All Chapters of The CEO’s Contract Bride: Chapter 131 - Chapter 134

LUCIA’S POVBy the time Isabella and I left the apartment, the rain had started properly.Not the light mist that disappeared before touching the ground. This one struck the windshield hard enough to blur the cars ahead of us, and the wipers struggled to keep up. Isabella sat beside me with Claire’s file pressed against her stomach as though someone might try to take it from her.For the first ten minutes, she said nothing.I didn’t push her.She had spent most of the morning reading documents that suggested her mother’s death had been arranged, that Marcus might be connected to it, and that Ethan had known enough to investigate without telling her. There was no useful question I could ask that would make any of that easier.Marco had given me an address in Queens. It belonged to Eleanor Briggs, the sister of the mechanic named in the report. He hadn’t found the mechanic himself. Michael Briggs had disappeared from every database he checked shortly after Claire’s death, but his sister

ETHAN’s POVBrahms had grown heavier.Not by much.Just enough that I noticed it when I lifted him off the floor.“Tu as mangé des briques?” I asked into his hair."Have you been eating bricks?"He giggled.“Non. Des crêpes.” “No Pancakes."“That explains it.”He nodded with the seriousness of someone who had solved the problem completely.I smiled before I remembered where I was.The smile stayed.It just became harder to hold.“Tu m’as manqué?” he whispered."Did you miss me?"I looked at him.“Tous les jours.”"Every day."His arms tightened around my neck.Behind him, Abby picked up an empty cup from the table and carried it into the kitchen, although I was fairly certain it had been empty when she brought it out. Lucia followed her with the same lack of subtlety.Isabella stayed where she was.A few feet away.Arms folded.Still wearing her ring.I tried not to look at it again.Brahms leaned back far enough to study my face.“Tu rentres à la maison?”"Are you coming home?"The