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Chapter 13: Ghosts in Silk
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Maxwell’s POV“Engaged.” The word tasted like poison in my mouth.Morgana stepped closer, her robe falling open just enough to remind me what was underneath. “Think about it, Maxwell. Ivan adores me. I’ve been more of a mother to him than—”“Don’t.” I cut her off sharp. “Don’t finish that sentence.”Her face crumpled. Tears welled up in her eyes. “I’m just saying he needs more than what you can give him alone. He needs a woman’s touch, a mother’s love.”“Ivan never told me about being teased.”“Children don’t always share their pain with their parents,” she said, stepping closer. “Sometimes they need someone else to confide in. Someone they trust.”The thought that my son was hurting and hadn’t come to me twisted something deep in my gut. I remembered Regina’s funeral—my parents standing beside her grave, crying like their hearts were broken despite everything I’d told them about what she’d done.“Our Regina would never do those things,” Mother had sobbed. “There has to be another exp
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Maxwell’s POVThe bedroom door slammed behind me. Another eighteen-hour day fighting to keep the company from drowning. The Veyron Group had stolen another project this morning—their third this month.My shoulders ached, my head pounded, and all I wanted was to collapse into bed and forget the world existed.Someone sat on my bed.My heart stopped beating.White silk nightgown. The one I’d bought Regina for our first anniversary, the fabric so fine it was almost transparent.Dark hair fell over bare shoulders, hiding the face from view. The silk clung to every curve, outlining the shape of breasts, the dip of a waist, the line of hips that I’d traced in the darkness of this very room, leading to long and slender legs.For one impossible moment, time collapsed. Five years disappeared.She was here, waiting for me like she used to, wearing that nightgown that made her look like some kind of goddess. The scent of her perfume seemed to fill the air, the dark rose and patchouli that used t
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