เข้าสู่ระบบGRACE'S POV We got married on a Saturday in my backyard with thirty people watching. Small and intimate and nothing like our first wedding that had been all performance. This time everything was real. August and James were ring bearers, five years old and serious about their responsibilities. Li
CARTER'S POV Hope went to the NICU for observation because she was early. Standard protocol for thirty-five weekers the doctors said. Grace was exhausted but stable and I sat with her while nurses worked on our daughter in the next room. "I want to see her." Grace was trying to sit up. "Carter,
GRACE'S POV I called Carter Sunday morning with my conditions. "I read your letter five times. I believe you know me. But Carter, knowing someone and staying with someone are different things." I was sitting on my porch while the twins played inside with my mom. "I need you to prove you'll stay
CARTER'S POV I spent three days writing the letter. Not because I couldn't think of things to say but because I kept deleting what I wrote. Kept falling into old patterns of what sounded good instead of what was true. Dr. Chen told me to stop performing and just write honestly about why I loved Gr
CARTER'S POV The full reality hit me about thirty seconds after Grace told me. I was going to be a father again. Was going to have another chance at the beginning I'd missed with August and James. Was going to be there from the first moment if Grace let me. I sat down hard in her office chair be
GRACE'S POV I'd been nauseous for a week. Blamed it on stress from the press conferences and therapy and trying to figure out if Carter and I were actually doing this. My mom noticed first. "Grace, you look green. When did you last eat?" She was watching me push food around my plate at Sunday di
GRACE'S POV Carter called at midnight. I was still awake, going through financial projections with David over video call, trying to figure out if delaying the IPO two weeks would be enough time to recover investor confidence. My phone lit up with Carter's name and I almost declined it. But somethin
GRACE'S POV The article went live at six in the morning. I knew because my phone started buzzing before my alarm went off, texts and calls coming in so fast the vibrations blended into one continuous hum. I grabbed it off the nightstand, saw Naomi's name on the screen along with fifteen missed call
I looked at Carter. At the man who'd destroyed my faith in love, who'd called me a liar, who I'd spent two years protecting my children from. The man who was now offering to help destroy his best friend to protect me. It felt like a trap. Felt like there had to be some angle I wasn't seeing. "Why w
I pulled up my laptop, searched for news about GRACE's IPO. The offering was scheduled for six weeks from now. Projected valuation of two billion dollars. Grace would personally net over a billion from the sale. All of it built on the narrative that she was a survivor, a feminist icon, a mother prot







