All Chapters of Pregnant By My Billionaire Ex Husband: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter 10 — The Scandal Breaks

By midday, the story was everywhere. BLACKWOOD BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET SON. EX-WIFE HID CHILD FOR THREE YEARS. WHO IS ELENA HART? The headlines spread like fire. Elena stood in Adrian’s private study, staring at the tablet in her hands while Leo played upstairs under Mrs Hale’s watch. Her face appeared on every gossip site. Old wedding photos. Blurred images of her leaving the clinic. Speculation about betrayal, gold-digging, revenge. One headline made her stomach turn. DID SHE PLAN THE PREGNANCY PAYDAY? The tablet shook in her hands. Adrian took it from her before she dropped it. “I’ll bury this,” he said. “How?” Her voice sounded far away. “It’s everywhere.” “Lawyers. Injunctions. Pressure on advertisers.” “You can’t erase what people already think.” His expression darkened. “I can make them regret printing it.” Elena laughed bitterly. “That is always your answer. Control. Threaten. Destroy.” “Would you prefer I do nothing?” “I would prefer our son’s existence not bein

Chapter 11 — The Empty Garden

Chapter 11 — The Empty GardenElena’s scream tore through Blackwood House.“Leo!”She ran up the staircase, Adrian behind her, Mrs Hale sobbing somewhere below. The nursery door was open. The little boat-shaped bed was empty.And Bunny lay on the floor.Elena froze.Leo never left Bunny behind.Not for breakfast. Not for bath time. Not even when he was angry.She dropped to her knees and grabbed the stuffed rabbit with shaking hands. “No. No, he wouldn’t leave this.”Adrian stood in the doorway, his face pale but controlled.Too controlled.“Search every room,” he ordered into his phone. “Lock every gate. Nobody leaves the property.”Elena turned on him. “You said this house was safe.”His jaw tightened. “I know.”“You promised me.”“I know.”“No!” she cried, clutching Bunny to her chest. “Do not stand there saying you know. Find my son.”Adrian’s eyes darkened. “Our son.”The words struck her hard.Because this time, he was right.Leo was theirs.And Leo was gone.They ran to the sec

Chapter 12 — The Kiss After the Storm

The gates of Blackwood Private Airfield burst open before Adrian’s car had fully stopped.Rain hammered the windscreen. Security lights cut through the night in harsh white beams, flashing across the empty runway, the hangars, the waiting jet at the far end.Elena’s heart was no longer beating.It was breaking.“Leo!” she screamed, throwing open the car door before Adrian could stop her.“Elena, wait!”She didn’t.She ran across the wet concrete, Bunny clutched in one hand, her shoes slipping beneath her. Adrian caught up to her within seconds, his arm coming around her waist just as two security guards appeared from behind a hangar.“Mr Blackwood!” one shouted. “We found the car!”“Where is my son?” Adrian demanded.The guard pointed toward a small service building beside the runway.Elena tore herself from Adrian’s grip and ran.Inside, the room smelled of oil, dust, and rain-soaked concrete. A chair lay overturned. A phone buzzed on the floor. And in the corner, wrapped in a coat f

Chapter 13 — The Morning After

Adrian’s bedroom had not changed.Elena noticed that first, though she wished she hadn’t. The same dark wood. The same grey linen. The same low lamps spilling amber light across a room that had once been called theirs, though it had never felt as if it belonged to her.It still smelled faintly of cedar and rain and him.That was the worst of it.Adrian closed the door behind them. Quietly. Carefully. As if even the sound of the latch might send her running.Only minutes ago, he had carried her down the corridor with his mouth on hers and his hands shaking against her body. Now he stood several feet away, shirt creased from where she had clutched it, hair no longer perfect, breath still uneven.But he did not touch her.Elena folded her arms, more to steady herself than to shut him out. “Why did you stop?”His eyes dropped to her hands.“Because you’re shaking.”She looked down.He was right.A small tremor ran through her fingers, impossible to hide now that he had seen it. She curled

Chapter 14 - The Truth in His Sleep

lena’s heart broke in a new place.Leo stood in the doorway, small and pale in his pyjamas, Bunny tucked under his chin. Sleep still clung to him, but fear had dragged him fully awake.“Are you leaving again?” he asked.Elena was on her knees before she knew she had moved.“No, sweetheart.” She reached for him slowly, careful not to startle him. “No. I’m not leaving.”Leo looked over her shoulder at Adrian, then back at her. His gaze lingered on her wet cheeks.“You were crying.”“I know.” Elena brushed her face quickly, too late to hide anything. “Sometimes grown-ups cry too.”“Because of Daddy?”The word settled between them.Daddy.Behind her, Adrian went very still.Elena kept her eyes on Leo. Whatever was happening between her and Adrian, this mattered more. Leo mattered more.“Not because of you,” she said. “Never because of you.”Leo rubbed Bunny’s ear against his mouth. “But you were in his room.”Heat rose in Elena’s face, though he could not possibly understand what he had i

Chapter 15 - The Name on the Account

Adrian said nothing until they were outside the nursery.Even then, all he did was close the door.Gently.Too gently.Elena watched his hand stay on the handle for a moment after the latch clicked into place. His knuckles were white against the brass. Behind that door, Leo slept curled around Bunny, unaware that one sleepy sentence had changed everything.Grandma knew.The words would not leave her.“Adrian,” she said quietly.He turned.The man who had sat beside their son’s bed only minutes ago was gone. There was no softness left in him now. No grief on the surface. Just a cold, frightening stillness.“She used him,” he said.His voice was almost calm.That scared Elena more than shouting would have.“We don’t know everything yet.”“I know enough.”“No.” She stepped closer, then stopped herself before touching him. “You know what Leo said in his sleep. It matters. Of course it matters. But if you go to Vivienne like this, she’ll twist it before you even finish speaking.”At his mo

Chapter 16 - The Woman Vivienne Hired

Vivienne’s voice filled the study like she had been invited in.“Adrian, darling. I assume the boy is finally asleep.”Elena stood very still.The phone lay on the desk between them, lit up with Vivienne’s name. Adrian did not answer at first. He only looked at the screen, and something in his face went colder than anger.“How do you know he was awake?” he asked.A pause.Then Vivienne gave a small laugh. “Children rarely sleep well after excitement.”Elena’s stomach turned.“Excitement?” she said.Another pause. Shorter this time.“Oh. Elena. You’re there.”“Yes,” Elena said. “I am.”“How unfortunate.”Adrian’s hand closed slowly on the edge of the desk. “Choose your next words carefully.”“Don’t threaten me, Adrian. I am still your mother.”“And Leo is my son.”For the first time, Vivienne did not answer straight away.When she did, her voice had softened in that awful, elegant way Elena remembered too well. “Exactly.”That one word was enough.Elena felt it like a hand around her t

Chapter 17 - Filed in His Name

Elena read the first line once.Then again.By the third time, the words had stopped looking like words at all.Notice of Emergency Custody Application.Her fingers tightened around the paper until it bent in the middle. Somewhere across the room, Mrs Hale was speaking, apologising perhaps, but Elena could barely hear her over the rush of blood in her ears.The child is to remain at Blackwood House pending review.The child.Not Leo.Not her baby who slept with Bunny tucked beneath his chin. Not the little boy she

Chapter 18 - The Trap Between Them

For a moment, Elena could not hear anything except the blood rushing in her ears.Not the rain at the windows.Not the low hum of Adrian’s laptop.Not even Leo’s soft breathing through the nursery monitor.Only the message glowing on his phone.Leave Elena tonight, or the court will believe you already did.Adrian reached for it, but Elena was quicker. She picked it up with fingers that felt numb. No name. No number she recognised. Just one sentence, clean and cruel.She looked at him.“You didn’t file this?”

Chapter 19 - The Doctor’s Signature

Elena did not speak.For a few seconds, she only stood with her hand still resting on the study door, staring at Julian as though he had said something impossible. Leo may not be Adrian’s son. The words were too ugly to understand straight away. Too deliberate. Too perfectly shaped to hurt her in the one place Vivienne had not already managed to reach.Behind her, Adrian had gone very quiet.That frightened her more than anger would have.Julian slipped his phone into his coat pocket, his expression carefully controlled. “Celia Harrow is arguing that paternity must be confirmed before any emergency custody arrangement can be trusted.”Elena turned slowly.Adrian was not looking at Julian. He was looking at her. There was no suspicion in his face. None at all. Only a controlled, terrible rage, the kind that looked almost calm because it had nowhere safe to go.“She knows he’s yours,” Elena said.Her voice sounded thin, even to herself.“Yes,” Adrian said.“She knows, Adrian.”“I know.”

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