Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 720

Gwen’s POV

They said twenty-four to forty-eight hours.

I repeated that window so many times in my head it became a kind of internal clock.

A clock of tension.

The constant feeling that something could happen at any moment, that the timeline wasn’t mine anymore.

Twenty-four to forty-eight hours for the investigation to move forward after the evidence was presented.

Which meant the call could come at any time.

I still hadn’t told Nick anything.

Because there’s a very specific kind of hope that, when placed in the hands of a broken man, turns into a promise.

And promises are dangerous.

If the plan led nowhere, we would have to go through the legal route.

The formal path.

Slow.

Full of hearings and competing narratives.

I didn’t want Nick to feel like everything was resolved, only to watch reality take it away from him as easily as Renee had taken our peace. I didn’t want to see his eyes light up just to go dark again days later.

So I carried it alone. I tucked the weight into a place inside me I knew well.

The place where I put everything that couldn’t spill over.

night, I tried

up on the

documentary played

ten minutes later you

a blanket over his legs and his arm wrapped

few minutes, I could almost believe in normalcy.My

life doesn’t wait for

the remote, lowering

was thinking about something

I

color wrong, we’re going to look at

I want to get it

more of a perfectionist than you like to admit.”

“I’m practical,” he corrected.

“You’re the perfectionist.”

made

He squeezed

color do you think

very princess.Like… Royal Blush.Castle Vanilla.Wand

at me

making that

you’re underestimating the paint industry,”

look it up, it exists.” Nick let out a laugh, pulling me closer, and I laughed with him, feeling

for the…,”

felt his body tense slightly, like the sentence had brushed against something

the baby,”

color do you

at the ceiling, pretending

I’d want something

that