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ELARA'S POVMy mother made breakfast Wednesday.I woke to the smell of it. Eggs and something toasted and coffee already done, the apartment was warm with the particular busyness of someone who expressed care through food and didn't know how else to start a day.Damien was already up.I found them at the kitchen table with coffee, my mother talking, Damien listening with the full attention he gave things that interested him. They didn't hear me in the hallway and I stood there for a moment watching.My mother was telling him about the summer she and my father had driven across the country in a car with no air conditioning. Her hands moved the way they moved when a story had momentum. Damien's coffee is halfway to his mouth and forgotten there.I went back to the bedroom and gave them ten more minutes.When I appeared my mother looked up without guilt."She sleeps late," she told Damien."I know," he said."Always has. Even as a child. You could not move her before eight.""Mom.""I'm
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 144
DAMIEN'S POVEleanor Voss arrived on a Tuesday.Not the eighth. She'd called Elara Sunday to say her plans had shifted, could she come two days earlier, and Elara had said yes without checking with me because she knew the answer.I came home from the office to find the apartment smelling like something that involved garlic and herbs and the particular warmth of a kitchen being used by someone who cooked the way Elara's mother cooked. From memory. Without recipes.She was at the stove when I came in.Small woman. Elara's eyes in an older face. The kind of presence that occupied a room quietly but completely.She turned when she heard me."Damien." Warm, direct. No performance of warmth. Just the thing itself. "I hope you don't mind. I started dinner.""I don't mind at all.""Elara said you'd say that." She turned back to the stove. "She also said you'd mean it, which is different."I set my bag down and loosened my tie and came to the kitchen."Where is she," I said."Desk. She's been
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 143
ELARA'S POVMy mother called Friday morning.Not about the wedding. Just to talk, the way she called every week or so, the rhythm of it unchanged since I'd moved to Seattle. She asked about the book and I told her the new one had started well and she asked about Damien and I told her he was good and she asked about the weather and I told her February had become March and the light was changing.Then she said Ruth had called her."She called you," I said."Yesterday. She wanted me to know she'd walked you through the property." A pause. "She said the young man understood the bones of it."I looked at the window."He did," I said."Ruth doesn't give that kind of assessment lightly.""I know."My mother was quiet for a moment. The particular quiet she had when she was deciding whether to say something."She also said he made coffee while you talked to her in the kitchen," she said. "And didn't interrupt.""He's like that.""I know he is. I'm saying Ruth noticed."I understood what my mot
Chasing His Divorced Wife Chapter 142
DAMIEN'S POVDaniel said yes on Wednesday.I called him from the office between meetings and explained what we wanted. Small, specific, language that meant something rather than language that covered the occasion. He was quiet for a moment after I finished and then said he'd be honored and that he'd need to talk to us both before August to understand what we actually wanted said.I told him that was exactly right.He asked one more thing before we hung up."Are you happy?" he said. Not perfunctorily. Actually asking."Yes," I said."Good." A pause. "She's good for you Damien. I've thought so for a while."I didn't tell Elara he'd said that. Some things were better kept as what they were. A quiet confirmation from someone who'd watched from a distance and seen clearly.She was at the desk when I got home.The new book, from the look of her. The particular forward lean she had when the writing was moving. I set my bag down quietly and went to the kitchen and made coffee without announci
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ELARA'S POVMonday I started a new book.Not planning. Not outlining. Just the opening question written at the top of a clean document and then the first paragraph beneath it, finding its way forward from that single line.I wrote for two hours before I looked up.Damien had left for the office at eight-thirty and the apartment was in its daytime quiet and outside the March morning was doing its grey patient thing and I'd been completely elsewhere for two hours without noticing the time pass.That was the sign. When time disappeared it meant the book was real.I saved the document and sat back and looked at what I had.Four hundred words. The woman arriving at the place she'd left. The specific weight of familiar air on unfamiliar skin. The question underneath everything not yet asked directly but present in every sentence.I closed the laptop before I could second-guess it.---Damien came home at six with groceries he hadn't mentioned buying.He set them on the counter and started u
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DAMIEN'S POVRuth Calloway was seventy-two and made coffee like it was a moral position.Strong, black, no negotiation. She set it in front of us at her kitchen table without asking and sat across from us with her own cup and looked between us with the directness of someone who'd long since stopped performing social ease.She was small and sharp-eyed and reminded me, unexpectedly, of no one I'd met before."You walked the orchard," she said."This morning," Elara said. "The mist was still in.""Best time." Ruth looked at me. "What did you think.""That it's right," I said.She held my eyes for a moment. Testing the answer for honesty rather than politeness.Apparently it passed."Good," she said. She drank her coffee. "Eleanor's daughter is getting married in my orchard." She said it to herself as much as us. "Your mother will want to come up before August.""I'll tell her," Elara said."She hasn't seen the place in fifteen years. It's changed." Ruth paused. "Not the bones. The bones
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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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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 POVThe legal team worked all weekend. By Monday morning, they had an injunction blocking the interview from airing. Victoria's lawyer called, furious."This is censorship. My client has a right to speak.""Your client is making defamatory claims," our lawyer responded. "If the interview a
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