The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Ex-Wife

Chapter 14: He Carried Her Into The Restaurant

Angela POV

Morning light filtered through the penthouse windows, casting long hadows across the hardwood floors.

My phone buzzed for the third time-Sophie, again. I'd been avoiding her calls since our conversation at dawn, but she was nothing if not persistent.

Finally, I answered. "Sophie, please...

"Just hear me out." Her voice carried that fierce protectiveness I'd known since our college days. "You're not thinking clearly. Even if these two years of marriage mean nothing, you and Sean were classmates since primary school. Doesn't that count for something?"

I cut her off, my voice carefully controlled. "Sophie, don't. Please,"

The silence stretched between us, heavy with all the things she wanted to say. Finally, she sighed. "I hate seeing you like this."

"I'm fine." The words came automatically, a shield I'd perfected over the past two years.

"No, you're not. And that's okay. You don't have to be

be strong all the me."

"I have to go," I said quietly. "Work's waiting."

The Shaw Group offices hummed with their usual morning energy, but today it felt like every eye followed my movements, every whispered conversation died as I passed.

I locked myself in my office, pulling up investment reports that needed reviewing.

I typed "Hospital OB-GYN into my browser. The appointment system loaded, looking at next week's slots.

1 really give up t this child? The thought came unbidden.

Should I really

But what's the alternative? Let them grow up carrying the stigma of being unwanted? Watch them reach for a father who's already chosen another family?

A knock at

made me quickly close the browser. Emily entered with a stack of files, her usual efficient smile in place.

"The Lawrence Capital merger documents," she said, placing other day, when you fainted....."

ng them

my desk. Then she hesitated. "How are you feeling? After

"I'm fine."

him like that. He dropped everything even cut short the Hong Kong conference call the moment he heard

"He

spent the entire

day, didn't he?"

My voice

in straightening the already perfectly aligned files. "1 should

website. The

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I clicked Confirm."

appeared in my doorway just before noon, his golden curls catcising the sunlight. You've been

how he'd covered for

Indisposed. "Give me

to an elegant restaurant hidden away on

He placed an elegant silver box on

was an assortment of herbal supplements, each carefully Inbed.

"For those of us who still care about what happens

in his voice made my

doesn't just disappear. He reached across the table, his hand warm on

could have had his

him as just an arrogant boy, an immature younger brother figure. But these past two years had proven me grown into someone far more

wife will be very happy,"

she will. His response

in your

long, meaningful

at the

lips. "The best one's

words left me

wrong - hed

arrived with our first course. The foie gras looks good," I said quickly, desperate to change

Nathan could respond, movement outside the

pulled up, and Sean stepped out. He turned to help Christina, wrapping his arms around

dress caught the sunlight as her laughter floated

her towards the restaurant entrance, cradling her against

Sean

me, but Christina did. Her eyes found mine through

tightened her arms around Sean's neck, pressing her face against his

kiss.

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