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My Ex-Husband's Regret: The Billionaire's Return

Chapter 3 3

Word Count: 969    |    Released on: Today at 16:28

way under the envelope fla

d the device from his pocket, nearly dropping it. The sc

Calhoun.

tched the name pulse, feeling his heart rate spike. If she kn

iped

"Are you there? The connection's terrible, you know how Florida is, everything's

mouth. He bit down on his knuck

came out steady. Miraculous

the association three times. Three times, Andy. They do

d against his palm, feeling sweat ga

carried static. "Your sister never c

rs spasmed aroun

nother pause, longer this time. "Well.

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you,

you to

ne wen

ace-down, silent. He sat motionless, staring at the wa

arrhythmia, her doctor's warnings about stress. He would have

found the

ys. No more

ring skin. He upended the envelope, and papers spilled across his

up the let

ad always been aggressive, each letter stabbed into the

ice. I couldn't f

s eyes with his sleeve, smearing more

y right. But I'm asking anyway, b

ne that matters. I'm leaving him to you. Not because you owe me

is hand was shaking badly n

agraph stopp

s. It belongs to Elon. All of it. He'll need guidance.

undred

g for it to make sense. Elianna had been suc

s she'd closed while their father died alone. The m

himself to

rs and the Manhattan apartment. Consider it a stipend. I know yo

e mi

broken. Three million dollars to raise a stranger's child.

h. The handwriting changed here, deteriorating. The lett

ccept what I've given you. Pro

suddenly aware of the sweat cooling on his spine. The words reeked of fe

bossed, expensive. The papers inside detailed guardianship transfer procedures, trust fu

Sign here, it instructed, above a blank line. Upon execution,

to years of responsibility for a child he'd never met. Years

erent to his crisis. Somewhere out there, a fifteen-year-old boy was waking up to

the letter. You're t

years of hostility. And still, a

envelope. Gathered the scattered papers and slid t

were already moving toward the bedroom, toward his

he lawyer. He w

ter had become, and what kind of monster had

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“I had just been brutally fired from my corporate firm, stripped of my career and dignity in a matter of minutes. Before I could even process the loss, I was handed a brown envelope that shattered my reality. My billionaire sister, who had ruthlessly cut me out of her life fifteen years ago, had committed suicide. She left behind a fifteen-year-old son I never knew existed, a $300 million trust, and a $3 million stipend for me to act as his guardian. But her suicide note contained a terrifying, desperate warning scrawled in tearing ink. "DO NOT INVESTIGATE MY DEATH. Accept what I've given you. Protect my son. Forget I existed." I met the boy, Elon. He crashed his bike into me on the street, bleeding and crying, begging me not to abandon him. Pity and fifteen years of guilt overwhelmed me. I sat in the sprawling office of her elite estate lawyer and signed my life away to protect this innocent, grieving child. Why did my sister suddenly reach out after a decade and a half of cold silence? What kind of monster was she running from that drove her to such a desperate end? I thought I was honoring her final wish by taking the boy in. But as the elevator doors were closing, I caught their reflection in the polished steel. My terrified, weeping nephew stopped crying instantly. He turned and exchanged a chilling, imperceptible nod with the lawyer. That silent look said everything. The first move was complete. I hadn't just inherited a child. I had walked straight into a meticulously planned trap.”
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