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Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 69
ELARA'S POVThe fourteenth day was Korčula. A walled town on an island that looked like someone had designed it to be exactly what it was, stone streets, a harbor, medieval architecture that had survived because the island was small enough to be overlooked by history's more destructive moments.We arrived on the morning ferry and had no plan beyond walking.The town was compact enough to cover on foot and we did, the old streets narrow and cool even in the May heat, the stone worn smooth in the middle where centuries of people had walked the same path. Elara stopped at a small gallery near the town gate, the kind of place that existed to sell paintings to tourists but occasionally had something real among the landscape reproductions.She found something real.A small watercolor, eight inches by six, coastal rocks and water, unsigned. The price was written in pencil on a small sticker and was cheap enough to be suspicious.She held it for a long time."Buy it," I said."I don't know wh
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 68
DAMIEN'S POVMay fifteenth we flew to Split.The flight was long and Elara slept for most of it with her head on my shoulder and a novel face down in her lap that she'd been reading in the airport and abandoned within twenty minutes of takeoff. I read through a Cross Industries report that James had sent and then put it away and watched the clouds below and let my mind go quiet.We landed in the early morning, local time, the Croatian coast visible from the descent. Blue that didn't look real until you were in it.The first island was Hvar.We took a ferry from Split harbor, forty minutes, the water already warm for May in a way the Adriatic apparently just was. Elara stood at the ferry railing the whole crossing with the wind doing things to her hair that she didn't bother correcting.The rental house was small, up a narrow stone street, with a terrace that looked directly at the harbor. No hotel lobby, no concierge, no one to manage anything. Just a key and a door and the view.She
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 67
ELARA'S POVMarch arrived and with it the news that Marcus Webb had started a new company.Damien read about it in the financial press on a Tuesday morning over coffee and mentioned it the way you mention something that has become genuinely irrelevant."Consulting firm," he said. "Focused on distressed assets.""Appropriate.""My thought exactly."He put his phone down and finished his coffee and that was the entirety of the Marcus Webb conversation. Two years ago that name would have required management, strategy, contingency planning. Now it was two sentences over breakfast.That was its own kind of progress.I booked Croatia the same week. Thirteen days in May, starting on the fifteenth. The islands south of Split that we hadn't reached last time, smaller and less visited, the kind of places that required ferries and some tolerance for uncertainty.Damien looked at the itinerary I sent him and said nothing about the ferry portions.Progress there too.The Henry Chen catalogue had i
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 66
DAMIEN'S POVFebruary brought the Henry Chen show's opening in Vancouver.We flew up the Thursday before, Elara and I, with Robert Chen on the same flight though he'd booked separately and we found him at the gate reading the catalogue proof he'd been carrying everywhere since January.He looked up when we sat nearby. "I've read it four times.""Finding errors?" Elara asked."Finding things I missed the first three times." He closed it. "There's a photograph on page forty-seven. My father at his studio in 1981. I didn't know that photograph existed until Patricia found it in the archives.""What does he look like?""Like himself. Exactly like himself." He paused. "That sounds obvious.""It's not obvious. Some people don't look like themselves in photographs."He looked at her for a moment. "No. They don't."The gallery was transformed for the show.Claire had worked with a lighting designer for two weeks getting the paintings positioned and lit correctly. Each piece required different
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 65
ELARA'S POVMy mother had stopped asking if we were coming and started asking what time we were arriving, which was the distinction that mattered. We were expecting. That was new in the best way.Damien brought the chess set again and a bottle of wine and a book my father had mentioned in passing three months ago that Thomas had completely forgotten mentioning but received with the recognition of someone who'd been thinking about it without realizing it."You wrote it down," my father said."Notes app," Damien said. "I keep one for everyone."My father looked at him for a moment. "Smart system.""Elara taught me. She's been doing it for years."Thomas looked at me. I shrugged. He went back to examining the book and I caught Damien's eye across the room and he looked away before either of us smiled.Christmas dinner was the usual production, my mother's cooking filling the house with the smell of something that required two days of preparation and disappeared in forty minutes. We sat a
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 64
DAMIEN'S POVNovember arrived and the Henry Chen catalogue became real.Elara had found a small independent publisher in Vancouver through Claire's network, a woman named Patricia Yuen who specialized in art documentation and understood immediately what the project was trying to do. They had one meeting and Patricia sent a contract within the week.I stayed entirely out of it.Not because I wasn't interested but because I'd learned the difference between interest and involvement, and this was Elara's project in a way that required me to be interested without being involved. I asked questions when she wanted to talk about it. I didn't offer solutions she hadn't asked for.That distinction had taken time to learn.She was at the dining table on a Saturday morning with the transcript documents spread around her, working through the editing with Claire over video call, when Robert Chen arrived at the gallery downstairs with two of his father's actual paintings.She'd told me he was bringi
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 17
ELARA'S POVMaya's reaction was predictable."You're officially dating him? The man who destroyed you?""We're trying. That's different than dating.""Elara, trying is dating. You're just using different words."We sat in her apartment, wine glasses between us. I'd told her everything—the conversat
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DAMIEN'S POVVictoria showed up at my office unannounced.Security called up first. "Mr. Hartley, your mother is here. Should we send her up?""No. Tell her I'm unavailable.""She says it's urgent. About the legal case."I closed my eyes. "Fine. Send her up. But stay close."Three minutes later, Vi
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DAMIEN'S POVMr. Chen didn't blink. Didn't move. Just waited."I neglected your daughter throughout our marriage," I said. "I prioritized work over her. I forgot important dates. I made her feel invisible and unimportant. There's no excuse for any of it.""Why did you do it?""I'm still figuring th
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ELARA'S POVThursday night pottery was a disaster. A beautiful, hilarious disaster.Damien showed up with a notebook, like he planned to take notes. The instructor, a woman named Carol with clay permanently under her fingernails, laughed."This isn't calculus. Just feel the clay.""Feel it," Damien
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