All Chapters of Forbidden Love wtih my Ex-Husband's Billionaire Brother: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

 ✧🦋✧ Joseph ✧🦋✧Waking up in my own bed had never felt like anything special before, but this morning hit me completely different.The very first thing I noticed was Giselle curled up against my chest, sleeping so peacefully it made my heart ache in the best way.Her breathing came slow and steady, and one of her hands rested lightly right over my heart like she’d always belonged there, like she was made to fit perfectly against me.I didn’t move an inch. I couldn’t even if I wanted to. For those quiet moments, I just lay there watching her sleep, this huge, unstoppable smile spreading across my face without me even realizing it.God, this was everything. This was exactly how I wanted every single morning for the rest of my life to start, with her warm and close like this.Having her here made the whole penthouse feel alive and cozy in a way it never had. It wasn’t just some fancy, empty space anymore.

♥༺Joseph༻♥I tried so damn hard to act like everything was totally normal, like my whole world hadn’t just cracked wide open. I plastered on this fake smile that felt like it was splitting my face in two, chatted with Gigi the same way I always did over breakfast, and even dragged myself back to the office afterward, praying that diving into work would somehow drown out the storm raging in my head. It didn’t work. Every file I clicked on just blurred into meaningless lines.Every email sat there unread, mocking me while my brain kept circling back to that one brutal truth: my family had wrecked hers.The more I let that sink in, the tighter my chest got, like someone was squeezing the air right out of my lungs.I kept picturing what it would feel like if our lives were flipped, if someone had stolen everything my family had poured their blood, sweat, and tears into, wiped out years of backbreaking effort, and left us with nothing but ashes.I’d be furious. I’d carry that grudge forev

♥༺Esther༻♥Jefferey picking me up from work had turned into this whole regular thing in my life. At first it felt like a big surprise every single time, but now it just felt right, comfortable even.If I was being totally honest with myself, I was falling hard for him, maybe even more than I wanted to admit out loud because it scared me a little how much I looked forward to seeing his face at the end of every day.He’d tried to talk me into another fancy date night, but I shut that down quick and convinced him that just staying in for dinner at his place would be more than perfect.Honestly, I couldn’t even tell the difference between his mansion and those crazy expensive New York restaurants anymore. His personal chef whipped up meals that looked like they belonged on the cover of a gourmet magazine, and every single bite tasted even more incredible than it looked. The guy could probably make a five-star chef cry.The second I stepped into the dining room, the long table was already

♥༺Esther༻♥God, I wouldn't wish what Giselle was going through on my worst enemy, no. The pain in her eyes hit me like a punch to the gut. Those endless tears, her hands shaking so badly she could barely hold herself together, and the way she kept fighting just to catch a normal breath.It was obvious to anyone who looked at her that her entire world had been ripped apart at the seams, leaving nothing but broken pieces behind.I'd never been in love before, but my feelings for Jefferey had been growing stronger every single day lately, so I made myself picture it. What if I suddenly found out his family had completely destroyed mine? Just the thought of it made my chest squeeze so tight I could hardly breathe.Giselle's dad was stuck in a vegetative state thanks to Ken, and her mom had died from all the humiliation and heartbreak after everything that family had plotted against them.No matter how you sliced it, what happened to her family was straight-up cruel and vicious. But even wi

♥༺Giselle༻♥There was something straight-up magical about crawling into bed with a completely shattered heart and waking up the next morning like the universe had decided to hand me a fresh do-over.Last night I’d been totally drowning in this endless wave of pain, confusion, and gut-wrenching regret that wouldn’t let go. But this morning? Everything felt brand new, like the weight that had been crushing me had finally lifted.Real hope had found its way back to my heart, and damn, it felt good.Esther’s words from the night before kept echoing through my head the whole time I lay there, and the more I turned them over, the more I realized she was completely right.I’d wasted way too much energy just mourning everything my family had lost instead of standing up and fighting like hell to get it all back. That chapter of me feeling sorry for myself ended today, for good.I wasn’t about to let our family name get erased or dragged through the dirt because of the awful people who tried to