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Chapter 7
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2026-05-13 06:20:52
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Cursed To Love You What Comes Next
The rooftop at sunset had become their place without either of them deciding it should be.Isla stood at the railing with her arms folded against the wind, watching the light change over the city the way she watched everything — like it was telling her something if she waited long enough to hear it. Zachary stood beside her, close enough that his shoulder brushed hers when the wind picked up.No crisis tonight. No decisions pending. Just the two of them and a city that had watched them become this."Can I ask you something?" she said."Always.""If you could go back. To the elevator. To the morning of the diagnosis." She turned to look at him. "Would you do it differently?"He thought about it honestly, the way he thought about everything now — slower than he used to, like the answer mattered more than being quick with it."No," he said finally."No?""Even the wrong things led here."She studied him. "Even choosing me like I was a project?""Especially that." He looked at her direct
Cursed To Love You The Morning After the Yes
She woke up before he did, which almost never happened.For a long moment she just lay there looking at him — at the particular stillness of his face in sleep, the one expression he couldn't manage or control, the one that made him look closer to the age he actually was instead of the age his responsibilities made him carry. His hand was loose on the pillow between them. Last night's yes still sitting in the room somewhere, undisturbed, like a piece of furniture they hadn't decided where to put yet.She got up carefully. Went to the kitchen. Started the coffee.She heard him wake up by the particular quiet of it — no alarm, no movement for a long moment, just the change in the air that meant a person had stopped being asleep. Then his footsteps.He stood in the doorway of the kitchen in just his sweatpants, hair completely wrecked, watching her."Morning," she said, not turning around.He didn't answer.She poured the coffee. Reached for the milk. Felt him still there, still watching,
Cursed To Love You The Exhale
Everyone found out at different times, and the reactions were all completely themselves.Reid heard it first, over the phone, and went very quiet for a long moment."Good," he said finally.Just that one word, but it carried something much larger underneath it. Fifteen years of friendship. Months of watching someone he loved fight for time he wasn't sure he'd get.Caden cried.Briefly, privately, in the bathroom of Zachary's apartment, the door locked, the water running so nobody would hear. Odette knew anyway. She didn't say anything to anyone about it, didn't mention it at dinner or make a thing of it later. She just found his hand under the table and held it, and he held hers back, and that was the entire conversation either of them needed about it.Sloane showed no reaction in the room when Zachary told him.He nodded once, said something that sounded like acknowledgment but wasn't quite words, and then he excused himself and went to the window.He called Lyra ten minutes later."
Cursed To Love You The Installation Completes
The thirty-first floor installation was finished on a Wednesday afternoon.Isla stood in the middle of the completed space, her team having packed up and left an hour earlier, and looked at what she'd built. The column that had started as a structural problem now stood as the centerpiece, the way the panels curved around it like the space had been designed with it in mind from the very beginning. The walls told a story without explaining it, the way good design always did. The light came through the windows and did exactly what she'd planned and then something slightly more — an unexpected warmth in the late afternoon that hadn't been in any of her sketches.That slightly more was the best part.Zachary stood beside her. The building was quiet around them, the particular emptiness of a workspace after everyone else has gone home, just the two of them and the installation and the city visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows."What does it feel like?" he asked. "Finishing somet
Cursed To Love You The Board Meeting
Back in New York, the apartment felt different somehow. Smaller, maybe, after the open space of Clare. Or maybe just quieter in a way that had nothing to do with square footage.The Cole Global board meeting that would decide Dorian's fate happened on a Tuesday.Zachary didn't attend. He'd recused himself months ago, the moment they'd realized the scale of what they were dealing with, understanding that his personal stake in the outcome made his presence a liability rather than an asset.Reid presented everything. Wren walked the board through the compliance documentation, methodical and precise. Caden laid out the financial analysis, the pattern of transactions that connected Dorian to Meridian Health beyond any reasonable doubt.The board deliberated for four hours.Zachary and Isla sat in their apartment during those four hours and very deliberately did not discuss it.She sketched at the kitchen table, working through revisions for a new project that had nothing to do with anyt
Cursed To Love You What She Decides
Maeve fed them aggressively for two days, which Isla had explained on the first morning was simply how Irish mothers expressed approval."She's not trying to fatten you up," Isla said, watching Zachary eye the third helping of brown bread being pushed toward him. "Well, she is. But it means she likes you.""I've never eaten this much in my life," he said."Eat it anyway. Refusing is an insult."He ate it.They walked the coast road together on the second day, Maeve pointing out landmarks that meant nothing to most people and everything to her — the spot where Isla learned to swim, the rock formation where her husband used to take her fishing as a child, the particular bend in the road where you could see the lighthouse if the weather was clear enough.Zachary understood Isla differently here.He saw where the warmth came from — this place that wrapped itself around you, this mother who fed strangers like family, this coastline that demanded you slow down and pay attention to it. He sa
Cursed To Love You Chapter 4
Reid's dinner parties were never actually dinner parties.Isla figured that out within the first ten minutes.The food was real — properly cooked, properly served, the kind of meal that required actual effort — but the people were too carefully chosen for it to be casual. Everyone in the room knew
Cursed To Love You Chapter 3
She arrived at 8:58 am.Zachary's PA, a composed woman named Diana who had worked for him for seven years and prided herself on being unshockable, did a very subtle double take when Isla Simmons stepped out of the elevator — portfolio under one arm, slightly windswept from the New York morning, loo
Cursed To Love You Chapter 2
Isla was on her knees on the fourteenth floor, unpacking the last crate of framed prints, when her phone rang.She almost didn't answer. Her hands were full and her hair was in her face and she had seventeen things left to do before the afternoon walkthrough with the building's events coordinator.
Cursed To Love You Chapter 1
The call came at 8:47 a.m. Zachary was already moving through the corridor of Cole Global's fortieth floor when he answered, phone pressed to his ear, free hand in his pocket. "Mr. Cole." His doctor's voice was carefully measured. "The final results are in. I'm afraid the progression is faster t
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