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The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 195: Healing Together
Caleb POVI cleared my calendar on a Wednesday morning and told James I needed three weeks.James, my assistant of years, had never heard me ask for even one full week off. He was quiet for a long moment before saying, "I'll reschedule everything possible and delegate the rest. Is there anything else I can do?""Tom has therapy on Tuesdays and Thursdays," I said. "Make sure nothing ever lands on those days.""Done," James said.There was a brief pause before James spoke again."Sir," he said, in a careful tone. "I want to say—I think this is the right call."James never offered opinions on my personal life. In years of working together, he had always just done the job. It was why I trusted him completely."Thank you, James," I said."Tom is a remarkable boy," he said. "The whole office has been—we've all been thinking about him."Looking at all the new white space on my calendar, I felt a wave of complete, physical relief."Tell them thank you," I said. "From both of us.""I will," J
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 194: Reunion
Bella pov "Diana." I said her name the way she sometimes said mine"You got there, you found the Malta connection. You stayed throughout helping out”."I'll be there for dinner," she said finally."I know.""Don't make it a thing.""I'm not making it a thing.""You're smiling," she said. "I can hear it.""Goodbye, Diana.""I'll bring wine," she said, and hung up.I set the phone down, finally letting myself feel the relief—a massive weight leaving my chest.From the living room, Tom called out, "Mummy? Where did you go?""Kitchen," I called back. "I'm here.""Can you come back? I woke up.""Coming," I said.Tom was sitting up on the sofa when I came back in. He looked at me with that same watchful, checking expression he'd had since coming home."You were on the phone," he said. "Was it about the bad person?"I sat beside him, and he immediately leaned into my side. "Yes," I said. "It's all sorted now. You don't need to worry anymore.""Are you sure?" he asked quietly."I'm sure."He
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 193: The News
Bella pov "Jade made a choice," he said, his voice quiet and absolute. "Jade, whom we both made an enemy of just by existing and being happy. That is not the same as your fault." He turned to face me. "You didn't put Tom in that room, she did.""My history""Is also the reason he's in the living room right now reading about velociraptors instead of being lost somewhere we couldn't reach him," he said. "Your history is exactly why you knew how to bring him home."I looked at him."He said he decided to be like you," Caleb said. "Alone and scared in that room, he chose you as his model. That is not the legacy of someone who failed him."I didn't answer. But I stopped gripping the counter quite so hard."Mummy." Tom's voice came from the living room, patient and certain. "Can someone come look at this fossil? It's a really interesting one."I looked at Caleb.He looked at me. "Go," he said quietly.I walked to the living room doorway. Tom was on the sofa with his book open across his kn
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 192: Tom's Terrors
Bella pov The night terrors started.They weren't nightmares—I had expected nightmares, the kind you could wake a child from and soothe. These were different. Tom woke up at 2 AM screaming, completely unseeing, and thrashing away from hands that weren't there. He called for me in a voice that broke something fundamental in my chest, because I was right there. I was holding him, but he couldn't hear me.Somewhere Grace started crying. Her room was two doors down. The walls in this penthouse were good, but not that good, and Tom's screaming had reached her even in her sleep.I heard Nadia's door open. Soft footsteps moved down the corridor. Then came Nadia's voice, low and steady—the particular murmur she used when she was settling Grace in the dark.I stayed with Tom.This was the thing nobody prepared you for—the specific, impossible mathematics of two children needing you at the same time, in different rooms, for different reasons. It was the way your body tried to go in both direct
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 191: Tom's Trauma
Bella POVTom slept in our bed for the first week.He didn't ask. On our first night home from the hospital, the doctors had cleared him, and the FBI was done asking questions. I had given him a bath, put him in his dinosaur pyjamas, and read him three books. Caleb sat on the other side of him, doing voices for the characters. When the books were finished, Tom simply didn't move. He lay between us with his hand tucked into mine, his eyes wide open, watching the ceiling."You can sleep," I told him."I know," he said."We're both here.""I know," he said again, and didn't close his eyes.I looked at Caleb over Tom's head as Caleb looked back at me. Neither of us suggested moving him.At some point in the early hours Tom fell asleep with his fingers still wrapped around mine.I lay there in the dark, listening to him breathe and thinking about the last forty-eight hours. I thought about the warehouse floor, his shaking body, and his voice crying, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. I did not sleep at
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 190: Caught
Jade pov "Yes," I said."Am I speaking with Jade Hart?" It was a woman's voice.Something cold moved through me."Who is this?" I asked."Special Agent Dana Reyes," she said. "FBI. Miss Hart, I need you to stay exactly where you are."Agent Reyes, I looked out the window at the river. The boat had moved so far down that I could no longer see it."How did you get this number?" I asked."We've had it for weeks," Reyes said. Her voice was just like I had heard before. "Miss Hart, I need you to stay exactly where you are."I looked around the room. The boring furniture, the bag I hadn't fully unpacked, and the second laptop open on the table."I don't know what you think""Fourteenth floor, facing east," she said. "Canary Wharf. We've been outside the building for eleven minutes."I closed my eyes.In the end, it was M. It was always going to be M—useful right up until the moment he became more scared of the police than he was of losing my money. I had known that was a possibility and us
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 82: Enter Ethan
Bella POVI didn't see Caleb for the rest of the gala. He'd disappeared after his devastating revelation, leaving me to navigate conversations and networking while my mind spun with humiliation and anger.He'd heard me, he heard everything. By the time I made it back to the penthouse, it was past m
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-31The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 81: The Dance
Bella pov The song was ending, our dance almost over, and I knew I should step away. But his arms were strong and warm around me, his scent was drowning me, and for just a moment, I let myself imagine what it would be like to give in. To let him kiss me in front of everyone, claim me publicly, mak
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-30The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 80: Business Talks
Bella pov I turned to find Ethan Pierce, CEO of Pierce Industries and one of the few self-made billionaires in the room. I'd met him a few times at business events, always found him charming and intelligent."Ethan, good to see you." I shook his hand. "You know Caleb Black?""We've met." Ethan's s
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-30The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 9: Nowhere to Go at 3:47 A.M
Bella pov The bus pulled into Crestwood at 3:47 AM, depositing me at a station that was little more than a covered bench and a flickering streetlight. The rain had stopped somewhere during the ride, leaving the air cold and damp, smelling of wet concrete and exhaust fumes.I stood on the sidewalk
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