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

Fresh cleaning.

trace of

to the living room window, like

of vines?" I whispered to Clara, even though she couldn’t

where your dad’s going to make

" Bella lit up.

going to teach her how to ride a bike

let out

at a time, miss," he

Nick walked ahead, opening doors and adjusting things carefully, like the house might trip over

Bella practically glued 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

with my daughter in my arms changed

Clara with

the crib and gently laid

little, made

us just stood

Bella came up on her tiptoes, respecting the silence like she instinctively understood this was a moment that called

Bella whispered, amazed, like the concept

a hand on my

body slowly relax, like only then did

stayed there,

For a minute.

Maybe less.

And then my body made its

exhaustion hit like

My back ached.

a

I looked at the

I

Nick looked

I held out my

her back in my arms like he’d

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