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Chapter 26: The Balance

Author: Fanny S
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-13 19:08:40

Edward’s POV

The study was dark except for the desk lamp.

I'd been sitting here for hours. I’d lost track somewhere between reviewing the quarterly reports I didn’t need to read and staring at the same spreadsheet without seeing the numbers.

The house was quiet. Too quiet. The kind of silence that pressed against your ears until you heard things that weren’t there.

Alicia had come back from the hospital around six. I’d heard her car in the driveway. The engine cutting off. Her door closing. Footsteps on the front walk. The key in the lock.

Then footsteps on the stairs. Slow. Heavy.

The bedroom door closing.

We hadn’t spoken.

Good.

I didn’t want to see her face with those red-rimmed eyes or hear her voice crack when she tried to explain herself. I didn’t want to deal with whatever emotional breakdown she was having over the pregnancy.

I just wanted to think.

The anger from last night had burned itself out around noon. What remained was clearer. Sharper. Colder.

Power.

That’s what this
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Heather W
Wow. This was dark.
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Patsy Bobby
The sorrow Alicia is going through. My heart aches for her. It is almost a physical pain in my chest. When will this end? Thank you author for the wonderful writing
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