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."

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

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

to speak. I believed her. Believed that

matter what happened in

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

win Angela from Sean once and for all. To have her choose me deliberately, not just accept me as

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

later, she

erased five

hadn't been there for the midnight fevers, the first days of preschool, the skinned knees and night terrors. He hadn't earned the right to those children,

them anyway. Effortlessly, as he'd always

this was always our fate. No matter how many years I gave, no matter how deeply I loved them, Angela and the children were never truly mine to keep. I lived

most regrettable thing of my life. I

a company together-that they might even be reconciling-I lost all

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