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.

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

carefully. "Will

replied without turning

just nodded and quietly left the room. David had been with me long enough

returning to New York. Dust covered the easel

about to lose forever. On fresh canvas, with new paints ordered and delivered

A fifteen-year-old girl with amber eyes and fierce determination standing up to bullies, defending a boy

a simple ponytail, a blue school sweater, that fire in her eyes that had never dimmed, not even years later. I painted the scene as precisely as memory allowed, every detail crystallized by years of revisiting

only life could be as it was at first

had altered the

wedding.

reminder of how we began, now that we had reached

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told David I wouldn't attend the wedding. Told myself I wouldn't attend. But as the day

I bargained with myself. "Just to see her in

ceremony, I dressed in my best suit-dark charcoal rather than black, a subtle rebellion against the formality

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