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THE MESSAGE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
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Patrick's POVI stared at my phone, its screen still lit up from our last 'call,' one that hadn't even counted, actually. Giselle blocked me. Blocked. Me. My fists were white-knuckled. My panting came in little jagged gasps, my head spinning with the revelation she'd told me about what'd been happening. She's pregnant.And never said a word to me about it. Better still, she had the temerity to play dumb as if I did already know, like I'd been trying not to Me. I slapped my phone onto the table and sprang up so hard that the chair behind me let out a shriek on the wood floor. Becky, who was lying on the bed, raised a look from the magazine."What's wrong with you?" she asked, lifting one perfectly shaped eyebrow. I stormed the room, running a hand through my hair. My entire body was on fire with fury. "Giselle is pregnant." Stunned silence.And then Becky, who burst out laughing. "Okay? What's it to you?" I scowled. "Because, Becky, the child could be mine." She laughed, that distincti
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Giselle's POVI seethed there, fists clenched in tight fists, every part of me seething with rage as I watched Patrick throw open my front door. The door slammed shut behind him, ringing out across the empty room. I took a harsh, raw breath, yanking a hand back through my hair, trying to get a grip on my emotions.How could he? How is he ever going to believe that he can come into my house and accuse me of impersonating Von Howard's son?As if I have to lie. As if I have to deceive some man into speaking something which was originally his. He left.He is the one who informed me that Becky was the woman that he wanted to have children with. And now he was going to pretend like he cared? Now he was going to pretend like he'd been uprooted?I hooted at a loud laugh, shakin' my head. No. He wasn't going to get to relive history because all of a sudden overnight it was good for him. I was reachin' for my phone, my trembly hand scrollin' through my messages, lookin' for that one I'd sent hi
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Patrick's POVI hung up the phone on the desk and slammed it, and it crunched beneath the force. My hands trembled as I sat back in the chair, gazing out at the cityscape outside my office window.Giselle. That woman had trapped me—again.She thought she was so clever, leaving that disgusting voicemail like it constituted proof of a crime.And now the media had turned against me, and I was the villain of this strange melodrama.I massaged my head in sour frustration.This wasn't about the pregnancy scandal anymore. This was about power.And Giselle wanted to take it all away from me."Sir?" My assistant, Dylan, tapped lightly at the door."What?" I growled, more harshly than I intended.Dylan coughed, slipping in incognito. "There are reporters at the building. They camped here this morning in hopes of catching a quote from you."I gritted my teeth. Of course, they were.Ever since Giselle's little stunt, my PR team had been working overtime to prevent the story from getting out of ha
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Giselle's POVI slammed into my penthouse, every molecule within me raging with fury. Patrick.The gall of that man. He dared to appear at my doorstep and demand answers—as if he were worthy of them. As if he hadn't discarded me like yesterday's trash. I had been truthful to him, and the look on his face when I told him that the baby was his? Almost worth it. Almost.Reward wasn't going to steal the bitterness eating at my chest, though. I tossed my purse onto the couch and let out a harsh breath. My phone rang, and I answered it on autopilot.A text. Nicholas: You okay? Call me if you need anything.I let out a deep breath. My brother always had my back. Today, though, I did not feel like talking. I didn't want to explain to him how things had spiralled this far out of control.I was on the verge of hanging up when there was another message. Victor: Dinner tonight? I have a spot that'll take your mind off all your problems.I stared at the screen, my heart racing. Victor. My ex. The m
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Patrick's POVI flipped the minute I heard what happened at the restaurant.bBecky and Debbie.And, of course, had to be those two being their typical troublemaking selves.I had barely gotten myself seated in my office when my business associate at the same restaurant sent me a video. It was short—a brief clip of Becky spilling wine on Giselle, and then Giselle coldly splashing Becky in return.I clenched my jaw so hard it ached.I didn't wait one second. I took my car keys and headed home. Becky was getting an explanation.The second I burst through my mom's front door, I could hear Becky's whine."She's angry, Mrs. Cavanaugh! I swear it, Giselle is trying to kill me! Did you notice how she sat me to dinner in front of our guests?"I walked into the living room to find Becky on the couch, blanket hugged tightly around her, dramatically towel-mopping her dripping wet hair. My mother sat beside her, a comforting hand on Becky's shoulder. Debbie stood by the fireplace, arms crossed, clearl
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Giselle's POV I sat at my window side, staring at the light of the city flashing on and off in the distance. The wind blew in from the half open window, filling me with the scent of rain. My mind jumble, thought bumping into each other like waves on the shore.Victor's dinner words lingered in my head. "You are better than this, Giselle. I can provide you with the life you want, the safety you need."For the first time in so long, I thought about it. Gladly, could I begin anew with him?Victor had been my love, my man forever. Until everything went wrong. Until he did.But human beings do change, don't they? Maybe he wasn't that gentleman anymore. Maybe it was my turn to shape my fate, be done once and for all with all the misery Patrick had sent me adrift toward. I was snapped out of my daydream."Enter."Nicholas entered, his face serious. My brother was not a man to be easily ruffled, but something tonight was disturbing his eyes.He closed the door on his way in and breathed hea
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Patrick's POVI got up and watched Giselle leave the boardroom, heels clacking on the marble floor, shoulders squared in resolve. The urge to call out to her, to get her to listen, to get her to understand—hit then. She was answering her phone call before I could take a step.She did not even blink in responding, her voice not quite as annoying when she was talking to whoever it was she was on the phone with. Her lips were pursed into a sour smile as she was talking to whoever it was she was calling.Who was she calling on the phone? I gripped my fists.Was she calling Victor? The asshole had been lurking around her for the last few days like a vulture. I clenched my teeth and leaned back further in the chair, rubbing my head.This was not where I wanted it to be headed.I had tried to get Giselle to leave me at arm's length. I had wanted her to be as pained as I was hurting. But for some reason, I was getting angry. A drawn-out breath escaped from my lips.I was still facing the dir
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(Giselle's POV)I was wide awake. The hotel room was too quiet, too quiet for the chaos of thoughts churning in my brain. The ceiling fan creaked pointlessly above me, creating shadow performances on the cream-colored walls. I flipped onto my side, the silk sheets sticking, and stared at the bright face of my phone. No message. No call.Patrick hadn't called in days.I was predestined to be consumed by the Miss World pageant of beauty—the repetitious rehearsal runs, dress fittings, and television spots. I was the face everyone longed to see, the name on every billboard, the woman who had it all. It was all only illusion for me today, though, a sparkly diversion from hurt set on clinging.I winced and sat up, wrapping a robe around me. The door to the balcony was ajar, and the smell of sea breeze wafted in. I went out barefoot, arms wrapped around myself as cold tiles tiptoed across my toes. Miami city lights glowed far away, a city of dreams and deception."Why are you doing this, Pat
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(Patrick's POV)Sunlight fought with the thick cream curtains over the hotel window. I leaned against the window, phone and coffee in hand. Nothing. No call. No missed call. Still nothing from Giselle. The silence shattered as oppressive as ever, weighing on my chest like a boulder.Becky slept on the couch in the living room. She had insisted on being near me, but I had not been talkative with her. I had not been capable of fighting or of explaining. My mind was with Giselle—her vanishing, uncertainty, question marks that fill every moment of consciousness.I flipped through my album, where I stopped on a picture of Giselle taken at her last public appearance. She had worn that stunning blue dress, the one that shimmered as moonlight on rippling water. I remembered her laughter that evening, how it stayed in my head even when the paparazzi had stopped snapping pictures.A knock at the door broke my concentration. I opened it to Clara, my assistant, who stood in the doorway with a fol
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Giselle's POVMy silence and Patrick's lingered behind us once we'd spoken. Not the type that creeps up and skinnies and tickles with anxiety, but instead a dense variety, filled by both parties and left untouched due to neither wishing to add any more bulk into the world. I had plopped on the couch, wrapped my legs tightly into my center, soft light from the lamp in the room casting limp shadow on the ceiling.He hadn't pushed. He hadn't insisted. That alone was reassuring and unnerving. Patrick was the one who always stepped back when I stepped back, and for some reason that always made me feel safer with him. But tonight I had wished he would have insisted—wished he would have pushed me to tell him everything I had kept locked inside.Because the truth was choking me.Victor had called me again.I didn't reply. I couldn't. His final message he ever sent just lingered in my inbox, unread: "You'll never be safe without me."He was right, at least—everything had felt unreal. Because I
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Patrick's POVThe pounding waves on the beach was the raw, distant sound of the thunder. I was standing in front of the balcony of the suite, looking out over the ocean. The sky was a darker blue with an orange tint to it as the sun started to set. The peace of what I was seeing was such a contrast to the storm that raged inside of me.I had hoped that time would mend the gap between me and Giselle. But distance and silence could not remove the pain, the disillusion, or the deceptions that had built up between us. I had hoped that if I came here, if I was merely there, I could mend everything.But even then, after I'd made the reconciliation gesture, part of me was like walking on glass.I hadn't spoken to Giselle in reality since we'd talked on the beach. She'd retreated again into her silence, and this wall was there between us. One I wasn't sure I could climb.The ring of my phone reminded me of what was real. It was Grace on the phone."Patrick," her voice grated across the phone.
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Giselle's POVThe ocean breeze swept over my hotel room floor-to-ceiling sheer flowing curtains, stroking my skin with the softness of silk. I was standing at the glass, arms crossed, looking out toward the horizon where the sky was dancing with the waves. Miami was another type of wildness—noisy and restive. But I was weary of twinkly lights and further cacophony of applause.My phone went quiet once more. No calls. No texts. Patrick hadn't called or texted me since that strange message he'd sent two nights before—the one where his voice broke, like he was holding something fragile and already letting it go.I wrapped my robe more securely around me and went to the dresser. My hair smelled of vanilla and gardenias, my skin still warm from the bath I'd indulged in a little while ago. Today was meant to be peaceful, but this ache was in my breast. As if something was waking up, something was moving. and I wasn't prepared."Ma'am," one of my guards knocked on the door, entering. "Miss G
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Giselle's POVI couldn't breathe.Not because my practice corset was too tight—though it was stuck to me like a vice—because the dressing room walls kept closing in with every untexted moment, every unspoken one, every time I blinked and Patrick's face flashed before me in the darkness.He was there for me.I knew the moment he walked into the lobby. My father had eyes and ears everywhere, but even if he hadn't, I would have known. The air around me shifted. My heart shifted. My phone was in off mode when Becky called me, crying, accusingly, bewildered. I did not need the explanations. Not yet. My world had swerved too far from its axis. I had wished for silence to put it on a straight axis once more.But silence was treacherous. It betrayed things into me I did not want to know."Giselle," my assistant Sarah had called at the door. "Five minutes before last rehearsal. Ready?" "Coming," I had replied, rising from the velvet couch and regarding myself in the mirror.The woman in th
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Patrick's POVI couldn't sleep.I reclined on the hotel bed looking up at the ceiling fan, its soft whirring mingling with the hum in my head. I was in Miami but felt more distant from all I ever knew. The soft glow of the bedside lamp cast shadows with dance motions on the wall. My phone was silent, face down on the nightstand.Giselle had yet to call me back.I rolled over on my side, pulling the comforter up over my chest like it could shield me from the shame crawling all over my body. Why wasn't she answering? Why wasn't her number still open? Dozens of questions ran through my mind—had something happened to her? Or was she just. done with me?Becky's face remembered, scowling in anger when she pilfered my phone from off my person earlier. How she crumpled. The terror in the shriek she let out. The crying, the trembling of her hands laid over her belly. And I? I had taken a step back. Like a coward.I groaned and sat up straight, running my hand through my hair. I needed some air
