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ผู้เขียน: Ray Nhedicta
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Chapter 60

The word was barely more than a scratchy breath against the inside of the plastic mask, but to Riley, it sounded like thunder.

For two agonizing seconds, the room stood entirely still. Riley’s heart slammed against her ribs so hard it felt like a blow.

She scrambled closer to the edge of the bed, her hands clutching Iris’s warm fingers like a lifeline.

"Iris?" Riley choked out, fresh tears instantly blurring her vision. "Baby? Oh my God... Iris!"

Iris blinked slowly, her long eyelas
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    Chapter 90The words didn't make sense. The words refused to arrange themselves into anything she could understand.Excluded as the biological father.That wasn't possible. She had never been with anyone else. Not once, not for a single night, in the years she'd worn Frederick's or Ashton rings. She knew her own body, her own history, with a certainty that no lab report could touch. And yet Judge Miller was still holding the paper, and Evelyn's face had gone carefully, professionally blank in the way Riley had learned meant something had gone badly wrong.Beside her, Ashton's hand had turned to iron around hers."Your Honor." Evelyn was on her feet before Riley had even processed that she should be worried, her voice sharp enough to cut through the ringing in Riley's ears. "May counsel approach? I'd like to review the chain of custody on this sample.""Sit down, Evelyn." Frederick's lawyer, a thin man named Halloway who'd spent the last two hearings looking like he wanted to be any

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   WHAT...WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?

    Chapter 100The settlement offer from Frederick’s lawyer fell apart by the end of the week, exactly as Evelyn had predicted. Faced with the overwhelming evidence of perjury, the televised interview, and a judge who took one look at the court filings and granted a temporary protective order, Frederick’s legal team quietly advised him to cut his losses. He dropped the petition entirely and agreed to the binding financial agreement covering years of unpaid child support.With the legal chaos temporarily settled, as if the universe had been waiting for the runway to clear, Riley’s career exploded into something extraordinary.When the trailer for The Shadow's Edge dropped a month later, it sent shockwaves through the industry. The studio’s marketing campaign heavily featured the intense, emotionally charged dynamic between Aniya and Riley. Film critics and online commentary channels immediately singled Riley out, calling her performance the unexpected heart of the film.Her manager, G

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   SHE WAS ALREADY FREE

    Chapter 88Riley didn't remember the walk home. One moment she was standing in the dairy aisle with her heart slamming against her ribs, and the next she was fumbling her key into her apartment door, milk carton sweating in her grip.She set the groceries down and pressed both palms flat against the counter, breathing.He'd looked smaller. That was the thing she couldn't shake. Ten years he'd loomed over her, and today, he'd just looked like a tired man in an expensive coat, grasping at a life that no longer wanted him back.Her phone buzzed against the counter. Ashton."Hey," she answered, and her voice came out steadier than she expected."Surgery went well, patient's stable." She could hear him moving, a door swinging shut behind him. "You sound off. What happened?"She almost lied. Almost told him it was nothing, that she was just tired. But she'd promised herself months ago that she wouldn't do that anymore, wouldn't swallow things down just to keep the peace."I ran into Frederi

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   STAY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY

    Chapter 87They picked Iris up from school and spent the rest of the day at Ashton’s house. Sitting on the living room rug while Iris showed Ashton her new drawings, Riley watched the two of them laugh together. The tight knot of panic that had taken over her morning was slowly loosening, replaced by a steady, quiet strength. She wasn't fighting this alone anymore.The next morning at ten o'clock, Riley and Ashton sat across from Evelyn in her sunlit office downtown. Evelyn opened a laptop on her desk, turned the screen toward them, and pressed play on a video file."I spent last night pulling up every media appearance Frederick made over the last six months," Evelyn said, leaning back in her chair. "His team tried to scrub his interviews, but nothing ever really leaves the internet."The video was from a live months ago. Frederick stood in front of a wall of reporters, wearing a custom suit, looking full of himself.When a journalist asked him about his daughter, Frederick sneere

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   LET'S GO PICK UP OUR GIRL

    Chapter 86The walk back from Iris’s school was terrifying. Riley kept her eyes fixed on the pavement, missing the feeling of her daughter's little hand in hers. Every passing car made her chest tight. Every shadow made her stomach drop.When she unlocked her apartment door, Ashton was sitting at the kitchen with a cup of coffee and three yellow legal pads spread out in front of him. He looked up the second she walked in. "She didn't notice a thing. She just ran into the school yard to play with her friends." Riley said quietly, dropping her keys on the counter.Ashton didn't say anything. He just stood up, walked over, and pulled her tight against his chest. Riley collapsed into him, letting out a long breath she felt like she’d been holding all morning."My lawyer, Evelyn, is already working on it," he murmured into her hair. "I sent her photos of the paper Frederick left you. She's pulling up his files right now."Before Riley could answer, Ashton's phone rang on the counter. He

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   HE'S TRYING TO TAKE HER

    Chapter 85Principal photography wrapped on a Tuesday, and by Thursday, Riley found herself standing in her kitchen at seven in the morning holding a manila envelope that had been slid under her apartment door sometime in the night.There was no return address. Just her name, typed in flat block letters across the front.She set her coffee down and opened it slowly, half expecting a magazine clipping, a fan letter, something harmless. Instead, three pages of legal letterhead slid out into her hand.PETITION FOR MODIFICATION OF CUSTODY, the header read.Her stomach dropped straight through the floor. She read it twice, her eyes catching on Frederick's name typed neatly beside the words "Petitioner," and beneath it, a list of claims that made her hands go cold. Unstable work schedule. Exposure to unrelated adult partners. A minor residing in two households without consistent supervision.Her phone was in her hand before she'd finished the second page. Ashton picked up on the second ri

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER?! IRIS!

    Chapter 5Riley didn't hesitate. The woman who had fiercely slapped him the night before disappeared under the crushing weight of a mother’s desperation. Slowly, agonizingly, she lowered her battered, aching body onto the gravel driveway, her knees digging into the sharp stones right beside his dr

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   THEN ACT LIKE A BEGGAR. KNEEL

    Chapter 4The heavy smell of cheap disinfectant, sweat, and old plastic chairs filled the crowded emergency room waiting area. It was completely different from the freezing, rainy night Riley had just escaped.The nurses had rushed Iris through a set of double doors into a separate treatment room t

  • THE BILLIONAIRE'S BIGGEST REGRET: Losing His Plus-size Ex   MUMMY, I DON’T FEEL FINE

    Chapter 3The moment they stepped out the front door, a sudden, loud crack of thunder shook the whole sky.The clouds burst, and a massive downpour slammed into the ground. The rain fell in heavy, blinding sheets, completely soaking the perfect, neat driveway.Iris gasped, shivering from the biting

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    Chapter 2The silence that followed his words wasn’t just quiet; it was deafening. It felt as though the air had been entirely sucked out of the room, leaving Riley gasping. Her mind spun violently as she tried to process the horrible words that had just left Fredrick’s mouth.Bastard child.“Say

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