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Chapter 38: The Children Stay Hidden
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Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 40: Damien Digs (Innocently)
Damien’s POVThree days after the summit, I was still hearing the applause.Not mine. Hers.I closed the laptop where I'd been reviewing the panel footage for the third time and leaned back in my chair. The Meridian woman, my ex-wife, had stood in front of three hundred industry leaders and taken a sledgehammer to everything Blackwood Group had built in the last decade. Politely. With data. And the room loved it.That bothered me more than the argument itself."Ross." I hit the intercom. "The competitor profile I asked for Monday. It's Thursday."The door opened before I finished the sentence, which meant the file had been sitting on his desk since Tuesday and he'd been waiting for me to stop pretending I didn't want it."Meridian Group," Ross said, setting a folder on my desk. Slim. Too slim. "Public filings, press history, corporate structure. Everything accessible without a subpoena.""Sit down."He sat.I opened the folder. The first page was a company snapshot. Meridian Group, LL
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 39: What He Needed to Say
Evan's face filled the screen, soft and worried, two years old and already reading the weather in a room five hundred miles away. My boy who feels everything. My boy who brings you a sock when you're sad because a sock is what he has and he'd give you the whole world if his hands were big enough."I'm not scared, baby," I said. "Mama's just tired.""You don't look tired. You look like when Elijah broke the lamp and you didn't want us to know you were upset."Two years old and already better at reading people than half the executives I'd met that week."I'm okay," I said. "I promise. Now go find your sister. I think she needs supervising.""Ella doesn't need supervising. Ella supervises us.""Then go let her supervise you. I love you.""I love you more.""Not possible."He smiled, the kind that fixes a cracked day, and handed the phone to Clara, who took one look at my face and said, "I'll call you back in ten minutes."I closed the video call. The column was still glowing on my phone.
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 38: The Children Stay Hidden
I flew home the morning after the rooftop.Not because of Nathan. Because of Evan's voice on the phone saying "how many sleeps" and Ella's face on the screen demanding my return with the fury of a two-year-old who does not accept that the laws of physics apply to her mother.Grace flew back with me. She'd closed the shop for three days and stayed five, and the assistant she'd left in charge had texted seventeen times with increasing urgency about a shipment of organza that had arrived in the wrong color."Go save your organza," I told her at the San Diego terminal. "I'll save the children.""You'll save the world, is what you'll do. Just make sure you come home to it."She went back to her shop. I went back to my kids. And standing in the doorway of the room above the shop with four small bodies climbing me like I was a tree, I made the rule that would govern every week from here.The children do not come to LA. The children do not appear in any photo, any interview, any public docume
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 37: A Rooftop and a Real Conversation
The summit ended at six. The complaint was still sitting in my chest like a splinter, the committee had restored the prequalification but the filing was in the system now, my name next to his name in a government record, and there was nothing I could do about it except keep moving.I was packing my bag in the hotel lobby, planning to catch the last flight home, when Nathan appeared.Not appeared. Arrived. The way he always arrives, without fanfare, without urgency, just suddenly present, the way a good thing shows up when you've stopped expecting good things."You look like a woman who's about to get on a plane and stare at the ceiling for five hours," he said."I'm going home. My kids, ""Are safe. I called your mother twenty minutes ago. The security team is solid. Oliver arrived this afternoon. Clara says Ella has reorganized the refrigerator and Elijah tried to eat a crayon." He paused. "Your children are fine. You are not."I opened my mouth to argue. I was too tired to argue."H
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 36: Business, Not Blood
I made four phone calls in twelve minutes.The first to Clara: lock the doors, don't open them for anyone, take the children to Grace's shop neighbor Mrs. Pak until I say otherwise. The second to Oliver in LA: get to San Diego now, tonight, I don't care how. The third to Noah: hire private security for the building, real security, someone who checks IDs and doesn't let strangers with fake insurance surveys walk through rooms where my children sleep. The fourth to Nathan's assistant: I need five minutes with Mr. Hale before the morning panel.Then I put the phone down, went into the hotel bathroom, and threw up.Grace held my hair. She didn't say anything. There was nothing to say. My children were five hundred miles away and someone had been inside their home while I was at a summit wearing a blazer and drinking champagne and playing CEO."You can't go back," Grace said quietly, when I was done. "If you leave now, you lose the prequalification. You lose the panel. You lose Meridian's
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 35: The One Door Left
I told Grace the next morning, in a hotel room with the curtains drawn and room service going cold between us.I had promised her tomorrow, and tomorrow was here, and there was no version of it that was going to be easy, because Grace Whitmore had given me a couch, a room, a job, a second life, a friendship that had carried me through three years and four babies, and I had repaid her by lying about the most important thing every single day of it.Not lying. Withholding. The distinction matters to me even if it won't matter to her."Grace," I said. "The kids' father."She set down her coffee. She didn't say anything. She didn't rush me or fill the silence or make it easier. She sat on the edge of the hotel bed with her hands around a cup and waited, and the waiting was the most Grace thing she could have done, because Grace has always understood that the most important conversations happen in the space you give a person to find their courage."It's Damien," I said. "Blackwood. The man
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