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 steadying

She picked up.

“Hello, Dad.”

just familiar enough to

are things going?

schedule. Like she was a

had Forest ever asked how she was, beyond how useful she could

practiced smile, and lifted her voice with a

need to worry.

satisfaction. “Excellent, Hailey. Absolutely

honeyed, but they stung all the

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

by his own dreams, blind to the cracks in the

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answer immediately. A slow, knowing