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Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 108
DAMIEN'S POVWe stayed an extra day in Vancouver.Not planned. Wednesday morning Elara looked at the weather, clear and cold, and said she wanted to walk the seawall. I had nothing that couldn't wait until Thursday. James had the New York office. Julian was back in Cape Town.I called the airline and moved our flights.She looked at me when I put the phone down."That easy?" she said."James has it. Nothing is urgent.""Two years ago you couldn't have done that.""Two years ago I didn't understand that most urgent things aren't."She looked at me for a moment. Then she picked up her coat.The seawall in January was cold and clear and almost empty of people.The water on one side, the city on the other, the path winding through both. We walked without a destination, which was the only way to walk the seawall properly. Elara had her hands in her pockets and her hair doing what hair did in coastal wind.She didn't fix it.That was still one of the things I noticed. Four years ago she wou
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 107
ELARA'S POVWe skipped chapter one hundred and seven and nobody noticed.That was a joke Damien made at dinner when I pointed out the numbering and it made me laugh properly, the kind that surprised me, and the restaurant looked at us briefly and we didn't care.Dinner was at the Japanese place that had become the default Vancouver restaurant.We ordered without looking at the menu because we'd been here enough times that the menu was internal. The owner recognized us and brought water before we asked.I told him about the meetings.The textile artist first. His name was Rafael and he'd flown up from Oaxaca and walked through the gallery with the contained excitement of someone who had been making work for twenty years in relative isolation and had just understood that it was about to reach further."He stood in the main room," I said, "and looked at the north windows for a long time. Then he said: the light here is like home but colder. And I knew he was in.""What did you agree?""T
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 106
DAMIEN'S POVThe Cape Town signing was on a Tuesday.Julian had flown in from Cape Town on Sunday. We had dinner Monday evening, the two of us, at a place near his Manhattan apartment. No agenda. Just dinner before a significant day.He looked well.That was still the thing I noticed first with Julian, the ongoing surprise of him looking well. Not performing wellness. Actually settled in himself in a way that had been entirely absent for the first forty years of his life.Henry had apparently started smiling.Julian produced his phone at dinner and showed me a photograph with the specific pride of a new parent who hasn't yet learned to modulate it for an audience.The baby in the photograph was smiling at something off camera."He smiled at the record player," Julian said. "Natasha was holding him near it and it came on and he smiled.""What was playing?"Julian looked at me. "Johnny Cash."I held his eyes."Ring of Fire?" I said."Ring of Fire."We sat with that for a moment. Daniel'
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ELARA'S POVI was there at eight-thirty, before the staff arrived, walking through the space the way I did after any closure, checking that everything was as it had been, that the work on the walls was still doing what it needed to do.It was.The space felt ready for the new year in the way spaces felt ready when they'd been well used and well rested.I stood in the center of the main room for a few minutes.Four years ago I'd been a woman starting over in a city I'd chosen because it was far enough from New York to feel like escaping. The gallery had been an act of survival first and ambition second. Now it was neither. It was just what I did and what I was good at and what I would keep building for as long as it was worth building.That shift from survival to simply doing was the whole story of the four years.I made coffee and sat in my office and started the year.The first week of January had the particular energy of a new start that hadn't yet been complicated by the demands th
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 104
DAMIEN'S POVNew Year's Eve arrived cold and clear. The fourth time we'd done this. Terrace, wine, blankets, the city counting down below. It had the quality of something established, a ritual that had accumulated enough repetitions to feel inevitable, like it had always been what we did and always would be.I bought a bottle of wine in the afternoon that I'd been looking at since October in the shop two blocks from the gallery. The owner had mentioned it in passing, a small vineyard, limited production, the kind of thing that warranted an occasion.New Year's Eve warranted it.Elara was in the studio when I got home. I heard her moving around, the specific sound of her working through something, and I put the wine on the counter and went to the doorway.She was looking at the shelves.Not working. Just looking."Taking stock?" I said."End of year. It seems appropriate."I came and stood beside her.We looked at the shelves together.The lower one, full and settled. The upper one wit
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 103
ELARA'S POVThe days between Christmas and New Year had a quality I'd come to love.The gallery closed until the second of January. Damien's work minimal, the Cross Industries machine running on its own momentum through the week. Nothing required from either of us beyond what we chose to give.We moved through the days slowly.Wednesday the farmers market was there, smaller still than the December one, just four stalls, but the bread woman was there and the cheese and we went anyway because it was what Wednesdays were.Damien bought coffee from the cart and handed me one before I asked.The bread woman looked at us with the recognition of two years."Usual?" she said to him."And the rosemary," he said.She put both in a bag and he paid and we walked on."She knows your order," I said."I've been coming for two years.""You didn't used to talk to vendors.""You say that every time.""It keeps being true."He took my hand and we moved through the four stalls and bought what was worth b
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ELARA'S POVThe gallery had a problem. My biggest investor was pulling out."I'm sorry, Elara. The market's unstable right now. I need to liquidate some assets."I hung up and stared at the spreadsheet. Without that investment, I couldn't afford the lease renewal in three months. Everything I'd bui
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ELARA'S POVI didn't sleep after Damien left. Just sat on my couch replaying the conversation, wondering if I'd been too harsh.Maya came over at seven in the morning with coffee and bagels."You look terrible," she said."Thanks.""What happened? The show was perfect and then you disappeared."I t
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ELARA'S POVThe gallery showing was in two weeks and I was panicking. Not about the art—that was ready. About whether to invite Damien publicly or keep our relationship separate from my professional life.Maya found me stress-organizing frames at midnight."You're spiraling.""I'm fine.""You alpha
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DAMIEN'S POVJames called me into his office the second week of January.That alone was unusual. James didn't call me into his office. We had lunch, we talked in hallways, we texted at odd hours. A formal meeting request meant something was wrong.I sat across from him and waited.He slid a folder
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