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Chapter 31: Going To The Park
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2026-01-24 15:50:41
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The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 182: The Hunt Begins2
Caleb pov "Functioning," I said. "Which is all she'll allow herself to be until he's back." Diana nodded once, slowly, like that was something she understood completely. At 2 AM, Reyes's analyst found something. The background audio from the video—the mechanical cycling sound—matched a specific type of industrial HVAC unit used in warehousing complexes built between 2008 and 2015. There were fourteen such complexes in the city. Lena's team was already cross-referencing those against the partial plate's travel radius from the school. "We're narrowing it to four sites," Lena said, spreading satellite imagery across the table. "Here, here, here, and here. All within the plausible travel window from the school. All partially or fully vacant." "The HVAC unit narrows it further," Diana said, leaning over the imagery. "That specific model runs louder in units over fifteen thousand square feet. It's not the sound of a small warehouse." Lena pointed at two of the four sites. "These two
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 181: The Hunt Begins
Caleb POVI had run boardroom coups, I had dismantled hostile takeovers in forty-eight hours. I had stood in my father's office at thirteen while he told me that crying was a disease, and I had believed him for years.None of it had prepared me for watching Bella watch that video.I’d seen every side of Bella—her strength in boardrooms, her resilience in the hospital, and her quiet empathy for others. But I’d never seen the look that hit her face when Tom said, “Come find me.”In that moment, the fear she’d been holding back finally surfaced. I held her upright, my mind flashing to Tom on that concrete floor with his dinosaur backpack. He was five years old and alone, yet he’d stopped crying to be brave—using the exact words Bella had taught him.A cold, absolute rage settled in my chest. I grew up knowing what it felt like to be afraid, and I had promised myself Tom never would. Whoever put him on that floor was going to be systematically dismantled.Bella pulled herself together fir
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 180: The Panic
Bella pov "Jade Hart," I said immediately. "My sister. She's been building toward something for months. She has a history of paid operatives and the capacity to fund a short-term operation." I paused. "Victoria Lane is a possibility but she's under a plea deal. Diana Black's name came up in a threat network we dismantled last year, but she's been cleared and is currently in family therapy with us."Reyes nodded, writing. "Anyone else?"Caleb spoke. "My uncle, Cole Black. He was arrested months ago but he referenced there were 'more people like him but we never fully mapped his network."Reyes looked up at that. "We'll pull his associate list tonight.""How incomplete is the network map?" Reyes asked, looking at Caleb directly."Incomplete enough that we don't know what we don't know," he said. "Cole had been operating inside Black Enterprises for years before we found him. Shell companies, third-party contractors, at least two people we identified who we believe were feeding him info
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 179: The Panic
Bella pov The school's head teacher, Mrs. Jane, was a careful woman. I registered her deliberate calm voice immediately. "Mrs. Black, we've completed a full sweep of the building. Tom is not on the premises." The world went very quiet. "The last confirmed sighting was at 2:47 PM," she continued. "The gate camera shows him walking toward the pickup area. After that, there's a blind spot between the side gate and the main road. Our security company is pulling the full footage now." "How long has that blind spot existed?" My voice was surprisingly calm. A pause. "We're looking into that." "That's not an answer, Mrs. Jane." "I understand" "My five-year-old has been missing for over thirty minutes on your property," I said. "I need the footage timestamp, the name of every adult who was in the pickup area between 2:45 and 3:00, and I need you to confirm whether the side gate was locked or open. Right now, not in five minutes." She started giving me names. I wrote them on
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 178: One Year Later
Bella POVOn a Tuesday, Grace took her first steps. She walked from the coffee table toward Caleb’s waiting hands. Tom cheered so loud that she sat down in shock, giving him a look just like Caleb’s—as if she were trying to process why he was being so dramatic.She stood back up and tried again."Grace." Tom knelt down like a personal trainer. "You can do it. Look at Dad's hands. Walk to Dad's hands."Grace looked at him, then at Caleb’s hands, then back at Tom. She looked like she was deciding if his advice was actually worth it."She's thinking about it," Tom said."Give her a second," Caleb told him."I'm encouraging her.""You're overwhelming her."Tom looked at the baby. "Am I overwhelming you?"Grace grabbed the coffee table and pulled herself up, finished with the conversation. She stood there and looked at the distance to Caleb’s hands with a calculating look she had clearly inherited from me—though I’d never admit it."She's calculating," Caleb whispered, smiling."She gets t
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 177: Forgiveness
Caleb pov The room went silent. Even the therapist stopped taking notes. Some moments were too important to write down.Six weeks in, I was waiting on a corridor bench when Diana finished her session. She sat beside me and stared at the wall."I'm sorry," she said. "For the tests, the doubt, the years of misplaced anger. I know 'sorry' doesn't cover it.""It doesn't have to cover everything," I said. "It just has to be real."She glanced at me, her expression softening into a look that reminded me of the sister I’d had before everything broke. "It’s real," she said.I nodded. I thought of Tom asking about her and Grace bearing her name."Come home when you're ready," I said. "Not before. But when you are—come home."She was quiet for a long moment. "How's Tom?" she asked finally.Something in my chest loosened. "He asks about you every day," I said. "He told Grace you were coming back soon."The corner of her mouth moved. "He can't know that.""He decided it was true," I said. "So as
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 26: Playing the Game
Bella POVThe morning after my breakdown, I woke up with swollen eyes and a pounding headache. Maya was already in the kitchen making coffee when I emerged, and she took one look at my face before sliding a mug across the counter."You look like hell," she said bluntly."I feel worse." I wrapped my
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walked away before she could respond, my composure intact but my heart racing. Victoria Lane and Caleb. Of course. A beautiful socialite with connections and no moral compass, exactly his type. Not that I cared. I absolutely did not care."Bella." Ethan appeared at my elbow, his timing impeccable a
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Caleb POVI watched Bella walk away from me on that dance floor, her spine straight and her head high, and felt like I was drowning, years of searching, years of guilt and regret, and when I finally found her, she looked at me like I was poison.I deserved that look, infact i deserved worse. But Go
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Bella pov I tucked Tom into bed and sat beside him, smoothing his dark hair back from his forehead. "I love you, Tom. More than anything in the whole world.""Love you too, Mommy." His eyes opened slightly, that grey gaze so like his father's that it hurt. "Mommy? Why do I look different from you?
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