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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

is dead.

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

the 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?" he says,

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

into the room, his eyes narrowing

mutter, trying to steady my voice. "Perfect timing,

what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn

instantly. "I didn't do anything. I just... I just tried to keep things 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 that

"The truth is overrated."

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you thought you'd

know she was still pregnant!" I snap, my voice rising. "She told me she

pushes off the doorframe, stepping closer. "You always know everything. You've got your little network of spies and informants, and

didn't! That baby

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

don't understand," I whisper, my voice shaking. "I did it all for Jayden. To protect him, to keep him safe. He deserved

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debt Greg had it in. He was barely ever in the country and when he was, he was

of that didn't you? Greg's heart gave out from the genetic defect, or did

prove otherwise so believe what you

on, Judy. Jayden knows what you did to Greg. He heard us arguing about it when we thought he was unconscious. You can't just erase that because it doesn't

everything. I still love

refusing to let them fall, I don't cry. Not in front of Gus. Not In

"What are you going to do now that Jayden wants nothing to do

my son, my only child, wants nothing to do with me. And Abby... sweet Abby, who I've grown to love so much,

thought of never seeing Abby again breaks something inside me. I can feel the pieces of my carefully

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