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Chapter 159: Custody
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The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood Chapter 170: Family
POV: CharlotteNathan, Margaret, and Victoria stood awkwardly together in the center of the mansion’s main living room.I did not offer them a seat. I stood a few feet away, my arms crossed lightly over my growing stomach, waiting for one of them to speak. Victoria had a small travel coat draped over her arm. I knew she was leaving New York today.Nathan broke the heavy silence first. The proud, untouchable posture he had carried my entire life was completely gone. He looked like an old, defeated man.“We came because we owe you an apology,” Nathan said, his voice thick with uncomfortable shame. “For your entire life, we treated you like a placeholder. We hid the truth about your adoption because we were only worried about the Whitmore public image. We raised you to believe that your only value was in serving this family. When I told you that you were useful, I thought I was giving you a compliment. I should have been telling you that you were loved. I’m sorry for making you sacrifici
The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood Chapter 169: Victoria’s Decision
POV: Victoria“I cannot stay in New York,” I said.I folded a simple black sweater and placed it carefully inside the small suitcase on my bed.My mother stood near the doorway of the cheap, rented apartment. She did not argue with me. She did not tell me that the public news would blow over in a few weeks, or that the reporters would eventually find a different, more exciting story to chase. She just stood there holding her purse, watching me with quiet, sad eyes.I looked down at the open suitcase on the thin mattress. It was very small. I was not packing the beautiful, expensive silk dresses I used to wear to fancy business dinners. I was not packing my shiny high heels, my expensive watches, or the heavy jewelry that proved how much money I made. I was only packing plain, normal clothes. My old life as a powerful business woman was completely gone. I did not want to carry the heavy pieces of it with me anymore.“Every single street in this city reminds me of a terrible choice,” I
The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood Chapter 168: Eleanor’s Peace
POV: Charlotte“We asked you to come over today because we have something special to share with you,” Damien said, his voice warm and steady as he sat beside me on the sofa.Eleanor lowered her teacup, a bright spark of curiosity in her eyes. For the first time since I had met her, she did not look like a woman carrying the heavy weight of an empire on her shoulders. The strict, unbending posture she had always used to protect herself was gone. She looked softer, younger, and completely at peace.“Oh?” Eleanor asked, glancing happily at my growing stomach. “Is everything alright with the baby?”“The baby is perfectly healthy,” I answered, resting my hand on my bump. “But this is actually about the two of us.”Damien reached over, weaving his fingers gently through mine. His steps across the room earlier had been perfectly steady, his back straight, and the healthy color in his face was undeniable. Watching him recover, and seeing how naturally I had settled into both the family and th
The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood Chapter 167: Learning to Live
POV: DamienIt had been many weeks since the treatments started. Every week, the clear medicine dripped into my arm. At first, the changes were far too small to notice. I still felt very tired. I still had bad days where my muscles ached. But slowly, the heavy fog inside my head began to lift.Then, one morning, the changes were suddenly impossible to ignore.I stood in front of the large mirror in our master bathroom. I was looking closely at my own face. The constant, crushing headaches were finally gone. My skin had a healthy, warm color again. The dark, heavy shadows under my eyes had completely faded away. For the very first time in two years, I finally recognized the man looking back at me. I looked like Damien Blackwood again.Charlotte walked into the bathroom. She stopped near the doorway. She did not say a single word. She just looked at my face, and a soft, beautiful smile spread across her lips. She could see the exact same thing I saw. The sick man was finally gone.Later
The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood Chapter 166: Treatment Begins
POV: CharlotteThe bright morning light filled our large bedroom. It was a brand new day. For the first time since I moved into this giant house eleven months ago, the light actually felt warm and welcoming.I stood near the edge of the large bed. I was watching Dr. Adrian Keller carefully set up a tall metal medical pole. He hung a clear plastic bag of liquid from the very top hook. A long, thin plastic tube ran all the way down from the bag and connected directly into a small needle resting in Damien’s arm.This was called chelation therapy. Dr. Keller had explained the big medical words to us earlier in a very simple way. The clear liquid slowly dripping into Damien’s arm was a special medicine. It was designed to go deep into his blood, grab tightly onto the fake heavy metal poison that Ethan had given him, and safely carry it right out of his body.For two whole years, Damien had been fighting a terrible ghost. He had been fighting a dark, mystery sickness that nobody could name
The Substitute Bride Of The Blackwood Chapter 165: Victoria’s Fate
POV: VictoriaThe rain was falling hard against the single small window of the cheap rented apartment. I sat on the edge of a thin, hard bed and stared at the peeling paint on the wall.It had been three days since the federal police finally let me go.I spent hours sitting in that cold, windowless room with Agent Miller. He had searched through all my phone records, my computer emails, and my bank accounts. After looking at every single message I had ever sent to Sebastian, the police finally reached a clear conclusion. I did not know anything at all about the deadly poison.I had only given Sebastian small, harmless details. I told him about daily schedules, driving routes, and family gossip. Being a jealous, bitter sister was a terrible thing to be, but it was not a federal crime. I was completely cleared of all criminal charges. I was allowed to walk out the front doors of the police building as a free woman. I would not have to go to prison.But being free from jail did not mean
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