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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

is dead. That

a new problem. The threat he made-the one about

door pulls me out 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?"

my hands shaking. A no-contact order. Jayden's cut me off, legally, permanently. How did it get to this? I shut the

room, his eyes

here. Of course," I mutter, trying to

what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn fell from the rooftop at the facility? She's pregnant? I've

She was the reason Jayden wanted these stupid no-contact orders on me. He believed what she said about me." "You mean she

"The truth is overrated."

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thought you'd handle

snap, my voice rising. "She told me she miscarried! How was I supposed to know she

everything. You've got your little network of spies and informants, and you expect me to belleve

That baby is Jayden's. I wouldn't

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

Jayden. To protect him,

pace the room as I

company in the debt Greg had it in. He was barely ever

heart gave out from the genetic defect, or

can't prove otherwise so believe what

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

still love you. I'll always

them away, refusing to let them fall, I

now?" Gus asks. "What are you going to do now that Jayden wants nothing to do

can I do? I've lost everything. Jayden, my son, my only child, wants nothing to do with me. And Abby... sweet Abby, who I've grown to love so much, I'll never see

again breaks something inside me. I can feel the

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