Divorced and Pregnant My New Life with a Billionaire Drives My Ex Crazy novel Chapter 458

Still, it wasn’t all for nothing. At least now they had the codename for the ringleader. Y. That was something.

For years, that kidnapping had haunted Conrad, turning into a recurring nightmare he could never shake. It wasn’t just his trauma. Alice had never been the same since. His grandfather had died with regret and bitterness in his heart, and the whole Sullivan family had started unraveling after that. Everything seemed to trace back to that one awful night.

How could Conrad ever let it go? That childhood horror had been eating at him for decades.

So now, with a real lead finally in hand, Korey figured Mr. Sullivan would probably change his plans. Y had always been impossible to catch. It had been twenty years. Twenty years, and they were just now getting a name.

Conrad didn’t answer right away. He waited until his wound was bandaged again, then got up, slipped on his coat, and wandered over to the window. He picked up his phone and scrolled to his photo album. The first thing he saw was the ultrasound from their last appointment. Two tiny, blurry shapes, but you could already tell they were little people.

He kept scrolling. Every photo after that was of Wiona. Some were quiet snapshots he’d taken while she slept. Others caught her in profile at the window, lost in a book or painting, her face calm and focused. There were selfies too, ones she took herself, grinning with him in the frame.

He couldn’t believe they’d only been married for a month. Somehow, they already had a collection of memories.

On one side of his life, there was Y. On the other, his new wife and the babies they hadn’t even met yet.

He thought about how, even after everything that happened today, he couldn’t help but call her. He wanted to see her face, see the babies, even if just through a screen. The feeling that washed over him was so soft, so unfamiliar, it almost hurt.

“Korey, you know what?” he said quietly. “She noticed right away. The second she saw me, she could tell I was worn out.”

“She didn’t know I was hurt, but she could sense something was off.”

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