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Chapter 40: Caleb Threats
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2026-02-02 01:03:40
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The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 160: First Appointment
Bella POVHe nodded. "The house I got you the last time, do you want to still use it, or""One thing at a time," I said. "Appointment first. Everything else after.""Okay," he said, without pushing it.I looked at my hands for a moment. "Are you scared?" I asked. He was quiet for long enough that I knew the answer was real when it came."Yes," he said. "Not about the baby, about you." He kept his eyes on the window. "The pregnancy. Whether it's safe, whether." He stopped. "I looked things up this morning while you were on the phone with Maya and I should not have looked things up.""Caleb.""I know," he said. "I know it's not helpful, I just" He looked at me. "You're the thing I can't lose. That's all. Everything else I can navigate but not that."I reached over and took his hand. "I'm strong," I said."I know you are," he said. "You're also the person I love most on this earth and that makes me irrational.""We're going to be okay," I said.He turned to look at me. "We're going to
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 159: Not So Surprise Pregnancy
Bella POVI pressed my face into his shoulder and felt the fear and the warmth and the strangeness of it all exist at once, which I was learning was how everything real felt.Tom's chair scraped back, his small footsteps. Then his arms around both our legs, his face tipped up between us with the grey eyes and the gap-toothed grin. "Are we hugging?" he asked. "I want to hug you."Caleb let out a breath of laughter and pulled back enough to reach down and pick Tom up, settling him between us, and Tom looked at both of us with the satisfaction of someone who had correctly identified the situation and inserted himself appropriately.He stayed like that for approximately a few seconds and then leaned back and looked between us."Is it better than a birthday?" he asked.Caleb considered this seriously. "Yes."Tom's eyes widened slightly. "Better than the dinosaur museum?""Much better," I said.He absorbed this. "Better than the submarine we're getting?""We're not getting a submarine," I s
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 158: Two Lines
Bella pov We officially merged all our businesses a few days after we got back, on a Thursday, in a conference room full of lawyers and paperwork. Caleb signed everything without reading it because I'd already reviewed it all. Black Enterprises and Hart Worldwide folded together in an equal partnership. Our lawyers called it unusually clean and refreshingly non-adversarial.We'd worked out the details on the island, at the kitchen table one afternoon. Neither of us found drafting business agreements during our honeymoon strange.The media called us a power couple headline after headline. Photos showed us at the press conference, standing together exactly as we were.At breakfast the next morning, Caleb scrolled through the coverage on his phone."Power couple," he said."I saw.""They've used that phrase fourteen times.""I counted eleven."He set the phone down. "How do you feel about being half of a power couple?""I was a power on my own for years. Adding you has complicated my b
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 157: Return to Reality
Bella POVThe penthouse smelled like Tom's shampoo and someone had been baking, which meant Maya had been here, and I stood in the entry hall for a moment with my bag at my feet and just breathed it in.Two weeks ago, it had been two weeks of sea air, constant sex, and endless talking. In that short time, I got to know more about Caleb than I had in our entire previous life together.The moment we stepped back into the apartment, the familiar smell of home hit me. It felt real—equally worth wanting.Caleb came in behind me, set the bags down, and went still. “Maya,” he said."Has to be," I said.Tom came running from the kitchen and launched himself at me. I caught him as his arms wrapped around my neck and legs around my waist."You were gone forever," he said into my shoulder."Fourteen days," I said."That's forever.""Did you miss me?"He pulled back, grey eyes solemn like his father's. "Every day. Maya let me have ice cream twice. I told her you wouldn't mind.""Did she say I wou
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 156: Honeymoon Day Eleven
Bella POVI did the math properly on day eleven. Dates, cycle, symptoms, timeline. I sat on the edge of the bath at six in the morning while Caleb slept, and I did it clearly and completely and looked at the answer without flinching.The answer was not seafood. The answer was not travel or different water or wedding planning or the body adjusting to anything.I sat there for a while with it.The nausea had been there every morning for weeks. The way certain smells started to irritate me. The tiredness that arrived in the afternoons which was so unusual, which I had been attributing to sun and swimming and the general physical activities of a honeymoon. The way I'd cried in the shower days ago for no reason I could name, which was not something I did, which was not something my body did, not without cause.There was a cause. I pressed both hands flat on my knees and looked at the bathroom wall and let the full weight of it dawn on me.I was not going to buy a test today. There was one
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 155: Honeymoon Day Seven
Caleb POVI noticed the wine first. Bella would pick up her glass, hold it, set it back down. Sometimes she'd take a sip and sometimes she wouldn't, but either way the glass ended the evening mostly full. She ordered sparkling water at dinner which was so unlike her.The mornings were the other thing. She was always up before me, which wasn't unusual — Bella had always woken early, it was one of her factory settings. But she was quieter in that first hour than she'd been even two weeks ago, moving through the kitchen in a drowsy manner.On day five I asked if she was sleeping well."Fine," she'd saidI knew better than to push. Bella came to things when she was ready and not a moment before, and pushing her toward something she hadn't yet decided to look at directly was the fastest way to make her put a wall up. So I watched and waited.Day seven started the way most days had started — me waking to an empty space beside me, following the smell of tea to the terrace, finding Bella alre
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 34: Grandmother Death
Bella pov "When?" I demanded through my sobs. "When did she die? What month?""April. April fifteenth."I'd been in London. Building my empire, raising Tom, surviving. And the one person who'd shown me genuine kindness, who'd looked at me like I was worth something, had died thinking I'd abandoned
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Bella POVThe morning after the reception, I woke to Tom jumping on my bed, his small body landing on my stomach with the force of a tiny meteorite. "Mommy! Mommy, wake up! Angela says we can go to the zoo today if you say yes!"I groaned and pulled him close, tickling his sides until he dissolved
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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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