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204 Foint of No Return

204 Point of No Return

(Judy)

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All I did was get some patient medications swapped around to try and get Ashlyn to talk to me again. How she ended up in the rooftop area, falling off, I have no idea. Maybe she wanted to end it all.

My phone buzzes in my hand, and I open the message from my contact at the hospital.

Ashlyn's 24 weeks pregnant. Baby is in distress. She's on life support.

Pregnant? She's still pregnant? How?

She was convinced she had a miscarriage. That's why she got so desperate and went to Santa Monica to try and frame Winona. She had no baby to hold onto Jayden, so she thought she may as well take Winona down with her.

No wonder she ghosted me and they put a no-contact order on me for Ashlyn. I never thought she'd still be carrying a baby, I still don't understand. I text back.

Find out how she was still pregnant

Is that why she tried to kill herself? It doesn't make sense.

I grab my phone, scrolling through the news, looking for something, anything, that'll tell me what's going on with Ashlyn. But then I see it:

Winona Nolan's Father, Steve Halley, Dead in Shooting at Her Home

dead. That

with his death comes a new problem. The threat he made-the one about having information ready to be revealed if

of my thoughts. I stand up, bracing myself for whatever comes next. When I open the door, a man in a suit hands me an envelope. "Mrs. Brennan?" he says,

look at them, my hands shaking. A no-contact order. Jayden's cut me off, legally, permanently. How did it get to this? I shut the door in his face and go back to my living

his eyes narrowing

Of course," I mutter, trying to steady my voice.

what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn

under control. Ashlyn ghosted me, Gus. She was the reason Jayden wanted these stupid no-contact orders on me. He believed what she said about me." "You mean she told the truth, wow. Is

"The truth is overrated."

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you thought

me she miscarried! How was I supposed to know she still had

closer. "You always know everything. You've got your little network of spies and informants, and

I didn't! That baby

that's what you do, Judy," Gus says, his voice

voice shaking. "I did it all for Jayden. To protect him, to keep him safe. He deserved everything. After Greg's death,

pace the room

what he deserved, not some shell of a company in the debt Greg had it in. He was barely ever

heart gave out from the genetic defect,

so

when we thought he was unconscious. You can't just erase that because it doesn't suit you now. You deserve all of this and I'm glad Jayden has the balls to cut you off." "Unlike you." I say back, trying

I still love you. I'll always love you. God help

blink them away, refusing to let them fall, I

do now

wants nothing to do with me. And Abby... sweet

something inside me. I can feel

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