create hasMany or one to many relationship from a pivot table - Laravel

I have 3 Tables:

Companies

Products

Images

Now, Companies and Products are Many to Many relationship.

Meaning, 1 company can have many products and a product can belong to multiple companies. So, I have a pivot table called companies_products with pivot or additional columns such as: price, discount, status, etc...

Note: Products table represents only common-data, that is, it does not have price, status, etc... product is only complete with pivot cols because that is how it makes a product unique to each company.

Everything is fine until here. Now because pivot table represents a unique product cols for each company. I also want to attach product-images table to this pivot table. Which means, my structure would be each pivot row hasMany product_images.

But in Laravel I guess pivot tables does not have a model, it is not encouraged to do so. Then how to achieve has-Many with pivot table?

Or any better solution to structure my tables or data?

In summary,

I have 1 companies table and 1 products table (unique).

companies create final product by adding extra data and images(array). I can handle extra data which goes as a pivot cols but not images (which in this case is array of images. I cant have 1 to many directly at products table level because each company adds a product with extra data to it.

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