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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.

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

up, bracing myself for whatever comes next. When I open the

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

his eyes narrowing as he takes

trying to steady my voice. "Perfect timing, as

his arms, leaning against the doorframe. "Judy, what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn fell from the rooftop at the facility? She's pregnant?

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

"The truth is overrated."

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thought you'd

me she miscarried!

got your little network of spies and informants, and you expect me to

me. I didn't! That baby is Jayden's. I wouldn't knowingly cause harm. Why

Gus says, his voice cold.

for Jayden. To protect

the room as

debt

didn't you? Greg's heart

can't prove otherwise so believe what you

arguing about 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

because, despite everything. I still love you. I'll always love you. God help

prick at my eyes, and I blink them away, refusing to let them fall, I don't cry.

now?" Gus asks. "What are you going 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 her

again breaks something inside me. I can feel the pieces of my

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