Hired a Gigolo, Got a Billionaire

Chapter 731

Gwen’s POV

The road to the estate felt shorter than it really was.

Maybe because this time, no one was heading there in a rush to escape something.

Nick drove with both hands steady on the wheel, eyes sharp, but his body no longer carried that hospital tension.

This was different.

A quieter kind of pressure.

The kind that comes with bringing something fragile into a place that has to learn how to be home.

Clara slept in my arms, wrapped in soft fabric, her lips slightly parted like even breathing was still new to her.

I watched her constantly, like my eyes were her personal security system.

In the front seat, Bella had climbed into Nick’s lap at the last second before we got out of the car, stubborn and clingy in that way only a happy child can be.

He didn’t complain.

Just wrapped an arm around her and held her like it was natural to carry one daughter against his chest and another in his wife’s arms.

When we stopped in front of the house, no one spoke for a moment.

The restored façade carried that quiet dignity of something built with care.

The late afternoon light hit the stone, and the windows reflected the sky like they were giving back everything they had taken in over the past months.

Nick stepped in first, just enough to reach the handle from the inside and hold the door open.

"Welcome home," he said.

I laughed, because the words were simple-and somehow, they were everything.

I walked past him with Clara in my arms and noticed the scent of the house in a way I never had before.

mixed with old

Fresh cleaning.

it all, a faint trace

window, like I needed to introduce the world to

"See those rows of vines?" I whispered

dad’s going to make you eat your first

" Bella lit up.

bike and eat gelato,"

out

at a time, miss," he

ahead, opening doors and adjusting things carefully,

to my leg, trailing me like I was a map When we stepped into the bedroom, the crib was there Thad seen it in pictures 1 had stood in that

seeing, that crib with my daughter in my arms changed the air Nick

Clara with

I stepped up to the crib and gently laid her

+25 Bonus She shifted a little, made the smallest sound, then went still

three of us just stood there,

the silence like she instinctively understood this was a moment that called for

there," Bella whispered, amazed,

a hand on

felt his body slowly relax, like only then did he

stayed there, just looking at

For a minute.

Maybe less.

then my body made

like a slow,

My back ached.

head begged for a bed

at the

am I kidding?"

Nick looked

I held out my arms, and

placed her back in my arms

on the bed with Clara against my chest, feeling her warmth,