Chapter 13: The Standoff
Isabella's POV
I looked at her.
"Ricky, right," Her voice had gone from wounded to sharp in the span of one breath. "You called my dad Ricky. Nobody calls him that. Not ever. What the hell?"
There it is. Not the marriage, not the money, not Margot getting walked out the door—out of everythi...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Impossible Return
2. Chapter 2: When the Past Becomes Doubt
3. Chapter 3: The Weight of Fourteen Years
4. Chapter 4: Alex
5. Chapter 5: The First Lesson
6. Chapter 6: Uninvited Guest and a Declaration of War
7. Chapter 7: The DNA Report and the Weight of Memory
8. Chapter 8: Digital Ghosts
9. Chapter 9: When a Ghost Goes Online
10. Chapter 10: You're Still You
11. Chapter 11: First Contact
12. Chapter 12: The Precinct
13. Chapter 13: The Standoff
14. Chapter 14: Desperate Alliances
15. Chapter 15: Jealous
16. Chapter 16: The World She Left Behind
17. Chapter 17: The Ghost at the Hartley Gala
18. Chapter 18: When the Son Says "Mom"
19. Chapter 19: The Perfect Stepmother's Trap
20. Chapter 20: Mother and Daughter
21. Chapter 21: What You Stopped Doing
22. Chapter 22: Moonlight Confessions
23. Chapter 23: Ghosts and Closed Doors
24. Chapter 24: Lunch with Mom and a Test of Truth
25. Chapter 25: Little Schemes in High Places
26. Chapter 26: The Two Faces of Richard Winston
27. Chapter 27: But Mom—
28. Chapter 28: The Aftermath of the Storm
29. Chapter 29: What I Dug Up
30. Chapter 30: The Money and the Trap
31. Chapter 31: A Million-Dollar Lesson
32. Chapter 32: The Cost of Walking Out
33. Chapter 33: The Lady of the House
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