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.

moment, then took a

She picked up.

“Hello, Dad.”

crackled through the line—just a shade too eager, just familiar enough to be grating.

are things going? Everything

On schedule. Like she was a

Forest ever asked how she was,

her practiced smile, and lifted her

to worry. I’m

thick with satisfaction. “Excellent, Hailey. Absolutely excellent.

honeyed, but

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

own dreams, blind to the cracks in

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immediately. A slow, knowing smile tugged at her lips—cynical,