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CHAPTER 6: A Gift and a Trap
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Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 36: Terms and Conditions
Ana's POV The next morning, back at the penthouse, I sat at Caspian's kitchen island with a cup of coffee between my hands and the strange realization that I had never once told him what I needed.If I was coming back from Emily's apartment and pretending last night hadn't happened, things had to change.He came in already dressed, and he saw my face, and he did the thing he does. He stopped. And he gave me all of it."You have a list," he said."I have a list.""Then say it." He leaned against the counter across from me. "All of it. I'd rather have the whole knife than find it later.""No special treatment at work," I said. "None. If I get a project, it's because I'm right for it, not because you want me close. If I don't get one, I don't get one. I need to be able to fail, Caspian. You've made a world where I can't, and a person who can't fail can't trust anything they win.""That's going to be hard for me.""I know it is. That's why it's first.""Go on.""No surprise decisions. Y
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 35: The First Time He Loses
Caspian's POV I was sitting in a parked car outside a building I had no right to know the address of.Thirty-seven calls. Thirty-seven times I let it ring until it died, and after the last one I put the phone face down on the passenger seat and just drove, and the car brought me here.And then I didn't get out.This is what waiting feels like. I had never once done it. In twenty-seven years I have never stood outside a door hoping someone would open it. I have owned the doors. I have owned the buildings the doors were set in. But tonight I was sitting in the dark on a residential street and looked up at a lit third-floor window and had no idea what to do with my hands.I was seven when my mother packed.I remember standing in a hallway looking at her folding things quickly and badly, the way Anastasia had folded things tonight, and I remember understanding that there was a version of the next hour where she walked out and I stayed. I remember not asking. Even then I knew that aski
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 34: Emily's Warning
Ana's POV Emily opened the door in her pajamas at eleven at night, took one look at me, and didn't ask a single question.She just stepped back and let me in."Bag on the couch," she said. "Kettle's going. Sit."I sat. I had held myself together in the car, chin up, back straight, the way I hold myself together through everything. It lasted about four seconds inside her apartment. Then the whole thing came apart and I put my face in my hands and cried in a way I hadn't cried since a doorway in a red dress.She sat down beside me and rubbed my back and let me do it."Okay," she said, when it slowed. "Start anywhere."So I told her.All of it. The HR office and the girl who talked too much. Same-day approval. Straight to his desk, past three layers. Four finalists with more years than me, rejected inside twenty-four hours."He didn't even deny it," I whispered. "I gave him every chance. He just said yes. Yes, yes, yes, like I was asking about the weather.""Did he at least apologize?"
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 33: The Fight
Caspian's POV I didn't answer her question, because honestly, there was no answer that wouldn't end this."You're not answering," she said after a while."I'm… choosing my words.""That's the same as answering." Her voice had gone thin. "You made the job. Didn't you?""I made an opportunity available to a person who could use it." I kept my voice level. "That isn't the same thing as making it up.""Caspian.""You want an apology." I set my hands flat on the counter. "I don't have one. I'm not sorry. I have gone over it a hundred times and I can't find the part where I did wrong.""You can't find the part?" she repeated."No.""You rearranged my entire life without telling me.""I removed obstacles." I heard how it sounded. But I said it anyway, because it was true. "Four candidates stood between you and a room I needed you in. So I moved them. They found other jobs, Anastasia, they were fine. And then you walked into that conference room and tore my market apart better than anyone I
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 32: The Perfect Candidate
Ana's POV It came out by accident, the way the worst things do.I was in the HR office signing paperwork for the launch bonuses, and the woman helping me, new, young, still eager to be helpful, was pulling up my file, and she said it without thinking."You had the fastest approval I've ever seen, you know.""Sorry?""Your hire." She smiled, still typing. "It's kind of famous in here. Mr. Strauss signed off on it personally. He never does that. Approvals go through three layers before they ever reach him, if they reach him at all." She laughed a little. "Yours skipped all of it. Straight to his desk, approved same day. We were all talking about it."Something in my chest went very still."He approved it personally?" I asked. "The same day?""Mm-hm." She was still reading the screen, oblivious. "Honestly it's why people, um..." She caught herself, finally, and the colour rose in her face. "I mean. It's just unusual. That's all I meant."I should have let it go. But trust me I didn't le
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 31: Cracks in Another Home
Sebastian's POV I had listened to that phone call a hundred times in my head, and it got worse every time.“He believes every word. He has no idea. Why would he? He thinks the world turns for him.”I sat alone in my study with the door shut and the house dark around me, and I turned it over and over, looking for the innocent version, the reading where it meant nothing.But there wasn't one. I had built my whole career on knowing when someone was lying. I just hadn't wanted to point that gift at the woman I had burned my marriage down for.I got out the calendar and did the thing I had been avoiding for weeks.I counted.The night Nicole first told me she was pregnant. The night she first pressed my hand to her stomach and smiled. I lined it up against the due date, the real one, the one before it started moving, and I counted backward the way any man can count, and the number didn't work.It didn't work at all.Sitting there in the dark with the pen in my hand, I felt something col
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 5: Fifty Thousand Reasons
Ana's POV I had been at my desk twenty minutes when HR walked in and shut the door behind her."Settling in?" she asked, but her eyes were doing something her smile wasn't."It's going as planned." I kept my voice light. "The launch timeline holds. I'll have the full rollout deck ready by Friday."
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 4: The Man Who Never Forgets
Caspian’s POV I knew her the second I walked through that door.I had told myself I wouldn't. I had told myself a man doesn't remember one face out of a crowded club, one night out of a hundred forgettable nights, one woman he left before the sun came up. I had told myself a lot of things on the f
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 3: The Stranger and the Cash
Ana's POV I looked at the floor he wanted me to kneel on.Then I looked at my husband, sitting there so sure of himself, and I almost laughed."No," I said.His smile slipped. "Ana.""I will never kneel to her." My voice was steady now. The shaking was gone, burned clean out of me. "Keep your sign
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother CHAPTER 1: The Good News
Ana's POV I had three weeks, one red dress, and one last plan to save my marriage. And I used all of it on a man who was already inside another woman.But I didn't know that yet.I checked my reflection one last time and smoothed the dress down over my hips. Deep red. The one Sebastian used to lov
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