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After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back 217
SELENE"Why is it just appearing now?" she finally manages.Ariana half-turns to me, “Why did you hide the ring in the first place?”"I wanted to control how she got the news."Ariana laughs under her breath. "Smart."Linda straightens, composing herself with visible effort, though her eyes stay fixed on the ring like it might disappear if she looks away. "Who is he?" She raises her drink to take a sip.Ariana starts laughing again before I've even opened my mouth, which earns her a sharp look from me.I smooth the tablecloth in front of me, deliberate, unhurried. "Victor Cox."Linda chokes on her drink and shoots halfway out of her seat, the sound that comes out of her somewhere between a laugh and a cough.It’s loud enough that two nearby tables glance over before politely looking away again. She sits back down slowly, composing herself, though the delight she's clearly feeling is written all over her face, unmistakable, undisguised."Victor Cox," she repeats, like she needs to say
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SELENEI put off the call for another four days before I finally make it."We need to talk," I tell her, the moment she picks up."Of course, sweetheart. What's going on?"I hesitate, not ready to say it over the phone. "Can we meet? In person.""Actually, perfect timing." Her voice brightens immediately. "I'm in Lakebridge this week, visiting someone. It would save you the drive to Blackbridge. I'll send you the address.""You're in Lakebridge?""Just for a few days."I don't think anything of it. She sends the address a moment later, a restaurant I don't recognize, and I tell her I'll see her there Thursday.I have no reason to suspect anything else.***The restaurant is the kind of place that makes you lower your voice just walking in, soft lighting and white tablecloths.The hostess looks at my jeans like they've personally offended her before she catches herself and smiles."This way, ma'am. Your party's already seated."I follow her through the dining room, and I see them befor
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SELENE"Have you informed your family?" Victor asks, not looking up from the report on his desk."I'm in the process of it.""You've been in the process of it for over a week."I don't answer that, because there isn't a version of the truth that makes me look particularly good. I know exactly why I haven't called my mother yet, and it has nothing to do with logistics.Victor finally looks up. "Selene.""It's complicated.""It's a phone call.""Not with my mother, it isn't." I fold my arms. "You don't understand what you're asking."He studies me for a moment, the way he does when he's deciding whether to push further. "Best you do it soon. We can't set a date for the dinner until both families are actually aware there's a wedding to attend.""Don't fix a date yet," I say firmly enough that he pauses. "I'll tell you when I've told her."He's quiet a moment, something reluctant in his expression, but he nods eventually. "All right."The truth, which I'm not about to explain to him, is t
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ARIANAI'm halfway through a call with Greg about quarterly logistics numbers when my phone buzzes with a second incoming call, and I nearly ignore it until I see the name.Linda.I let it ring twice more before I mute Greg and pick up. "Hello.""Ariana." Her voice comes through warm, careful, the particular tone of someone who's rehearsed the opening line more than once. "I hope this isn't a bad time.""I'm working." My voice is clipped and straight to the point."Of course. I won't keep you long." A pause, brief enough to be deliberate. "I was hoping we could have dinner. Just the two of us."I don't answer right away, and she seems to expect that, waiting me out without filling the silence herself for once."You're not obligated," she adds when I've let it sit a beat too long. "I know that. I just thought it would be nice to actually sit down and talk. It's been a long time since we saw each other properly. Since the day I found out you were my daughter."Something in my chest tigh
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SELENETwo days later, I'm sitting in Eleanor's study, and she's simply watching me, saying nothing, the silence stretching long enough that I'm about to fill it myself when the door opens.Ariana walks in, and stops the moment she sees me sitting there.She straightens slowly. "Selene.""Ariana."Eleanor watches us both with the particular patience of someone who arranged this exact collision and is now enjoying the results. "Selene is married," she says simply, to Ariana.Ariana's eyebrows shoot up. "Married." A short laugh, disbelieving. "Selene, married? Who on earth agreed to marry you?"Eleanor's mouth twitches, catching the joke, though she says nothing, her gaze sliding to me instead, a clear invitation for me to answer this myself.I stand, letting the ring catch the light. "Victor."Ariana blinks. "Victor who?""Victor Cox."For a moment nothing registers on her face at all, and then her eyes go wide, genuinely wide, her mouth actually falling open slightly.Of all the react
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SELENEIt's been two weeks since I've been back from Susan's, two weeks of never getting enough of the other Victor, and something about me finally feels like it's settled.I noticed it gradually. The night sweats stopped first, then the restlessness underneath my skin, then, eventually, the strange, insistent pull toward Victor that had made absolutely no sense given everything unresolved between us at the time. I've decided it was simply my body catching up to something my head hadn't fully admitted yet, that I wanted him, and once I'd finally acted on it, whatever pressure had been building just quietly released and left. It makes sense, in its own way. I've never been a woman who does well denying herself something she wants. Apparently my body agrees.Victor and I sat down together properly last week, both of us finally calm enough to actually discuss the agreement instead of arguing around it. I brought my own clause, the one I'd worked out at Susan's place weeks ago. If the
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