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ARIANAHe pauses. “There was never a version of those years where my feelings belonged anywhere near the center of your attention, Grace. So I didn't put them there.""You could have told me eventually. After.""I was your friend first. Genuinely. I like being your friend, Grace. I like showing up for you, helping you carry whatever you're carrying, even knowing I had my own reasons underneath it the whole time." He finally looks at me. "That's not a contradiction. Both things are true.""So you admit it. You have ulterior motives.""I've never denied having them." Something shifts in his eyes, warmer now, more deliberate. "Would you like proof of one?"I don't get the chance to answer before he leans in and kisses me.It isn't tentative. It isn't the cautious, testing kind of kiss that leaves room for either of us to pretend it didn't happen. My guard has always come down easily around Mason. I understand, somewhere in the part of my brain still capable of understanding anything rig
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ARIANABy our seventh outing, I've stopped pretending to myself that I don't look forward to these evenings more than I probably should.Mason told me to dress casual this time, nothing more specific than that, so I've gone with a knee-length gown, soft straps, a light open jacket thrown over my shoulders against whatever evening chill waits wherever he's taking me. When he picks me up and sees me, something flickers across his face, something he doesn't bother hiding fast enough."What?" I ask, unsure whether it's appreciation or something else."Nothing. You look lovely." His eyes travel from my head to my toes."That's not nothing," I say, smiling."No," he agrees, opening the car door for me. "It isn't."He doesn't tell me where we're going, which has become its own kind of tradition between us, and I've learned not to ask, because the not knowing has turned out to be half the pleasure of these nights.The building he takes me to is one I've passed a hundred times in Blackbridge
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MAXWELLI find my mother still at the table when I storm back inside, staring at nothing, one hand pressed against her temple like she's trying to physically hold her skull together."Mom. Did you hear what he just said back there? Did you actually sit there and listen to him announce that.""I heard, Maxwell.""And? That's it? That's your entire reaction?"She closes her eyes. "I have a headache that feels like it's splitting my head in two, and I don't have anything left in me tonight to give you.""He married Selene." My voice climbs, cracking slightly on her name, still raw from saying it too many times already tonight. "My Selene. In front of everyone. With guards, Mom. He brought guards to his own family dinner because he knew exactly what kind of bomb he was dropping.""I know what he did.""Then react. Say something. Anything.""What would you have me say?" She finally looks at me, exhausted in a way that goes deeper than tonight alone. "That I'm furious? I am. That I feel lik
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SELENE"Is that necessary?" Molly asks, her voice tight."It seemed wiser," Victor says simply.Andrew, predictably, can't resist. "Probably smart. Avoids the awkward possibility of wife number one and wife number two both dying of mutual loathing under the same roof.""Andrew," Charles says, though there's no real force behind it."I'm just saying what everyone's thinking."Vivian snorts into her water glass, and even Molly's mouth twitches despite herself, the first almost-smile she's allowed all evening.People start rising not long after that, the dinner finally, mercifully, releasing its grip on the room. Charles and Annabel leave first, Charles pausing just long enough to tell Victor, quietly, that he'll call him tomorrow. Andrew grabs his jacket off the back of his chair, already texting someone, muttering something about meeting friends before the night's completely wasted. Linda and Daniel leave together, her hand tucked into his arm, Susan following a few steps behind on
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SELENEDinner limps on after that, the way a wounded thing limps, not dead, just dragging itself forward because stopping entirely isn't an option.Molly eats stiff-backed and mechanical, cutting her food into small, precise pieces she barely lifts to her mouth, her eyes drifting between me and my mother like she's deciding which of us she hates more tonight. I don't give her the satisfaction of looking away first.Andrew and Vivian have apparently recovered enough to go back to bickering about something entirely unrelated, their voices low and easy under the general tension, the resilience of youth doing exactly what it does best. Charles and Annabel speak quietly to each other further down the table, heads bent close, his hand occasionally finding hers like he needs the anchor of her more than usual tonight.I keep my attention mostly on Victor."Eat," I tell him, nudging his plate half an inch closer."I am eating.""You've had four bites.""I've had six.""I counted four."He gi
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ARIANAMaxwell is still staring at Selene, something raw and wounded underneath the fury. "When?" he says, quieter now. "When did this even start?""Does it matter?" Selene asks."It matters to me."Maxwell's fist comes down hard on the table, plates and cutlery jumping with the force of it, a glass tipping dangerously before someone's hand shoots out to steady it."Then no," she says. "I'm not giving you that."He looks like he wants to say something else, something uglier, and Victor's expression shifts just enough, a warning, and Maxwell swallows it back down, sitting rigid in his chair with his hands curled into fists against the table.***Dinner eventually resumes, if you can call it that, plates moved around more than actually eaten. The conversation is thin and careful, everyone navigating the wreckage Victor just dropped into the middle of the table.It holds together, barely, until Andrew leans toward Vivian with a smirk he's clearly been holding in since the ring first caug
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