Grandparents Demand Their Daughter Surrender Her Company Shares—Then the Billionaire They Called Her Baby’s Father Walks Into the Hospital.
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Chapter 24 - ALISTAIR AND MEWe did not get married because a baby squeezed his finger in a hospital.
We did not even get back together immediately.
For six months, we co-parented.
He learned not to arrive with solutions.
I learned not to interpret every plan as domination.
Different injuries.
Different corrections.
One evening he asked:
“Dinner?”
“With Kirk?”
“No.”
I laughed.
“Who has him?”
“Your mother offered.”
I stared.
He smiled.
“I asked you before arranging anything.”
Progress.
We went to dinner.
At the end he said:
“I still love you.”
I knew.
“I still love you too.”
May you like
Not enough.
So we kept going slowly.
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Chapter 25 - THE SHARE LAWSUIT THAT DIDN’T HAPPENMy parents’ attorneys threatened litigation over the hospital documents.
Chapter 26 - THE VOTE I CAST MYSELFEighteen months after Kirk’s birth, Whitaker Medical held its annual shareholder meeting.
Chapter 27 - The EndTwo years after my parents dropped the transfer folder onto my hospital blanket, Kirk learned the word mine.
