My Coldhearted Ex demands a Remarriage by Eva Blackwood

Chapter 1069:

Turning slowly, she lowered her arm and looked over her shoulder.

He was really there—this wasn’t a trick of the light or her imagination. Kristopher stood just a few steps behind, his face cast in sharp angles beneath the sun, concern resting behind his usual calm.

The bright light had left her vision slightly spotted, and for a second, everything felt just a bit off.

Even so, she had no interest in figuring out what was going through his head. Instead, she dropped her gaze, stepped away from him, and replied softly, “Yes.”

His eyes drifted to the papers in her hands. One look at the scan, and his tone shifted. “Is something wrong with the baby?”

He remembered hearing rumors—about the bullet wound, the supposed infertility. Her pregnancy must have been anything but easy. Unbidden, a memory surfaced. That hazy night at the hotel. Blurred, but not forgotten.

came a dangerous thought—what

her instincts kicked in. “The baby’s fine. I’m just here for a routine check-up.” She guarded those words carefully. To her, this child wasn’t just

this usually happened in the morning, not

to talk. So for

already fragile. Pushing too hard now would only make

finds a

caught sight of the car he’d ordered weaving toward the curb. When he glanced back, he noticed Kristopher standing far too close

look on Daxton’s face vanished. In a few long strides, he

squarely on Kristopher, calm but unmistakably sharp,

stayed flat, as if Daxton’s presence meant nothing at all. It never

never outweighed the slippery tactics he used. Anything built on