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Chapter 55: Ethan Blackwood, Conscience
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2026-10-27 00:03:16
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Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 74: The Children Ask
I drove down to San Diego on Saturday morning because I needed to see them. Not a video call. Not Clara's nightly photo updates. I needed to be in the same room as my children while the world outside that house prepared to explode.The security rotation waved me through the gate at nine-fifteen. Clara met me at the door with coffee and the look she'd been wearing since the photograph broke. The look of a mother who knew her daughter was carrying more weight than one person should carry and had decided not to ask questions until the weight became visible."They've been up since six," she said. "Elijah tried to climb the bookshelf again. Evan has been reading the same picture book for forty-five minutes. Ella told the security guard his shoes were ugly.""And Ethan?""Quiet. He's been quiet all week."That stopped me. Ethan was always watchful, the one who stood at the edge of a room and studied it before deciding whether to enter. But quiet was different from watchful. Quiet meant some
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 73: Nathan Learns the Truth
Aurora’s POVI called Nathan from my office at eight-fifteen, forty-five minutes after Damien walked out and twenty minutes after I stopped shaking long enough to hold my phone steady."Can you come to Meridian?""Now?""Now."He didn't ask why. Didn't ask what happened. Didn't fill the silence with the questions any reasonable person would ask when receiving a phone call from a woman whose voice sounded like it had been scraped clean of everything except the last syllable of composure."Twenty minutes," he said, and hung up.I sat behind my desk and waited. The folder Damien had brought was gone. He'd taken it when I'd handed it back, along with whatever fantasy he'd constructed about walking in with proof and walking out with a role in my children's lives. But the conversation was still in the room. The particular silence that follows a detonation, where the dust hasn't settled and you're still checking to see if the walls are standing.They were standing. I was standing. And the wa
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 72: The Confrontation
I brought the folder.Not because Aurora needed to see the lab report to know what was in it. She'd known for four years. But because I needed her to understand that the conversation we were about to have was not a conversation. It was a reckoning. And reckonings required evidence.The Meridian lobby was quieter at seven in the evening than it had been the last time I'd come here. Fewer people. Fewer witnesses. I'd chosen the hour deliberately. Aurora worked late. I knew her schedule because Parish's reports had taught me the rhythms of a woman I'd once known well enough to recognize by footstep and had somehow lost so completely that I'd needed a private investigator to tell me when she ate dinner at her desk.The security guard recognized me. I could see it in the way his posture changed, the slight straightening, the hand that moved toward the desk phone."Damien Blackwood. I'm here to see Ms. Bennett.""Ms. Bennett isn't expecting visitors.""She'll see me. Tell her it's about the
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 71: The Result
Damien’s POVThe call came at 11:47 a.m. on a Tuesday. I know the exact time because I was staring at the clock on my office wall when the phone rang, the way I'd been staring at it every day for a week, counting the hours between now and a result that would either confirm what I already knew or let me pretend I didn't."Mr. Blackwood. The lab report is in."David Parish's voice was steady. Professional. The voice of a man who had delivered this kind of information before and understood that the silence on the other end was not confusion. It was the sound of someone's life rearranging itself."Tell me.""Probability of paternity: 99.97 percent. The sample obtained in San Diego is a biological match. The child is yours."I didn't say anything. The clock on the wall kept moving. The second hand made its circuit. The city outside the window continued doing whatever cities did on Tuesday mornings when the world wasn't ending, which it was, quietly, in an office on the forty-second floor.
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 70: The Longing Confession
I was alone in the office at nine o'clock on a Thursday night because the federal bid revisions wouldn't write themselves and because being alone in the office meant I wasn't checking the San Diego security feed every four minutes. Clara had sent photos at dinner. Ella in her pajamas. Evan with a book. Elijah upside down on the couch. Ethan stood at the window, watching the street like a small sentry who'd decided the perimeter was his responsibility.My children were safe. My children were hidden. My children were growing up in a house with security cameras and a rotating guard team because their mother had married the wrong man and couldn't say it out loud.The elevator chimed.I didn't look up immediately. The cleaning crew came through between nine and ten, and I'd learned to keep working through the vacuum noise because stopping meant thinking and thinking meant going somewhere I couldn't afford to go.But the footsteps weren't the cleaning crew's. They were singular, deliberate,
Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets Chapter 69: Aurora Confronts the Leak
Aurora’s POVNoah set the folder on my desk at 8:47 on a Tuesday morning, and I knew from the way he placed it, carefully, with both hands, the way you set down something that might detonate, that the investigation had found something I wasn't going to like."The photographer is a freelancer named Dean Iverson. Works out of Burbank. Does celebrity stakeouts, paparazzi work, corporate surveillance when the money is right.""Who hired him?""That's where it gets complicated." Noah sat down across from me and folded his hands. "Iverson didn't get a direct commission. He got a tip. A location and a window. Someone told him exactly when you would be at Cedars-Sinai with the children, which entrance you'd use, and approximately how long the appointment would take."My stomach dropped three floors. "Someone who knew our schedule.""Someone who knew your schedule and had access to the kind of detail that suggests professional surveillance, not a lucky guess.""Who tipped him?""Iverson receiv
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