He heard Dean turn a page."Thirty-four years ago, sir. In the spring.""And Julian Thorne was born...""In the winter. The same year."Adrian did not say anything.He sat in his chair with the phone against his ear and the blue scarf in his lap, and he did the math. He did it slowly. Then he did it again. And a third time, the way Celeste used to check her numbers, because he did not like the answer and wanted it to be different.It was not different."Sir?" Dean said carefully. "Do you want me to keep looking?"Adrian looked out of the window. The sky over the garden was turning from black to dark gray. Somewhere a bird started to sing."No," he said. "Not yet. Thank you, Dean. Go home. Get some sleep."He ended the call.He sat there for a long time. Then he folded the scarf ca
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire *CHAPTER 38: THE THINGS HE DIDN'T SAY**
*Julian did not answer right away.He stood in the middle of the small room with the rain running down the windows behind him. His hand was still half out, reaching for a phone that was already dead. Slowly, he let it drop to his side.Wren waited.The clock on the little kitchen wall ticked. A car went past on the wet street nine floors below. Somewhere in the building, a door closed."Yes," Julian said at last. "There are things I haven't told you."Wren felt something cold settle in her stomach."Sit down," she said. "And tell me."He didn't sit. He walked to the window instead and looked out at the city. When he spoke, he did not turn around."I didn't come to Port Haven to buy a boatyard," he said.Wren said nothing."I came for you."---"The night you left the Vance house," Julian said, "I knew within six hours. I have people who watch that family. People who tell me when a car leaves at a strange time. When a maid gets fired. When a wife disappears."He turned his head a litt
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire *CHAPTER 37: LEMON OR HONEY**
*Wren did not breathe.She sat on the edge of the bed with the phone pressed against her ear. Her whole body had gone still, like a deer in the road when the headlights hit it.*Celeste?*Just one word. Her name. Not even her real name. And yet it went through her like a cold wind through an open door.She did not answer.On the other end of the line, she could hear the rain. The clock ticking on Dr. Lin's mantel. And breathing. Slow. Uneven. Like a man who was trying very hard to stay calm and could not quite do it."I know you're there," Adrian said quietly. "I can hear you."Wren closed her eyes.Across the room, Julian had not moved. He stood by the window with his phone still in his hand. He was watching her face. Waiting."You don't have to say anything," Adrian said. "Please don't hang up. Just... let me talk. Just for a minute. Then you can go. I promise."Wren's hand was shaking. She pressed her other hand over it to make it stop.She did not hang up.---"I'm at Dr. Lin's h
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire **CHAPTER 36: THE MAN IN THE DARK**
"Julian! What did it say?"He was already at the door. His hand was on the first lock. He stopped and turned back, and she saw his face in the lamplight. It was white."*Driver getting out,*" he read. "*Big man. Walking toward the house. Not the front door. The side.*"Wren's heart stopped."I'm coming with you.""No.""Julian...""No." He crossed the room in three steps and took her by the shoulders. Not hard. But firm. "Listen to me. It's two hours to Dr. Lin's house. Even if I drive like a madman, I'll be too late for whatever is happening right now. You're eleven weeks pregnant. Four days ago you were bleeding in a hospital bed. You are not getting in a car and driving through a storm toward a man in the dark."Wren stared at him.*Eleven weeks.* He knew exactly how many weeks. He had read Dr. Lin's file? No. He had *guessed*. Or he had counted, from the first day in Sam's office, when he looked at her hand and said nothing.She had thought her secret was safe from him.It never h
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