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204 Point of No Return

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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.

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

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, all

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

eyes narrowing as he

mutter, trying to steady my voice. "Perfect

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

the reason

"The truth is overrated."

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you thought you'd

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

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

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

Judy," Gus says, his voice cold.

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

the room as I

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

you took care of that didn't you? Greg's heart gave out from the genetic

otherwise so

because it doesn't suit you

here because, despite everything. I still love you.

prick at my eyes, and I blink them away, refusing to let them fall, I don't cry. Not in front of Gus. Not In front of

going to do now that Jayden wants nothing

unable to answer. What can I do? I've lost everything. Jayden, my son, my only child, wants

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

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