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Chapter 38: Bella Dilemma
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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 176: Saving Diana
Caleb POVThe facility was forty minutes outside the city, tucked behind pines—a place where discretion was part of the price. I’d found it, called in favors, and confirmed a bed before dawn. The director spoke with the flat, careful tone of someone used to dealing with people like me: families driven by urgency and guilt.Diana agreed to go. Her quiet compliance told me more about her state of mind than any words could. During the two-hour intake, I sat in the waiting room and thought about my sister at sixteen. I’d spent years trying to forget the look on her face when Victor sent her away, because remembering it meant admitting I’d done nothing. I’d been young, terrified, and focused only on my own survival.I had filed that memory away, the "Black family method" of dealing with trauma. It was something I understood intellectually but hadn't actually resolved.Bella sat beside me while Diana was taken for assessment."You couldn't have stopped it," she said. "You were a child."I l
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 48: A Child's Question
Caleb POVTuesday came faster than I expected and slower than I wanted. I'd spent the past three days reading parenting books until my eyes burned, researching child psychology, and planning activities that would make Tom smile the way he had during our first visit.I arrived at the hotel precisely
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Caleb pov My throat closed up completely. I couldn't speak, couldn't move, could barely breathe. He remembered me. My son remembered me."Hi, Tom," Maya said gently, sitting down next to him. "Remember how I told you we were meeting someone today? This is Caleb. He's Mommy's friend, and he wanted
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Bella pov "Because you can influence how it happens," Jennifer said. "You can work with him to create a schedule that minimizes disruption to Tom's life. You can set boundaries about where visits happen, who supervises them, how Caleb is introduced. Or you can fight him every step of the way, spen
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Caleb pov The question hung in the air, and I saw everyone watching me, waiting to see how I'd respond."years ago, you would have been right," I said quietly. "I was dead inside, so focused on control that I couldn't let myself feel anything. But Bella, losing you broke something open in me. I've
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