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The Birth

Author: Garnet
last update publish date: 2026-04-30 05:40:39

Serena

Pain shot through my abdomen down to my legs. My lower body felt so horrible. My feet were pricking, and I couldn't resist the agonizing pain. It was at two in the morning, and it was nothing like I'd prepared for.

I had prepared so well for the incoming restlessness and welcome of the baby, but this — was unexpected. Definitely not for a dawn. None of it mattered.

What helped my breathing was my eyes on a mark on the wall, hands on the rail until my knuckle bones felt like they might co
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  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   Unexpected

    Serena My breath hitched when my eyes swept over my surroundings. I've always liked things like this. But today, that feeling evaporated the moment I felt a pair of eyes shooting into my back like twin bullets.I had been walking toward the conference hall with Mara, discussing the afternoon panel we were both supposed to speak on. My heels clicked against the floor in a rhythm I had perfected over years of corporate spaces. I was comfortable here. I was in control. And then the lift doors opened, and everything changed.I saw him the moment the doors slid apart. He was by the far wall, shoulders slightly hunched, pretending to look at his phone. The posture was weird and that was what gave him away. You do not spend three years with someone and then forget how they act, no matter how much time has passed. You do not share a life with a person and then lose the ability to read the language of their body.I knew immediately it was Damien.My chest constricted. My feet kept moving.

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   Not what I expected

    Damien's PovI booked a flight at half past eleven at night from one of the most frequented booking sites, from the comfort of my study desk, with the screen the only light in the room, the rest of the flat dark and quiet.I sat there for a while after confirming everything was set, and I wondered about what I was doing.Zara's last words still echoed through my head."Don't lie to her again. Even by accident."I stared at the booking confirmation on the screen.The flight was real.The reservation was real.The city was real.For the first time since leaving Zara's apartment, this no longer felt like an idea. It was something I had already committed to.I leaned back slowly.What exactly was I supposed to say when I found Serena?The question had followed me all evening.Every answer I came up with sounded wrong."I'm sorry."Too late."I didn't know."Not enough."Rose manipulated me."An excuse.I tried again."I wasn't responsible for everything that happened."That sounded even w

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   Time

    RoseI woke up having a feeling the day wasn't going to end well. Elias was in his high chair trying to put his fist in his mouth. I propped the tablet against the fruit bowl.I was reading a financial aggregator just like my usual routine. The headline caught my attention. It was about an investment conference in London with photographs attached.I read the name on the badge and my coffee cup hit the floor causing it to shatter. My hands froze mid-way. Instinctively, I turned and realized none of these affected Elias.Serena Whitmore was boldly in caps on the badge. My eyes settled on the image for a very long time. In it, she was standing in front of a banner. Hale Group International. Her name badge was clear. Her posture was straight. She looked like she had been doing this her whole life, and the aura I could read through it was so natural.The second photograph was worse.In the second one she was speaking to someone. It felt so engaged. Leaning in slightly. Looking at it, it wa

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   Hale Group International

    SerenaMaria suggested we make a conference. And here we are. I agreed before I was entirely sure why.This was more like an official opening. Attached is my name on the program under the Hale Group International heading. Visible but not loud. Present enough to register.Mara directly stated, “You can not run a six-billion-pound operation behind closed doors forever. People need to see you exist. They do not need just a speech. They have to see the face behind it as well.”I thought about it and realized she was right. And that was why I agreed to this conference.The conference was held in London, a hotel in the financial district that had been hosting investment events since before I was born. Three hundred and forty attendees, according to the program. Mostly institutional. A few private offices. Several people I recognised from Victor's files and had been briefed on by Marcus.I chose to wear a fitted grey suit. It wasn't my kind of style, but I had to look presentable. It fit co

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   A lot Happened

    Damien It's been a while since I visited Zara. We do keep in touch but not physically. Once I got to her apartment, she offered me water and we went straight into business. The place was small. Quiet. Too organized for someone who had only recently gotten her freedom back. There were books stacked neatly beside the window. Zara sat in the chair across from me, both hands in her lap, and she narrated what happened on the road that night the same way she had probably rehearsed it a thousand times. She sounded like she had promised herself that when this conversation finally came, she was not going to let the emotion of it get in the way of the information. From what she narrated, we were both in the car. Both of us. She was seated in the back seat. We had been coming home from somewhere she no longer remembered clearly, a school event or an errand, something ordinary. She described every detail she remembered. And from there, I knew not to doubt her. No one would come up with som

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   Zara

    ZaraI had been out of the facility for three weeks.People kept asking how I was adjusting. I said fine. They nodded and looked at me like they were checking something.The truth is, I was far from adjusting. I was working. Trying to smoothen things for the best.The flat Damien had arranged for me was small, which suited me. Clean, with a mini-sized desk by the window, which was what I needed. In the first week, I did not go out much. I sat at the desk and took my time to go through every piece of documentation I had kept in my head and began to transfer it into something I could work from.I tried recalling some names. Dates and their connections I had traced through the limited access the facility's system allowed.I had been very careful about what I saved on anything that could be monitored or transferred. I kept it up here, instead. All of it.I just needed to start one, and everything else flows behind it. I was not soft about what had happened to me.I want to be clear about

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   Serena Whitmore is Dead

    SerenaEli was four months old and had recently found ways to entertain himself and associate with nature.I, on the other hand, was trying to figure out something.Victor had left me more than I thought I could handle. And I was still trying to figure things out to be kept in place. It left me wit

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   False Alarm

    DamienI drove back from the facility with different kinds of emotions. Sadness. Confusion. Excitement. Anger and silence.Sefa sat in the passenger seat and said nothing for the first hour, which I was very grateful for. I had no idea how I was going to react or what I was going to say if he asked

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   What Rose Hid

    DamienI was serious about finding out what was really happening. The first time I got to the hospital, they turned me away at reception. It was kind of disheartening, but I wasn't one to give up that soon.Their main reason was that visitor access required advance arrangement with the patient or t

  • The Divorce That Ruined Him   The Ghost in the File

    Damien The flat was very quiet when I woke up. Rose wasn't around. I had called the lawyer and left a message. He wouldn't call back until eight, and I had nothing to do with the hours between. I poured a drink and did not touch it. I took my time to search for an old document. And when I

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