Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 139

Chapter 103. A Calculated Move

Chapter 103: A Calculated Move

(Author’s POV)

Jasper went still.

“There’s not going to be any baby boy,” he said.

“But what if there is?”

He pulled her closer. “You are always going to be the most important person to me. That doesn’t change. Nothing changes that.”

Rosalind pressed her face against his jacket and said nothing more.

He drove home in silence, and the silence wasn’t entirely about Rosalind. It was about the fact that when he tried to picture giving her a real family – a stable home, a mother who actually belonged there – only one face came to mind. It had always been only one face.

He found Victoria waiting in the living room.

“Don’t do that again,” he said. He didn’t raise his voice. “Rosalind is already going through the divorce. She doesn’t need strangers being paraded through here on top of it. Don’t bring anyone else into this house.” Victoria watched him walk up the stairs. She sat with her coffee going cold in her hands, and for the first time since she’d made the call to Charlotte Shaw, she wasn’t sure whether she’d helped anything at all. Across town, Sienna’s phone buzzed on the coffee table.

She picked it up. The message was from the second number she’d set up – the one she’d quietly handed off, along with the cheap prepaid phone, to a very willing six-year-old.

*It worked. She’s gone.*

Sienna set the phone down and leaned back against the cushions, a slow smile spreading across her face. Victoria had planned that evening carefully. She’d done everything right, by every reasonable measure.

And it had still fallen apart completely.

Sienna reached for her main phone and opened a new message to Jasper.

*Jasper, I have an idea – something that might actually help you reclaim your position in the whole Everett family. Want to hear it?*

Jasper had the message pulled up on his phone when Sienna walked into his office the next morning.

He didn’t offer her coffee. He set the phone on the desk, screen facing up, and waited until she sat down.

“What does this mean?” he asked. “What idea?”

Sienna crossed her legs and settled back in the chair. “Good morning to you too.”

“Sienna”

“You looked terrible at the gala,” she said. “You know that, right? Phineas spoke to you in front of everyone, and you just stood there. William watched the whole thing.”

Jasper’s jaw tightened. “I’m aware.”

“I previously helped you get close to them through Serena’s relationship with her father Arthur” she continued, “but Arthur doesn’t hold any real power in the Everett Group and everyone knows it. The only two people who actually matter are William and Phineas. That’s the reality”

“I know how my own family works,”

“Then you know you’re in trouble.” She picked up the glass of water from his desk without asking and took a sip. “Phineas has had it out for you since before the gala. That’s not a new problem. And Phineas doesn’t change his mind – not about people, not about anything. Trying to win him over is a losing battle from the

start.”

Jasper leaned back and stared at the ceiling. “So you’re telling me one door is already closed.”

“I’m telling you to stop knocking on it.”

He was quiet for a moment. “William’s not exactly easy either. He never forgave us. The split, the whole mess with the branch family – that’s still sitting there between us.”

“Yes,” Sienna said. “It is.”

“So what’s your brilliant idea? Because right now it feels like I’m standing in a room with no exits.”

Sienna set the glass down. “You’re thinking about it wrong. You don’t wait for doors to open. You build the door yourself.”

“That’s not an answer.”

“William is old-school,” she said. “Stubborn, traditional, runs his household like he’s still in the last century. But underneath all of that, he’s a man who values loyalty. Real loyalty. Do you remember his bodyguard? The one who was with him for fifteen years?”

Jasper frowned. “The one who died in that accident? Shielded him from something?”

“Took the impact himself so William walked away without a scratch.” Sienna nodded. “William has been quietly supporting that man’s entire family ever since. His wife, his children, all of it. That’s not obligation- that’s gratitude. Deep, personal gratitude.”

The silence stretched.

Jasper looked at her. “You want me to make him owe me his life.” Sienna didn’t answer. She just looked back at him, patient and steady. “That means manufacturing something,” he said. “A situation where-”

“I didn’t say anything about manufacturing anything she said smoothly Im just pointing out that William responds to people who show up when it counts People who act without hesitation She paused The

rest is logistics”

Jasper pressed his fingers against the desk. The hesitation was there he could feel it, the part of him that knew exactly what she was suggesting and what it would require. But he pushed it down.

He’d been sidelined long enough.

“Fine,” he said. “I’ll handle it.”

Sienna stood, smoothing her jacket. “I know you

will*

She was almost at the door when he spoke again.

“This works,” he said. “And things go back to how they should be- you and me. That’s still the plan.”

Sienna glanced back at him over her shoulder. “One thing at a time, Jasper.”

She left. He stared at the door for a long moment, then reached for his phone.

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