The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

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Christopher POV

I should have known it wouldn't last.

The first time Angela mentioned returning to New York, I dismissed it as nostalgia. But she brought it up again, and again, with increasing frequency.

"I want to start my own investment firm," she explained. "And New York is home. I want the children to know where they come from, to have a connection to their roots."

What she didn't say what she didn't need to say-was that New York meant Sean. Even after five years, even after everything, some part of her still belonged to him.

I tried to talk her out of it. I offered to open a branch of Blake Enterprises in New York, to divide our time between there and Italy. I reminded her of the life we'd built, the stability the children had here.

"I need to do this," she said finally. "For myself. I need to know I can stand on my own."

complications, the fact that I held considerable influence over her financial situation. But looking into those amber eyes-the same eyes that had defended me in

around us. "And you'll come to New York. The

throat too tight to speak. I believed her. Believed that five years

an unbreakable bond. That no matter what happened in New York, I would always have a

did reenter the picture, Angela would choose me. How could she not?

part of me wanted the confrontation. Wanted, after all these years, the chance to finally win Angela from Sean once and for all. To have her choose

arranged the transportation, set her up in a New York apartment, made, sure

months later, she was

erased five years.

built. He hadn't been there for the midnight fevers, the first days of preschool, the skinned

took them anyway. Effortlessly, as he'd always taken everything

them, Angela and the

stupidest, most regrettable thing of my life. I imprisoned Angela

had started a company together-that they might even

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