All Chapters of You Had This Divorce Coming: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Otto's gaze moved past Rayne and settled on the baby in the nanny's arms. Something in his expression shifted, slight enough to disappear almost immediately.He stepped forward and took Connor. For a while, he simply looked down at the small face in his arms. Then he frowned. "Why is he asleep again? Does he ever wake up?"Since returning to Coasthaven, he had checked on Connor every time he visited. Every single time, Connor had been asleep.The nanny hesitated. "Sir, babies this young sleep most of the time. It's… perfectly normal."'Normal?' Otto turned the word over in his mind but said nothing. He handed the baby back without comment, then turned and headed for the door.Throughout the entire visit, he hadn't looked at Gideon even once.They had grown up together. Summer camps, cross-country training, always paired together. They had done wilderness survival courses and extreme sports.They had even stood side by side on the savanna watching the great migration. Out there,

"I have done nothing wrong. My conscience is clear. I held the line the entire time, and I never crossed it. Not in thought, not in action. I would swear to that on anything." Gideon let out a sharp breath. "I never imagined Lucille would see it this way. Fine. But you? My sworn brother? You're really going to let some fabricated hit piece online make you question my character?"Otto had heard enough. He rose to his feet, his cold gaze fixed on Gideon."You still don't understand what you did wrong. Even now." He shook his head slowly. "There's no point trying to wake someone who's pretending to sleep. Let's leave it there."He turned to go, but Gideon's voice followed him, raw with indignation. "Otto, tell me. What exactly did I do wrong? I looked after Rayne through her entire pregnancy. I was there every day while she recovered."I never changed my own daughter's diaper. Never fed her once. I wasn't even in the room when she was born."But I was the first to change your son's d

Lucille closed her eyes as pain and loss flickered across her face, then vanished just as quickly. "Lillian is enough. She's all I'll ever need. No man is worth going through that again."The mood in the fitting room changed. What Lucille left unsaid weighed more heavily than what she had spoken aloud.People always said a husband's care was the best medicine during childbirth and recovery. They said the most painful, exhausting, and vulnerable period of a woman's life became bearable when someone stayed by her side.Lucille had gone through all of it alone. She had survived the only way she could, by relying entirely on herself.No matter what happened next, she would never forgive Gideon for that in this lifetime.Gwen's mouth had been hanging open for several seconds. The store manager, still helping Lucille with the dresses, slowly shook her head."That's just how it is. A vaginal delivery tears you apart. A C-section leaves you with a wound you can't even touch. And the firs

Otto checked his watch. "I have a few things to take care of. I'll leave you to it. See you another time."Lucille and Gwen said their goodbyes.He turned and walked out with the same clean, unhurried stride, and moments later, he was gone.Gwen clapped both hands over her mouth. The sound that escaped her was anything but quiet."Oh my God. That man. The face, the bone structure, the hair, the skin, the build, the whole presence... Every single category, top of the range. Rayne must have sold her soul in a past life. She married him and had his child? Absolutely unreal."If I could marry someone like that, I would do anything he asked, any hour of the day. I would be in that bed every night waiting for him. I would get a medical procedure just to eliminate all future inconveniences. I wouldn't waste a single minute," she said seriously.Lucille looked at her. "Gwen, pull yourself together.""How? How does someone look like that and still exist in regular society?" Gwen wondered

Gideon had two demands. He wanted to see his daughter, and he wanted to know where Lucille was living and who she was living with.Lucille intended to give him neither. She turned off her phone and spent the entire week inside Pinehill Estates, cutting off all contact while ensuring no one entered or left.Throughout the week, the trending topics never cooled, and the Prescott Group's stock continued its steady decline.The internet could not stop talking about Gideon and Rayne.Meanwhile, Lucille lived in the finest residence in Coasthaven, slept soundly for the first time in months, and spent her days with Lillian.After a week, she was ready for the next step: Lillian's registration.She had been waiting for her mother to return from Asthrala with the birth certificate, but Joanne hadn't replied to a single message. There was no way to know when she would come back.Lucille wasn't the type of person to sit still once she had made a decision.She thought of Walter. He knew ev