The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

Chapter 97

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The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

Chapter 97: I'm Not Hiding

Angela Pov

Mama, can I help clean the table?" Aria x small voice pulled me from my thoughts as we finished our dinner

Tve got the dishes, Ethan announced, already carefully stacking plijes.

I smiled at my daughter. "When your laundry basket7

taller, you c

you can

help with the table. For now,

why dont

it you put your napkin in the

Aria considered this, then nodded seriously, treating the simple task with exaggerated importance.

You're both such wonderful helpers," I said, dropping a kiss on each forehead before helping Ethan with the heavier dishes.

While the twins carried their napkins to the laundry room with ceremonial precision, my phone rang. Sophie's name flashed on the screen, and I felt a familiar warmth at the sight.

"Ciao bella Sophie's voice carried all the bustle and energy of Manhattan through the line. "How are my favorite Italian residents?

onto a kitchen stool. The twins just

minutes before my meeting. Sophie laughed. "Aria's face when she dropped that shrimp was priceless. Listen,

loose waves. "I don't know, Sophie. Moving back to

know, I know. But Angela, it's been five years. You I can't hide in this little Tuscan town forever, no

raising my children

and building a consulting

words felt hollow even to my own ears. "I'm raising my

is exactly why you should

admitted, lowering my voice as I heard the twins returning from the laundry room. "Not Lawrence

ear. "YES This is what I've been waiting to hear! Angela Wilson back in the game on her own terms.

Sophie was already launching into ideas about office space

twins had been

beds, reading until both pairs of eyes

placing

Ethan

"Love you to t

moon and Jupiter," Aria added with a yawn, using our special

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16:42 Tue, Apr 5.

I'm

I completed turning off the

up, then checked my phone ance frown, I set the phone aside

more. Still

NightShadow.

years after leaving New York, when sleeping pills had been

relatively easily.

found rest

the physical fatigue from days went with active five year-olds, and perhaps simply the passage of time had all

sleep, my mind wandered to