Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 301 - チャプター 304

The math of survival was simple.There were twenty-four hours in a day. Hope fed every three hours. That took forty-five minutes. Ethan needed to be woken up, fed, and homeschooled by the tutor Marcus had vetted. That took two hours in the morning and three in the afternoon.The lawyers needed him for the civil suit depositions. Two hours. The board needed him to stop the stock from bleeding out due to the client exodus. Four hours. Aurora... Aurora needed him to be the anchor that kept her tethered to the earth. That took every second he wasn't doing the other things.Liam did the calculation as he stood in the kitchen, staring at the coffee machine.If he optimized the transitions, if he ate while on conference calls, if he slept in twenty-minute bursts while Hope was in the swing... he could make it work.He had been making it work for fourteen days."Mr. Cross?"Liam blinked. The kitchen came back into focus. It was bright. Too bright.The tutor, a young man named Daniel, was stan

The woman standing in the nursery doorway looked like a general disguised as a grandmother.Mrs. Marianne Higgins was sixty years old, stout, and wore scrubs patterned with cheerful yellow ducks that seemed at odds with her terrifying competence. She held a clipboard. She smelled of peppermint and discipline."Feeding schedule?" she asked, pen poised.Aurora stood by the crib, her hand resting on the rail. It was 8:00 PM. The sun had set over the Hudson, taking the last of the day's false energy with it."Every three hours," Aurora whispered. "She takes two ounces. We use the slow-flow nipple because... because she forgets to breathe sometimes.""Preemie protocol," Mrs. Higgins nodded, writing it down. "I've handled twenty-six weekers, Mrs. Cross. Your daughter is a heavyweight compared to my last charge."Aurora looked at Hope. The baby was sleeping, swaddled tight in a muslin blanket. She looked peaceful. She didn't know that her mother was about to abandon her for eight hours."Doe