Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 723

Chapter 723

Nick’s POV

The days passed.

Then the weeks.

At first, I measured time by fear. By the phone that could ring again.

A legal notification.A headline.A car parked too long in front of the building.

The feeling that life was only on loan.

Then, without me noticing exactly when it happened, I started measuring time by other things. By the hour Bella woke up and went straight to the kitchen, barefoot, hair sticking up.By the routine Martina built like someone rebuilding a house with her own hands.By the way Gwen began organizing the small details of our daily life.

And by the sound of my daughter’s laughter returning without fear.

Custody had started out as temporary.

An emergency measure.

A provisional residence.

Words that sound neutral on paper and, in real life, mean hold your daughter tight, but don’t trust it yet.

But temporary, with Bella, was never temporary. She had no trouble adapting to life with us again.

I did.

I kept waiting for the moment she would fall

Or regress.

I wouldn’t know how to

moment when the trauma would come to

But Bella… Bella looked like a child who was

went back to sleeping through

at the door like someone might walk in.Went

Her friends.

What she dreamed about.

I wouldn’t say

on the days I wanted to break something with my

with the right kind of

the lawyer

without turning it into

euphoria.No celebrating too

kind of love that doesn’t argue or

she was telling the universe this child has

Has soup.

Has a bed.

arms to fall

me… I learned to be

temporary custody became

dramatic victory, with fireworks

a sequence of steps the

that Renee put Bella’s safety at risk and engaged in parental alienation was more than

lawyer managed to secure

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