
{"id":28350,"date":"2026-02-06T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:45:17","slug":"the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/the-billionaires-checkmate-novel-chapter-451\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billionaire\u2019s Checkmate Novel Chapter 451"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 451<\/h1>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Read Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 451 \u2013 \u2014- Chapter 451 Nick held it in as long as he could, but tears still welled in his eyes. He gave a low, hoarse \u201cMm.\u201d Dr. Yale sat off to the side, watching the two of them. He leaned back slightly, his body relaxing at last. When Loretta had first spoken to him about Nick, he\u2019d been worried. Emotional trauma isn\u2019t hard to treat-but like all wounds, trauma is still trauma. It never appears out of nowhere, and it never truly disappears. Healing only means learning how to walk out of it yourself. If you resist, the pain only loops, again and again. Nick suffered from emotional stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Full recovery was impossible. But as long as he was willing to face his own emotions, everything could be unraveled. There are wounds that never heal back to how they were-but there is no pain you can\u2019t eventually walk out of. A simple assessment somehow turned into a quiet, affectionate moment between a couple. Dr. Yale waited a long time. Only after the assessment ended did he finally steer the conversation to its real focus, asking about the first time Nick had lost control due to a stress response. \u2014- This time, Nick was clearly more receptive.<\/p>\n<p>The first time he\u2019d lost consciousness and hurt someone had been because of Arista. At a family banquet, Arista had a minor conflict with one of Nick\u2019s relatives. Because her health prevented her from bearing children-and because after marrying George she had taken on the thankless role of being Nick\u2019s stepmother-the argument quickly turned ugly. The other party humiliated her, calling her \u201cjust a stepmother\u201d and mocking her for being unable to give birth. Those words struck directly at Arista\u2019s deepest pain. Normally gentle and good-tempered, she finally lost her composure and fought back.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nick was usually aloof, and with Arista he\u2019d always maintained polite distance. But after all these years, he had long since come to regard her as his mother. Seeing someone insult her was something he couldn\u2019t tolerate. He splashed his drink straight into the other person\u2019s face. The other party was an older elder. Once the argument escalated, he lashed out physically. Arista tried to protect Nick and was dragged into it. Her arm was injured in the scuffle. \u2014- As for what happened after that-how Nick nearly beat the man to death-he had no memory of it himself. He only remembered one thing.<\/p>\n<p>That man had cursed him too, calling him a bastard who had brought death to his own mother. Hearing this, Khloe\u2019s heart ached unbearably. Her brow stayed tightly knit, unable to relax. Now she understood. Every time Nick\u2019s emotions spiraled out of control, it was tied to his childhood trauma. And it was unbearably cruel. Just listening to him describe fragments of those shadowed memories from childhood was already too much to bear. Fortunately, Dr. Yale didn\u2019t continue guiding him back into those early traumas. Instead, he analyzed the triggers behind Nick\u2019s emotional outbursts.<\/p>\n<p>Every one of Nick\u2019s trauma responses occurred when someone important to him was hurt. Deep in his subconscious, he was convinced that the people he cared about would eventually leave-and that he would be powerless to stop it. Dr. Yale didn\u2019t need to spell it out. Khloe had already realized it herself. \u2014- It was George\u2019s conditioning since childhood that made Nick never forgive himself. Before long, the session came to an end. Unlike the doctors before him, Dr. Yale didn\u2019t provide any formal psychological counseling, nor did he label Nick\u2019s behavior in any way.<\/p>\n<p>He simply talked with Nick like a friend, about the past. When the conversation ended, Dr. Yale said, \u201cAll right, that\u2019s enough for today, Nick. From now on, you have a new life ahead of you. There\u2019s no need to live in fear anymore.\u201d \u201cDr. Yale\u2026 that\u2019s it?\u201d Khloe was confused. Nick said nothing. Dr. Yale smiled and nodded. \u201cYes. It ended a long time ago.\u201d \u201cA long time ago\u2026\u201d Khloe turned to look at Nick. His gaze stirred awake from its silence. \u201cYou mean\u2026 | don\u2019t need treatment anymore?\u201d \u201cOf course.\u201d Dr. Yale nodded, spreading his hands lightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have anything on your mind in the future, you can talk more with your wife.\u201d Khloe was startled. \u201cThen what about the times he loses \u2014- consciousness? With trauma like this\u2026 will it really never happen again?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 451 Advertisement Read Billionaire\u2019s Match By Tangy Candy Novel Chapter 451 \u2013 \u2014- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-billionaires-checkmate-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}