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CHAPTER 0183
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No Second Chances, Ex-husband CHAPTER 0188
LAUREN'S POV Today felt like a crushing, endless failure. The whole day had slipped through our fingers and with it any hope of finding Aria. Ethan was nowhere to be found. Aria was nowhere. I lay flat across the backseat of the car as if it were my bed, the leather cool beneath my cheek. The tears I had been holding so tightly all day began to leak out anyway, slow and relentless. There was nothing I could do to stop it. The pain sat in my chest like a weight I hadn’t felt since Elena died. That grief had been a raw, jagged thing — a bright, unbearable wound and today that old ache came back, ugly and familiar. Only now it was mixed with a fear so sharp I could hardly breathe, what if Aria wasn’t alive? The thought looped through my mind, relentless. He could have taken her somewhere and killed her, then disappeared. The silence of the last few hours did nothing to soothe that fear; if Ethan wanted to get back at me, I expected a call by now, a ransom demand, a taunt, anything. Ins
No Second Chances, Ex-husband CHAPTER 0187
ETHAN'S POV I walked downstairs toward the living room where Sophia was already seated, the afternoon light slicing through the curtains and casting long, thin shadows across the rug. The house hummed with the ordinary sounds of a home kept clean for appearances — the soft tick of a clock on the mantel, the distant murmur of a television left on in another room. I took a seat next to her with a small, satisfied sigh and let the moment sit between us, heavy and deliberate. “Today is quite a day,” I said, letting the words roll out slowly and controlled. “A good one for us. I never expected us to get that little brat so easy.” Sophia’s expression was composed but there was a glint of suppressed excitement in her eyes. She tucked a loose strand of hair behind an ear and smiled in that way she used to when she wanted me to see the cunning behind her calm. “Neither did I,” she said. “To be honest, I was considering finding another way. I didn’t think you’d go get her yourself. I thought
No Second Chances, Ex-husband CHAPTER 0186
ETHAN'S POV “Where’s my mummy?” the little voice asked, fragile and innocent, and for a moment I let the sound sit in the room. I looked down at her, at the tiny face that carried more of Lauren than any headline ever could and I felt nothing but a curious distance. She looked like Lauren, yes. The curl of her lip when she frowned, the way she blinked at the unfamiliar ceiling above her bed. But there was no mirror of me in her features, and that fact steadied something dark inside me. “Keep quiet,” I said, flatly, and guided her to the small bedroom we’d arranged for her. This was to be temporary, I reminded myself: a holding place until Sophia and I decided the next step. I set her down on the bed and started to turn away. She jumped up as if sensing an opening and sprinted from the room. I moved faster. Caught her by the arm and dragged her back, the motion abrupt enough to make her little legs wobble. “If you do that again, bad things are going to happen to you,” I said, lettin
No Second Chances, Ex-husband CHAPTER 0185
LAUREN'S POV “Was this a bad idea?” I asked, my voice steady even though my hands were doing everything but steady. I kept my focus on the road, the white lines blurring beneath the low glow of the dashboard as the car cut through the late afternoon traffic. “Was what a bad idea?” Roman asked, his gaze flicking toward me out of the corner of his eye. “This whole… decorations and throwing Aria a party,” I said, the words coming out in a rush. Saying them felt like scraping at an open wound. My fingers tightened around the steering wheel. “I feel like we shouldn’t have left her alone. I shouldn’t have left her today, even if it was for a good reason. If I’d been there… maybe he wouldn’t have gotten away with this.” Roman’s response was immediate, pragmatic. “If you’d been there, you would probably be hurt too. You and Tessa might have fought, but I know that man’s not one to back down. He’s dangerous in ways you don’t understand. I’m glad you weren’t there.” “No,” I said more harsh
No Second Chances, Ex-husband CHAPTER 0184
LAUREN'S POV Holding a glass of water and a pack of ice in my hands, I walked back into the living room, my chest feeling tight from everything that had happened. The house was too painfully quiet for a place that used to be filled with Aria’s laughter. Each step I took sounded heavy, echoing faintly off the walls as if reminding me how empty the house suddenly felt. Tessa was sitting on the couch, looking pale and exhausted. Her hair was a little disheveled, her blouse slightly wrinkled, and a thin line of dried blood trailed down the side of her temple. I swallowed the lump in my throat as I handed her the ice pack. “Here,” I said softly, lowering myself into the armchair across from her. “Hold this against your head. It’ll help.” She gave a faint nod and pressed the icepack to her injury, wincing slightly from the sting of the cold. I placed the glass of water on the table beside her and waited. I didn’t want to rush her, but every second that passed without her speaking ma
No Second Chances, Ex-husband CHAPTER 0183
LAUREN'S POV Roman finally laid Tessa down on the couch, carefully resting her head on a small pillow he grabbed from the side. I stood a few feet away, pacing back and forth, unable to sit still. My palms were clammy, my heartbeat so loud that it almost drowned out every other sound in the room. My mind was in complete chaos, every possible scenario spinning around in my head — each one worse than the last. Aria was gone. I had already tried calling 911, my voice shaking so hard that the operator had to ask me to repeat myself twice. But their response was the same useless line, they said I had to come to the station to write a report, describe what I think might have happened to her and provide a description of Aria or a photo of her, and that alone could take almost all day, what mother out there could calmly waste that much time while her five-year-old daughter was out there possibly scared, hurt, or worse. I knew what had happened. Someone had taken her. I didn’t need evidenc
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