Mr billionaire's regret chasing his irresistible wife by Gabby Emmanuel

Can't deal with this version of her.

(JARED'S POV)

Eight months-it's been eight months, but it feels like an eternity. My life has spiraled in ways I never anticipated, and not for the better. Sofia and I... we were never meant to be. I see that now.

What started as an escape-maybe from my own demons-has become another prison, one I built with my own hands. Regret gnaws at me, but it's too late. Too late to fix what I've broken.

The moment Sofia lost the baby, everything changed. I wasn't ready for it not for the life she carried, and certainly not for its loss. But as the weight of the grief sank in, I realized it wasn't just her child I was mourning. It was the child I lost with Arielle.

The one I could have had. The one I wasn't there for.

I can still hear Sofia's voice from that day-shrill, desperate. It rings in my ears even now, haunting me in quiet moments.

(Flashback)

I was knee-deep in paperwork, trying to escape into the dull routine of the office when my phone buzzed on my desk. Sofia's name flashed on the screen, and I felt a sinking feeling in my gut before I even answered. "Jared, my water just broke!" Her voice trembled, fear tightening each word.

I froze for a second, then bolted out of my chair. "I'm coming!" I practically shouted, my heart already pounding.

The drive home was a blur. I don't even remember how I got her into the car-only that I was driving like a madman, panic gnawing at me with each second. I had to get her there in time. I had to make sure this didn't go wrong.

But it did. Everything went wrong.

The baby... the baby didn't make it.

The doctor's words were a haze of medical jargon and apologies, but all I heard was the finality of it: gone. Another life I couldn't save. The suffocating weight of it wrapped around my chest like a vise. My mind flashed back to Arielle. To the night she lost our child, alone. To my own absence.

This-this was my punishment, wasn't it? For neglecting her. For not being there when it mattered. Now, I was here, but it didn't change anything. The universe was making me pay for what I'd done. Another child, gone. Another failure on my shoulders.

I felt sick as I walked into Sofia's room, the grief too raw to contain. How was I supposed to tell her? How was I supposed to be the bearer of that kind of agony?

She opened her eyes, still groggy but searching, hopeful. "Where's my baby?"

the words stuck behind the thick wall of guilt. "Sofia..." I began, but my voice cracked.

filled every corner of

from this pain any more than I could have saved

whispering desperate prayers into the baby's cold skin. I thought I'd seen the depths of pain, but nothing prepared

uncontainable, and it only

I had failed again.

grief metamorphosed into anger and bitterness, making her a total

******

memories, when

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you, but your fiance is here to see you. And, she's threatening to

sank. I

where Sofia

secretary and demanded I fire her.

had given strict

book on Brooke's face made me reconsider. If I didn't give the order to let

her in," I

Brooke nodded and left.

face twisted in anger. "Why was I denied access?' she

question and asked, "What brings you here, Sofia?" I tried to maintain a neutral

play dumb with me," she snapped, her eyes flashing red. "But

"You're kidding, aren't you? That would be the eleventh secretary I've fired in six months because of you.

narrowed,

chair So, you're sleeping with her, aren't you? You fired the other one just last week,

been home intwo

rubbed my temples, trying to stop the impending headache. "Sofia, that's not true. Can you please not

Her voice rose. "You've been avoiding me for two days, and

again, the

home in anger after Sofia set my phone to

and contacts