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."

have stopped her. Could have reminded her of the legal 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 a library so many years ago—I couldn't bring

visit," she promised, as the moving boxes stacked up around us. "And you'll come to New York. The children need you in

to speak. I believed her. Believed that five years of

That no matter what happened in New York, I

reenter the picture, Angela would choose me.

win Angela from Sean once and for all. To have

up in a New York apartment, made, sure she had everything she needed

she was engaged to

erased five years. Just

there for the midnight fevers, the first days of

them anyway. Effortlessly, as he'd always taken

no matter how deeply I loved them, Angela and the children were never truly mine to keep. I

I did the stupidest, most regrettable thing of my life.

started a company together-that they might even be reconciling-I

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