The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

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Angela POV

The London cemetery was veiled in a gentle mist when we arrived, the pale blue sky occasionally peeking through clouds that drifted like lost thoughts.

I carried a bouquet of white lilies-Christopher's favorite, as I'd learned from David

at the funeral last year. Their fragrance filled the air around us, sweet and melancholy all at once.

The gravel crunched beneath our feet as we wound our way through rows of headstones, some ancient and weathered, others like Christopher's-still new, the wound of loss fresh in the earth.

When we reached his grave, I paused, taking in the sight of the polished black granite that gleamed even in the subdued light, his name and dates etched in gold. Someone-his grandfather, perhaps had left fresh roses recently, their crimson petals stark against the stone's darkness.

I knelt down, my knees pressing into the damp grass, and placed my bouquet beside the existing arrangement. A robin landed on a nearby headstone, tilting its head as if curious about our presence in this quiet place.

"Hello, Christopher," I said softly, my voice carrying in the stillness.

Sean stood a few paces behind me, head bowed, giving me the space to speak the words that had gathered in my heart during our journey here. The robin chirped once, then flew away.

"Everyone's lives are moving forward," I continued, smoothing a wrinkle from the edge of a lily petal. "David actually opened that surf shop he talked about. It's on the California coast-the 'Blake Wave Rider,' he named it. He sent us a picture of himself with his first student, both soaking wet and laughing. You'd smile if you could see it."

I pulled my cardigan tighter against the chill, my wedding ring catching a brief glint of sunlight that had broken through the clouds

she wants to be when she grows up. Now she wants to be a violinist. Last month it was a pilot, and before that, veterinarian. She practices her violin every

chuckled softly behind me at this

telescope you gave him has become his most treasured possession. Some nights,

of his name with my fingertip, feeling each curve and line, as if somehow I could reach

live there, in a place filled with so many niemories-good ones, despite everything. The children spend summers there now. Aria jumps into the pool just like she did when she was three. Ethan still builds the most elaborate sandcastles on

slipped down my cheek, landing

the sea. Everyone except you. You're frozen in time now,

eyes with

one hand and two small glasses in the other. He

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to the headstone, twisting the cap off the

glasses, offering one to me. "Remember. when we used to play together back in played hockey

with

his glass in toast. "Here's to past glory days

a little of his beer onto the ground beside the grave. The amber liquid

thoughtful. "We're all headed to the same final checkout counter, aren't we? Some just

Christopher got there before us, but

you," I said, my hand moving to rest on my slightly rounded belly, feeling the subtle movements of the life growing within.

reached for my hand, our fingers intertwining,

a name," I continued, my voice steadier now. "We're calling him Christopher. After you. Not because we're trying to replace you-no one could. But because we want to honor what you gave us: a second chance

petals from the lilies across the stone. A butterfly-bright blue and unexpected-landed briefly on the headstone before fluttering away toward a patch of wildflowers growing