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BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS Ch: 31 SERA SUPPORT.
Seraphina's POVClara texted at nine on Friday night. I'm sorry about the picture. I have something. Not on the phone.I waited until midnight to answer. Tomorrow at four. Fifth and Ash. A black car. Switch your phone off before you get in.She stood on that corner at ten to four with her bag held against her chest. Eli watched her from across the street for ten minutes. He told me afterward that she never once looked behind her.He drove her in circles for forty minutes, then brought her through the garage so she never saw the street. At twenty past four, he walked her into the kitchen.Clara stood on the mat with her coat buttoned to her chin. Her eyes went to the stove, the back stairs, the closed door to the hall."Whose house is this?""A friend's.""A friend with a driver.""A friend with a lot of rules." I held out my hand. "Phone."She gave me her own phone, switched off. Then she took a second one from her bag, a cracked old model in a pink case. "My sister's. I didn't want t
BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS Ch: 30 THE EMPTY CHAIR.
Seraphina's POVThe first photo loaded at 11:40 on Thursday night.I sat on the guest room bed with Lucius's Kestrel files across my knees. My phone buzzed against the sheet. I picked it up because I was sick of reading about freight surcharges.Nora Lind had posted six pictures.A long table in the back room of Aubrey's, the French place on Ninth. White cloth, candles down the middle, fourteen women in good dresses with their glasses raised. I knew every face. I had been to nine of their weddings. I had thrown Nora's bridal shower in my father's garden, and I had held Beth Carrow's hair back on a rooftop when we were twenty-two.Lillian sat at the head in cream silk. She looked lovely and a little sad.I swiped. A toast. A group hug. A place card in Lillian's handwriting. Then the fourth picture, and my thumb stopped.At Lillian's right hand, someone had left a chair empty. A framed photo sat on the seat, with three white roses leaning against it.It was me. My twenty-fifth birthday,
BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS Ch: 29 SLOWER.
Seraphina's POVEli had the car at the curb when I came out. He opened my door and shut it again without a word.I watched the city slide past the window. "Your hands, ma'am."I looked down. They had been fine in the café. Now my left hand held my right wrist so hard the knuckles had gone white, and when I let go, the fingers started to tremble on my knee. I put them under my coat. Eli watched me do it in the mirror and said nothing else.At the house, Lucius stood in the front hall with his good hand on the banister. "Twenty-six minutes," I said. "You said thirty.""I said not thirty-one.""I beat it.""You did." He looked at my face, then at my pockets. He had shaved. He wore a clean shirt, buttoned to the collar one-handed, and I understood he had dressed for waiting. "Come on."The study lamp was on. He shut the door behind us, and I reached up to take out the earring. My fingers refused the clasp. He stepped in front of me and did it, as carefully as he had fastened it that mor
BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS Ch: 28 WHITE ROSE.
Seraphina's POVI counted to three before I looked up.Julian came in alone, with a single white rose in his hand.He wore a navy coat and no scarf. He stopped just inside the door. He found my table at once, and his whole face lit up, as if I were a surprise he had planned for himself.I had forgotten how well he did that. It made you feel chosen. Every head in the café turned toward him, and he let them, and my stomach did what it always did when he walked into a room. It dropped. The only difference was that now I knew why.My hands were flat on the table. I kept them there."You came," he said."Yeah.""I wasn't sure you would." He crossed the café and sat down across from me. The rose lay on the table between us, wrapped in brown paper stamped MARLOW & DAUGHTERS. "It was in the shop window. Don't read anything into it."Last time, it was two dozen. Today, one. I looked at it and didn't touch it."White," I said."You like white.""I used to."He smiled, patient and a little hurt,
BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS Ch: 27 TWO TABLES AWAY.
Seraphina's POVLucius stood in the front hall when I came in. He had one hand on the banister and the other strapped to his chest, and he was pretending he hadn't been standing there for an hour."Eli says you're fine.""Eli says what I tell him.""I know." He looked at my face. "Come on."He waited until we were in the study with the door shut. Then he sat in the big chair, and I stayed on my feet, because if I sat down I would start shaking again.I told him all of it. The lunch. The takeout menu, which made him smile. The red pen, and what my father had said about the man who kept it for twelve years."He said that?" Lucius asked."He said he likes my friend.""I'm your friend now.""You're something."He looked at the blotter for a while. The corner of his mouth moved, then went flat again.I told him about the blue binder with seven yellow tabs, and the one page I had read before the door opened."On your father's shelf," he said slowly."Right behind his chair.""Somebody put i
BACK TO MY WEDDING: MY SECOND LIFE AS A VILLAINESS Ch: 26 I FORGIVE YOU.
Seraphina's POVThe binder weighed more than it looked. I carried it to the round table, set it beside the cold rice, and opened the cover.Master Services Agreement. Halden Construction Limited and Delaine Group.I flipped to the first yellow tab. A signature page. My father's name, typed under a long blue loop of ink. I had barely reached the line beneath it when the sound came from the corridor.My father's voice broke. He wasn't in pain. He was laughing and crying in the same breath.Then another voice answered him, low and warm. I shut the cover. I took four steps to the shelf and pushed the binder into its gap, spine flush with the gray ones on either side. I was back at the table with a fork in my hand when the door opened.My father stood in the doorway with his phone hanging at his side and tears running into the lines beside his mouth."He said her name," he told me."Who?""Arthur. This morning. He looked at Mary and said her name." He pressed the back of his wrist to his
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