All Chapters of Hidden Heiress: My Ex is Addicted to Me: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

(Sybil’s POV)I ran to a road where I knew that there would be more traffic, waving my arms and trying to get someone’s attention. The hospital wasn’t that far away but it was the middle of the night. My father’s smirk was quickly replaced by a look of sheer panic when he turned his head toward the sound of the ambulance. He wasted no time in getting into his battered car and speeding away, fleeing the scene of his crime. As he drove by me, he yelled “I will get the money one way or another, you little bitch! You haven’t heard the last of this!” I could tell that he obviously didn’t want the paramedics to see that he was the one who had crashed into me.I also noticed that he wasn’t driving in the direction of the hospital, where his son was dying. That didn’t really surprise me, sadly. I didn’t think that my mother was planning to be by Charlie’s side either.Just as I was starting to realize that I couldn’t be with Charlie like I’d planned, my knees buckled under me. I saw the am

(Sybil’s POV)For a split second I wondered if maybe I had misheard what he had told me. Charlie couldn’t be dead. He hadn’t even met my baby - his niece - yet. It just didn’t seem right.I could feel my eyes stinging with unshed tears. “I wasn’t with him,” I said, “I didn’t want him to be alone when he died.”“He wasn’t alone.” Mark smiled sadly at me. “When I was told what had happened and that you were unable to be with him like you’d wanted, I cleared my schedule and stayed right by his side until the very end. Brian was there, too. Don’t worry, he didn’t suffer.”“Thank you for being there for him,” I said sincerely, “I know that he appreciated all that you did to help him in his final months. So did I.”“I’ll miss his jokes.” Mark looked at me. “Would you like to see him? The NICU is on the way to his room, so we can stop and see your daughter first.”I nodded. “I’d like that.”“By the way,” he said as he helped me into the wheelchair, “I called Emma and told her everything, a

(John’s POV)“What? You can’t be serious!” Willa scowled as she talked on the phone, then turned to face me. “I can’t believe this. Your ex-wife is going to be the next CFO of my family’s company. Why her? That woman can’t even drive without getting into a car accident!” She eyed me suspiciously. “Did you know about this?”I tightened my grip on the steering wheel. “No, this is as much of a shock to me as it is to you.”“Why her?” Willa asked again, more to herself than to me. I listened to Willa’s rant, wishing that she would move onto another subject. I didn’t want to think about Sybil. Seeing her again after six months opened up old wounds that, if I were completely honest with myself, had never truly healed. I couldn’t look her in the eyes without thinking about how she had succeeded in fooling me for three whole years. I knew going into our marriage that it was just a five-year contract, and that it wasn’t based on love. Somewhere along the way, however, I found myself fallin

(Sybil’s POV)Mark and Emma left me and Alex to talk, knowing that we would want to catch up after not seeing each other for months. “So,” Alex said, “what have you been up to since the last time we saw each other?”I knew that I had to be careful about how I answered his question. I hadn’t told him that I was pregnant. How could I? We hadn’t had a real conversation since before the scandal broke out. He and John had left for London almost immediately, with Willa apparently tagging along for some reason. After that, it seemed like every time I called Alex from wherever I happened to be traveling at that particular moment, things were kind of awkward between us. We were always on friendly terms, but something just seemed off. It was like he was hiding something from me. There were so many times that I wanted to tell him about the baby, but I could never find the right way to do it over the phone. I wasn’t sure how to do it by email or in a letter, either.It wasn’t that I was afraid o

(Sybil’s POV)I forced a smile when I saw Mrs. Rutherford, and she did the same. I briefly wondered if Alex had known that she would be here, and if in addition to wanting to see my baby, he wanted to avoid his aunt. While she wasn’t mean to him like she was to me, he was often frustrated by her behavior. He had seen her at Charlie’s funeral today, and probably yesterday when he came to see Amelia, so I didn’t blame him at all for needing a break from her.“Sybil!” Amelia’s eyes widened with excitement when she saw me. “I missed you so much!”I went over to her bed and scooped her up in a big hug. “I missed you, too. I’m sorry I couldn’t come until now.”Mrs. Rutherford stood up and smiled warmly at her daughter, clearly pleased to see her so happy. “I’ll be back in a little while, to give you two a chance to catch up.” When she brushed past me, however, she grunted under her breath and gave me a small scowl. She clearly hadn’t forgotten our conversation from the funeral, and I coul