All Chapters of My Best Friend’s Uncle… and My Baby Daddy: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

The sound of designer heels clicking echoed through the dimly lit, marble-clad hallway, the sharp, rhythmic strike against the polished floor being the only thing breaking the heavy, oppressive silence of the hallway. To anyone else, the sound might have been jarring, even threatening, but to Eleanor Kingston, it was a symphony of her own making. It was the sound of a joy that couldn't be experienced with mere words or simple actions—it was the pure, intoxicating vibration of total victory.Eleanor was ecstatic. She was now the CEO of Kingston Group, and words could not express the sheer, bone-deep glee that radiated through her veins. She had waited so long for this moment—almost twenty years of playing second fiddle, of being the "other" Kingston, the older sister who was expected to manage the background while the golden boy, Eric, took the spotlight. She had watched him be handed the keys to the empire while she was given projects that felt like charity work.But now? Now the thro

The atmosphere in the house had turned into a frozen wasteland. We were at a stalemate, living like two ghosts haunting the same hallways, neither of us speaking, neither of us daring to engage. Every time I saw Eric, my heart didn't flutter; it ached with a dull, throbbing resentment.I had been so incredibly wrong. I had let myself fall for the same man who had shattered me five years ago. I was a fool, Autumn. For god’s sake, five years ago, I was just a body to him—a sex toy to be used and discarded once the thrill was gone. What made me think anything had changed? He didn’t love me. He just needed a convenient wife to manage his home, look after his child, and provide a warm bed for him.If he truly saw me as someone worth marrying, would he have shoved his mother’s old ring on my finger like an afterthought? No grand gesture, no new beginning—just a hand-me-down from a dead woman. I was foolish to think he would ever truly love me. I was just a hopeless romantic playing a part i

Chloe was still acting perfectly normal with me, laughing at the same jokes and leaning into our old rhythms, but I couldn't shake the feeling. It was like a splinter under my skin—tiny and impossible to ignore. I kept watching her, looking for a slip-up, a glance at her phone that lasted too long, or a change of expression in her eyes.How do I even go about this? How do I accuse my best friend of conspiring with her vindictive, soul-crushing mother? It felt like a trap either way. On one hand, confronting her meant I might lose the only real friend I had left, even if she was completely innocent. But on the other hand, remaining silent meant sitting back while my family was potentially put at risk.It was a choice between being labeled as paranoid or being the one who saved our lives.I hated this so much. Why can’t life just be easy for once? Why can’t things just go my way without a hidden agenda or a knife behind my back? I huffed out a breath, louder than I intended, the sound e

We had gotten to the hospital in a blur of taillights and Eric’s panicked voice. The doctor had been running tests on me for what felt like an eternity, and the sterile, white walls of the room were beginning to feel like a prison. They had hooked me up to an IV bag to combat my dehydration, the cold fluid stinging as it entered my vein.Through it all, Eric was as tentative as ever, hovering over me like a shadow. He was worrying around the small room like a headless chicken, his expensive shoes squeaking against the linoleum as he paced back and forth. He thought he was helping, but he was honestly just giving me a headache. His constant motion, the way he kept checking the monitors and then looking at me with those wide, wet eyes, was doing nothing for my blood pressure."Can you please stop pacing around? You are making me dizzy all over again," I said, my voice tinged with an annoyed tone I couldn't hide.He stopped mid-stride and sank into the uncomfortable plastic chair by the

Chapter 59Eric’s POVI had instructed Gabriel to use the earlier released paternity test to curb the false reports circulating all over the internet. I knew it was Eleanor’s doing; it had her signature impatience. She hadn't been announced as CEO yet, so she decided tarnishing my image with false reports would get her the position much faster.Oh, Eleanor. I thought, shaking my head at her foolishness.To think I would be dealt with by her measly tactics. The only part that truly annoyed me was how this was affecting my wife and child. Autumn had already been hospitalized over stress complications; I didn’t want this affecting her even more. She was my responsibility first, before anything else.Because she was my responsibility, making sure she was at peace was my first priority. That’s why I had first instructed the staff not to speak on the current issues circulating on the internet, and then, I addressed them personally.FlashbackI stood before all of them—maids and guards—arran