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Chapter 21 Plans Without Me
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Chasing the Pride of Alessi Chapter 22 For Now
Then she looked at me.I met her eyes from the doorway.I didn't speak.Her gaze remained on me for a beat. She closed the folder, slipped her pen inside, and gathered her things.I stayed by the door as she rose from her chair and walked toward me.Whitfield continued gathering his papers. Reyes was talking to Hale about the next item on the agenda. Nobody was paying attention to us.Marin reached the door.I stepped aside, letting her pass, then followed her into the hallway.She kept walking without slowing. I matched her pace."I need to speak with you," I said."I have a meeting at two." She pressed the call button and watched the elevator numbers above."This won't take much time."She didn't answer. The elevator doors opened, revealing two people from Legal, mid-conversation about a filing deadline. They went quiet when they saw us and moved to the back corner without being asked.Marin stepped in and stood near the panel. I stood near the door.The car started down. Nobody spo
Chasing the Pride of Alessi Chapter 21 Plans Without Me
Weston━━❖━━I hadn't slept.I'd tried going through the summit report around four. The numbers were unchanged. The deal was on schedule, and the fuel costs were locked in. Even if every problem on the table became a reality, the company would still make money.That should have settled it.Instead, I kept seeing her at that podium, forty minutes of questions coming at her from every side, and not once did she look for me in the room. She always had until yesterday. A glance across a crowded space. A hand finding my arm when she wanted to leave without making it an announcement. Small things. I'd never counted them until there weren't any left to count.I won't keep paying for something that was never going to choose me back.I choose myself this time.I'd heard those two lines outside Alfred's door and none of what led up to them. I still didn't know what Alfred had said back or what had brought her to that resolve. I only knew I'd carried those two sentences to the home we both share
Chasing the Pride of Alessi Chapter 20 The Investor Meeting
Grandpa Alfred was quiet on the walk down to the car. He had plenty to say, but he kept it to himself.“You remember the summer you were nine,” he said once we'd reached the entrance, “when you refused to leave the estate pool until you'd swum the whole length without stopping, even after everyone else had gone in for dinner.”“You stood at the edge and timed me.”“I did.” He almost smiled. “You've always finished things you started, even when nobody was making you.”I checked my watch, hoping he hadn't noticed. “I have the investor summit. I should get up there and go over my notes ahead of the board filing in.”“Your notes.” He said it like he didn't quite believe I needed any.“Grandpa Alfred.”“Fine, fine.” He waved a hand, but he was still standing there, in no rush to actually leave.His driver pulled up to the curb behind him.“Your car's here,” I said.He turned toward it, as though he'd forgotten it was coming. “So it is.”He put one hand on the door, then stopped.“I could s
Chasing the Pride of Alessi Chapter 19 What Alfred Asked
|•Marin• |By Wednesday the building had stopped talking about it quite so loudly. The gamble had paid off. Giving the press something real to run, the shipping numbers, had pulled coverage off the marriage angle faster than a denial ever would have. Small. Real, though. I carried that the whole walk out of the room.Weston was leaning against the frame of my inner office door, past the studio, jacket unbuttoned."People are only sharing pieces of what you said Monday," he said, no greeting first. "Legal wants the whole thing written down and on record, in case someone tries to twist one clip into meaning something you didn't say.""Bill already sent it over. Every word, start to finish."He nodded, like that settled something he'd actually been unsure of. "It went well. What you did."That was as close as he'd come in three days to saying anything about it at all.He didn't wait for a reply. He was already turning down the hall by the time I opened my mouth.I'd barely crossed the do
Chasing the Pride of Alessi Chapter 18 The Photograph
|•Marin• |I stopped at his door on my way to the kitchen and pushed it open anyway. The bed was still made from yesterday, pillows neatly squared from housekeeping's last visit, untouched since. He hadn't come home.I stood there and made myself check it twice, to be sure, then closed the door and went to make coffee I already knew I wouldn't finish.The first message came through while I was still standing at the counter in yesterday's robe.Have you seen this?I didn't recognize the number right away. A junior strategist, a face I'd nodded at in hallways more than spoken to. People who kept their distance didn't usually reach out.I set the mug down and opened the link.The photo loaded slowly, one strip at a time.A bakery, someplace with a striped awning and one lit window, the stop a four-year-old talks his way into when a car ride runs late. Eli's small hand wrapped around two of Weston's fingers. He looked happy in it, in the unbothered way small children look happy, which was
Chasing the Pride of Alessi Chapter 17 Old Wounds
|•Marin• |Wednesday hadn't come up once. Three days, and Weston hadn't asked where I'd been, hadn't mentioned the glass door, hadn't done anything except carry on with deck reviews and clipped mornings. His face hadn't told me whether he even remembered standing there. I'd have preferred shouting. Shouting at least tells a person where they stand.Sunday meant the estate again. Alfred had made it a standing fixture since the night Weston named an heir in front of half the city, every week now, whether anyone wanted to come or not.Reeves drove us. Weston kept enough men on staff that I'd stopped trying to learn every face, only the ones assigned to specific parts of the estate. Reeves handled the estate runs. Someone else handled the city routes, though I couldn't have named him if asked.We pulled up the circular drive as another car came in behind us, dark and understated, built to pass through a crowd without attracting attention. I was still stepping out when its doors opened.Se
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