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035 If You Go, I Go Too
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Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire 036 Family Again
(Ava)Kai turns his head toward Lila, slow and shaky.He smiles at her. So heartbreakingly gentle and selfless for a boy who has every reason to be angry at the world.Lila blinks groggily in her recovery crib, still foggy from sleep. But when she sees him her eyes light up.Her whole face lights up.“Kai…” she whispers, reaching out her tiny hand.Kai lifts his fingers an inch… trembling… but he reaches back. “Sissy.”The smallest touch. The biggest moment.My throat closes with emotion. This is what matters. Not our adult crap.I lift her out of her crib and place her next to him. Tuck the blankets around them both.“They did this together,” I whisper, more to myself than anyone else. “They’ve always been a team… Lila’s braver because of him. Kai’s fighting because of her. They don’t have to do this without each other.”Zach stands across from me, watching the kids. Tears roll down his face. “You’re right. They can get through this together.“We all can. We’re a family,” I say.Kai’
Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire 035 If You Go, I Go Too
(Zach) Six months.Six months of watching my son fade.Six months of trying to learn what’s really important in life, and giving up on getting the forgiveness I know I’ll never get.Six months of showing up at every hospital shift change, every blood test, every consult, every damn second because I don’t know if I’ll get another moment with him.But I understand why we needed to wait. For Lila to be older, stronger. I understand and I am grateful. I see her regularly. She comes to visit Kai.Ava always declines. She comes to see him when I’m not here. I get it. I don’t blame her.Sienna is still behind bars. My brother Robert is under suspicion too. My whole existence that I knew has gone now.Lorne businesses lost investors and buyer faith. Most of the arms sank like a stone in water. I had some of my own dealings I managed to keep going.But only because the public believed I was a victim of Sienna. Because they feel sorry for me with Kai no doubt.But I wasn’t a victim. I allowed
Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire 034 When He Finally Breaks
(Ava)It happens in the hospital corridor.After I told him No and walked out without looking back.He watched an entire panel of experts take control of his son’s fate and watched me walking away, rejecting him again.I hear him behind me.“Ava!”Paige squeezes my hand and lets go as I turn to face him.His voice is sharp.Frantic. On the edge of losing it.“Ava, you can’t just walk away like this!”I exhale, slow and controlled.Zach is striding toward me like a man seconds away from shattering.His hair’s a mess. His tie is yanked loose. His eyes are wild and glassy… filled with the anger, fear, desperation fighting inside him.He looks like someone ripped the floor out under him.He stops a foot away from me, chest rising fast.“You don’t get to walk away from me like this,” he spits.I lift my chin. “I already did.”“You can’t just… just vanish emotionally,” he snaps. “You can’t shut me out like this. Our children’s lives are at stake.”“I can shut you out. I am.”His breath come
Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire 033 Getting This Right
(Ava)One Week Later:The hospital’s Bioethics Committee room is nothing like I thought it would look.No dramatic lighting. No soft, calming music.Just bright overhead fluorescents, a long oval table, and twelve people who do not care about my feelings or Zach’s guilt or the mess our lives have become.They don’t care about the podcasts on our lives, about the true crime series built around Sienna. They don’t care about the drama that feeds the beast.They care about facts. They care about risk.They care about one thing only:Whether Kai’s survival justifies the medical burden placed on Lila.Their focus on medical facts is brutal.The process is clean and clinical. They don’t even pretend to look after our feelings. But they did allow a support person each.Zach is here alone. Of course.Paige is waiting outside for me. I wanted to do this part alone.Paige and I have thrown every otherworldly way to get information at this that we can. Can we rely on it? Maybe not. But I can rely
Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire 032 Buckle Up
(Ava)I’m at the hospital. I’ve donated more blood already.My phone buzzes with a message.Zach:Where are you? Please. Just tell me where you are. I need to talk.I ignore it but I smile despite myself. He’s only just starting to feel what the end is like.I look at Lila beside me in her stroller—my perfect, safe girl chewing on a cracker like the world hasn’t already tried to take her once.She looks up at me and beams. “Mama.”“I’m here sweetheart. Mama is here.”“Dada? Kai…”I look at her again. “Oh, honey. You miss your brother?” I know she does. They are so close and she hasn’t seen him in weeks.I need to sort this out. Kai and Lila need each other in more ways than just the bone marrow.I text Zach back:Come by my place at six. Bring Kai. Stay for dinner.Three dots appear.Disappear.Appear again.Then:Okay. Thank you. He’s been asking and he’s really ill lately.I stare at the message.Oh, Kai. I’m so sorry.Lila misses him too. See you at six.***My rented apartment is
Revenge From Ashes, Ruin for the Billionaire 031 A Blank Check Means Nothing to Me
(Ava)A week passes.A week of silence from me. A week of texts from Zach I don’t open.A week of his calls I let ring out until voicemail. A week of lawyers emailing me about the divorce and another set about the evidence against Sienna.Paige is finally back home. She told me to “call if that billionaire idiot shows up uninvited.”He hasn’t. Not yet.Instead, he’s been bleeding money into the divorce like a man trying to resurrect the dead.The mansion? Signed over. Half of his shares? Signed over.Alimony? A number so big my lawyer actually laughed and did a double take and then phoned Zach’s lawyer to see if the extra zero was a typo.But if it isn’t enough, name the number. A blank check.I tell them I’m not interested in the money. He can’t buy me off like that. But those who mean the most to me tell me to not get in my own way on this. That kid of money can do so much good.Take it, set up charities, be a benefactor, make my own empire and never have to rely on a paycheck again
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