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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.

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

next. When I open the door, a man in a suit hands me an envelope. "Mrs. Brennan?" he says, all business. "You've been

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

steps into the room, his eyes narrowing as he takes in the

here. Of course," I mutter, trying to steady

what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn fell from the rooftop at the facility?

to keep things under control. Ashlyn ghosted me, Gus. She was the reason Jayden wanted these stupid no-contact orders

"The truth is overrated."

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thought

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

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

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

you do, Judy," Gus says,

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

pace the room

the debt Greg had

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

so believe what

it 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

still love you.

prick at my eyes, and I blink them away, refusing to let them

do now that Jayden wants nothing

wants nothing to do with me. And

seeing Abby again breaks something inside me. I can feel the

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