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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.

with his death comes a new problem. The threat he made-the one about having information ready to

I open the door, a man in a suit hands me an envelope. "Mrs. Brennan?" he says, all

Jayden's cut me off, legally, permanently. How did it get to this? I shut the door in

eyes narrowing

to steady my

"Judy, what the hell have you done this time? Ashlyn fell from the rooftop at the facility? She's pregnant? I've just had

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

"The truth is overrated."

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

your little network of spies and informants, and you

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

you do, Judy," Gus says, his voice cold. "You lie and you

did it all for Jayden. To protect him, to keep him safe. He deserved everything.

room

built it up for Jayden. So he could inherit what he deserved, not some shell of a company in the debt Greg

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

prove otherwise so believe what

because it doesn't suit you now. You deserve all of this and I'm glad Jayden has the balls to

despite everything. I still love you. I'll always love you. God

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

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

I've lost everything. Jayden, my son, my only child, wants nothing to do with me. And Abby... sweet Abby, who I've

Abby again breaks something inside me. I

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