Lahat ng Kabanata ng My Ex-husband Wanted My Money, The Billionaire Wanted Me : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 6

ELENA"I'm sorry, Mrs. Bennett, but your child is dead."I heard the words. I understood every syllable. And still, my mind refused to arrange them into anything that made sense.I looked past Dr. Miller to the ultrasound screen, searching for the flicker I'd watched at every appointment since week eight…. the small, stubborn pulse that had made this real for me.The screen showed nothing. No movement. No light. Just the still, silent shape of the child I already loved more than my own life."My... child?"My voice came out smaller than I intended, like it belonged to someone else.Dr. Miller nodded, slow and careful, the way people move when they're afraid of breaking something."There is no heartbeat.""No." I shook my head, and kept shaking it, as if the motion alone could undo what she'd said. "You're mistaken.""Elena…""I felt him this morning." My hand found my stomach, pressing flat against it like I could still catch the flutter I'd felt over breakfast. "He moved. I felt him

ELENAThe pain coursing through my whole body had a rhythm of its own by the time I reached the car....shooting through my abdomen on every step, spreading low into my back until I couldn't tell where one ended and the next began. I pressed one hand hard against my stomach and used the other to find the door handle by feel, because my vision had already started to blur at the edges.I got the engine started somehow. I don't remember deciding to drive so much as finding myself already moving, the road unspooling ahead of me in a smear of streetlights. Every pothole sent a fresh wave of agony through me, sharp enough that I bit down on my lip to keep from screaming behind the wheel.Hospital. That was the only thought I could hold onto. Get to the hospital.I don't know how I made it there conscious. I remember the parking lot swimming in front of me, remember my knees buckling the second my feet hit the pavement."Ma'am!"Two nurses were already running toward me before I understood I'

ELENA I followed Mr. Blackwood down the hallway, still trying to make sense of what had just happened.You're hired. He said it like it was nothing not that I'm complaining but just like that?He'd simply watched me feed his son a few spoonfuls of vegetables and decided, apparently on the spot, that I was the person he wanted in his house.When we reached his office, he pushed the door open and stood aside just long enough for me to walk through first.The room was enormous....dark wood, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking grounds I couldn't begin to guess the size of, a desk large enough to seat a small committee. He rounded it and sat. I remained standing until he glanced up."Sit."I lowered myself into the chair across from him, spine straight, hands folded in my lap the way I used to sit across from my father when he was reviewing highschool midterm results.He opened a file already waiting on the desk. "You're twenty-six.""Yes.""You were preparing to study medicine.""Yes."