Share

Chapter 71

Author: Mary Anthony
last update publish date: 2026-03-05 21:38:31

The first week in London is the hardest week of my life. Harder than walking out on Travis. Harder than the kidnapping. Harder than anything.

Because this pain is self-inflicted.

Leo barely speaks to me. He goes to his room after school and stays there. When I ask him how his day was, he shrugs. When I try to engage him, he gives one-word answers.

"Are you angry at me?" I ask on the third night.

He looks at me with those blue eyes—Blair's eyes—and says, "You made us leave Daddy. He was crying.
Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App
Locked Chapter

Latest chapter

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 173: The Conversation

    The conversation started, as many of their significant conversations did, at dinner, on a Tuesday evening in April, not because they had planned it for Tuesday but because Tuesday was when both of them happened to be home at the same time with enough of the day's momentum behind them to think clearly.Priya had made the dal she made when she was cooking rather than feeding them, which was a distinction Jack had learned across years of living with her: she cooked the dal when she had time to do it properly and when she needed the particular focus of a task that required attention without requiring thought. Jack had come home to the smell of it and understood that she had been thinking about something.They ate, and talked about other things first — a staffing issue at Aravind, the Brazil partnership rollout that had been running behind schedule and had finally found its pace — and then Priya set down her fork and said: "I want to talk about adoption."Not should we talk about, or I've

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 172: What Priya Carries

    It happened on a Sunday, eleven weeks in, which Priya knew was within the range where this was common and which she also knew, because she had read everything there was to read about it twice over in the past eight months, was a fact that helped less than anyone who had not been through it might expect.The first one, the previous autumn, had been earlier — seven weeks — and had been, in the language the clinic used, "consistent with a chemical pregnancy," a phrase that Priya had turned over for days afterward with the specific dissatisfaction of someone whose professional life was built on the precision of language and who found this particular phrase both technically accurate and almost entirely useless as a description of what had actually happened to her.This one was different. Eleven weeks was long enough that they had let themselves, carefully, begin to believe it. Not announce it — they were still not telling anyone — but believe it privately, in the small ways: Priya had stop

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 171: Bridge at Scale

    The Bridge offices occupied two floors of a building in King's Cross that had been a Victorian warehouse before it was anything else, and Jack had kept the exposed brick and the original iron columns because he liked the reminder that things could be repurposed without losing what made them sound. He was twenty-nine and had been running the company for eleven years, since the app he had built at fifteen had become something larger than either he or anyone else had initially imagined it could be.Bridge now operated in forty countries. Three million users. The mentorship-matching algorithm that had once been the subject of a regulatory challenge was now, six years on, cited as the industry standard, the framework that other companies were measured against rather than the framework that had needed defending. The partnership programme — governments, universities, NGOs, all running their mentorship initiatives on Bridge's infrastructure — had become large enough that Jack had, the previou

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 170: The Wedding

    The wedding was in October, in a converted chapel on the grounds of a small estate outside Dublin, the kind of venue that had once been something else entirely and had been given over, with care, to becoming what it was now needed for.The Cross family arrived in full, which meant a level of logistical complexity that Lucien took on with the quiet efficiency he had brought to every family event for thirty years and that retirement had not diminished, only relocated. He had spent the week before coordinating flights and accommodations and the specific requirements of moving a family that now spanned three generations and several countries into a single Irish location for four days. Leo and Daniel arrived from London with Clara, now ten and full of opinions about Irish wildlife she had researched in advance, and Matteo, seven, who had brought a small bag of marine specimens he had collected on a previous trip and wanted to compare against whatever he found on the Irish coast. Jack and P

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 169: The Proposal

    It was a Wednesday in late August, and Emma had not eaten since breakfast.She had been in the studio since seven that morning, working on the Berlin commission, a piece that had grown out of the Tokyo work but had developed its own logic in the months since: a single suspended form, larger than anything in Shed, made to hang in the atrium of a gallery in Mitte with a ceiling height that allowed for something genuinely vertical. She had been working on the structural armature for three days and had reached the point in a piece where the work absorbed time without registering it, where the studio's windows went from morning light to afternoon light to the long gold of early evening without the transition announcing itself.Saoirse let herself in at half past six with two paper bags from the place down the street, the Thai restaurant that did the green curry Emma liked, and found Emma standing on a step stool with her arms raised into the armature, adjusting something at the top with th

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 168: Saoirse's Family

    The Murphys lived in Westmeath, two hours from Dublin by car, in a house outside a town called Mullingar that Saoirse had described as her mother's house with her father in it, which Emma had understood as a description of the domestic architecture of their marriage rather than a statement about ownership.They had met Saoirse's parents twice before: once in Dublin at a gallery opening two years ago, briefly, in the context of the event rather than the context of the relationship, which meant the introductions had been light and the expectations minimal. Once in London, even more briefly, when Saoirse's mother had been visiting a friend and they had had lunch, the three of them, which had been warm and slightly performed in the way of a first real meeting that both parties were trying to get right.This was different. This was the first weekend, invited explicitly as Saoirse's partner, staying in the house, in the category of introduction that meant: this is a person who is part of my

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 11

    I'd been working at Cross Luxury Group for three days when Travis found me.I was in my studio reviewing fabric samples with Riley when Rachel Kim appeared in the doorway, her face tight with tension."Ms. Thorne, there's a situation in the lobby. Security is asking for you."My stomach dropped. "W

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-18
  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 14

    The morning sickness hit me at six thirty, right in the middle of the design team meeting.We were reviewing fabric samples that had arrived from Lucien's Italian suppliers. Beautiful materials, exactly what I needed. Riley was explaining the production timeline while Margaret examined the weave an

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-18
  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 12

    Two weeks into production, Riley burst into my studio looking panicked."We have a problem," she said, waving a tablet. "A big problem."I looked up from the pattern I was adjusting. "What kind of problem?""Our fabric order. It's been cancelled."The pencil slipped from my hand. "Cancelled? By who

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-18
  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 10

    I arrived at Cross Luxury Group at seven the next morning, two hours before my official start time. I couldn't sleep anyway. Pregnancy insomnia combined with nervous energy had me awake at five, sketching ideas in Tessy's kitchen while she fed the twins.Rachel Kim met me in the lobby, looking surp

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-17
More Chapters
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status