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

Then she hesitated. "How are you feeling?

"I'm fine."

she continued. "I've never seen him like that. He dropped everything even cut short the Hong Kong conference call

"He

spent the entire day with Christina

day, didn't he?"

My voice

shifted uncomfortably, suddenly very interested in straightening the already perfectly aligned files. "1

the hospital website. The cursor blinked

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I clicked Confirm."

doorway just before noon, his golden curls catcising the sunlight. You've

refuse, but remembered how

Indisposed. "Give

restaurant hidden away on a

elegant silver box on the table.

an assortment of herbal supplements, each carefully Inbed.

yourself," he said softly. "For those of us who

in his voice made my throat

loyalty we shared at Wilson Bank that doesn't just disappear. He reached across the

Nathan as he studied the menu. With his talent and background, he could have had his pick of positions at any top firm. I knew he'd chosen Shaw

past two years had proven me grown into someone far more capable, more caring than I'd ever

future wife will be very

will. His response

in your

me a long, meaningful look. "No

many beautiful young women at the company, one of them

slight smile played at his lips. "The best

words left me

wrong - hed

first course. The foie gras looks good," I said quickly,

could respond, movement outside

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

nothing. Her gorgeous dress caught the sunlight as her

the restaurant entrance, cradling her against his chest

Sean

did. Her eyes found mine through the window,

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

kiss.

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