Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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184 Where's Steve? (Winona)

It takes a few days to set up the visit with Ashlyn. I haven't told anyone we're going, not even Lisa. Jayden and I agreed to keep this between us until we figure out what's really going on.

But just as I'm trying to focus on preparing for the visit, my phone rings. It's Gus. I hesitate for a moment before answering. I mean the man has never really done anything to me. In fact, he's been nothing but supportive.

But I'd be a fool to trust him and think he's a friend. Especially as he has Judy over there and I know she's up to something. Gus probably knows that too.

But Gus I know will protect Abby at all costs. The heir to Nexus Global.

I'll take that as a security blanket.

"Gus," I say, keeping my voice neutral. "What's going on?"

"Winona," he says, his voice serious. "1 need to ask you something. Have you seen Steve lately?"

My heart thumps in dread. "Not for a few weeks. He met me in the park, and he told me my mother still lived in our old house and that there might be another child." "Did you find them? Was it true?"

"Yes, they are at the townhouse with me now. Temporarily."

"Nothing from him since then?"

"No. Why?"

grim. "He's gone off the radar, and I thought you should know. I'll get

feel a chill run down

anywhere near Mom and Cass. Maybe this was his plan all along. He

silent for a moment, then he lets out a long sigh. "I don't like this, Winona, Steve disappearing like this... it doesn't sit right with me. He has a lot of money to not come back near you and he's already been there once." "He's planning something." My mind races with possibilities. "I think it might

anything past him. Just be careful,

I say, I want to tell him about

as well. But I've promised Jayden

184 Where's Steve?

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"Steve's gone off the radar," I say, my voice shaking. "Gus thinks he might be planning something. So do I."

me about Mom and Cass for nothing. He'd know that

he wanted to hurt them, he could have gone

nod. "This is true. Maybe I'm

good reason to

your mother paid him too. Now your father is paying him more to stay out of it. Yet he has already been back once. It doesn't make sense really." "Unless

than any of us, even your mother. Surely Steve

isn't about money,

more. If he wants all three of us together for some reason. Maybe he wants to eliminate his past altogether." My blood runs cold at the words I'm saying. "Judy gets what she wants too. You and Abby back to herself." I think she is in this up to

what we need. You have to keep your temper if you see him. You can't play into his hands like that. He wants to break me. I won't let him." He rakes his hand through his hair. "I just want him out of your life for good. Why now? Why does he

him of his life. I don't think he'll ever