All Chapters of REBORN TO REWRITE MY FATE : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

 One month after the wedding, the corridor had settled back into its familiar rhythm. Valerie arrived at the farm just after seven, the morning still cool, the mill running its early shift in the distance. She walked the boundary fence with Frank, reviewing the latest figures, the producer program continuing its steady expansion, everything exactly as it should be. She felt the first cramp around nine. It came sharp and sudden, low in her abdomen, stopping her mid-sentence as she stood beside Frank reviewing a delivery schedule. "Are you alright?" Frank said, noticing immediately. "I am fine," she said. "Just a cramp." She straightened and continued walking, but the second one arrived within minutes, sharper than the first, forcing her to grip the boundary fence for support. "Valerie," Frank said, alarm entering his voice now

 Ren called on a Thursday afternoon. Valerie was sitting in the kitchen of the home she now shared with Adrian, still recovering from the week's events, when her phone lit up with Ren's name on the screen. She looked at it for a long moment before answering, the particular weight of everything between them settling into the silence before she finally picked up. "Val," Ren said, her voice quieter than usual. "I heard about what happened. I am so sorry." "Thank you," Valerie said simply. "I mean it," Ren said. "I know things have not been good between us. But I would never wish that kind of loss on anyone." Valerie said nothing for a moment, letting the silence stretch. "How are you feeling?" Ren asked eventually. "I am managing," Valerie said. --- There was a pause on the line, the par

 Diane summoned them both within a day of the news breaking online. She had received it the same way the rest of the city had, scrolling through her phone that morning before Brian's call even confirmed what the headlines already suspected. She sat with the information for exactly the time it took to finish her coffee before deciding precisely how to use it. "This changes things," she said to Anthony, who sat across from her in the sitting room, nursing a drink he had been nursing since the wedding scandal had collapsed his entire carefully constructed future. "A child changes everything. Harold cannot dismiss this the way he dismissed the rest of it." "Mother," Anthony said tiredly. "It is not something to use strategically. It is a pregnancy." "Everything is strategy," Diane said. "You have simply forgotten how to use it properly." --- Anthony

Diane's instructions had been clear."Take her shopping," she told Anthony the morning after the slap, her voice carrying the efficiency of damage control rather than genuine concern. "Buy her something nice. We can't afford another scene before the wedding is finalized."Anthony agreed without enthusiasm, wearing the resigned expression of a man going through motions he no longer believed in.That afternoon, he picked Ren up and drove her to the city's most exclusive shopping district. The ride passed in near silence.The moment Ren spotted Adrian and Valerie across the boutique, something changed.Her shoulders straightened.Her chin lifted.A confident smile spread across her face as she swept through the clothing racks, pulling out one designer dress after another with exaggerated excitement."I'll need a whole new wardrobe," she announced loudly to the sales assistant, making sure her voice carried across the boutique. "Nothing I own will fit me much longer."She added another dr

Ren had never been so relieved to see Anthony's name on her screen.She answered before the second ring."Anthony..."There was a brief silence."Mother asked me to call."The words landed like cold water.Not I wanted to call.Mother asked me."I know things ended badly yesterday," he continued in the same detached tone. "She wants us to move past it."Ren forced a smile he couldn't see."I'd like that too.""I've arranged for you to collect most of the things you picked yesterday at the boutique. About eighty percent."Her fingers tightened around the phone."Eighty?""Yes eighty percent is enough."She understood immediately.Those things still belonged to Valerie's life.Nothing more was said.Before ending the call, Anthony added, "Mother also wants us at breakfast tomorrow. She'll be discussing the wedding."For the first time since everything fell apart, Ren allowed herself a little hope.Maybe this was the beginning of a new chapter.She couldn't have been more wrong.Breakfas