The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife

is Baby The Billionaire's Secret Scandal 295 1/2 The Secret Pregnancy of the Billionaire's Ex-Wife Chapter 295: BecUncle Christopher Christopher POV It was winter when I brought Angela to Italy. Angela was four month pregnant then, her belly just beginning to round beneath her oversized sweaters.

I'd purchased a modest villa in the Italian countryside. Nothing too stentatious-I wanted her comfortable, not overwhelmed.

The locals quickly accepted us as a young couple expecting their first child. Well, children. We learned about the twins during her first ultrasound in Italy.

"Twins," the doctor had said in accented English, pointing the grainy screen. "Due in summer." Angela's face had paled. I remember reaching for her hand, feeling if tremble in mine. Two babies. Neither of us had expected that.

"We'll manage," I told her on the drive home. "I'll hire help. Whatever you need." She'd just nødded, staring out the window at the passing countryside her hand resting protectively over her stomach.

The months that followed were a blur of preparations-assembling two of everything, reading every book on twin births I could find, converting an entire wing of the villa into a nursery.

wanted everything perfect for them. Perfect for her.

They arrived in July, during a heatwave that had the whole region sweating and irritable. Angela had been uncomfortable for weeks, her ankles swollen, her patience thin. When her water broke at three in the morning, I nearly crashed the car rushing her to the hospital.

Aria cfirst, screaming her displeasure at the world that had displaced her. Ethan followed seven minutes later, quieter but with a gaze that seemed to take in everything. I stood by Angela's side through it all, holding her hand, wiping her brow, feeling utterly useless against her pain yet unable to leave.

When the nurse placed Aria in my arms, something insideshifted-plates of emotional bedrock sliding into a new configuration. She was tiny, her face red and scrunched in protest, her fists balled tightly as if ready to fight. I touched her cheek with one finger, marveling at the softness of her skin.

"She has your temper," I whispered to Angela, who managed a tired smile.

Then cEthan, calmer but no less miraculous. He looked directly at me, his unfocused newborn eyes somehow seeming to see right through me.

I felt a connection that transcended blood, transcended sense. These children weren't mine biologically, but in that moment, they becmine in every way that mattered.

"Hello," I said softly. "I'm going to take care of you." It was a promise-to them, to Angela, to myself. A vow more binding than any marriage certificate could ever be. The first year was the hardest. Nights blurred into days in an endless cycle of feedings, diaper changes, and bri of sleep.

ecious moments Angela struggled with postpartum depression, sometimes staring blankly at the wall for hours while I tended to the twins. Other days she was manic with energy, reorganizing the nursery at midnight or cooking elaborate meals no one had the appetite to eat.

1/3 Chapter 295: BecUncle Christopher I hired a night nurse to help, fut Angels was recitant at first "They're my babies,' shed insisted, dark circles under her eyes, hair downed the ban. 1 tend to be the one rating You're exhausted. I'd argued gently. Just three nights a week, for or health, and this Eventually she relented, and those three nights of uninterrupted slap made a world of difference. Slowly, the Angels 16 fallen in love with began to resurface- laughing again, singing to the twins, ningfor evering deer of wine on the torres for they d fallen asleep.

By the tthe twins turned one, we'd established a routine that wed. My business required occasional travel, but I sch everything around important milestones, I was there for their first steps, first words, first tantrums. I documented everything, filling albums with photos that tracked their growth day by day.

"You're obsessed," Angela teased once, findingreviewing footage of Ethan's first successful attempt to stack blocks.

"I don't want to miss anything, I'd replied, not taking my eyes off the screen. In the video, my voice could be beard cheering Ethan on, ridiculous with enthusiasm over something so small. But that was the thing about children-they made the small things monumental.

As the twins grew, so did our strange little family unit.

We celebrated holidays together, established traditions-Sunday morning pancakes, summer picnics by the lake, bedtstories that grew more elaborate with each telling.

I taught Ethan to swim, holding his tiny body in the water while he kicked frantically, determined to master this new skill Angela taught Aria to dance, twirling her around the living room to old jazz records.

Our neighbors simply assumed we were married. "Your husband," they'd say to Angela, or "your wife" to me. Neither of us corrected them. It was easier that way, and part ofliked the pretense, the glimpse into what could be if Angela ever sawas more than a friend.

There were moments I thought it might happen. Late nights on the terrace, wine loosening our usual boundaries, when our conversation would drift into more intimate territory. Times when I'd catch her looking atwith something that might have been affection, might have been more.

I'd reach out, brush hair from her face, or rest my hand on hers for just a second too long. She never pulled away.

But she never leaned in either.

The children were always our buffer, intentionally or not. Just as I'd gather my courage, thinking tonight might be the night to tell her how I felt, Aria would have a nightmare or Ethan would develop a sudden fever. By the tthe crisis was averted, the moment had passed.

I told myself I was being patient. That Angela needed tto heal from her failed marriage, from Sean's betrayal. e That eventually, she would see what was right in front of her-a man who loved her, who loved her children as his own, who had built a life around them.

I was a fool.

Those five years were the happiest of my life. Every birthday celebration, every Christmas morning, every ordinary Tuesday dinner- they filled a void I hadn't even known existed.

For the first time, I understood what family meant, what it could be. Not the cold, fractured thing I'd grown up with, but something 2/3 Chapter 295: BecUncle Christopher warm and solid and real.

The twins called"Uncle om Christopher, but in every way that mattered, I was their father. I was the one win checked foxwonders under the bed, who kissed scraped knees, who built elaborate sandcastles on the beach. I was the one Efhan called for whe thunderstorms frightened him, the one Aria wanted to show her drawings to first. If I was exhausted, juggling business responsibilities with late-night feedings and early morning cartoons, I never showed it.

The exhaustion was a badge of honor, proof of my commitment to this family I'd claimed as my own.

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