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2026-01-05 04:36:00
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Ashes Of His Regret Chapter 167
Esmeralda's POVThe Morrison Foundation's first board meeting is on a Thursday at ten AM.I arrive at nine-forty-five.Not because I am nervous, I have learned to distinguish between nervous and the elevated attention I bring to things that matter. This is the second thing. The Morrison Foundation matters in a way that is different from the way Morrison Manufacturing matters. The company is my father's legacy, reclaimed and made current. The foundation is something new. Something I am building from the beginning, without blueprint, for reasons that are entirely my own.That distinction matters.The boardroom is not the Morrison Manufacturing boardroom. I rented a space on the east side — deliberate, that. I didn't want the foundation to begin in a room that belonged to anything else. It should begin in its own room, with its own table, as its own thing.The board members arrive over the next ten minutes.Five of them. I chose each one carefully over three months of research and quiet
Ashes Of His Regret Chapter 166
Esmeralda's POVI write the response on a Tuesday morning, not because Tuesday has any particular significance, I have been telling myself I would write it since last Thursday and each day has found a reason to not be the day. Not avoidance exactly, more the particular caution of someone who understands that some words, once sent, cannot be recalled, and who has learned....slowly, at considerable cost to be deliberate about the things she puts into the permanent record.It is seven AM.Damien has taken Margaret Rose for her morning walk...the specific ritual they have developed between themselves, father and daughter, thirty minutes every morning where they move through the neighbourhood and Damien talks to her about whatever is in his head and she looks at things with the focused attention she brings to everything. I watch them leave from the window. Damien with the pram, Margaret Rose's head turning at the first sound of the street, already interested in what the morning has.I com
Ashes Of His Regret Chapter 162
Damien's POVSunday morning is the only hour that belongs entirely to us.Not because the other hours don't... they do, each of them in their specific way. But Sunday morning has a quality that the others don't, a particular density of ordinary that I have come to understand is the most valuable thing I own.It is eight-fourteen AM.Esmeralda is asleep.She sleeps later on Sundays ...not by much, forty minutes perhaps, but the forty minutes matter. I notice it every week, the specific quality of her Sunday sleep versus her weekday sleep. Weekday sleep is efficient. She closes her eyes and her body takes what it needs and in the morning she wakes with the same focus she brings to everything. Sunday sleep is different. She settles into it differently. The particular ease of a body that is not expecting anything from the next hour.I leave her sleeping.I go to Margaret .*****She is awake when I open the nursery door.Not crying...she rarely cries in the morning. She wakes and she exa
Ashes Of His Regret Chapter 164
Lila's POVI arrive seven minutes early and spend four of them standing on the pavement outside the Hale Industries building deciding whether arriving early makes me look eager.I decide it makes me look professional.I go in.The reception is on the thirty-second floor — a space that manages to feel like it belongs to a building without feeling like an office. Good lighting. The particular hum of a room where people are talking about real things rather than performing conversation. I recognize two of the board members from photographs I reviewed after Marcus called.. Dr. Osei, who came up through investment banking before pivoting to board work at forty-two; and Patricia Yuen, whose career trajectory I spent an embarrassing amount of time reading about on Wednesday because I was preparing for the article and absolutely not because I was trying to understand the context Marcus moves in.I get a drink from the server near the door.I look at the room.Marcus is not immediately visible.
Ashes Of His Regret Chapter 163
Lila's POV I arrive seven minutes early and spend four of them standing on the pavement outside the Hale Industries building deciding whether arriving early makes me look eager.I decide it makes me look professional.I go in.The reception is on the thirty-second floor, a space that manages to feel like it belongs to a building without feeling like an office. Good lighting. The particular hum of a room where people are talking about real things rather than performing conversation. I recognize two of the board members from photographs I reviewed after Marcus called ...Dr. Osei, who came up through investment banking before pivoting to board work at forty-two; and Patricia Yuen, whose career trajectory I spent an embarrassing amount of time reading about on Wednesday because I was preparing for the article and absolutely not because I was trying to understand the context Marcus moves in.I get a drink from the server near the door.I look at the room.Marcus is not immediately visible
Ashes Of His Regret Chapter 162
lila's POV A phone call from Marcus?...not even a text, a phone call Which is either old-fashioned or deliberate and with Marcus I am beginning to understand that there is no difference between those two things. He does not do accidental things. Everything he does is considered.I am in the middle of something when my phone rings and I see his name and I sit very still for approximately three seconds before I answer."Marcus," I say."Lila." A pause.... brief, functional. "Damien mentioned you're working on a piece about corporate foundation launches. For the business journal."I wrote that piece two months ago.Damien mentioned it to Marcus two months ago.Marcus is calling about it now.I note the timeline and say nothing about it."I finished that piece," I say. "It ran last month.""Right." Another pause. Not embarrassed — recalibrating. "He also mentioned you were starting something new. About women in executive leadership."This is true. I am starting something new about women
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DAMIEN'S POVThe footage is grainy but clear enough.Table 14 at Lucienne. Camera angle from the bar.Her foot. His foot.Under the table where she thinks no one can see.I watch it three times.Then pour another drink.Then watch it again.The way she leans forward when she talks. The way he mirro
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ESMERALDA'S POV My heart is still hammering against my ribs when Lila reaches me. "Esme! Oh my god, are you okay?" She grabs my shoulders, checking me over. "You almost—that car almost—" "I'm fine." My voice sounds far away, like it's coming from underwater. "I'm fine." But I'm not fine. I'm sha
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