All Chapters of The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride : Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

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Chapter 171: Coming Home

Bella POVThe nurse handed her to me by the car and said, "You're ready." She was talking about Grace—the signed paperwork, the weight gain, the perfect oxygen levels—but I felt it differently. Like she was saying it to me.You're ready.I buckled her in. My hands were entirely steady, which surprised me. Every other milestone of the last month had hit me sideways, but this arrived solid and clear. Grace looked up with the unfocused gaze of a newborn, and the weeks of waiting finally settled into something finished. We were going home.Caleb stood beside me. He didn’t try to take over the buckle, which was progress."You're not going to say anything?" I asked, straightening up."About what?""The buckle, the angle. Whether the straps are tight enough."He looked at me with a perfectly calm expression. "The straps are fine.""You checked.""I checked before," he said. "While you were signing the last form. I just didn't say anything about it."I looked at him for a moment. "That's very

Chapter 172: New Normal

Bella POV Weeks later, I found a rhythm. Caleb had told James to clear his schedule for weeks the day we brought Grace home. James had complied without a single question, which said everything about how well he read the room. Caleb then proceeded to become the most committed primary caregiver I had ever witnessed—and I had seen Maya with Tom, which had previously held the record. He was up at five with Grace. He had the morning feed, the diaper, the swaddle, and the settling sorted before I was even fully awake. He handled it simply like a man who had decided this was his job and was doing it thoroughly. It was a strange, quiet domesticity. The man who could command boardrooms was now obsessing over the perfect swaddle tension and the precise temperature of a bottle, moving through the house with a sleeping infant against his shoulder like it was the most natural thing in the world. Watching him with her—and watching Tom shadow his every move, helping with the diaper bag or

Chapter 173: Diana's Breakdown

Diana POVI found it on a Tuesday, buried in secondary estate documents—a codicil from a dissolved Geneva law firm executed months before Victor Black died. It had taken days of forensic work to understand what it said, and when I finally did, I sat at my hotel desk for a long time without moving.It wasn't about the business or Caleb. It was about me. Specifically, it was about the trust Victor established when I was born, the one he told me as a child would be mine at twenty-five. He had redirected every penny to a foundation in his own name—a monument to himself. It was gone before I was old enough to claim it, structured so carefully I never would have found it if I hadn't been looking for something else entirely.It shouldn't have mattered. I had built my own life and needed nothing from his estate. But it hit me like the floor had opened.The money wasn't the point; the deliberation was. He had looked at the trust for his daughter and decided to erase it without a word, acting a

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Chapter 174: Diana's Breakdown2

Diana POV"I needed somewhere nobody knew."She didn't push on, "Where are you?""Bella" I sat up straighter. "You don't need to — it's quite late, Grace will need""Caleb has Grace, And we have Nadia."I had forgotten about Nadia. The nanny they had finally settled on after what Caleb had once described to me simply as a long process — which I knew, from Bella, was the understatement of the decade. I knew about Singapore. I knew about the cameras and the flight home and Tom crying himself into a fever, and I knew that Bella's caution about who she left her children with was not a personality quirk but something she had earned the hard way. Caleb had understood that. He hadn't tried to talk her out of it — he'd sat down with her and made a list and found someone together. Nadia had been with them for a week now, which by any measure meant she had passed every test worth passing.My thoughts were interrupted by Bella. “what’s the name of the hotel Diana?""I'm fine. I just needed to""

Chapter 175: Diana's Breakdown pt 3

Diana POVCaleb arrived minutes later. When he saw me, an expression flickered across his face that he didn’t bother to hide.He lingered in the doorway, assessing the room. His hair was windblown, as if he’d driven with the windows down.He glanced at Bella; she gave him a small nod. Then his eyes settled on me. I watched a look take hold of him that I couldn't quite name."Hey," "Hey," I said.He crossed the room and sat on the other side of me from Bella and didn't say anything else for a moment."I'm not going to ask if you're okay," he said finally."Good," I said. "Because I'm not.""Okay." He leaned forward, elbows on his knees, looking at the floor. "Do you want to talk about it or do you want to just sit here?""I don't know yet.""That's fine," he said. "We've got time."The three of us sat in the quiet hotel room, neither of us talking .Then Caleb spoke. "Tell us about the documents. Both of them."I looked at him. "You know there are two?""Bella told me," he said, glanc

Chapter 176: Saving Diana

Caleb POVThe facility was forty minutes outside the city, tucked behind pines—a place where discretion was part of the price. I’d found it, called in favors, and confirmed a bed before dawn. The director spoke with the flat, careful tone of someone used to dealing with people like me: families driven by urgency and guilt.Diana agreed to go. Her quiet compliance told me more about her state of mind than any words could. During the two-hour intake, I sat in the waiting room and thought about my sister at sixteen. I’d spent years trying to forget the look on her face when Victor sent her away, because remembering it meant admitting I’d done nothing. I’d been young, terrified, and focused only on my own survival.I had filed that memory away, the "Black family method" of dealing with trauma. It was something I understood intellectually but hadn't actually resolved.Bella sat beside me while Diana was taken for assessment."You couldn't have stopped it," she said. "You were a child."I l

Chapter 177: Forgiveness

Caleb pov The room went silent. Even the therapist stopped taking notes. Some moments were too important to write down.Six weeks in, I was waiting on a corridor bench when Diana finished her session. She sat beside me and stared at the wall."I'm sorry," she said. "For the tests, the doubt, the years of misplaced anger. I know 'sorry' doesn't cover it.""It doesn't have to cover everything," I said. "It just has to be real."She glanced at me, her expression softening into a look that reminded me of the sister I’d had before everything broke. "It’s real," she said.I nodded. I thought of Tom asking about her and Grace bearing her name."Come home when you're ready," I said. "Not before. But when you are—come home."She was quiet for a long moment. "How's Tom?" she asked finally.Something in my chest loosened. "He asks about you every day," I said. "He told Grace you were coming back soon."The corner of her mouth moved. "He can't know that.""He decided it was true," I said. "So as

Chapter 178: One Year Later

Bella POVOn a Tuesday, Grace took her first steps. She walked from the coffee table toward Caleb’s waiting hands. Tom cheered so loud that she sat down in shock, giving him a look just like Caleb’s—as if she were trying to process why he was being so dramatic.She stood back up and tried again."Grace." Tom knelt down like a personal trainer. "You can do it. Look at Dad's hands. Walk to Dad's hands."Grace looked at him, then at Caleb’s hands, then back at Tom. She looked like she was deciding if his advice was actually worth it."She's thinking about it," Tom said."Give her a second," Caleb told him."I'm encouraging her.""You're overwhelming her."Tom looked at the baby. "Am I overwhelming you?"Grace grabbed the coffee table and pulled herself up, finished with the conversation. She stood there and looked at the distance to Caleb’s hands with a calculating look she had clearly inherited from me—though I’d never admit it."She's calculating," Caleb whispered, smiling."She gets t

Chapter 179: The Panic

Bella pov The school's head teacher, Mrs. Jane, was a careful woman. I registered her deliberate calm voice immediately. "Mrs. Black, we've completed a full sweep of the building. Tom is not on the premises." The world went very quiet. "The last confirmed sighting was at 2:47 PM," she continued. "The gate camera shows him walking toward the pickup area. After that, there's a blind spot between the side gate and the main road. Our security company is pulling the full footage now." "How long has that blind spot existed?" My voice was surprisingly calm. A pause. "We're looking into that." "That's not an answer, Mrs. Jane." "I understand" "My five-year-old has been missing for over thirty minutes on your property," I said. "I need the footage timestamp, the name of every adult who was in the pickup area between 2:45 and 3:00, and I need you to confirm whether the side gate was locked or open. Right now, not in five minutes." She started giving me names. I wrote them on

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