All Chapters of Married To My Ex's Ruthless Father: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Chapter Thirty-One

Isabella’s POV“She has been kidnapped.”The words hit me hard. I couldn’t breathe for a second. Rain fell around us. Cold and steady. I barely felt it.My mother. After twenty years. After I thought she was dead. After I found out she was alive. Now she was gone.“No.” My voice was weak.The officer looked uncomfortable. “I’m sorry.”“No.” I shook my head. “You’re wrong.”Damien put his arm around my shoulders. His grip was firm. Steady. It grounded me. I leaned into him without thinking.The officer looked away. “We intercepted a message thirty minutes ago.”My stomach twisted. “And?”“It confirmed she was taken from a safe location.”“By who?”“We don’t know yet.”I closed my eyes. Everything hurt. Damien looked down at me. “Look at me.”I did. His gray eyes were calm. “We will find her.”His certainty made something settle inside me. A little. “What if we’re too late?”“We won’t be.”“You don’t know that.”“I know I won’t stop looking.” The answer came fast. No hesitation.My thro

Chapter Thirty-Two

Damien’s POVThe SUV came to a complete stop. Nobody inside spoke. Nobody moved. Rain poured heavily against the windshield.The woman standing in the middle of the road stared directly at us. At Isabella.My grip tightened around her hand. She wasn’t breathing. I could feel her entire body go rigid beside me.“Mom.” The word barely left her lips.The driver looked nervous. “What do we do, sir?”I didn’t answer immediately. My eyes stayed on the woman outside. Something felt wrong. Very wrong. She wasn’t waving. Wasn’t running toward us. Wasn’t smiling. She was just standing there. Watching.Gabriel must have noticed it too. “Don’t get out.”Isabella looked at him. “What?”“Don’t get out yet.”Her eyes widened. “That’s my mother.”“I know.”“Then why would I stay here?”Gabriel hesitated. “Because this could be a trap.”Silence filled the SUV. The rain kept falling. Harder now. Louder. Almost violent.Isabella looked back at the woman. Tears were already forming in her eyes. Twenty ye

Chapter Thirty-Three

Isabella’s Pov The media frenzy grew worse with every passing day. Cameras flashed no matter where I went. Reporters shouted questions the second I stepped outside. My phone buzzed constantly with new headlines: “Blackwood Baby Drama!” and “Who’s the Real Father?” I couldn’t even look out a window without seeing another news van parked nearby. It felt like the whole world was staring at my growing belly, waiting for me to break.I tried to stay strong, but inside I was crumbling. Damien saw it. He hated how tense I became every time my phone lit up or a stranger whispered as we walked past. One rainy afternoon, he made up his mind.“We’re leaving,” he told me gently while packing a small bag for me. “There’s a quieter property up north. Bigger land, taller walls, better security. You need peace, Isabella. Our baby needs peace.”I just nodded. I was too tired to argue. I let him guide me into the black SUV with dark windows. We slipped out through a back gate while the main crowd wai

Chapter Thirty-Four

Isabella’s PovI opened the door with shaking hands. Ethan stood there under the porch light, looking just as tired as he had in the news clips. His eyes met mine first, soft and full of something I couldn’t quite read. Then Damien’s footsteps reached us, and the air changed in an instant.“Ethan,” Damien said, his voice low and sharp. He stepped beside me, one hand resting protectively on my lower back. “You shouldn’t be here.”Ethan didn’t flinch. He looked straight at Damien, shoulders squared. “I’m not here to cause trouble. I just want to talk to Isabella. About our child.”Our child. The words hit me hard. I stood between them in the entrance hall, heart pounding. The two men who had turned my life upside down were finally face to face. Damien’s jaw tightened. Ethan’s hands curled into fists at his sides. The security guard hovered awkwardly behind us, unsure what to do.Damien spoke first. “She’s my wife. This is my home. You don’t get to show up unannounced and demand anything

Chapter Thirty-Five

Isabella’s PovThe leaked photos dominated every news outlet. They were everywhere I looked. My phone wouldn’t stop buzzing with alerts. TV screens in the living room showed the old pictures of me and Ethan on repeat. Those private moments from before my wedding now felt cheap and exposed. Headlines screamed things like “Secret Past Revealed!” and “Isabella’s True Heart?” I wanted to crawl under the covers and never come out.The public started questioning everything. Comment sections filled with cruel words. “Does Isabella even love Damien or did she just marry him to hide her pregnancy?” “She probably used him for the Blackwood name and money.” Some people felt sorry for Damien. Others said I was playing games with both men. It hurt so much because deep down I knew parts of it came from my own confusion. I loved Damien, but the baby inside me tied me to Ethan forever. The gossip made everything feel dirty.Damien tried to ignore it at first. He would kiss my forehead in the mornin

Chapter Thirty-Six

Isabella’s POV The company entered full crisis mode. Phones rang nonstop in Damien’s home office. His assistants sent urgent messages at all hours. I could hear the stress in his voice during calls, even when he tried to keep the door closed. Investors were demanding answers about the future of the Blackwood empire. They wanted to know who would inherit everything one day. Would it be a child Damien and I had together, or would Ethan’s baby complicate the whole line of succession? The unborn baby had suddenly become the center of a battle nobody expected. It wasn’t just about me or our marriage anymore. It was about power, money, and control.I felt sick watching it all unfold. Sitting in the living room with my hand on my growing belly, I saw the news clips. Analysts on TV talked about stock prices dropping and board meetings turning tense. Some investors even suggested putting pressure on Damien to “resolve his personal issues” quickly. The pressure was crushing him, but he kept

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Isabella’s PovThe anonymous package changed everything I thought I knew about my marriage to Damien. I stood there in the kitchen, staring at the papers spread across the table. My hands wouldn’t stop shaking. There were copies of the marriage contract with dates that didn’t make sense. The contract had been prepared weeks before I ever agreed to marry Damien. Even worse, some signatures looked off — like they might have been forged or influenced by someone. Old emails mentioned “securing the alliance” and “timing the proposal perfectly.” It felt like my whole life had been scripted by invisible hands.Tears blurred my vision as I read line after line. How could this be real? I remembered the whirlwind days leading up to the wedding. I had been scared, pregnant, and confused. Damien had seemed like a safe choice, a steady man who cared. But now it looked like someone had pushed us together long before I said yes. My chest tightened. The baby kicked hard, as if feeling my panic too.

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Damien’s PovI investigated my own company with a heavy heart. The papers from that anonymous package kept me up at night. After Isabella showed them to me, I couldn’t ignore the signs anymore. The next morning, I locked myself in my home office and started digging through old contracts, emails, and access logs. What I found made my stomach turn. Someone very close to me had been manipulating internal documents for months. Changes to the marriage agreement, timed leaks, even small adjustments to board meeting notes that pushed certain decisions my way. It wasn’t random. It was careful, deliberate work from inside Blackwood Corporation.My hands shook as I stared at the screen. The login records pointed to someone in my inner circle. People I had trusted for years. Trust inside the company began to collapse fast. I called a few key managers for quiet meetings over video. Their faces showed shock when I shared bits of what I found. “We need to check everything,” I told them. Whispers

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Damien’s Pov I made the decision after another sleepless night. The betrayal by Marcus and the anonymous papers had shaken everything. I could not let the company or outsiders keep threatening my family. To stabilize the situation, I initiated legal action the next morning. My lawyers drew up documents to secure full spousal and inheritance protection rights for Isabella and the unborn child. It was not about taking anything from anyone. It was about making sure Isabella stayed protected as my wife and that our family had a clear place in the Blackwood line, no matter what DNA tests later showed.I explained it to Isabella over coffee in the quiet kitchen. “This is to shield you and the baby,” I said. “The board is pushing hard. Investors are nervous. This paperwork will lock in your rights and the child’s future here.” She listened with tired eyes and nodded slowly, but I saw the hesitation. Her hand rested on her belly the whole time. She did not say much. The doubt from the pack

Chapter Forty

Damien’s PovThe preliminary hearings started on a gray Tuesday morning. I sat at the long wooden table in the courtroom with my lawyers on one side. Isabella was next to me, quiet and tense. Across the room, Ethan sat with his own team. The place was packed with reporters and a few curious spectators. Cameras were not allowed inside, but I knew they would be waiting outside like vultures. My stomach felt tight as the judge called the session to order. This was supposed to be about sorting out rights for the baby, but it quickly became much more.During the preliminary hearings, new evidence surfaced. One of my lawyers handed over documents that had just been uncovered. They showed emails and meeting notes from weeks before my proposal to Isabella. The papers suggested that the marriage contract may have been influenced by Blackwood board pressure rather than personal intent. Board members had pushed hard for me to settle down and secure the family line. Some notes even mentioned “f

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