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."

Shaw was so worried," she continued. "I've never seen him like that. He dropped

"He

entire

day, didn't he?"

voice

uncomfortably, suddenly very interested in straightening

The

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He Carried Her

I clicked Confirm."

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

to refuse, but remembered how he'd covered for me yesterday while

"Give me

me to an elegant restaurant hidden away on

an elegant silver

of herbal

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

gentleness in his voice made my throat

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

watched Nathan as he studied the menu. With his talent and background, he could have had his

immature younger brother figure. But these past two years had proven me grown into someone far more capable, more caring than

very happy," I said, trying to

she will. His response was immediate,

in

me a long, meaningful look. "No

women at

his lips. "The best one's

left me

wrong - hed

course. The foie

could respond, movement outside the

to help Christina, wrapping his arms around her

Her gorgeous dress caught

cradling her against

Sean

Christina did. Her eyes found mine through the window, and she flashed a triumphant

she tightened her arms around Sean's neck, pressing her face

kiss.

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14: He Carried Her Into The

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