The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

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Chapter 298

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The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

Chapter 298: A Goodbye Gift

Christopher POV

The wedding invitation arrived on a Tuesday in January. The heavy cardstock envelope bore the Shaw family crest, because of course it did. Sean Shaw never missed an opportunity for ostentation.

I almost threw it away unopened. Almost. But something made me open it, my hands steady despite the chaos inside me.

Angela Wilson & Sean Shaw request the honor of your presence...

I read the words without really seeing them. The date, the time, the location-all blurred together. What stood out, in elegant script, was a handwritten note along the bottom margin in Angela's familiar handwriting:

I hope you'll be there. It would mean a lot to the children... and to me. - A

I placed the invitation on my desk and walked to the window, staring out at the Mediterranean view without really seeing it. The invitation felt like a death sentence. Final confirmation that those five years had meant nothing-or at least, not enough.

found me there Hours later, still standing at the

ventured carefully.

I replied without turning

quietly left the room. David had been with me long enough to know when

I locked myself in my studio-a room I'd once used frequently but had barely entered since returning to New York. Dust covered the easel in the corner,

On fresh canvas, with new paints ordered and delivered within hours, I recreated the

with amber eyes and

blue school sweater, that fire in her eyes that had never dimmed, not even years later. I painted the

as it was at first

perhaps, the best work I'd ever done. Raw, honest, filled with the emotion of a first meeting that had altered the trajectory of my existence. I carefully

wedding.

reminder of how we began, now

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wouldn't attend the wedding. Told myself I wouldn't attend. But as the day approached, I

one glimpse, I bargained with myself. "Just to

morning of the ceremony, I dressed in my best suit-dark charcoal rather

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