Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 823:

Without pause, he stepped out, the door closing behind him with a soft but final click.

Hailey’s chest rose and fell with shallow, shaky breaths. Her fingers curled around the edge of the blanket, knuckles pale.

And yet… even as the sting of Noah’s rejection pulsed through her, Hailey couldn’t ignore one critical truth.

Cold as he was… he had accepted the child.

That alone meant the game wasn’t over.

Suddenly, the phone on her bedside table buzzed to life, its screen glowing in the dim room.

It was her father.

stared at it for a moment, then

She picked up.

“Hello, Dad.”

a shade too eager, just

are things going? Everything

On schedule. Like

Forest ever asked how she was, beyond how useful she

practiced smile,

to worry. I’m already

lit up instantly, thick with satisfaction. “Excellent, Hailey. Absolutely excellent. I

honeyed, but they

with anticipation, “it’s time for Noah to return to Wall Group and reclaim his seat. You’ll be his wife in the public eye, Hailey—the wife of Wall Group’s chairman. And with that child, the Burgess name will finally rise to where it belongs. No one will dare look down

like a man intoxicated by his own dreams, blind

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