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124 The Right Kind of Wanting
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The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 244 Almost The Truth
(Savannah)Nico stands to my left, composed as ever.He begins. “Ms. Blake, let’s keep this simple. Why did you come back to this city?”“Because I was heavily pregnant and terrified. Damon and I were finished. I’d left him early in my pregnancy. He was using again. He yelled, broke things, threatened me. He encouraged me to use. I’d ran out of the money I’d managed to save and I needed help.”“Did you tell him you were pregnant with his child?”“No.”“Why not?”“He is an addict, and I couldn’t imagine a baby in that life. I didn’t want to be a mother but I wanted the baby to have the best chance.”Nico nods. “When you thought about returning here, who did you contact?”“Margot Hale. She’d always said I could call if I needed help. She answered. She told me to come home, that she’d handle everything. She encouraged me to contact James.”“You wanted to be with James Hale again?”“James and I have a long history. I thought I still loved him. Margot seemed to be in support of that. She n
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 243 The Enigma
(Margot)I’m sworn in and take my seat. My hands stay folded. Calm is the only thing that I want to project.Adler begins. “Mrs Hale, you’ve known Ms Blake for how long?”“Since she was born.”“You are close.”“She was engaged to my son once. I care about her.”“You all expected that she and James would marry. That they had been taught to expect that too?”“It seemed a natural fit.” I keep my voice even.“But then she left James, correct?”“Yes. She left and married Damon Cross.”“Did she ever tell your that Damon Criss was the father of her baby?”“It was assumed the father of her baby would be her husband at the time.”“But did she ever directly tell you about her pregnancy and her marriage to Damon Cross?”“She did tell me she was pregnant to Damon Cross, yes.”“And you believed her?”“I did. I had no reason not to.”Adler nods. “Did she also mention the nature of her marriage to my client?”I pause for effect. “She said he was physically and mentally abusive towards her and she fe
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 242 Dragging Up The Past
(Serena)“Did Ms. Blake ever mention Mr Cross at that time?” Adler asks.“Yes. She said he was violent. That he smashed things, used drugs, and she was scared. She said she left him to protect herself and the baby.”My voice stays steady, but my insides are quivering.I can still see Savannah’s face when she said it. The tears that came too fast, too perfectly timed.She had a way of twisting pain into power. Back then, I thought maybe she was suffering. Now, I know she was strategic.“Did she file a police report against him?”“I don’t know.”“Did she ever tell you she’d informed Mr Cross she was pregnant?”“No. She never said those words to me.”I grip the edge of the witness box until my nails press crescents into the wood.Adler turns toward the bench. “Would it have been possible for my client not to know this child existed?”“I think it would’ve been almost impossible. Her pregnancy was everywhere in the media.”I hear a faint scoff from Damon’s table. He doesn’t even try to hid
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 241 Let the Court Games Begin
(Serena)I stare straight at the judge, not at Damon Cross.He’s hard to ignore though.Rings, tattoos, smirk… every inch of him still built for shocking headlines. He looks like he came here for an encore, not a hearing about a baby he never met. His own child.The introduction to the proceedings have been done and I’m first on the witness stand.My body wants to implode and I feel so ill, I might puke right now.I can picture it. Judge asks me something and I puke all over the stand.God, that thought is not helping.I get sworn in and survive it. Damn this is so hard.The clerk calls my name. I raise my right hand, swear in, and sit. My pulse won’t slow.But no puking, so I ‘ll take that as a positive.Adler starts. “Ms. Langley, you knew Ms Savannah Blake during her late pregnancy?”“Yes.”“How did that begin?”“I met her outside Hale Tower. She stepped out in front of my car, I swerved, hit a lamppost. She yelled that I’d nearly killed her and said her husband worked inside. Then
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 240 Dreams and Detours
(Serena)James is stretched on his side, propped up on an elbow, watching me as we chat.The sheets are tangled around my legs, and my body still hums from what we just did. It feels dangerously easy… being here, being this close again.My mind is turning over but it isn’t about being here with James.I smooth the linen with my palm, needing something to do. “There’s something I’ve been turning over in my head for weeks,” I say, voice soft but steady.His gaze sharpens. “Tell me.”I hesitate, tracing a line across the sheet. “It’s the bakeries.”His gaze sharpens, but he doesn’t interrupt.“They’ve been my whole life. I built them from nothing, poured everything into them. They were my stability when everything else was chaos. You know what they mean to me.”“I sure do. Are they doing okay? Did the expansion add pressure to the existing one?”“They are doing more than okay. So much so that the third one is being scheduled early.”“That’s great.”I nod. “But lately…” I take a slow brea
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 239 No More Rules
(Serena)The last notes of James’s piano attempt fade into silence.For a while, neither of us moves. He sits there with his sleeves rolled, shoulders relaxed, watching me on the sofa.I try to act unaffected, but my mind and body are in turmoil, my hands restless in my lap.I know what this moment is.A line.If I get up, if I walk across to him, then I’m crossing it.If I don’t stop him coming to me, I’m crossing it.He leans back on the bench, tilts his head. “You’re quiet.”“I’m thinking.”“About what?”I hesitate. About how badly I want you. About how dangerous that is.But what comes out is only, “that I shouldn’t be here.”His expression shifts, softens. “Then why are you?”My voice wavers a little. “Because I wanted to be.”It feels like a confession.He stands, slow, deliberate. Each step he takes toward me pulls the air tighter.When he stops in front of me, I tilt my head back to look up at him. There’s no arrogance in his face, no calculation. Just James, raw, unguarded.J
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