All Chapters of The Billionaire’s Convenient Ex-Wife : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

The gun in Delilah's hand trembled, but her finger remained steady on the trigger."Nobody move," she said, her voice eerily calm despite the madness burning in her eyes. "Close the door, Blake. Lock it."Blake hesitated, his face pale with terror. "Delilah, please. This isn't—""DO IT!" she screamed, and the sound echoed off the sterile walls like a gunshot. "Lock the fucking door or I'll put a bullet in her stomach right now!"Blake's hands shook as he turned the lock, the click seeming to seal our fate. The room suddenly felt smaller, more suffocating, like a tomb where we were all waiting to die."Good," Delilah said, her voice dropping back to that unnaturally calm tone. "Now everyone sit down. Hands where I can see them."Victoria remained standing, her spine straight and defiant despite the weapon pointed in our direction. "You're making a mistake, Delilah. One you won't be able to come back from.""Am I?" Delilah laughed, and the sound was like breaking glass. "Because from wh

The hospital corridor erupted in chaos.Heavy footsteps pounded against linoleum. Shouted commands echoed off sterile walls. The sound of tactical gear clanking with every urgent stride.The SWAT team rushed in and grabbed both Blake and Delilah. Delilah screamed over and over like a woman possessed. “I will never let you have my life!!”I just knelt there beside Victoria on the cold floor, numb, in shock. The paramedics worked frantically around us. Her blood had soaked through my hospital gown, warm and sticky against my skin. The metallic scent mixed with antiseptic and fear."Ma'am, we need to move her now," one of the paramedics said, his hands applying pressure to Victoria's chest wound. "She's losing too much blood."But I couldn't let go. This woman—my real grandmother— a woman I’d never known all my life, had taken a bullet meant for me. For my baby.And now, it looked like I was going to lose her before I even got to be with her. I wouldn’t even get to know her at all. S

Blake looked up, his eyes hollow. "She said it was because she loved him. Because she couldn't stand to watch him throw his life away on someone who would never be good enough."The words stung, even though I knew they weren't true. This was how Lydia saw me—as a threat to her son's success, a stain on the family reputation that needed to be removed."There's something else," Blake said quietly. "Something she made me promise never to tell."Jules waited."She said if Scarlett ever got pregnant, it would ruin everything. That she'd never let some poor girl's bastard inherit the Blackwood empire." Blake's voice broke. "She said she'd do whatever it took to make sure that baby was never born."The blood in my veins turned to ice. My hand moved instinctively to my stomach, protecting the life growing inside me.Dominic turned from the window, his face a mask of cold fury. "She threatened an innocent child?""She said families like yours don't mix with families like Scarlett's," Blake con

"So what happened to Dina?" I asked Jules, who was perched on the windowsill like a deadly bird, her eyes constantly scanning the hospital parking lot below. "Still in custody," she replied without looking away from her surveillance. "Dominic wants you settled and safe before we decide what to do with her." "She almost killed me with a smile on her face." "Yeah, well, she's not smiling now. Turns out attempted murder charges have a way of wiping the grin right off someone's face." Despite everything, I found myself almost smiling. "You're enjoying this way too much." "After what she tried to do to you and the baby? I'm enjoying it exactly the right amount." Jules finally turned to look at me. "Besides, watching Dominic tear through that hospital like the wrath of God was pretty entertaining too." "He did break down a reinforced steel door." "With his bare hands. I've got the security footage. Might frame it for your anniversary." "We don't have anniversaries. We have a

That was apparently Jules's breaking point.She moved faster than I'd ever seen her move, crossing the room in two strides and slamming her hand down on the woman's tablet so hard the screen cracked."Let me explain something to you," Jules said, her voice low and deadly. "The woman you just insulted has survived multiple assassination attempts in the last forty-eight hours. She's been poisoned, pushed down a marble staircase, and held at gunpoint by someone trying to murder her unborn child. And through all of that, she's been more composed and intelligent than any of you overpaid vultures."The lawyers stepped back instinctively, probably recognizing predator when they saw it."Furthermore," Jules continued, "she's sitting in this hospital room because she refused to leave the bedside of the woman who took a bullet protecting her. So before you start questioning her mental fitness, maybe you should question your own professional competence."The thin lawyer tried to recover his comp