Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 6

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Chapter 6: I Won

(Author’s POV)

No one in the Everett family iMessage group noticed Aurora had quietly left.

Not that anyone would have. Victoria used the group maybe twice a week to share videos of Rosalind at her riding lessons or ballet recitals. Everyone else treated it like background noise.

Jasper hadn’t noticed anything at all.

The previous afternoon, buried under a backlog of digital files, he had batch–signed a stack of documents through DocuSign on his iPad. The label on the folder had read *Routine Personnel Changes*. He had clicked through them without reading a single one.

The next morning, he walked into the executive floor and stopped at the sight of the empty EA workstation. The little vase that always held fresh flowers was gone too. The desk was completely bare.

His mouth curved into a cold, dismissive smile.

Another play for attention. That was all this was. He gave it three days, maybe less. She would come back with an apology and a hot coffee, the same way she always had. He had seen it before.

He pushed open the boardroom door and started the morning meeting without a second thought.

Sienna’s reaction was different.

The moment she stepped into the R&D wing, her phone buzzed with an automated notification. Aurora’s resignation, processed and confirmed. She stopped walking.

Her first thought wasn’t about Jasper. It was about the gene–sequencing patent.

She pulled up the file on her phone and stared at it. That patent was the backbone of the

clinical trial currently in its most critical phase. Aurora had developed it independently before her transfer. If she walked out and pulled the license with her, the losses would be catastrophic.

Sienna found Ethan within ten minutes.

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“Did Jasper sign off on this personally?” she asked, keeping her voice even.

Ethan hesitated. “He processed it as part of a batch approval yesterday afternoon. I don’t think he-” He stopped.

“He didn’t read it,” Sienna said.

Ethan said nothing, which was answer enough.

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A slow breath left her. So Jasper had no idea what he had signed. And if he didn’t know about the resignation, he almost certainly didn’t know the patent authorization would terminate

with it.

She almost laughed.

Aurora thought she was making a power move. But she had tipped her hand too early. If Sienna moved fast enough, she could neutralize the whole thing before Jasper even realized

what was at stake.

She grabbed her bag and her car keys and drove to Martha Higgins’s apartment.

Martha lived in a modest building on the east side of the city. The hallway smelled like old carpet and cooking oil. Sienna knocked twice and arranged her face before the door opened.

“Sienna.” Martha’s expression shifted immediately to something reverent and flustered. “Come in, come in. I wasn’t expecting-”

“I’m sorry to drop by like this.” Sienna stepped inside and let her eyes go soft, just slightly red–rimmed. “I just didn’t know where else to go.”

She sat on the worn sofa and pressed her fingers together in her lap. Then she told her story. Her husband had passed, and the grief had been unbearable. The depression had gotten so bad she could barely get out of bed. Jasper, out of pure kindness, had taken her to Aspen for a few days, just to help her breathe again. He hadn’t realized Aurora was pregnant. It had been a terrible miscommunication, and now Aurora had left and was threatening to sue the

company over a patent.

Martha’s face went through three shades of red.

“She’s threatening to sue?” Martha’s voice climbed. “Over a patent? That ungrateful-” She cut herself off and pressed her hand to her chest. “I raised that girl. I gave her everything. And she’s going to destroy a good man’s career over a misunderstanding?”

“I tried to reach out to her,” Sienna said softly. “But she won’t listen to me.”

Martha was already reaching for her phone.

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(Aurora’s POV)

My mother called at eleven and told me to come over.

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She didn’t explain why. She just said to come, in that tone she used when she had already decided she was right about something and only needed me present to confirm it.

I should have known better.

I pushed open her apartment door, and the slap hit me before I was even fully inside.

The sound was flat and sharp in the small entryway. My cheek burned. I pressed my hand to my face and looked up.

Sienna was sitting on the sofa, composed and immaculate, watching me with an expression of practiced concern.

My mother was shaking with rage, pointing at me. “You apologize to her right now. Right now, Aurora. The Rathbone family did more for us than you will ever understand. You owe them

everything.”

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Chapter 6: I Won–2

I looked at Sienna. She looked back at me, her eyes soft with manufactured sympathy.

“She is not my benefactor,” I said. “She is the woman sleeping with my husband.”

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“Don’t you dare-” My mother grabbed my arm. “Jasper took her skiing because she was grieving. That is all it was. You left because you’re selfish and immature and you always have been.”

“She was not grieving.” My voice was steady. “She was in Aspen. In a suite. Drinking champagne. While I was in a hospital.”

My mother reached for the vase on the side table.

Sienna stood up fast. “Martha, don’t. Aurora’s pregnant. You’ll hurt the baby.”

The words landed in the room and sat there.

I looked at Sienna.

“Stop pretending, bitch. You don’t have to perform concern,” I said. “Not anymore.”

My mother had gone still. The vase was still in her hand.

I looked at her. “There is no baby. There hasn’t been for a while.”

The room was very quiet.

“While Jasper was in Aspen with her,” I said, each word deliberate, “I was in surgery. Alone. I lost the pregnancy on an operating table, and not one person from that family called to check on me. Not one.”

I stared at my mother’s face but didn’t see the expression I wanted; there was only anger. “Aurora, you’ve even learned to lie now!”

I knew it–expecting any warmth from my mother was asking too much.

“I’m not apologizing,” I said. “And I’m not returning the patent. It’s mine. I built it. I earned it.”

I turned to Sienna and pointed at the door. “Get out of my mother’s apartment.”

Sienna didn’t move.

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