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Chapter 32
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After Divorce; I Married My Husband’s Brother Chapter 32
Xavier's povGraham had been talking for twenty minutes, and I had heard perhaps half of it.The rest of my attention was occupied entirely by the woman sitting on my lap.The warmth of her, the way she smelled this morning that was partly her and partly last night, was something that had no clean description except that it made focusing on custody litigation considerably more difficult than it should have been.Graham was outlining the timeline, and I nodded at the appropriate intervals.Gwen was sitting straight-backed and attentive; she was asking precise questions and taking in everything Graham was saying.She was remarkable, and I was done pretending I could be in the same room with her and feel nothing.Our discussion ended, and Graham gathered his papers. I looked at Gwen, and she turned her head. Then our eyes met, and whatever she found in mine made something flash through hers before she turned away."We'll be in touch before the week is out," I told Graham, and he nodded
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Gwen's povI woke up knowing two things before I opened my eyes.The first was that my body hurt in a particular way; it felt sore, and I was hurting a bit in some places that I shouldn’t hurt.Xavier was really rough last night, and I was hurting in a good way, and I knew only Xavier could make me hurt this way.The second was that the bed was empty beside me and had been for a while because the warmth on his side was gone and the sheets had cooled.I was alone in a room that smelled like him and held the shape of last night in every quiet corner of it.I lay there for a moment and let the ceiling be the ceiling and didn't try to make last night into something I could file neatly away because I was getting worse at that and I knew it, and this morning was not the time to pretend otherwise.When I checked my phone, it was past nine, which explained the missed calls stacked across the screen from Dare, Micah, and Lena and a single message from Pru."Where are you? We have just two days
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Xavier’s pov I should have pulled back.I knew it the moment the air in the kitchen shifted and her eyes met mine and the space between us stopped being the space between two people being careful and became something else entirely. I knew it, I looked at her and she looked at me and I kissed her anyway because there are things a man can only resist for so long before the resistance itself becomes its own kind of lie.She kissed me back and that was the end of any argument I had left in me.I kissed her like I had been keeping myself from it all day, through the press conference, the meetings, the boxing ring and everything else.All of it was collapsing into this kitchen at one in the morning with my bruised hands finding her face and her fingers curling into my shirt and neither of us pretending at this moment.My body ached from the gym and I didn't care. I lifted her and set her on the kitchen counter then she made a sound against my mouth that undid something in me which made m
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Gwen's pov Josie had gone down easily tonight, which meant she was genuinely tired and not performing sleep the way she sometimes did when she wanted company. I had sat with her until her breathing deepened and her grip on my hand loosened, and then I had kissed her forehead, slipped out, and pulled the door behind me with the care of someone who had learned exactly how much pressure the handle needed to make no sound at all.I freshened up, and then I sat with my laptop and my event notes spread across the coffee table, and I told myself I was working, which was true and also not the whole truth because part of me was listening for the front door, and I had stopped pretending otherwise somewhere around midnight.I wanted to talk to him; that was all I had in my mind.The video, the press conference, and his name trending for the second time because of something connected to me. I wanted to sit across from him and understand what had happened and whether he was alright and why he h
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Xavier's pov Punching him had not been enough.That was the truth of it, and it sat in me on the drive back from the press room with my knuckles still aching and the noise of the room still somewhere in my ears. The reporter was going to have a story now that was considerably more interesting than anything he had walked into that building to write, and I knew that and had done it anyway and would do it again, and none of that changed the fact that it had not been enough because the word was already out there.It was spoken into cameras and recorders, and the permanence of things that had been said in public and a punch couldn't reach any of that.I went back to meetings and then my office like nothing happened. That was what you did when you were the alpha of a pack, the head of a company, and the man that a room full of people needed to believe was in control of everything.The board had questions about the press conference, but these questions were not for the merger, as they wer
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Gwen’s povI had said it because it was true and I would say it again if I had to because I knew all of that was true and some way those words had found a way to sit in my chest overnight like something that was utterly important to me.When I said it was just an arrangement and a contract, those were words I had chosen deliberately. I had meant every syllable and I did not regret saying it and I had also lain awake longer than I wanted to admit staring at a ceiling that had nothing useful to offer me.Xavier had been cold this morning but he was not cruel, he was never cruel the way Cole had been cruel but he was distant in a way that implied he had been hurt and was still processing what to do.He had left before breakfast was properly on the table and the space he left behind him had this quality to it that I felt more than I wanted to.Even though I felt his coldness I had other things to do and I would not dwell on it and that was what I told myself and which was mostly true.I
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