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Leaving My Bastard Don Husband, Now He Regrets It Chapter 10
After that day, Don Fontaine disappeared from the story of New York entirely. The escape and the assault charge were added to the federal case against him, and he was sent to the deepest level of a maximum security federal facility, where he would spend the rest of his life.Mine kept opening up.In the years that followed, Dominic loved me with the kind of thoroughness and patience that I'd once believed didn't exist for people like me. When the grief of the past caught me in the night, he'd land his plane on whatever airstrip was closest, drive to wherever I was, and take me somewhere I liked for ice cream, just to sit with me.Under that care, the last of the seven years' damage finally healed. I stopped being the woman who had spent everything on a man who was poisoning her. I became someone else, a woman who ran a global foundation, who had built something real, who trusted her own judgment again.I adopted children through the foundation over those years, children with disabilit
Leaving My Bastard Don Husband, Now He Regrets It Chapter 9
My foundation made international headlines in less than a year.Former crime family princess turned global humanitarian. Jessica Morretti builds world's largest children's relief fund. Angel of the Mediterranean. Morretti heir gives thousands of orphans a second chance.Every major outlet in the world ran the story. I stopped reading the coverage after a while because the work was the point, the children were the point, and every day I had more than enough of both to fill my life completely.Through all of it, Dominic was there.He was nothing like Dorian. Where Dorian had used me as an instrument, something to manage his image and run his operations and then discard when convenient, Dominic treated my judgment with a reverence that still startled me sometimes. He was wealthier than most governments and could have controlled everything. Instead, he handed decisions to me and made himself my resource, my support structure, my partner in everything that mattered.He told a reporter once
Leaving My Bastard Don Husband, Now He Regrets It Chapter 8
Six months passed.Every property, every car, every casino, all of it sold off to cover the debts. The man who had once been untouchable was completely stripped. Don Fontaine had nothing left.To hide from the loan sharks and the rivals who wanted him dead, Dorian had taken Elena, nine months pregnant, enormous, and furious, back to the slums she'd come from. They were living in a cramped, leaking shack that smelled of rot and mold, exactly like his life.One night, during a thunderstorm, Elena gave birth on a filthy mattress in that shack. When the baby's crying filled the room and Dorian finally got a look at the child he had burned everything for, the air in the shack went still.The baby had dark skin, tight curls, and full lips. He was not Dorian's.The truth arrived like something inevitable. Elena, his beloved, his obsession, the pure and delicate creature he had given up everything to protect, had been sleeping with half the slum for years, with dealers and low-level gangsters
Leaving My Bastard Don Husband, Now He Regrets It Chapter 7
While I was gone, New York changed around Dorian Fontaine like the tide going out.Without the Morretti backing, the FBI moved fast. His two largest weapons-smuggling ports were raided and shut down in a single night, and millions in contraband were intercepted at sea. His drug distribution network collapsed without cash flow, and rivals picked through the inventory like vultures. The bosses who had once deferred to him now said his name with contempt.The banks, all of whom had received very quiet pressure from the Morretti Family, came calling at once, freezing his personal and family accounts and demanding repayment on loans he hadn't considered urgent. Every side of his operation was being dismantled simultaneously, and every piece of territory he'd built was carved up and absorbed.Meanwhile, Elena sat in the master suite of what remained of the estate and understood none of it. She'd become more demanding since moving in, not less, and the pregnancy had given her a sense of unt
Leaving My Bastard Don Husband, Now He Regrets It Chapter 6
After spending days shopping with Elena and bleeding money through every luxury store in the city, Dorian found, to his own confusion, that he felt none of the satisfaction he'd expected.In the past, any sign of distance from him would have sent me spiraling. I would have shown up at his door, called his phone, found some way to make myself useful and visible and impossible to ignore. But I'd gone completely quiet, and he told himself it was a tactic, playing hard to get, my latest move in some game I was running."You think this silence impresses me, Jessica?" he thought, with the cold amusement of a man who had never been kept waiting. She loves me too much to actually leave. A few days, a small gesture, and she'll be back.That thought was interrupted by a call from one of his white-collar operatives, a man so shaken he could barely finish his sentences."Boss. It's bad. The FBI somehow got their hands on five years of the family's complete underground arms ledgers and every money
Leaving My Bastard Don Husband, Now He Regrets It Chapter 5
I woke up in a small private clinic in Queens. A young nurse was changing out my IV bag.She saw my eyes open and something crossed her face, pity and something she was trying to hold back."You're awake." Her voice was quiet. "I'm so sorry. We did everything we could. But the baby didn't make it."The words hit like a building falling on me. I grabbed the bedsheet with both fists, and the sound that came out of my throat wasn't anything human.The nurse didn't know who I was. She sighed softly and tried to find something kind to say. "You're young. There'll be another chance. And honestly, based on your health, if you'd received treatment even a few hours earlier, the baby could have been saved. It was close."I stopped crying."What do you mean? Earlier treatment would have saved the baby?"She hesitated, then lowered her voice."Last night, Don Fontaine put out a hard order. He pulled every ambulance and medical crew in the surrounding neighborhoods and redirected them all to his pr
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