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ผู้เขียน: Tamara Knox
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*ARIANA*

Durrell standing in my office doorway at nine thirty at night felt like a complication I did not need.

“I didn’t schedule you,” I said.

“I know.”

He walks in after firmly closing the door behind him without asking, not aggressively but with quiet, deliberate intention.

I leaned back in my chair. “This better not be about Maxwell.”

“It’s not.”

“Good, because I’m tired.”

“You look it.”

I didn’t answer. My desk was buried in Blackbridge reports. Frozen accounts. Contract reversals. Legal
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  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   160

    SELENE"Victor, you're sweating, your heart's racing, you're dizzy, you're nauseous, and you nearly collapsed.""I'm still not taking my shirt off.""Fine." I grab his tie again."Selene." He protests."Stop talking." I pull it loose and yank it away. The crew stares at me. "Help me get his jacket off."He struggles with it, his hands not cooperating. I pull it off him, then his shirt."Selene..." He says through gritted teeth."Shut up," I say, almost snapping at him.One of the crew looks alarmed. "Ma'am, what are you looking for?""I don't know yet." I run my hands over his upper torso. Nothing. His arms, his shoulders, his chest. Nothing.Then I move lower, and I see it. A tiny red mark on the left side of his lower abdomen. My breath catches. A puncture, almost invisible. I touch the skin around it, and he flinches."You felt that?" My eyes go to his face."Yes."The boy, the collision and the sudden symptoms. It clicks into place."You were injected."The cabin goes silent."Wha

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   159

    SELENEFifteen minutes. That's what the pilot tells me. Fifteen minutes until we're out of Donderdam airspace.I should be relieved since we're away from Beatrice's house, away from Toiri, and away from whatever made her shove us through the back door and send us running through dark streets like fugitives.Victor sits across from me, with one arm resting against the seat, his eyes fixed on the darkness beyond the window. He hasn't said much since we left, and neither have I.For once, silence between us doesn't feel comfortable. It feels like something is waiting.I glance at him. He looks different. Not dramatically, just enough to notice.His face is flushed, and I notice a sheen of sweat covers his forehead.I sit straighter. "You're sweating."He doesn't look at me. "It's warm." Dismissing my observation.I look around the cabin. It's cool enough that I've been considering pulling my hoodie tighter."Victor, we're flying at thirty thousand feet."His eyes finally move to mine. "I

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   158

    SELENEHe rests one hand against the back of a chair, choosing his words with more care than he usually bothers with. "I knew I wasn't going to find him here, but I hoped I would, somehow, anyway.""And afterward?""I hoped Beatrice could help me get into Kravik City.""Unnoticed?" I ask, surprise creeping into my voice."That was the idea.""You do know that's the same mistake that got whatever her name was killed." I point out to him.His expression hardens instantly. "That happened because Beatrice was involved."Beatrice walks in carrying a tray just in time to hear him, and something in her face goes very still. "I was not involved."Victor turns toward her, his voice low and controlled in a way that's somehow worse than shouting. "You knew what would happen if the Kravens found out about my plan back then. And you knew exactly what they would do to Helena.""Yes." She sets the tray down carefully, like the alternative is dropping it. "I admit I knew. But that does not mean I bet

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   157

    SELENEI raise my hand to knock, and before I can, I hear Victor's voice through the door, loud, angry, and another voice answering him, a woman's. I freeze. They're arguing. Down the street, a couple slows their pace, and someone else glances toward the house. Great, exactly what I need. I smile at them, radiating nothing-to-see-here, just a perfectly normal woman standing outside a stranger's house in a country she has no business being in. They eventually move on.The voices inside get louder, and something in me reacts before my brain catches up. I open the door without knocking and walk in. I quickly shut the door behind me.The room goes silent. Victor turns toward me, his face changing immediately. Beatrice looks like she's seen a ghost. Victor closes his eyes and pinches the bridge of his nose. "Selene."I smile weakly. "Hi."His eyes narrow. "I told you to stay on the jet.""I know.""Then why are you here?""I had a feeling."His expression makes it very clear that the ex

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   156

    SELENEThe moment Victor steps off the jet, I disappear into the bedroom and close the door behind me. I change my clothes, and I stand in front of the mirror staring at my reflection for a few seconds. I look ridiculous, not because of the clothes, the fitted jeans and dark hoodie are fine, but because of what I'm actually preparing to do. Sneak after a man who has spent most of his life making decisions I disagree with, a man I've openly disliked for years, and a man who would be furious if he knew what I was about to try. I pull the hood over my head. Perfect. Now I look like someone with questionable intentions, which, technically, I have.I check my phone. The location-sharing app is still open from the flight. I'd added Victor to it earlier, while he was in the bathroom and his phone sat charging on the side table, unlocked from whatever he'd last been doing on it. It took less than a minute to add his number and turn sharing on, quiet enough that it never once pinged his sc

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   155

    VICTORMy grip on her arms tightens. "You gave up your daughter." My face contorts with rage as I spit the words at her.Her face changes instantly. "Don't.""You let them take Helena. You handed her over, and she ended up dead.""You don't know what you're talking about." She tries to twist free and winces against the grip of my hand."You let them take her, and she died in my arms," I yell at her."I was powerless!" Her other hand strikes my chest as she yells back. "You are also to blame for her death. If you hadn't interfered in her one year, she'd still be alive."She's breathing hard when she says it. "I warned you, but you wouldn't listen. Now you're putting all the blame on me.""Shut up." I release her.She stumbles back, breathing hard. "You don't get to stand in my house and tell me I gave up my daughter easily." Her eyes fill with fury. "I lost her." She points at me. "Do not confuse losing someone with choosing to lose them."I say nothing, only stare at her with everythi

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