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.

wood mixed with old

Fresh cleaning.

faint trace of earth drifting

went straight to the living room window, like I needed to introduce the world to

"See those rows of vines?" I whispered to Clara, even though

to

" Bella lit up.

ride a bike and eat gelato," she announced, like she’d already built

out a

at a time, miss,"

ahead, opening doors and adjusting things carefully, like the house might

my leg, trailing me like I was a map When we stepped

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

He looked at Clara with something close to

to the

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

us

up on her tiptoes, respecting the silence like she instinctively understood this

really fits in there," Bella whispered, amazed,

a

like only then did he believe our

there, just looking

For a minute.

Maybe less.

then my body made its

exhaustion hit like a slow,

My back ached.

a bed with almost ridiculous

I looked at the crib

And accepted the truth without trying to dress it up.

am I

looked

out my arms, and he

and placed her back in my arms like

my chest, feeling her warmth, her light weight, the rhythm of