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CHAPTER 27: BEING THE SECRET?
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2026-05-06 21:06:12
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PREGNANT BY THE CEO CHAPTER 31: GROUNDWORK
Victor Hale had been writing to my mother for years. I drove to the house telling myself I was ready for it. I wasn’t, not even a bit. The house smelled exactly the same.The second I stepped inside, that familiar scent hit me hard. Warm, safe, like childhood and Sunday dinners and my mother’s perfume. Before I even reached Jade at the kitchen table with that shoebox and the weird look on her face, it all came rushing back. This was the place where I thought I’d been loved and protected. Turns out I’d been managed here too. Even inside these walls.I forced myself to keep walking. If I stopped, the anger might swallow me whole. Jade stood up when I came in. The letters were spread out on the table like evidence, but she wasn’t touching them anymore. She’d clearly been waiting for me.“How bad?” I asked.“Sit down first,” she said.“Jade.”“Please.” Her voice went quiet. That told me everything. I sat.-----The letters went back four years. The first one was dated when I was seventeen
PREGNANT BY THE CEO CHAPTER 30- WHAT HE DESERVED
Marcus was in love with me. I’d always known it but I’d chosen not to see it, and now I was sitting across from the best person I had in my life, about to crush him with the truth, I didn’t make him wait.Dragging it out would’ve been cruel. He’d walked in here stripped bare and honest. He deserved the same from me, even if it hurt like hell.“Marcus,” I said.He looked at me, he already knew. I could see it in the way his whole body went still, not hopeful, just braced. Like a man who’d finally said the hard thing and was now waiting for the blow he’d half-prepared for.“I love you,” I told him, forcing myself to hold his eyes. “I really do. You’ve been the one steady thing in my life for six years. I don’t know where I’d be without you.” My throat closed up. “But it’s not like that. It’s never been like that for me, and I’m sorry I didn’t say it sooner. I should’ve. I love you as my friend, nothing more than that”. Silence. He nodded once, slow and heavy. “I know,” he said quietly
PREGNANT BY THE CEO CHAPTER 29: FACE DOWN
He’d carried a photograph of us for sixteen years. I’d spent those same years trying like hell to stop carrying him. Only one of us had managed it, and it sure as hell wasn’t him.I picked it up and stared longer than I meant to. No memory of the moment. Just us, caught laughing by whoever snapped the picture. That girl had her whole soul in it, wide open, no walls, convinced the ground was solid, she had no clue.I slid the photo into my bag. “Thank you,” I said.Sebastian didn’t push. He watched me with that quiet patience he’d grown into, the kind that wants without demanding. He let the silence stay heavy between us. No questions about why I was taking it. or any talk of next steps. Just space.We said goodbye on the pavement. Nothing dramatic, two people who’d finally talked honestly for two hours, then stepped back into their separate lives a little more unsettled than before. He waited until I reached my car before turning away. I noticed, but I didn’t let myself think about i
PREGNANT BY THE CEO CHAPTER 28: THE PHOTO HE KEPT
My daughter was done being my secret. And sitting there across from her at our kitchen table, I finally admitted I was done too. I looked into those steady grey eyes and felt sixteen years of half-truths sitting heavy in my chest. All the edited stories. The quick subject changes, the version of our life I’d smoothed out until it hid everything that hurt. I’d convinced myself I was protecting her. Some of it was true, but a lot of it was me protecting myself from facing what I’d really done. Isla deserved better than that.“We’ll do this carefully,” I said, trying to keep my voice even. “On our terms. No press, no rush. Just give me a little more time to set it up right.”She studied me with that sharp, seeing-too-much look she’s had since she was little. “How much time?”“Not long.”She watched me another beat, then nodded slowly. “Okay. But Mom…” Her voice got quiet. “I mean it. Not long.”The way she said it twisted something inside me. “I know my love,” I whispered back. “I mean
PREGNANT BY THE CEO CHAPTER 27: BEING THE SECRET?
The press was about to drag my life into print, and it wasn’t even the version I would’ve written. I had forty-eight hours to figure out how much of the truth I was willing to own.I called Sandra first. She picked up on the second ring, all business. I read the email straight through, voice flat. She went quiet for a second, thinking. “How much do they actually have?” she asked.“The business side is locked, the contract, the gala. Personal stuff… they’re just poking around, hoping I’ll fill in the blanks.”“Then we'll give them nothing solid,” she said. “Short statement, facts only. No emotions, no extra meat for them to chew on. Send it to me, I’ll sharpen it up.”My lawyer said basically the same thing and caught two lines I’d already decided to kill. I thanked her, but my stomach stayed twisted up. Then I called Sebastian. He answered right away. “My team caught the same reporter sniffing around Hale Industries.”“They’re hitting both sides,” I said.“I want us to put out a joint
PREGNANT BY THE CEO CHAPTER 26: NOT AGAIN
He kept looking for seven months, while everyone around us made sure he never found me. I folded that last letter and sat with it for a long time, the paper warm between my fingers. The realization pressed in slowly, settling deep in my chest like it had no intention of leaving anytime soon.I still went to work, not because I had processed any of it. I hadn’t. Some things don’t untangle quickly, and I was tired of pretending otherwise. I went because work was the one piece of my life that still felt like mine. Untouched, unclaimed. I had built it alone, and stepping into it each day reminded me I could still stand without everything else crumbling.The vendor meeting started at ten. Final catering numbers before the gala locked in. I ran it from the head of the table, voice steady, questions sharp. On the outside, I looked in control. Inside, I was barely holding the pieces together.Sebastian was there. He sat across from me, notepad open, listening more than speaking. He was surpri
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