All Chapters of The CEO’s Contract Bride: Chapter 61

ISABELLA’S POV Two weeks passed after the ISMARA launch.In those two weeks, I kept my routine steady and careful. Meetings. Production calls. Interviews. Planning the next stage of the collaboration.But there was one thing I had changed.Brahms.I limited our communication.It has not been easy. Every instinct told me to call him every day. To hear his voice. To ask about school. To ask about his day.But I didn't.Instead, I texted.Short conversations. Careful words.I did not call at all.Because I knew Ethan could be listening.Because I knew Ethan would have started asking questions the night Laurent had spoken the name.Brahms.The name had stayed in Ethan's mind. I had seen it in his eyes.So I waited.I protected my son the only way I could.Distance.Abby sent photos daily. Brahms at piano lessons.Brahms playing in the garden.Brahms asking when Mama was coming home.Each photo felt like a knife. But I couldn't call. Couldn't risk speaking to him where Ethan might hear. C