Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 574

That feeling only intensified when she checked her phone and saw Alaric had wired her fifty million dollars.

Was this her divorce settlement?

Ivy didn't know.

All she felt was an agonizing pain tearing through her chest. Half her soul was terrified for Stella, while the other half was drowning in the bleak realization that she and Alaric simply weren't meant to be.

She had been so ready to return to Capital City with him and build a life together.

She had even planned to tell him about the pregnancy soon.

But now, she was being banished.

It meant she would have to keep this baby a secret and raise it entirely on her own.

Before leaving Northport, Ivy asked the driver to stop by the river where Stella had vanished.

Police tape still cordoned off the area, and officers were still sweeping the banks.

Yet, there was zero progress.

Forced to accept the grim reality, Ivy finally let the driver take her back to Silverton.

It was dark by the time she arrived at her house.

She pushed the front door open. Toby, who was slouched on the couch playing a video game, glanced up. He instantly dropped his phone and rushed over.

"Ivy, what are you doing back?"

"Are you okay? Your eyes are bloodshot, and you look terrible. Did your husband do something to you?"

Ivy shook her head, exhausted. She walked over to the sofa and collapsed onto the cushions.

"Toby, I'm just tired and a little hungry. Could you make me a quick sandwich?"

"Yeah, on it!"

Toby immediately darted into the kitchen.

Ivy leaned her head back, staring blankly at her phone screen.

Since leaving Northport, she had been messaging Alaric nonstop.

She begged him to tell her the second they found anything about Stella.

She let him know she had left the city.

She updated him every time she passed a highway tollbooth.