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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

Steve is dead. That bastard's

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

next. When I open the door, a man in a suit hands me an

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

into the room, his eyes narrowing as he takes in

I mutter, trying to steady my voice. "Perfect

done this time? Ashlyn

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

"The truth is overrated."

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

the doorframe, stepping closer. "You always know everything. You've got your little network of spies and informants, and you expect me to belleve you didn't

grit my teeth, anger bubbling up inside me. I didn't! That baby is

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

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

pace the room

not some shell of a company in the debt

Greg's heart gave out from the genetic defect, or did

otherwise so believe what you

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. I'll

let them fall, I don't cry. Not in front

Gus asks. "What are you going to do

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

something inside me. I can feel the pieces of my carefully constructed world crumble around

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