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Chapter 46: The Heartbeat
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Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 48: The First Lie
Sebastian's POV Nicole had become too… odd.For weeks, every answer she gave sounded rehearsed, every smile too perfect, every explanation polished before it ever reached me. I used to think love made people easier to understand. But now I was starting to realize that love was the easiest place to hide a lie.So I threw myself into work because work made sense. Numbers held still. Contracts said what they said. My own house had stopped being a place I understood, so I stopped trying to understand it and buried myself in things I could still control.The investigator's report came in on a Tuesday."Read it slowly," he told me on the phone. "There's a lot in there that looks like nothing until you look twice."The dates were wrong. Not by a little.Nicole had told me the pregnancy was confirmed in one week. The clinic's own intake log showed a different week entirely, ten days off, enough to matter, enough to change everything if I ran the math the way I'd been running it for weeks.
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 47: The Secret He Was Never Meant To See
Caspian's POV The picture slid out from under the papers into my hand.Gray. Blurred. A small curved shape at the center, circled in white by someone's neat pen.I didn't understand it at first. My mind just refused to understand it, the way you refuse to understand a number that's too large to be real. But then it landed, all at once, the whole weight of it dropping through me like a stone through water.‘A child? She's pregnant?’At that moment I sat down on the edge of the bed because my legs didn't feel entirely mine anymore.I don't remember wanting to feel anything. Feeling has never come first for me. But it came first now, quickly and heavy, before I could get a wall up in front of it.‘A child? Mine?’I thought of a locked study door and a voice on the other end of a phone line telling me, again, patiently, the way you explain a truth to a man who refuses to learn it. “None. That hasn't moved. It isn't going to move.”Six years of none.And here, in my hand, was a picture
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 46: The Heartbeat
Ana's POV The tiny heartbeat filled the quiet examination room, steady and impossibly alive. For weeks, I had been terrified of seeing those two pink lines. But now, as I listened to the rhythm of the little life growing inside me, fear and happiness overwhelmed me so violently that I couldn't tell which one hurt more."There," the doctor said, turning the monitor towards me. "Strong heartbeat. Right where it should be."I couldn't say a word. I just stared at the small flickering shape on the screen and cried, openly, no dignity left to hold onto."The baby looks healthy," the doctor continued, wiping the gel from my stomach. "But you're still early. I want to be honest with you, Miss Voss. This is a delicate stage. Stress, exhaustion, emotional strain, all of it raises your risk. I'd like you to protect yourself from as much of that as you can."I almost laughed. Protect myself from stress? My whole life for the past two months had been built out of it."I'll try," I said instead.
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 45: Almost
Ana's POV He wouldn't let me take a cab."I'm fine," I said. "It was a dizzy spell. You have a company to run.""The company survived one afternoon without me before." He guided me into the car, his hand at the small of my back. "It can survive this one too."The drive home was quiet.Not the tense quiet of the fight weeks ago. A different quiet. His hand found mine over the console and stayed there the whole way, his thumb tracing slow circles over my knuckles, and in that moment I thought, “tonight. I tell him tonight. No more hiding.”°°°°°°°°°°He cooked, badly, on purpose, because he knew it made me laugh."You're doing the eggs again," I said, leaning in the kitchen doorway. "After the last time.""I've improved.""You've made more smoke.""That's just enthusiasm." He caught me around the waist when I came close enough, pulled me against him, flour somehow on his hands though there was no flour in eggs. "Dance with me.""There's no music.""There doesn't need to be." He took
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 44: Saving Strauss
Ana's POV I buried myself in work, because thinking about the baby hurt.It hurt in the good way and the bad way at once. So when the floor exploded into chaos at nine in the morning, I let it swallow me whole and was grateful for it."The Hendricks acquisition is dead," Doyle said, storming past my desk. "Dead. Their board just called an emergency session. We lose this, we lose the whole northern expansion."I was on my feet before I made up my mind to be.The war room was already loud when I got there.Six executives talking over each other, a wall of numbers on the screen that made no sense stacked the way they'd stacked them, and Caspian at the head of the table, jaw tight, listening to five different men tell him five different reasons the deal had collapsed overnight."Their legal team found a liability clause," one man was saying. "Buried in our own paperwork. They're using it to walk.""Then we renegotiate the clause.""There's no time, sir, their board votes in four hours…"
Pregnant For The Wrong Brother Chapter 43: The Wrong Report
Caspian's POV "Run the test again," I said.The doctor's voice came back tired and patient down the line. "Mr. Strauss, we ran it twice this year already. The results are unchanged. They have been unchanged for six years. Running it a third time will tell us exactly what the first two told us.""Then tell me anyway.""The count is effectively zero. The motility is negligible. I'm sorry to keep saying it plainly, but you keep asking me to." A pause. "The likelihood of you fathering a child by natural means is, for all practical purposes, none. That hasn't moved. It is not going to move."I sat in the dark of my study and didn't fall apart.I've had six years to fall apart. I did all of it in the first year, alone, the way I do everything. So there's nothing left in me that flinches at the word."You've said that before," I said."I have. And every year you call me back and ask me to run it again, and every year I do, because you pay me to." His voice softened, which I didn't want. "Ca
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
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