Hitting the Jackpot Without You Two novel

---- "yvonne, I've seen the error of my ways.

Please get Mr.

Blackwell to help me.

It should be nothing for you, right?" She tried to grab the hem of my gown, but before her hand even brushed them, the bodyguards had already dragged her out.

Joseph arrived moments later, panic written all over his face as he checked me over and over to make sure I wasn't hurt.

Seeing him so flustered, I couldn't help but laugh.

He didn't get mad.

Instead, he cleared the room and then gently pinned me against the vanity.

His breath warmed my cheek...

News of Joseph's wedding dominated the headlines.

However, the top story was of Joseph's visibly swollen lower lip at the altar.

Three months later, I found out I was pregnant.

Joseph was grinning like a fool as he rested both hands on my still-flat stomach.

---- When I ran into Nigel again, it was on the day of a prenatal check-up.

He couldn't get into the Blackwell residence, so he waited at the hospital.

He looked nothing like the dashing heir he once was disheveled, cheeks sunken, and haggard.

"yvonne! I was wrong! Shawn is in prison because of Queenie.

You were the only one who truly loved us! Please, give me another chance!" After ten-plus years of childhood friendship, he was just now realizing I wasn't some gold digger? Wasn't that a little too late? I didn't even bother replying and walked straight past him.

He suddenly lunged at me, grabbing me tightly.

"yvonne! After all these years, you're just going to forget everything? Grandpa is still waiting for you at home! I even got a new turtle for you! Won't you come back and see it? "T don't care about the baby.

You can come back.

Just ---- come back to me, please!" The bodyguards rushed over, yanked him off me, and began pummeling him with fists and kicks.

Even now, he tried to use Mr.

Langston Senior to guilt- trip me.

Why should I care? I turned to leave without looking back.

But suddenly, Nigel broke free from the bodyguards, pulled out a knife, and stabbed himself in the abdomen right in front of me.

"This is what I owe you! I'm paying it back now! Please don't be mad anymore!" As the blood soaked his shirt, I barely blinked.

The thick, metallic scent in the air made me nauseous.

I picked up my pace.

After all, when I collapsed, seizing outside the office, they'd left me there without a second thought.

I figured he'd be just fine.

His screams faded behind me, but all I could see was ---- Joseph waiting for me at the hospital entrance.

All I wanted...

was to bury my face in the comfort of his herbal scent.

So, I ran into his arms.

The past had blown away like dust in the wind, and the pain had been replaced with sweetness.