Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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88 How Can I? (Jayden)

I punched the wall at the beach house. The impact sends a jolt of pain through my knuckles, but I don't care. Gordon Brown watches on, unaffected, his arms crossed and his expression unreadable.

"I can't do this, I can't hurt her like this." I rub the pain in my knuckles away, the ache a distraction from the turmoil inside me.

"It's the best way to get a real confession. Ashlyn has to believe you are on her side and against Winona.. Winona has to believe that too," Gordon says, his tone firm and unyielding.

There must be another way. Winona won't let on if she knows I'm pretending," I argue, pacing back and forth, the tension in my body coiled tight like a spring.

"She also won't react in the same way, and if Ashlyn gets a sniff of trickery, we lose the only chance we've got" Gordon counters, his eyes boring into mine.

"What's the next move?" I ask, stopping in my tracks and facing him.

"You take Ashlyn home," he replies, his voice steady and unwavering.

"Home?" I echo, a sense of dread at leaving Winona in the jail at Santa Monica creeping into my gut. "The penthouse?"

"Yes. Get back into normal life. Be CEO, be a doting husband. Then we'll get Winona and Ashlyn together somehow to get the confession."

sure Winona is safe," I warn, my

long she'll be back home

I admit, running a hand through my hair in frustration. "She'll get through

forever," I say, my voice breaking slightly

in jail where we can't protect her. High profile people don't have an easy

I have at clearing Winona's name. My blindness and stupidity got her into this situation. Whatever happens because of this decision, I'll just have to deal

you through my investigator when

sure it's

like I'll be back running my company very soon wonder if

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he doesn't have any hold over the company now. Even

I wasn't his child. It would have been far easier to divorce her and give her money. Maybe I'll never understand it. All I know is that I suffered all those years and I didn't

and Anne have settled back into the rental cottage. They will, of course, go back to Winona's townhouse when I

Anne.

try despite her being older. She's just been bored while Abby's been here with us. Plus, Abby will go to preschool perhaps, so

I know Winona would be very

away for a long time. I don't trust that

not running my life. I have a session with the hypnosis therapist next

on. I need to go see Ashlyn and start her believing that it's

the beach house and head to the hospital to pick up Ashlyn. My mind is a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions as I drive. Winona's face, the hurt and

at the hospital, Ashlyn is waiting, her eyes lighting up when she sees me. I put a fake smile on my face, feeling the nausea churn in