His Secret Baby: Six Months After Divorce (Mia and Ethan) novel Chapter 477

Chapter 477

Miranda Hale, usually so overbearing and high-and-mighty, was actually resorting to threats.

She was even using her own life as a weapon.

In the end, Mia Carter was the one left to carry the burden, as if she were the one preventing Ethan from returning. If something truly happened, Mia would be the one blamed. She would be the most innocent of

Scapegoats.

Mia pulled up her phone, typed in a familiar string of numbers, and hit dial.

It

rang

for a long time before the call finally connected.

‘Is something wrong?”

On the other end, Ethan Hale’s voice was magnetic-deep and raspy.

Why haven’t you returned to Northbrook yet?” Mia asked. Her tone wasn’t friendly.

Ethan’s voice dropped an octave. “Does that have anything to do with you?”

It doesn’t,” Mia countered. “But you and Chloe Bennett are getting married in ten days. Shouldn’t you be back?”

None of your business.”

Ethan’s sharp retort didn’t bring the answer he wanted to hear. He didn’t even know what he wanted to hear, but t certainly wasn’t this.

The work in Everett isn’t that urgent,” Mia said. “At least not urgent enough to delay your wedding. Ethan, what xactly are you thinking?”

Mia, do you really want me to go back and marry Chloe?”

Ethan fell silent for a long moment, his Adam’s apple bobbing as he forced the question out.

Mia’s throat tightened, feeling as if it were stuffed with cotton.

n the background, the rustling evening wind sounded eerily quiet through the phone. It felt like they had been ransported back to that night when she first brought up the divorce, waiting those long minutes for Ethan to espond.

in those minutes, she hadn’t known what he was thinking. The air had been suffocatingly still.

What else?” Mia asked. “Do you expect me to hope you don’t marry her? Ethan, we’re divorced. Let’s just live our own lives.”

‘Live our own lives.* What a line.

Ethan hung up immediately.

It was August now, and the evening chill in Everett had faded, replaced by a restless heat.

He yanked his tie loose, standing before the floor-to-ceiling window of his office, looking out at the Everett nightscape.

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*Ethan, we’re divorced. Let’s just live our own lives.”

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Mia’s words echoed in his mind like a haunting melody, drilling into his head until it throbbed with a dull pain.

He didn’t know how much time had passed before his phone rang again, snapping him out of a daze that had drifted back to a year ago-to the time before they were divorced.

It was Leo Martinez calling. He swiped the screen to answer.

“Mr. Hale, Marcus Gallagher got back to me. He’s certain there was an inside story back then, but it was a long

Arthur Gallagher covered his tracks well. Marcus needs time to investigate; he can’t give us an answer

time

ago. immediately.”

Ethan’s brow furrowed. “Understood.”

Leo hesitated before asking, “When are you returning to Northbrook?”

“Book the flight. I’m going back now.” Ethan’s tone was light, but it carried a trace of desolation he couldn’t quite

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