The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

She Left With His Baby The Billionaire’s Secret Scandal 313

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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."

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

boxes stacked up around us. "And you'll come to New York. The children need you in their

throat too tight to speak. I believed her. Believed

bond. That no matter what happened in New York, I would always

reenter the picture, Angela would choose

win Angela from Sean once and for all. To have her

arranged the transportation, set her up in a New York

later, she was

five

the chance to reclaim what I had so earefully built. He hadn't been there for the midnight fevers, the first days of preschool, the skinned knees and night terrors. He hadn't earned the

anyway. Effortlessly, as he'd always taken everything

deeply I loved them, Angela and the children were never truly mine

thing of

and Sean had started a company together-that they might even be reconciling-I lost all patience.

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