Not Just A Nanny: My Comeback

Not Just A Nanny: My Comeback

Yi Shi

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I spent six years raising his twins, believing I was his wife. Then the bank manager slid a document across the desk. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Dunlap. You aren't listed as the mother. Eliana Dudley is." I drove to Gavin's office, desperate for answers. Instead, I found him with his high school sweetheart, Eliana, sitting on his lap. I froze as I heard him laugh. "Alex was just a comfortable alternative," he told her. "A glorified nanny to keep the seat warm until you came back." My world shattered. But it got worse. At the twins' birthday party, the children I had loved like my own screamed that they hated me. His seven-year-old son shoved me down the stone steps. I hit the ground hard. Pain exploded in my stomach. I looked up, begging Gavin for help. He didn't move. He just wrapped his arm around Eliana and turned away. "Come on, kids," he said coldly. "Let's go cut the cake. Alex is just making a scene." I lay on the cold patio, bleeding out the baby he didn't even know I was carrying, listening to them sing "Happy Birthday" inside. He thought I would fade away. He thought a check would fix it. But when I woke up in the hospital, the woman who loved him was dead. I signed the divorce papers, walked out, and built an empire he could never touch. Now, three years later, he's begging at my feet. "I made a mistake," he sobs. I look at my new husband and smile. "I know. And now you have to live with it."

Not Just A Nanny: My Comeback Chapter 1

I spent six years raising his twins, believing I was his wife.

Then the bank manager slid a document across the desk.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Dunlap. You aren't listed as the mother. Eliana Dudley is."

I drove to Gavin's office, desperate for answers.

Instead, I found him with his high school sweetheart, Eliana, sitting on his lap.

I froze as I heard him laugh.

"Alex was just a comfortable alternative," he told her. "A glorified nanny to keep the seat warm until you came back."

My world shattered.

But it got worse.

At the twins' birthday party, the children I had loved like my own screamed that they hated me.

His seven-year-old son shoved me down the stone steps.

I hit the ground hard. Pain exploded in my stomach.

I looked up, begging Gavin for help.

He didn't move. He just wrapped his arm around Eliana and turned away.

"Come on, kids," he said coldly. "Let's go cut the cake. Alex is just making a scene."

I lay on the cold patio, bleeding out the baby he didn't even know I was carrying, listening to them sing "Happy Birthday" inside.

He thought I would fade away. He thought a check would fix it.

But when I woke up in the hospital, the woman who loved him was dead.

I signed the divorce papers, walked out, and built an empire he could never touch.

Now, three years later, he's begging at my feet.

"I made a mistake," he sobs.

I look at my new husband and smile.

"I know. And now you have to live with it."

Chapter 1

Alex POV

I stared at the document on the mahogany desk, the words swimming before my eyes like oil on water, refusing to mix with the reality I had meticulously built for six years.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Dunlap."

The bank manager, Mr. Henderson, pushed a box of tissues toward me. His voice trembled slightly, a crack in his professional veneer. "But I cannot authorize the trust fund setup under your name. The birth certificates... they don't list you as the biological or legal mother."

The air in the room vanished.

My lungs pumped, but nothing filled them.

"That's a mistake," I whispered, my voice sounding like it was bubbling up from underwater. "I raised Kenneth and Kaylin. Gavin and I... we've been married since before they were born."

Mr. Henderson looked down at his polished Oxfords, unable to meet my gaze.

"The legal mother on file is Eliana Dudley."

The name was a ghost I hadn't heard in years.

Gavin's high school sweetheart.

The woman who had shattered his heart before I spent half a decade piecing it back together.

"Eliana," I repeated, the name tasting like ash and old pennies. "Why is her name on my children's documents?"

"I think you should ask your husband, Mrs. Dunlap."

I didn't take the tissues.

I stood up, my legs feeling like they were cast in lead, and walked out of the bank into the blinding afternoon sun.

It was a perfect Tuesday.

The sky was an insulting shade of blue, mocking the storm breaking inside me.

I got into my car and drove. Not home, but to the Dunlap Corp headquarters.

My hands gripped the steering wheel so hard my knuckles turned white, matching the bone-deep chill spreading through my chest.

Eliana.

Why Eliana?

I bypassed the receptionist, a young girl who knew better than to stop the CEO's wife, and took the private elevator to the top floor.

The doors slid open with a soft, polite ding.

Gavin's office was a modern masterpiece of glass and steel, designed to be transparent.

Transparency.

What a joke.

I stopped dead in the hallway.

Through the glass walls, I saw him.

Gavin was sitting on the edge of his desk, his posture relaxed, wearing a smile I hadn't seen directed at me in months.

Standing between his legs, her hands resting familiarly on his thighs, was a woman with dark, cascading hair.

Eliana.

She was real.

She wasn't a ghost on a document; she was flesh and blood, standing in my husband's office, touching my husband.

I couldn't move. My body was frozen, trapped in a waking nightmare.

Gavin reached out and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. His touch was so tender, so reverent, it made me want to vomit.

I stepped closer, pressing myself against the wall just out of sight. I needed to hear them.

I needed the auditory proof to match the visual devastation.

"Alex is asking questions about the trust fund," Gavin said, his voice low.

"She's persistent," Eliana laughed, a sound like wind chimes. "Does she know yet?"

"Henderson probably told her today," Gavin replied, his tone dismissive. "It doesn't matter. The legal paperwork is ironclad. You are the mother, Eliana. You always were."

My knees almost gave out.

"But she's been playing house for six years, Gavin," Eliana cooed.

"She thinks they're hers."

"She was a comfortable alternative," Gavin said.

The words were a physical blow.

They hit me in the chest, harder than a fist.

A comfortable alternative.

"She was a good placeholder while you were away," he continued, dismissing six years of my life, my love, and my devotion with a casual shrug. "She kept the seat warm. She raised the twins when we couldn't be together. But you're back now."

"And what about her?" Eliana asked, tracing the sharp line of his jaw.

I saw the bracelet on her wrist.

It was a delicate silver chain with a sapphire charm.

Gavin had bought that exact bracelet last month.

He told me it was for a client's wife.

"I'll handle Alex," Gavin said. "There's a loophole in the pre-nup. I'll cut her loose soon. She was just... a glorified nanny with a ring. A surrogate for the life I wanted with you."

A glorified nanny.

A surrogate.

I slammed a hand over my mouth to stifle the sob that threatened to tear my throat apart.

"My love," Eliana purred, leaning in to kiss him. "The children love me already, you know. They know who their real mother is."

I couldn't watch anymore.

I couldn't listen.

I turned and ran.

I ran back to the elevator, back to the lobby, back to the sanctuary of my car.

I sat in the driver's seat, shaking violently, the world spinning on a tilted axis.

Six years.

Every scraped knee I bandaged.

Every bedtime story I read.

Every night I held Gavin when the weight of the world was too much for him.

It was all a performance.

I was just the understudy waiting for the lead actress to return.

My phone felt heavy in my hand as I pulled it out.

I didn't call Gavin.

I didn't call my mother.

I dialed the one number that might save me from drowning.

"Maria," I said when my lawyer friend answered, my voice breaking into a million jagged pieces. "I need you. Everything is a lie."

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“I spent six years raising his twins, believing I was his wife. Then the bank manager slid a document across the desk. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Dunlap. You aren't listed as the mother. Eliana Dudley is." I drove to Gavin's office, desperate for answers. Instead, I found him with his high school sweetheart, Eliana, sitting on his lap. I froze as I heard him laugh. "Alex was just a comfortable alternative," he told her. "A glorified nanny to keep the seat warm until you came back." My world shattered. But it got worse. At the twins' birthday party, the children I had loved like my own screamed that they hated me. His seven-year-old son shoved me down the stone steps. I hit the ground hard. Pain exploded in my stomach. I looked up, begging Gavin for help. He didn't move. He just wrapped his arm around Eliana and turned away. "Come on, kids," he said coldly. "Let's go cut the cake. Alex is just making a scene." I lay on the cold patio, bleeding out the baby he didn't even know I was carrying, listening to them sing "Happy Birthday" inside. He thought I would fade away. He thought a check would fix it. But when I woke up in the hospital, the woman who loved him was dead. I signed the divorce papers, walked out, and built an empire he could never touch. Now, three years later, he's begging at my feet. "I made a mistake," he sobs. I look at my new husband and smile. "I know. And now you have to live with it."”
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