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My Billionaire Husband Doesn’t Love Me Chapter 231
Kaia’s POV The lights in the visitation room buzzed overhead—faint, relentless, like flies swarming the inside of my skull. The table was cold. My wrists were colder. The handcuffs didn’t bite anymore. They just reminded me of what I used to hold—power, wealth, control—and how fast it all evaporated. The guard told me I had a visitor. I didn’t expect him. Not him. Brian Winterfield. He strolled in like he owned the damn prison—pressed blazer, smug smile, and that air of quiet arrogance that always irritated me. He looked like he belonged in a boardroom, not in a place like this. Maybe that’s why I despised him more than anyone. He got away with everything. While I sat behind bulletproof glass and steel bars, he was out there breathing in freedom. Probably still playing protector to Isabelle like some knight in tarnished armor. “Look what the wind dragged in,” I muttered, leaning back in the chair as he took the seat across from me. “No wind,” he said, eyes glin
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Isabelle’s POV There was something surreal about sitting across from Damion again. Not in a courtroom. Not in a hallway filled with tension. Not even at a gala where we played polite for the crowd. Just us. A table between us, a half-filled glass of sparkling water in front of me, and years of silence pressing on both our shoulders. He didn’t fidget. Didn’t lean in, or try to fill the space with grand apologies or careless charm. He just waited. Like he’d finally learned that presence, not performance, was what mattered. And maybe that’s what kept me in the seat. Because the man across from me wasn’t the one who handed me divorce papers and walked away. He was older now. A little more hollow around the eyes. A little slower in his movements. But steadier. Not broken. But changed. ⸻ “I thought I hated you,” I said softly. He looked up, his eyes meeting mine instantly. “I wouldn’t have blamed you.” “I still might,” I added, not to hurt him, but beca
My Billionaire Husband Doesn’t Love Me Chapter 229
Isabelle’s POV The message sat on my phone all night. Unread by anyone else. Unanswered by me. Just… waiting. I saw it every time I walked by the kitchen counter. Every time I picked up my phone to check the time. Every time I reached for a podcast or playlist or anything that would keep me from hearing the echo of his words in my mind. Just dinner. Just time. Just us. It was the “just us” that rattled me. Because “us” was never simple. “Us” was pages of court filings. A name I had to reclaim. A boy I had to raise alone. A fire I had to walk through barefoot. And now he wanted to pull up a chair and call it dinner? ⸻ Still, I didn’t delete the message. I didn’t block him. I didn’t say no. Because beneath the ache and memory, there was still something raw inside me. Something open. Not because I trusted him. But because a part of me still wanted to. ⸻ The next day moved slowly. I kept busy—work calls, meetings, a quiet lunch with Stephanie. But e
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Isabelle’s POV The sky was a soft gray when the news broke. Muted clouds hung low over the city like a whisper. The rain hadn’t started yet, but the air smelled like it would. I stood barefoot in my living room, wrapped in a robe, coffee cooling in my hands. The television was on, but the volume was low. I didn’t need the anchors’ voices. I could read the scrolling headlines at the bottom of the screen. “BREAKING: Walter Blackwood Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison. Kaia Whitmore to Serve 24 Years Without Parole.” I blinked once. Slowly. No smile curved my lips. No breath of triumph escaped my chest. Instead, I felt something else. Stillness. Not peace. Not quite. But a kind of silence that didn’t scream anymore. The war was over. ⸻ Stephanie arrived a few minutes later. She didn’t speak right away. Just handed me a small, folded piece of paper. It was a printout—someone from the legal team had emailed her the courtroom statement made by the judge.
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Kaia’s POV They say time slows when you’re waiting for a verdict. They’re wrong. It doesn’t slow. It sharpens. Every second feels like a scalpel against your nerves—cutting, carving, exposing. And as I sat on the stiff wooden bench in the courtroom, heels planted, hands clenched in my lap, I could feel my entire life narrowing down to this moment. I didn’t look at Walter. We hadn’t spoken in weeks. Not since the video leaks. Not since the press started calling us “The Empire’s Collapse.” He tried to save himself by cutting me out of the narrative. I tried to burn everything down so no one walked away clean. In the end, it didn’t matter. Because the truth was bigger than both of us. ⸻ The courtroom was packed—press in the back, victims in the front, lawyers flanking us like exhausted soldiers who’d already lost the war. The judge read the charges again, not because he needed to, but because it was protocol. His voice was level, but there was weight behin
My Billionaire Husband Doesn’t Love Me Chapter 226
Isabelle’s POV Three days had passed since the gala. Three quiet, measured days, where I carefully stacked my schedule with everything but stillness. Meetings. School drop-offs. Calls. Planning an expansion proposal that had sat untouched for over six months. Anything to keep myself from thinking too much. Anything to keep myself from remembering the way Damion looked at me. Because even now, I could still feel it. That look of remorse, yes—but something else, too. Something deeper. Something closer to… hope. And that was the most dangerous thing of all. Hope. Hope was what made women like me return to broken places with stitched hearts and second chances. And I wasn’t ready for that. Not again. ⸻ Nathan had asked about him again. We were on the balcony Saturday morning. The sky was pale, the air still cool, and he was sitting cross-legged with his sketchpad while I sipped my tea. “Do you think Daddy’s still mad?” he asked suddenly, coloring in a rough
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