All Chapters of The Billionaire’s Abandoned Wife : Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

“Say it again. Slower. I need to actually hear it properly this time.”Bianca said it into the phone, laughing through unexpected tears, Ethan leaning in close to hear Zoe’s voice through the speaker.“Theo proposed,” Zoe said again, something giddy and disbelieving in her own voice despite having already said it once. “Properly. Down on one knee, in our actual kitchen, completely unplanned according to him, though I suspect he’d been carrying the moment around for weeks waiting for it to feel right.”Ethan felt something deeply moved cross his own expression. “Congratulations, Zoe. Genuinely.”“I want to talk about the venue,” Zoe continued, something more serious entering her excited tone. “I meant what I said. I want to get married at the house. Not because I don’t have options somewhere new. Because I watched you build an entire honest life starting in that exact backyard, and I want my own marriage to start from the same place.”“We’d be honored,” Bianca said, voice thick with em

“I want to say yes, but I don’t want to decide that alone.”Bianca said it to Daniel over the phone, still holding the physician’s message in her other hand, something tender and uncertain crossing her voice.“Why would you need my permission?” Daniel asked, genuine confusion in his tone. “You were there for most of it too.”“Because she was your mother,” Bianca said gently. “I think this decision should be yours first, and mine only if you actually want to make it together.”Daniel was quiet for a long moment. “I think I want to say yes. I keep thinking about how much she wanted her honesty to actually mean something beyond just our own family. If her story helps other doctors and families navigate this better, I think that’s exactly what she’d have wanted.”“I think so too,” Bianca admitted. “But I wanted you to feel like you actually chose it, not like I decided for you.”They called the physician together the following day, both offering full, honest consent for Folake’s anonymize

“I can’t get the clasp. My hands won’t stop shaking.”Zoe said it, standing in the same small dressing room where Bianca had once prepared for her own wedding, fumbling with a delicate necklace clasp while Adaeze and Kemi hovered nearby with equal parts excitement and nervous energy.“Let me,” Bianca said gently, crossing the room to help, fastening the clasp with careful, practiced hands. “There. You look beautiful.”“I don’t feel ready,” Zoe admitted, staring at her reflection with visible disbelief. “I thought I would, after all this planning. I just feel like my whole chest is a held breath.”“I felt exactly that on my own wedding day,” Bianca said, meeting her daughter’s eyes in the mirror. “Terrified and completely certain. I don’t think those feelings cancel each other out. I think they’re supposed to exist together.”Zoe took a slow breath, something steadying settling into her expression. “I keep thinking about everything it took to get here. Not just planning a wedding. Ever

“I need to see it. Whatever they’re planning to present, I need to see it before we walk into that room.”Bianca said it the moment she got Marcus on the phone, already pulling up her laptop despite the late hour, urgency replacing the careful preparation calm of the past two weeks.“Priya’s already working on it,” Marcus said. “She found a name attached to the competing proposal. A consultant named Victor Ansah.”Bianca felt her stomach drop entirely. “That’s not possible. Victor was exposed years ago. He shouldn’t have any credibility left in this space at all.”“Apparently he rebuilt one,” Marcus said grimly. “Under a different consulting firm, working with a coalition of larger foundations who’ve been quietly resentful of the accountability requirements since the beginning.”Priya joined the call within minutes, voice tight with the specific urgency of someone who’d been working without pause since Dr. Osei’s warning arrived.“I found the competing proposal,” Priya confirmed. “It’

“They’re claiming the vote didn’t follow proper notice requirements. That board members weren’t given the mandatory ten-day review period before voting.”Marcus said it over video call, exhaustion visible despite the early hour, legal documents spread across his desk.Bianca felt her stomach tighten. “Is that actually true?”“Technically, maybe,” Marcus admitted. “The hearing was scheduled faster than usual because of the timeline pressure from Victor’s own proposal. I don’t think anyone deliberately skipped the notice period. But if the paperwork shows it happened faster than the bylaws technically require, that’s a real procedural vulnerability.”Ethan, listening carefully, spoke with measured concern. “So this isn’t necessarily fabricated. It might actually be a genuine technical violation, even if unintentional.”“That’s exactly the problem,” Marcus confirmed. “Victor’s lawyers don’t need to prove the outcome was wrong. They just need to prove the process was flawed enough to warr