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 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

the moving boxes stacked up around us. "And you'll come to

too tight to speak. I believed her.

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

perhaps arrogantly, that if Sean did reenter the picture, Angela would choose me. How could she

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 me deliberately, not just accept me as

her up in a New York apartment, made,

she was engaged to

erased five years. Just

been there for the midnight fevers, the first days of preschool, the skinned knees and night terrors. He

Effortlessly, as he'd always taken everything

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

thing of my life. I imprisoned

company together-that

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