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

she hesitated. "How

"I'm fine."

seen him like that. He dropped everything

"He

spent the entire day with

day, didn't he?"

voice

faltered. She shifted uncomfortably, suddenly very interested in straightening the already perfectly aligned files.

to the hospital website. The cursor blinked

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Carried Her Into

I clicked Confirm."

appeared in my doorway just before noon, his golden curls catcising the

how he'd covered for me yesterday

"Give me

to an elegant restaurant hidden away on a

elegant silver box on the table. "For

an assortment of herbal supplements, each

yourself," he said softly. "For those of us who still care about what happens to Angela

gentleness in his voice made my

shared at Wilson Bank that doesn't just disappear. He reached across the table, his hand

could have had his pick of positions at any top

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

wife will be very happy," I said, trying to keep my tone

His response was

anyone special in your life

gave me a long, meaningful look. "No

young women at the company, one of

slight smile played at his lips. "The best one's already

words left me

wrong - hed

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

before Nathan could respond, movement outside the window caught

up, and Sean stepped out. He turned to help Christina, wrapping

Her gorgeous dress caught the sunlight

towards the restaurant entrance, cradling her

Sean

found mine through the window,

deliberately, she tightened her arms around Sean's neck, pressing her face against his throat in what looked like

kiss.

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Carried

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