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After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back 85
ARIANA“That’s going to end badly,” I murmur.Durrell follows my gaze calmly. “Probably.”“What happened between them exactly?”He exhales once through his nose. “With Maxwell? Hard to tell. Selene likes attention. Maxwell likes ownership. Eventually, those things stop mixing well.”That sounds disturbingly accurate.Across the room, Victor appears beside Maxwell, saying something low to him. He barely reacts because his attention stays fixed on Selene.Then Victor’s gaze shifts unexpectedly toward us. Toward Durrell specifically, and something unreadable passes across his face before he walks away again, and Durrell notices. His expression tightens almost invisibly.“You okay?” I ask quietly.“Yeah.”Obviously a lie, but before I can press him, movement approaches from behind us, making the room change subtly again. It’s not because everyone notices, but because the people who matter do.Durrell turns first, then slowly straightens beside me.Eleanor Bindy stops directly in front of
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ARIANAI understand almost immediately why people call the Presidential Ball the most important night in Blackbridge.It has nothing to do with the ballroom itself… well, not really.It has nothing to do with the ballroom itself… well, not really. Yes, the hotel is obscene in the way only old money can achieve: crystal chandeliers dripping from ceilings three stories high, marble floors polished until they reflect the lights overhead like water, and men in tailored tuxedos moving through the crowd with women covered in diamonds that probably cost more than entire neighborhoods.But that’s not what makes the room dangerous.It’s the people. Every conversation feels weighted, every smile feels negotiated, and even the air feels expensive.“You’re staring again.”I glance sideways at Durrell as we step through the entrance hall together.“I’m observing.”“You’re profiling people.”“There’s a difference.”“There really isn’t.”A waiter passes with champagne, and Durrell takes two glasses
After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back The Invitation
ARIANAThe invitation arrives on a Thursday afternoon, tucked between sponsorship contracts and financial reports for the hockey team.At first, I almost miss it. Everything else on my desk screams for attention: numbers, expansion proposals, media requests, and a problem with one of the team's investors threatening to pull out after last week's press conference. The normal chaos.The envelope doesn't belong with any of it.It’s cream-colored and heavy with my name written in dark ink across the front, not as Mrs. Maxwell Cox or Ms. Chase, just Ariana Grace Chase.Something about that unsettles me immediately."You've been staring at that thing for five minutes."I look up to find Durrell leaning against the office doorway with his sleeves rolled to his elbows and two coffee cups in his hand.“I have not.”“You absolutely have.”He walks in and places one cup beside me before glancing at the envelope. “What is it?”“I don’t know yet.”“Then why are you looking at it like it insulted y
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ARIANAHer words settle between us. Simple, plain, but real."I blamed you for things that were never your fault. I judged you before I ever gave myself the chance to know you properly."I fold my arms as she lets out a slow breath."When Maxwell married you, I convinced myself you were temporary. Just another arrangement Victor forced onto the family.""And that made it acceptable?""No." She shakes her head immediately. "No, it didn't."The sincerity in her voice irritates me more than defensiveness would have. Because anger is easier."I watched my son disrespect you," she continues quietly. "And instead of stopping him, I excused him. I minimized what he was doing because I kept thinking..."She stops."Thinking what?""That eventually he'd come to his senses and everything would sort itself out."A bitter laugh escapes me. "Interesting definition of sorting itself out."Pain flashes across her face. She accepts the hit. "I deserve that.""Yes. You do."Molly's eyes drift toward t
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ARIANAThe feeling wasn’t the frantic, desperate pulse I’d felt with Maxwell; this was steadier, deeper, and somehow more dangerous because it felt safe.Then his hands slowed and stopped. I feel his breath against the back of my neck, a faint heat that made my skin prickle."Aria."I turn slightly to look at him over my shoulder. His eyes drop briefly to my mouth, and mine follow the same involuntary pull.Outside, the twins keep laughing while sunlight spills through the open doors behind us. His fingers brush lightly against my jaw, turning my face toward him fully now."Aria," he murmurs again.I move first, pressing my lips to his. Maybe because I'm tired or maybe because he looks at me like I'm something precious instead of something convenient. Or maybe because somewhere along the line, loving him stops feeling terrifying.His hand slides into my hair, fingers tangling softly as he kisses me back slowly, his tongue tracing my lips before slipping inside, deeply, like he isn't
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ARIANAFive days after the disaster they now call Sunday dinner, my life finally starts settling back into something almost peaceful.Almost.The twins are in the garden behind the house, chasing bubbles while the afternoon sun paints gold across the grass. Their laughter drifts through the open glass doors and into the living room, warm and loud and alive.It still amazes me sometimes how, after everything, after Maxwell, the lies, and the years of feeling unwanted. I somehow end up here.Durrell stands behind me, his hands pressing into my shoulders while I sit curled sideways on the couch with my laptop balanced on my thighs."You're tense," he says."I'm working.""You've been saying that for four hours.""I have deadlines.""You have problems."I shoot him a look over my shoulder. "Excuse me? Says the person who's been walking around like he has something on his mind."For a brief second, something flickers across his face. That same distant look he's worn since the night he came
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*Maxwell*When I stepped off the elevator onto the private floor, I saw them immediately.Two men in dark suits flanked the door to a corner room. Durrell's men. I'd seen enough of them lately to recognize them.Durrell himself stood outside the room, speaking into his phone, watching me approach l
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“Involved how?”Victor turned back to me.“Theodore requested a private review of a joint logistics agreement three days before he was shot.”My pulse stumbled.“A joint agreement between whom?”“Chase Construction and one of our automotive subsidiaries.”I stared at him.“You’re saying his shootin
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ARIANAVictor Cox’s office did not try to impress anyone.It didn’t need to.The building itself was glass and quiet steel, rising above Lakebridge like it owned the skyline. The receptionist didn’t smile when I gave my name. She just nodded, as if she had been expecting me long before I walked in.
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SELENEI stared at the hotel room door after it closed.He left.Maxwell actually left me here, crying, to follow her back to the car.I sank onto the bed, pressing my hands to my face. The robe he'd bought me felt too soft, too expensive, too much like a consolation prize.My phone sat on the nigh
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