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The CEO's Shattered Vows Chapter 6
"No."It was Lily's new favorite word, delivered with the conviction of someone who'd just discovered personal autonomy and planned to weaponize it. No to getting dressed. No to eating breakfast. No to leaving for Rosa's. No to everything Isabella suggested, needed, or desperately begged for."Lily, sweetie, we need to put on your shoes." Isabella crouched down, holding the tiny sneakers like peace offerings. "Mama has to go to work, and you get to play with Tommy and the other kids.""No!" Lily stamped her foot for emphasis, then took off running toward the bedroom wearing nothing but a diaper and one sock.Isabella checked her phone. 7:47 AM. She needed to leave in eight minutes or she'd be late. Again. Jennifer had been understanding about Isabella's occasional tardiness, but there was a limit to everyone's patience."Lily Grace Blake, you come back here right now."The sound of drawers being opened and emptied came from the bedroom. Isabella closed her eyes, counted to ten, remind
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Three months into her new job, Isabella finally moved into her own apartment. It wasn't much—a cramped one-bedroom in a building that had seen better decades, with radiators that clanked at odd hours and a refrigerator that hummed like it was trying to communicate. But it was hers. Hers and Lily's. No more sleeping on Grace's generosity, no more feeling like a burden.The apartment came unfurnished, which meant Isabella spent her first night there sleeping on an air mattress with Lily in the bassinet beside her. They had exactly three plates, two forks, one pot, and a collection of mismatched cups from the dollar store. The walls were bare except for water stains. The carpet was brown—whether by design or years of neglect, Isabella couldn't tell.It was perfect."What do you think, baby girl?" Isabella asked, holding Lily up to see their new kingdom. "It's not a penthouse, but it's ours."Lily, now three months old and getting chubbier by the day, just drooled on Isabella's shoulder.
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The discharge papers felt heavier than they should have in Isabella's hands. Two days in the county hospital had cost her nearly a thousand dollars even with the charity care discount. A thousand dollars she didn't have. A thousand dollars that could have bought diapers and formula and all the things her newborn daughter needed."Sign here, here, and here," the nurse said, her voice kind but tired. She'd probably processed dozens of discharge papers that day alone, seen dozens of scared new mothers walking out into uncertain futures.Isabella signed with shaking hands, her body still aching from labor. Lily slept in her arms, wrapped in a thin hospital blanket that Isabella would need to return. She'd dressed her daughter in the only outfit she owned—a simple white onesie Grace had brought to the hospital, along with a car seat Isabella knew her friend couldn't afford either."You have follow-up appointments scheduled?" the nurse asked, checking her tablet."Yes." Isabella had the pap
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The morning sickness hit Isabella like a freight train at exactly 6:47 AM, three days into her new life at the motel. She barely made it to the bathroom before her stomach emptied itself, leaving her shaking and sweating on the cold tile floor.This was her routine now. Wake up, throw up, cry a little, pull herself together, repeat.Grace had transferred the fifteen thousand as promised, but Isabella knew it wouldn't last forever. Motel rent ate up a chunk each week. Food, even the cheap stuff, cost more than she remembered from her bookstore days. And soon she'd need maternity clothes, baby supplies, medical care she couldn't afford.The panic attacks came at random times—in the shower, at the grocery store, lying in bed at 3 AM staring at water-stained ceiling tiles. What had she done? How was she supposed to raise a child alone with no money, no family, no plan beyond surviving the next twenty-four hours?But then she'd remember Damien's cold eyes as he called her a mistake. Victor
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Isabella woke to sterile white walls and the smell of antiseptic. Her head throbbed with each heartbeat, a dull ache that seemed to pulse in rhythm with the beeping machine beside her bed. For a blessed moment, she couldn't remember where she was or why everything hurt. Then it all came rushing back—the stage, the papers, Damien's cold eyes, Sophia's red dress, the applause that had felt like knives.She'd fainted. Collapsed in front of 500 people after signing away her marriage while her husband kissed another woman.A sob caught in her throat, but she swallowed it down. She was done crying over Damien Reeds. Done breaking herself into smaller pieces trying to fit into a life that had never wanted her."Oh thank God, you're awake." Grace's voice cut through the fog. Her best friend sat in a chair beside the hospital bed, mascara smudged under her eyes, still wearing the navy cocktail dress she'd worn to her own work event. "I got here as fast as I could. The hospital called me—you ha
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The emerald silk clung to Isabella's frame like a second skin, the fabric cool against her nervous fingers as she smoothed it down one more time. She'd chosen green deliberately—Damien's favorite color, though he'd never actually told her that. She'd learned it by watching him over five years of marriage, noticed how his eyes lingered on emerald cufflinks, how he always ordered mojitos with extra mint, how the leather chair in his study was that exact shade of deep forest green.That was what wives did, wasn't it? They noticed things. They paid attention. They tried."You look beautiful, Mrs. Reeds," her stylist, Monica, said with professional warmth as she made final adjustments to Isabella's upswept hair. The mirror reflected a woman Isabella barely recognized—polished, elegant, the perfect accessory for a billionaire's arm. The girl who used to wear paint-stained jeans and lose herself in secondhand novels felt like a distant memory, someone who'd existed in another lifetime."Than
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