All Chapters of The Billion Dollar Bet: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

CARTER'S POV My mother lived in Connecticut still, in the house she'd bought after finally divorcing my father. I hadn't visited in six months, our relationship reduced to monthly phone calls where we talked around everything that mattered and pretended we were fine. But at seven AM on a Thursday I

The question hung there. I wanted to argue, wanted to insist I'd fundamentally changed, that two years of therapy and financial ruin had transformed me into someone worthy of being August and James's father. But sitting in my mother's kitchen at nine-thirty on a Thursday morning, having driven three

"Carter." She caught my arm as I headed for the door. "I do want to meet them. Someday. If Grace allows it. Not because I'm trying to insert myself into their lives but because they're my grandchildren and I—" Her voice broke. "I'd like to know them if that's ever possible." "You'd have a better ch

"They're two years old. Probably in some kind of daycare or preschool program during work hours. Grace runs her company mostly remote but travels occasionally for business. She has help, a nanny named Margot who lives on the property. Her mother visits from Portland regularly." I'd accumulated this

More photos. The twins at the beach, building sandcastles. At what looked like a library story time. Getting into Grace's car outside a small house that must be hers. Every photo was invasive, captured moments that should've been private, showed me a life I had no right to observe. But I couldn't s