Alle Kapitel von Pregnant By My Billionaire Ex Husband: Kapitel 41 – Kapitel 49

Elena did not remember climbing the stairs.One moment she was in the marble hall with Leo wrapped around her neck, the next she was on the landing, staring at Adrian with Bunny’s blue ribbon pinned to his chest and four words written beneath it.One heir for another.Camilla sat on the corridor floor outside the nursery, the baby’s empty blanket crushed against her. She was not crying loudly. Somehow that made it worse. Her breath came in small broken sounds, one hand pressed to her mouth as if she could hold the horror in.“She was here,” Camilla whispered. “I only looked away for a second. I swear, Elena. One second.”The officers moved through the rooms, checking windows, wardrobes, the hidden passage, speaking into radios as though procedure could make sense of madness. Their voices blurred into the walls.Rose was gone.A baby had been taken from a house full of police, lawyers, secrets, and people who should have known better than to blink.Elena held Leo tighter.He stared at

For a moment, the corridor forgot how to breathe.Leo stood pressed against Elena’s side, Bunny tucked beneath his chin, his eyes fixed on Elias.“She came with the man from Daddy’s picture,” he whispered.Every head turned.Elias did not move. In the dim corridor light, with rain tapping at the windows and shadows gathering in the corners, he looked too much like the portrait to be real. Same eyes. Same mouth. Same proud, tired line to his face.Adrian stepped forward.Not far. Just enough to put his body between Leo and Elias.“Do you mean him?” he asked, his voice quiet.Leo’s little fingers tightened around Bunny’s ear.Elena crouched beside him at once, her hand smoothing over his hair. “It’s all right, sweetheart. You’re not in trouble. Just tell us what you saw.”Leo looked at Elias again, then shook his head. “He looked like him. But not exactly.”The words settled coldly over the corridor.Elias’s face changed.Only slightly.But Elena saw it.So did Adrian.“What does that m

Sebastian’s voice faded into static.For a few seconds, Rose’s cry was the only sound left, thin and frightened through the officer’s radio.Then that disappeared too.Camilla made a small, broken noise. Elias caught her before her knees gave way, but his own face had turned grey, his eyes fixed on the radio as if he could drag the baby back through it by force alone.Elena stood very still.If Elena wants the baby alive, she comes wearing the ring.Adrian turned to her at once.“No.”One word. Hard as a locked door.Elena looked at him. “Adrian—”“No.” He stepped closer, and nothing about him looked polished now. His shirt was creased, his hair ruined, his face stripped down to fury and fear. “He asked for you by name. That is not an invitation. It is a trap.”“Rose is a baby.”“And you are Leo’s mother.”The words struck deep.Leo was behind Julian, clutching Bunny, watching everything with tired, frightened eyes. Trying to understand why every adult in the house kept speaking in ca

Elena stopped halfway down the path.Rain slid beneath her collar and ran cold down her spine. Her blouse clung to her skin, her hair stuck to her cheeks, and the gravel beneath her shoes shone black under the moonlight. Behind her, Blackwood House glowed through the rain like something beautiful pretending it was not rotten at the core.Ahead, the old chapel waited.Small. Stone. Half-swallowed by ivy.Its doors were shut.Bunny felt heavy in her arms.The blue ribbon around his neck crackled softly.Sebastian’s voice came through the tiny wire, intimate and amused.“Good girl. Now take off Adrian’s ring and leave it in the rain.”Elena looked down at her hand.Her finger was bare.Only the faint pale mark remained, where a ring had once lived long enough to leave a ghost behind.“You already have my ring,” she said.Sebastian laughed softly. “Not the one I mean.”Her stomach tightened.Behind her, somewhere inside the house, Adrian would be listening. She could imagine him standing