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Ripples And Hills Chapter 128.
Hulio. Friday, 9th January. Two days later… Morning. My alarm blares for what feels like the hundredth time, dragging a groan out of me as I force my eyes open. 8:45 a.m. I don’t want to get up. I don't want to step outside my room, because if I do, I’ll be reminded of New Year’s Eve. Of Prudence’s shattered face when I shoved divorce papers into her hands. Of the child I’ll never claim now. Warm hands slide over my bare skin, Ashley’s hands. I peel them off me, carefully, so I don’t wake her. Last night at the club, I drowned myself in whiskey, and now I’m hungover again. My new best friend, regret, clings to me like rot. Like a stench I can’t wash off. This should be victory. Ashley in my bed. The woman I’ve loved for years is finally mine. But it doesn’t feel like triumph. It feels like loss. Like when I let Prudence go, I carved out a piece of myself. Two pieces, really; her, and the unborn child I’ll never hold. I thought once I had Ashley, I’d slip a ring on her fi
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Elviira Hills. Alexa stares at me as if I’ve uttered blasphemy. The silence is heavy, choking between us. So I break it. “Ta da… This is where you laugh and say, grandma, you’re joking, right?” I try to lighten it, but she shoots to her feet instead, eyes wild. “What are you talking about, Gran? No…NO…that can’t be possible. This shouldn’t even be a joke to begin with.” Her voice cracks, panic spilling from her. I rise, steady, and cross to her. I take her hands, firm, calm. “But I’m not joking, Alexa. It’s the truth. The truth and your true identity. The one I tried to reveal at that party months ago. The same night you chose Hulio instead.” She flinches. I see it pierce her, but I don’t stop. “And now you and Hulio are finished, we can proceed as planned. You will be announced as Alexa Hills, my heiress. The sole owner of everything your grandfather and I worked for. Only this time, not at a party. At a press conference. Here. In your real home.” Her legs give out, and she sin
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Alexa (Prudence) Wednesday, January 7th, 2026. A week later… Noon. Snow falls slowly. Tiny fractals of ice drifting down, just like I’m drifting. Even though I’m lying on the window cushion in Grandma’s room, I still feel like I’m falling. Because the truth is, I am. Tears spill again, unbidden. They’ve been falling for a week, since that awful night Hulio threw divorce papers in my face. Just thinking about it makes the memory slam back, fresh and brutal. ‘How dare you end things with her like this?’ Jon had roared at Hulio. ‘Not even a penny to her name, all because of some fucked up prenup you made her sign? How could you take advantage of such a woman, Hulio?’ Helia had pulled me forward then, placing me before Hulio and my sister. He and Hulio stared each other down in silence. Hulio didn’t even blink. And I, God, I just wanted it to end before the whole night exploded into blood or scandal. I tugged weakly at Helia’s arm, pleading with him to take me home. But he s
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Alexa (Prudence)Wednesday, December 31st. Six days later…Night…Lights. Music. Cameras. I stand in the middle of the party at my supposed home with Hulio, watching guests mingle on this cold night. Waiters glide past with trays of food and drinks that look divine, but my stomach twists too tightly for appetite. Especially with the news that I discovered yesterday. ‘Congratulations Prudence. You're going to be a mum…’ Those words delivered yesterday by my doctor, were the biggest stunners of my life. Stunned me all the way to the house. Even when Martha asked how my day was at the doctor's. ‘Are you alright, Love? You seem lost.’ She asked, concerned. I snapped out of my shock and I spoke. She was super excited. Hugged me all through. But then again, her face fell.‘Please don't tell me you would have to go back to him now…Please…He doesn't even need to know you're carrying his child.’ But I argued against it. ‘Hulio has the right to know, so that we can both think of a way for
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Alexa (Prudence). Thursday, December 25th. Two weeks later… “Deck the halls with boughs of holly… fa la la la la…” Voices ring out around the fireplace in Grandma’s drawing room, rich and merry. The air smells of cookies, eggnog, roasted chestnuts, home. I even join in the chorus, eggnog in one hand, cookie in the other. We’re all here; me, Martha, Jace, Eve and their kids, Jon, Aunt Annika and Uncle Brian. Grandma beams from her chair, basking in her family. She was insistent this Christmas we would be together. ‘Honey, this is the first Christmas I’ve had with you after two years. Don’t steal it from me,’ she’d said when I’d protested. ‘But Grandma, I’m supposed to be Prudence, remember?’ She only smiled. ‘Who says I can’t invite Prudence to sleep over at the Hills mansion? Ease up, pumpkin. Let’s celebrate your escape from that abusive man, Hulio.’ I’d flinched. ‘But I haven’t left him yet…: ‘Oh? You moved back into the house Helia lended you. You haven’t thought of going
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Hulio. Wednesday, December 10th. Four days later… I sit in my wheelchair, which is parked in front of the door, waiting. Prudence and Martha live here. I’ve never been to this address before the wedding, but I remembered it from her employment file. My heart thunders in my chest. Guilt weighs me down as I wait. Stephan rings the bell again, then glances at me. “Maybe we should go back, Mr. Ripples,” he murmurs. I lower my eyes. Regret gnaws at me. Despite everything I did to her, she had a chance to destroy me and didn’t. She made sure Helia didn’t report me. ‘You should thank your stars Prudence got through to me in time. I would have fucked you up for life.’ Helia’s voice from the morning after that incident still echoes. The door suddenly flies open. I look up and there she is. Prudence. Her eyes wide, unblinking. Afraid. She staggers back, ready to slam the door shut. I stretch my foot forward. Her gaze drops to it, and I know exactly what she’s remembering. The time my fo
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