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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 bastard's finally

comes a new problem. The threat he made-the one about having information ready to be

pulls me out of my thoughts. I stand up, bracing myself for whatever comes next. When I open the door, a man in

off, legally, permanently. How did it get to this? I shut the door in his face and go back to my

room, his eyes narrowing as he

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

doorframe. "Judy, what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn fell from the rooftop

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 that even

"The truth is overrated."

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thought you'd handle

me she miscarried! How

your little network of spies and informants, and you expect me to belleve you didn't

up inside me. I didn't! That baby is Jayden's. I wouldn't knowingly

Gus says, his voice cold. "You lie and you

Jayden. To protect him, to keep him safe. He deserved everything. After Greg's death, I ran

pace the room

could inherit what he deserved, not some shell of a company in the debt Greg had

didn't you? Greg's heart gave out from the genetic

otherwise so believe

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

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

away, refusing to let them fall, I don't

to do now that Jayden wants nothing to do

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

me. I can feel the pieces of my carefully constructed world

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