Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Billion Dollar Bet: Kabanata 101 - Kabanata 110

I didn't look at Carter. Didn't need to. The message was clear enough. The applause when I finished felt distant, muted. I walked off stage and immediately looked for Aisha, needing to leave before Carter could corner me again. She appeared at my elbow like she'd been waiting. "Can we go? Please?"

"Do they? What are you going to tell them—that their dad bet on their mom like she was a horse race? That he called her a liar when she said she was pregnant? That he spent three years treating her like a trophy before destroying her?" Marcus wasn't pulling punches. "Because that's who their father

I stared at those shoes trying to imagine the children who wore them. Trying to picture my sons running on a beach somewhere in Oregon, Grace chasing after them, all three of them happy in a life that didn't include me. The blue sneakers looked worn, well-used. The red ones were newer, cleaner. One

The nausea hit hard. I barely made it to the bathroom before I was throwing up, my body rejecting this information the same way it would reject poison. I'd destroyed my marriage, destroyed Grace, and in the process I'd destroyed any chance of being a father to children who actually existed, who were

"I promise." I meant it. I was too overwhelmed to make good decisions right now, too emotional to trust myself not to do exactly what Marcus had warned against—push too hard and make everything worse. We hung up and I stood in my apartment surrounded by evidence of my obsession. Laptop open to I***