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.

later, still standing at the window, the invitation untouched on my

he ventured carefully.

I replied without

room. David

to New York. Dust covered the easel in the corner,

capture something I was about to lose forever. On fresh canvas, with new paints ordered and delivered within hours, I recreated the moment that had defined the course of

long shadows. A fifteen-year-old girl with amber eyes and fierce determination standing up to bullies, defending

her that day-hair pulled back in a simple ponytail, a blue school sweater, that fire in her eyes that had never dimmed, not even years later. I painted the scene

life could be as it was at first

done. Raw, honest, filled with the emotion of a first meeting that had altered the trajectory of my existence. I carefully wrapped it, packaging it

wedding.

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

glimpse, I bargained with myself. "Just to see her in her

ceremony, I dressed in my best suit-dark charcoal rather than

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