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

Or regress.

something I wouldn’t know how

The moment when the trauma would come

But Bella… Bella looked like a

went back to

glancing at the door like

Her friends.

What she dreamed about.

say it was

and my mother were my wall on the days I wanted to break something

right kind of

the lawyer

moving without turning it into a

celebrating

of love

she was telling the universe this child

Has soup.

Has a bed.

to

And me… I learned to be a father with

temporary

dramatic victory, with fireworks and tears

steps the

engaged in parental alienation was more than enough for

to secure supervised visitation

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