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CHAPTER 43- Legal Battle 2.0
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CALEB's POV:One week after the hospital mess. One week after Rebecca. Everything still feels too close to the edge.I’m sitting across from Lena at her kitchen table. Coffee’s going cold between us. Evan’s playing in his room, laughing at something only he understands. My hands feel sweaty. I wipe them on my jeans before I speak.“I want to take you on a real date,” I say, straight and quiet. “Dinner. Saturday night. Just you and me. Eleanor can watch Evan.”She looks up fast, eyes guarded like she’s bracing for a hit. “A date?”“Yeah. One date.” I keep my voice steady even though my chest is tight. “If it’s terrible, we go right back to co-parenting, no hard feelings. But if it’s good…” I let it sit there. “We stop pretending this isn’t something more.”Lena’s fingers curl tighter around her mug. That wall of hers starts sliding up again, slow and careful. “Why now? We’ve been okay. Why risk messing it all up?”“Because okay isn’t enough anymore.” I lean in, heart banging. “I want y
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Rebecca Moore sat on Caleb’s couch like she paid the rent.Caleb’s voice cut through the room, cold and sharp. “How the hell did you get in here?”She stood up slowly, brushing her dark hair back, flashing that perfect smile. “Your doorman knows me. I told him I was your girlfriend. Easy.”“You’re not my girlfriend. You’re nothing to me. Get out.”“Not yet.” Her eyes flicked to me, then behind me. “We need to talk. All three of us.”Evan peeked out from behind my legs, rubbing his eyes. “Mama, who is that lady?”I pulled him close, heart hammering. “Go to the guest room, baby. Lie down. I’ll come get you soon.”“But Mama—”“Now, Evan.”He dragged his feet, glancing back once, scared. The door clicked shut.I turned on her. “You’ve got thirty seconds before I call the cops.”Rebecca sat back down, crossing her legs like we were having coffee. “I didn’t break in. I was let in.”“By who?” Caleb stepped closer, fists tight at his sides. “It sure wasn’t me.”“Someone who doesn’t want you t
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Evan’s hospital room felt suffocating. Monitors beeped. He slept pale under the white bandage, chest rising slow and steady. I hadn’t left my chair in hours. Caleb sat across from me, eyes locked on our son the same way.The doctor said moderate concussion. He’d go home tomorrow. But nothing erased the crack of his head on marble, the blood, the terrifying silence.“You should sleep,” Caleb said, voice low and rough. “I’ll watch him.”“I can’t.” My words scraped out. “You can’t either?”He shook his head. The silence between us felt thick, shared.“Thanks for today,” I whispered. “For rushing him here. For staying.”“He’s my son too, Lena.” His voice broke slightly. “I couldn’t have left.”Caleb stared at Evan, pain raw on his face. “One second he was running toward me, laughing. The next… he was gone. One second. That’s all it ever takes to lose everything.”I nodded, throat tight. “I keep seeing it too.”He looked up, eyes dark with regret. “I think about that other second every sin
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The morning after those photos tore me apart, I stood outside Caleb’s apartment at seven, banging on the door until my knuckles hurt. I didn’t care who woke up.He opened it, looking half-asleep in sweatpants and an old t-shirt, hair sticking up. His eyes went wide with worry.“Lena? What’s wrong? Is Evan okay?”I pushed past him. “We need to talk. Right now.”He shut the door. “Okay. Tell me.”I shoved my phone at him, photos already open. “Explain this. Explain,her. Explain why this showed up the second I said yes to us.”He took the phone. His face went pale. “Where did you get these?”“Some ‘friend’ emailed them right after you left. Perfect timing, right?” My voice shook. “So talk. Who is she and why is she all over you?”“That’s Rebecca Moore, Patricia’s daughter. These photos are twisted. It’s not what it looks like.”“Not what it looks like? She’s got her hands on you and you’re smiling.”He handed the phone back and ran both hands through his hair. “She cornered me three days
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THE BILLIONAIRE'S SECRET HEIR CHAPTER 43- Legal Battle 2.0
My son is now four and a half years old and I'm losing half of him.Courthouse steps. Three weeks after the custody bomb. Caleb's waiting by the entrance in a suit, lawyer beside him.He sees me. Steps forward. "Lena, can we talk before we go in?""Talk? Now you want to talk? You should have talked three weeks ago."My lawyer touches my arm. "Ms. Hart, maybe—"I pull away. March straight to him. Get in his face."You filed for custody without telling me. After six months of family dinners. Six months of making me believe we were building something real. You went behind my back.""I know how it looks—""It's not about how it looks. It's about what you did. You blindsided me."His lawyer clears his throat. "We should take this inside.""No." I don't break eye contact. "You want fifty-fifty? You want to take Evan from me half the time?""I'm not taking him. I'm asking to share him equally.""You should have asked me first.""Would you have said yes?"Silence. "No.""Exactly. That's why I
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