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.

at the window, the invitation untouched

ventured carefully.

I replied

push, just nodded and quietly left the room. David had been

I'd once used frequently but had barely entered since returning to New York. Dust covered the easel

by some desperate need to 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 my

eyes and fierce

eyes that

as it

honest, filled with the emotion of a first meeting that had altered the trajectory of my existence. I carefully wrapped it, packaging it securely, arranging for it to be delivered on the morning of

wedding.

gift. A reminder of how we began, now

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

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

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

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