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Chapter 37 – Foreshadowing
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An Almost Honest Affair CHAPTER 41 – THE COST OF BLOOD AND NAME
Hospitals always looked like too much of everything.Too clean. Too white. Too loud in the quiet.Mia sat beside her mother’s bed, one hand resting on the blanket that covered Sophia Cross’s frail frame. The older woman looked nothing like the graceful matriarch the city once admired. Her hair had gone gray at the edges, her eyes heavy even in sleep.The fall from wealth to wreckage and her father's arrest had stripped more than their name it had stolen Sophia’s mind piece by fragile piece.Some days she was herself. Some days she screamed at shadows.And some days, like this one, she just slept.Mia ran her fingers gently through her mother’s hair, her own eyes tired and red. “Hey, Mom,” she whispered. “You’d probably scold me for crying if you were awake.”Her lips trembled as she tried to smile.“I still remember how you used to make us hot cocoa after school. Dad would be at work, Daniel would hog the marshmallows, and you’d sit with me at the piano while I pretended I could play.
An Almost Honest Affair Chapter 40 – The Fall of the Crosses
The storm didn’t arrive slowly.It hit all at once loud, merciless, and public.By morning, CrossTech was trending for all the wrong reasons.Every news station, every gossip site, every blog carried the same headline:“CROSSINDUSTRY UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MASS DATA BREACH — CEO MIA CROSS LINKED TO FAMILY MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME.”Mia’s photo flooded every screen her poised smile from the launch now framed beside words like fraud, scandal, and spyware.She stood in the center of her office as the PR manager rambled, “We’re working on a statement, but investors are panicking. The stock dropped sixty percent overnight”Mia didn’t answer. Her gaze was fixed on the city skyline beautiful, cold, and indifferent.“Ma’am,” the woman whispered, “the police are outside. They’re requesting your financial records.”Mia blinked. “What?”“They said it’s for verification. But… it’s serious.”Her throat tightened. “Tell them I’ll cooperate. Get Daniel on the line.”When the door shut, she gripped t
An Almost Honest Affair Chapter 39: Rekindle.
The air in the penthouse had changed.For weeks, it had been tense and sharp the kind of silence that bruised.But that morning, sunlight found its way through the glass walls, soft and warm, spilling over the table where Liam sat with two mugs of coffee waiting.When Mia walked in, her hair loose and eyes tired, he looked up.For once, there was no argument in his gaze. Just… something softer.“I made coffee,” he said quietly.She hesitated, then sat. “Trying to bribe me?”He smiled small, careful. “Maybe just peace offering.”For a while, neither spoke. The clink of the spoon against ceramic was the only sound between them. Then Liam exhaled, his voice low.“Mia, I hate what we’ve become , I know I've apologized and we're good now She looked up and raised an eyebrow. "Sort of"Okay sort of, he corrected. But I want something more for us , he took a deep breath and looked at her as if searching for a reaction on her face before he continued.Remember what I told you last time"Mmm r
An Almost Honest Affair CHAPTER 38 – ASHES AND OLIVE BRANCHES
The rain had been falling since morning thin, cold, and relentless, the kind that blurred the city lights into soft halos.Mia stayed late at the office again. The building was nearly empty, the hum of the air conditioning the only sound left to keep her company.She sat behind her desk, eyes on the code streaming across her monitor, but none of it made sense anymore. Her fingers hovered above the keyboard, shaking slightly. There were coffee stains on her papers, faint ink smudges on her wrists little signs of how hard she’d tried to keep control while everything else slipped through her hands.She pressed her palms against her temples. Just a few more lines. A few more edits.But her mind wasn’t on the project. It was on Liam on the silence that had stretched between them like a canyon.When the door opened, she didn’t look up right away. She thought it was her assistant or security.But then that voice rough, low, tired filled the space.“Mia.”Her heart stuttered. She looked up sl
An Almost Honest Affair Chapter 37 – Foreshadowing
Sleep didn’t come that night.It hovered at the edges, teasing, cruel.Every time Mia closed her eyes, all she saw were faces Liam’s cold expression, Rosemary’s syrupy smile, Victor Grant’s calculating eyes.By morning, she’d given up trying.She dressed slow, . Gray skirt, white blouse, hair slicked into a bun so tight it pulled at her scalp and gave her her a numbing headache. If she couldn’t control the chaos inside, she’d control what the world saw outside.When she stepped out of the bedroom, the house was silent again. No Rosemary. No Liam. Just the faint scent of coffee and blooms dog shampoo On the dinning table breakfast sat, a plate of bacon and eggs plates, still warm. And beside them, a note in Liam’s handwriting.Had to leave early. Let’s talk tonight.Her chest clenched.She didn’t crumple this one. She just stared at it until the words blurred, until the ink started looking like every promise that never lasted.Then she left.At CrossTech, the day moved like a storm sh
An Almost Honest Affair Chapter 36: Stained glass
The morning light crawled across the penthouse floor Mia sat at the dining table, untouched coffee cooling in front of her. The house was too quiet no sound of Liam moving around, no hum of conversation, just silence and the echo of things left unsaid.Her phone buzzed. Daniel.She hesitated, then answered.“Morning, sis,” he said. His voice always had that calm steadiness, like he’d learned long ago how to anchor storms. “Mom said she noticed at dinner you’ve been quieter than usual. Want to talk about it?”She stared at her reflection in the dark liquid. “There’s nothing to talk about.”“Bullshit,” Daniel said easily. “You always say that before something explodes.”Mia almost smiled. “Maybe I’m tired of exploding.”He went quiet for a moment. “You don’t have to fix everything alone, you know that right? Whatever’s happening with Liam, or work”“Daniel,” she cut in softly. “Please. Not now.”He sighed, but didn’t push further. “Fine. But I’m coming by later. Mom wants dinner here.
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