Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 716

Gwen’s POV

Florentia sunlight had that quality that made everything feel possible for a few hours.

Like the city was offering me a truce.

A small window where nothing was urgent, nothing was a headline, nothing was a courtroom.

I held Nick’s hand on the way to the hospital parking lot and felt his palm relax in mine.

Not completely.

He wasn’t a man who ever relaxed completely.

But enough for me to know the news had landed like water on dry ground.

A girl. I repeated the word in my head the way you test expensive fabric.

Carefully.

Afraid to tear it.

“You’re smiling,” he said as he opened the car door.

“I’m trying not to cry again,” I replied, my voice carrying that light honesty that only shows up when you’re too tired to perform.

He touched the back of my neck for a second.

A quick, protective gesture.

got into the driver’s seat and went

Nick didn’t celebrate the

He stored things.

had to be

Weighed.Accepted. I waited.

that beneath that calm was a man who had lost the right to

little sister,” he murmured again, almost to

I smiled.

“And that little sister is going to have an obsessed father,” I teased,

breath that was

“I’m already obsessed,”

tightened my fingers around

I suggested, like

to

“Today?”

“Today,” I confirmed.

because I didn’t

They were everywhere.

normal.Something for a couple who’s about to become

Then he nodded slowly.

he said, like

and felt the

Small.

Insistent.

shopping district where I usually walked

the lighting is curated, the fabrics look softer just by being displayed, and

trying to make Nick uncomfortable.I just… existed in that place naturally.I