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Chapter Six: On my own
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AFTER DIVORCE Chapter Twenty-Three: Blank
Chapter Twenty-Three: Blank*Edward's POV*Sandra's building came into view just before eight.I pulled up to the entrance and kept the engine running. She gathered her bag from the back seat and paused before getting out, one hand on the door, turning to look at me with that expression she wore when she wanted to say something and was deciding how much of it to say."Don't take too long," she said."I told you. It's handled.""You keep saying that.""Because it keeps being true."She looked at me for a second longer. Then she leaned across and kissed me once — firm, unhurried — and pulled back and got out without another word. I watched her walk to the entrance, the door sliding open for her, and then she was gone.I sat in the quiet car for a moment.*Forty-eight hours.*I had said it clearly. Simply. There was nothing complicated about it. You either sign or I make the decision. Isabella was many things but she was not stupid. She would have understood exactly what I meant.I pulled
AFTER DIVORCE Chapter 22: My Ex
Chapter 22: My ExEdward's POVSandra was already on my lap when the office door locked behind us.Her mouth found mine before I could say a word. Soft at first, then hungry. I pulled her closer by the hips. She straddled me properly, knees on either side of the chair, and started working the buttons of my shirt open one by one. My hands slid under her blouse and pushed it up. She broke the kiss just long enough to pull it over her head and drop it on the floor.“Missed this,” she murmured against my mouth.I didn’t answer with words. I kissed her harder. She reached between us, found my belt, then the zipper. The sound of it opening cut through the quiet office. Her hand slipped inside, warm fingers wrapping around me, stroking slow and deliberate.I was already hard. She knew it. She always knew.Her thumb brushed over the head and I exhaled through my teeth. She kept the rhythm steady while her tongue slid against mine. I could feel the heat building fast, the kind that made thinkin
AFTER DIVORCE Chapter Twenty-One: Safe Hands
Chapter Twenty-One: Safe HandsThe silence after that settled differently.Not heavy the way it had been before. More like something that had been very tight had finally been allowed to loosen, just slightly. I was still at the table, both hands wrapped around my mug, eyes dry now. The crying had taken something with it when it left — not the pain, but the pressure of it. Like a valve that had needed opening for a long time.Lisa was watching me across the table with the patient expression she wore when she was giving someone space to land.I breathed in. Out."Okay," I said quietly. Not to her. Just — okay.She gave it another moment. Then she straightened in her chair."There's something else," she said.I looked at her."The company." She kept her voice level, practical. "The original documents — the ones that show you are a registered co-owner. Your name on the partnership deed, the certificate of incorporation, everything that proves that business belongs to both of you." She paus
AFTER DIVORCE Chapter Twenty: Don't Break Now
Chapter Twenty: Don't Break NowLisa was still sitting across from me when I said it."I don't know if he's truly telling the truth...." I kept my eyes on the laptop screen. "Or if this is just another part of the plan to get me out of the way."The words came out quietly. Too quietly. And somewhere in the middle of saying them something gave way behind my eyes and I felt it before I could stop it — warm, sliding down my cheek before I had even registered I was crying.I wiped it off with the back of my palm. Fast. Like if I was quick enough it didn't count.Lisa saw it anyway.She was quiet for exactly one second.Then — "Excuse me." Her voice went flat. "Isabella. Are you dumb?"I looked up.She had one finger pressed to the side of her skull, tapping it slowly, her eyes fixed on me with the particular expression she wore when she could not believe what she was hearing."Lisa—""I'm asking sincerely," she said. "Are you dumb?""I know I sound off," I said. I looked back at the screen
AFTER DIVORCE Chapter Nineteen: The Version I Didn't Marry
Chapter Nineteen: The Version I Didn't MarryThe knock came an hour and thirty minutes after the call.I had not been idle. My laptop was open on the dining table. The morning's first task already pulled up, and I had been working through it steadily — or trying to, which was not quite the same thing. My eyes kept moving to the document still sitting at the far end of the table exactly where Edward had placed it the night before. I had not touched it. Had not moved it. It sat there in my line of sight like something that knew it was being watched.I got up and opened the door.Lisa came in still unwrapping her scarf, slightly out of breath, her bag sliding off one shoulder."I'm so sorry for coming late," she said, stepping inside. "The board members called an emergency Zoom meeting out of nowhere, I couldn't just leave—""It's fine," I said. I closed the door behind her. "How are you doing?"She stopped and looked at me."I'm supposed to be asking you that." She dropped her bag on the
AFTER DIVORCE Chapter Eighteen: Forty-Eight Hours
Chapter Eighteen: Forty-Eight HoursI had not really slept.My body was on the bed but my mind had stayed wide awake all night, turning the same things over and over until they were worn smooth and still made no sense.The document. The gifts. The attention.I was staring at the ceiling when the knock came.Three quiet raps on the guest room door. Not aggressive. Measured.I did not move."Who's there," I said flatly, as if I did not already know."Is there anyone else you're living with?" Edward's voice. Dry, almost. Like he had not just threatened me across a dining table twelve hours ago.I sat up. "What do you want?""Let's talk.""About what?"A pause. Then, quieter "Please. Just open the door."I sat on the edge of the bed for a moment and looked at the floor. My feet were cold. The room was grey with early morning light coming under the curtain.I stood up and walked to the door and opened it.He was already dressed for work. Shirt pressed, jacket on, the version of Edward that
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