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."

situation. But

as the moving boxes stacked up around us. "And you'll come to New York. The children

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

what happened in New York, I would always have

reenter the picture, Angela would choose me. How could she not? After everything we'd been through, everything

confrontation. Wanted, after all these years, the chance to finally win Angela from Sean once and

set her up

months later, she

five years. Just

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

Effortlessly, as he'd always taken everything

I loved them, Angela and

thing of

started a company together-that they might even be

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