His Secret Baby: Six Months After Divorce (Mia and Ethan) novel Chapter 259

Chapter 259

Ethan Hale’s jawline was sharp and tight. His hand, resting on the edge of the table, had veins bulging beneath the skin, and his fingers were still slightly damp from the spilled tea.

“Who was that you were meeting?”

Cole Preston sat down across from him. “Oh, I forgot. That was your secretary. I should have called her in to say

hello.”

Ethan’s breath hitched.

His slightly furrowed brows suddenly pulled together into a tight, agonizing knot.

Mia Carter?

Twenty-two weeks pregnant?

Small fetal development?

No sex during the third trimester?

Ethan knew absolutely nothing about pregnancy. All of those facts were completely foreign to him.

In that entire conversation he had just overheard, the only thing that was familiar was Mia’s voice. Everything else was a world he didn’t recognize.

t was so alien that he almost wanted to believe it wasn’t her. Maybe it was just someone who sounded like her.

But how could he ever mistake a voice he knew so intimately?

I heard she’s moving out of town for work soon. She came to pick up her medical records today.”

Cole straightened Ethan’s teacup and poured him a fresh serving.

Have you ever met her husband? I’ve seen her several times, and he’s never with her. If I didn’t know better, I’d

hink she didn’t even have one.”

The words, though framed as idle curiosity, felt like a hammer striking Ethan’s heart over and over again.

Ethan’s thin lips pressed into a hard line. The silence of the tea room suddenly felt suffocating, sending a wave of

anic through him.

He stood up abruptly, grabbed his coat, and walked out.

His heavy, rhythmic footsteps echoed down the hall until they vanished completely.

Cole stared at the empty seat where Ethan had been sitting, remaining motionless for a long time.

This was the only way he could make up for his mistake.

After leaving the tea estate, Mia Carter climbed into a taxi. She felt significantly lighter, as if a weight had been ifted from her shoulders.

As she replayed Cole’s words in her head, they seemed normal on the surface, yet something about the encounter

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She thought about that half-open door and the faint, rustling noise she had heard. The more she thought about it, the more unsettled she became.

On the way back, she received a call from Nina Torres.

Unable to wait until she got home, Mia gave Nina a brief, concise summary of what Cole had said.

‘Don’t overthink it. Doctors don’t see gender; they see patients,” Nina said. “To him, telling you not to sleep with your husband is no different than telling you to take your vitamins. You could be lying stark naked in front of him, and he wouldn’t have a single dirty thought. His head is strictly on the medical side.”

Nina had gone through childbirth herself-a C-section.

“The doctors looked at my bare body like it was just a piece of meat on a table. They’re used to it. Trust me, doctors aren’t like normal people. Especially OB-GYNs.”

‘Maybe I am just overthinking it,” Mia conceded.

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