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Chapter 18. The Breath that Breaks
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Rejected by a Billionaire, Desired by another. Chapter 30. The Choice that Breaks the World
Triple PovAvaPain came back in waves violent, merciless.It tore through Ava’s body like a storm ripping apart everything in its path. Her vision blurred as doctors rushed around her, voices sharp and urgent.“Her vitals are crashing”“Prep the OR now!”“No,” Ava gasped, clutching at the sheets. “My baby don’t leave him”A mask pressed over her face.“Stay with me,” someone urged.She tried.She really did.But the world was already slipping.As darkness dragged her under, one thought burned brighter than pain.Please. Let him live.EthanEthan stood outside the operating room, hands shaking, blood splattered across his shirt someone else’s, he told himself over and over.He hadn’t meant to pull the trigger.But the man had been inches from Ava.From the baby.“I did the right thing,” Ethan whispered hoarsely. “I did the right thing.”No one answered.Security dragged the body away. The corridor smelled like antiseptic and gunpowder.Ethan’s phone vibrated.A message.You failed.Hi
Rejected by a Billionaire, Desired by another. Chapter 29. The Enemy Without a Face
Triple Pov AvaHope was a dangerous thing.Ava learned that as she lay staring at the monitor, watching the fragile rise and fall of a heartbeat that could vanish at any second. Every beep felt borrowed. Every breath she took felt like a gamble with fate.The baby was alive.Barely.Doctors moved in and out quietly, their expressions careful, as if too much optimism might shatter what little stability existed. Ava lay still, afraid that even moving would disrupt the fragile thread holding her child to this world.Her body felt foreign empty and heavy all at once. Pain pulsed dully through her abdomen, a constant reminder of how close she had come to losing everything.She closed her eyes.Lucien.Where was he?Fear coiled tight in her chest.Ethan stood near the window, arms crossed, posture rigid. He hadn’t left her side except when security forced him out briefly. He looked older somehow like guilt had carved new lines into his face.“Lucien hasn’t woken yet,” he said quietly, as i
Rejected by a Billionaire, Desired by another. Chapter 28. Blood Makes a Claim
Triple PovAvaPain became everything.It wrapped around Ava’s spine, clenched her lungs, hollowed her out from the inside until there was nothing left but instinct. White lights burned above her. Voices overlapped urgent, clipped, distant.“BP dropping”“Prep for emergency intervention”“She’s bleeding”“No,” Ava gasped. “Please… my baby…”Her fingers clawed weakly at the sheets as another contraction tore through her, sharper than the last. This wasn’t labor. She knew that much. This was something else. Something wrong.She felt it before anyone said it.Loss had a sound.It was the way the machine’s rhythm faltered. The way the room went suddenly, horribly quiet.“Ava,” a doctor said softly, too softly.Ava turned her head, heart slamming. “No. Don’t say it.”The doctor swallowed. “We’re trying to stabilize”“I said don’t say it!” Ava screamed, tears flooding her temples. “You don’t get to decide this!”Her body betrayed her, shaking violently as blood loss drained her strength. Sh
Rejected by a Billionaire, Desired by another. Chapter 27. The Mother who refuses to disappear
Ava PovThe night tasted like metal and smoke.Ava barely registered the sirens at first only the warmth of Lucien’s blood soaking through her palms, slick and terrifyingly real. She pressed down harder, as if force alone could keep life inside him.“Stay with me,” she whispered, voice breaking. “Please. You don’t get to leave me.”Lucien’s lashes fluttered. His breathing was shallow now, uneven, each inhale sounding like it hurt.“I told you,” he murmured faintly, lips curving despite everything. “I don’t die easily.”Ava laughed, the sound strangled, hysterical. “This isn’t the time for arrogance.”“It’s always the time,” he said, then coughed violently.Blood bloomed darker.Panic clawed up her throat.Around them, the world fractured into chaos.Police vehicles screeched into position, red and blue lights slicing through the darkness like blades. Armed officers poured out, shouting commands that overlapped and collided.“Drop your weapons!”“Hands where we can see them!”Ethan sto
Rejected by a Billionaire, Desired by another. Chapter 26. The Man who Chooses Violence
Triple Pov Lucien The moment the screen went dark, something inside Lucien Moreau died. Not the part of him that loved. That part would never die. It was the part that believed restraint still mattered. He stood perfectly still in the war room, blood seeping steadily through the bandage at his side, dripping onto the marble floor like a countdown. No one spoke. No one dared. Florence trembled beneath his silence. “Lock the doors,” Lucien said quietly. The technician froze. “Sir?” “Every door,” Lucien repeated, voice calm, lethal. “Palazzo Moreau is now sealed. No one enters. No one leaves.” His gaze lifted slowly, fixing on the wall of screens where Isabella’s signal had vanished. “She wants me civil,” he said. “That was her mistake.” He turned. “Prepare the Black Protocol.” A collective inhale swept the room. The Black Protocol wasn’t a threat. It was extinction. Ethan Ethan woke choking on copper. Pain slammed into him in waves, white-hot and merciless. His arm
Rejected by a Billionaire, Desired by another. Chapter 25. The Lie That broke the World
Quad PovAvaThe tablet felt heavier than iron.Ava’s finger hovered over the glowing line, trembling not from fear anymore, but from clarity. The kind that came when everything else had already been taken.On the screen beside her, the NICU feed flickered.The baby’s heartbeat wavered.Slow.Uneven.Fading.Her baby.Isabella leaned closer, her perfume sickly sweet, her voice velvet-wrapped poison. “You don’t have much time.”Lucien’s face filled the opposite screen. Pale. Furious. Breaking.“Ava,” he said hoarsely. “Look at me. This isn’t the only way.”She smiled faintly.It hurt to smile. It felt like her face might crack.“You were wrong,” Ava whispered. “There was always only one way.”She pressed her finger down.The tablet chimed softly.SIGNATURE ACCEPTED.Lucien made a sound low, raw, and animal-like. “No”Isabella laughed.Ava’s breath hitched as the restraint around her wrists loosened slightly. Hope stupid, fragile hope sparked in her chest.“You’ll stop it now?” Ava dem
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