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THIRTY

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I didn’t realize how fast my heart was beating until he stepped inside.

The door closed behind him with a quiet click, but it sounded louder than anything else in the room.

My grandmother gave me one last look,knowing before disappearing down the hallway, leaving us alone in the living room.

And suddenly there was nowhere left to hide.

Flavian didn’t move closer.

Didn’t touch me.

He just stood there, Looking at me like I had personally rearranged the universe in the worst possible way.

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    The call came in the middle of the afternoon.I almost didn’t answer.I was in the nursery, folding tiny clothes that still smelled like new fabric and possibility; trying to ground myself in something soft, something untouched by everything else happening in this house.But my phone kept ringing.Persistent.Insistent.And something in my chest tightened before I even picked it up.“Hello?”“Mrs… Fiona?” a hesitant voice said from the other end.My grip on the phone tightened slightly.“Yes, speaking.”“This is Reagent Premier School. There’s been a… situation with your son.”Everything in me stilled.“What kind of situation?” I asked, my voice already sharpening.A pause.“We think it would be best if you came in.”I don’t remember the drive.I don’t remember traffic.Or how long it took.All I remember was the feeling that deep, sinking feeling in my stomach that told me something was wrong.What happened?When I got there, they led me to a quiet office instead of the principal’s.

  • Dangerously mine   Forty Eight

    I didn’t sleep much that night.Not because of noise.Not because of discomfort.But because once your mind starts connecting dots you didn’t even know were there…It doesn’t stop.It just keeps going.Overanalyzing.Replaying.Reframing.And suddenly things that didn’t feel intentional before…Start to look very, very deliberate.By morning, I had already made a decision.I wasn’t going to sit around and let them define me.If they wanted to watchLet them watch.If they wanted to analyzeLet them analyze.But I was done reacting.Done shrinking.Done second-guessing myself in my own life.After dropping my son off at school, I drove straight to yoga.Not because I felt particularly calm.But because I needed to be.Or at least try to be.The studio smelled faintly of lavender and eucalyptus, the soft hum of instrumental music filling the space as I rolled out my mat.“Morning, Fiona,” Susan greeted with a warm smile.“Morning,” I replied, forcing a small one back.Kate waved from ac

  • Dangerously mine   Forty Seven

    There’s a certain kind of silence that doesn’t feel empty.It feels… loaded.Like something is sitting just beneath the surface, waiting for the right moment to rise.That was what the house felt like that morning.Not calm.Not peaceful.Just… brewing.I noticed it in the way the staff moved.In the way conversations stopped just a second too quickly when I entered a room.In the way Cheryl hadn’t said a word to me since yesterday’s luncheon.Which, somehow, felt worse than if she had.Because Cheryl Navarro was not the type of woman who stayed quiet without reason.Silence, with her, was strategy.Flavian was already in his study when I stepped in.Papers spread across his desk.Laptop open.Phone pressed between his shoulder and ear as he spoke in low, controlled tones.“…no, push the meeting to Thursday. I want the revised numbers before I sign anything.”A pause.His eyes lifted briefly and landed on me.Something in his expression softened.“…I’ll call you back,” he said before e

  • Dangerously mine   Forty Six

    I should have known the peace wouldn’t last.Not in this house.Not with Cheryl Navarro under this roof.The morning had started… deceptively normal.Flavian had left early for the office after a quiet, unresolved exchange that neither of us had the energy to continue. My son had gone to school. The house had settled into that strange, suspended calm that always came before something shifted.I was in the nursery.My space.The only space that still felt like mine.I was seated in the armchair, a soft fabric sample draped across my lap, trying to decide between two shades that looked almost identical but felt completely different.Warm ivory.Soft cream.It shouldn’t have mattered.But it did.Because lately, the smallest decisions felt like the only ones I still had control over.A soft knock pulled me from my thoughts.“Come in,” I called.Amara stepped in.But something about her posture was… off.Too careful.Too measured.“Ma’am,” she said gently, “there are guests downstairs.”I

  • Dangerously mine   Forty Five

    By the time I got back from yoga, my body felt lighter.Not physically.Mentally.Like for a brief moment, I had stepped outside of everything that had been suffocating me since Cheryl walked into this house and decided to rearrange my life like it was furniture she didn’t like.The quiet stretches.The controlled breathing.The reminder that I was still in my body. Still in control of it.I needed that.Because lately…It hadn’t felt like it.I stepped into the house slowly, slipping off my shoes at the entrance, the familiar scent of home wrapping around me in a way that should have felt comforting.But didn’t.Not completely.Not anymore.I walked further in, one hand resting absently on my belly, the other brushing lightly against the wall as I moved.Something felt off.Subtle.But there.Like the air had shifted slightly.Like something had already been decided before I walked in.And I hated that feeling.I found him in the living room.Flavian.Sitting on the couch, leaning fo

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    FLAVIAN'S POVI don’t like strangers in my house.It’s not something I say out loud often, but it’s something I’ve always known.Control has always been… necessary.Predictable environments. Predictable people.That’s how things stay steady.That’s how things don’t fall apart.And yet here I am.Standing in my own living room.Watching a woman I barely know move through it like she belongs here.Celeste.She stood by the window, her posture relaxed, one hand lightly resting against the frame as she looked out into the garden.Calm.Composed.Too comfortable.“You needed something?” I asked.She turned immediately, a small, polite smile forming on her lips.“Not at all,” she said smoothly. “I was actually hoping to speak with you, if you have a moment.”I hesitated.Not because I didn’t have time.Because I didn’t like the idea of it.But still, I nodded.“Go ahead.”Her gaze flickered briefly toward the hallway.Toward where Fiona had disappeared earlier.Then back to me.“It’s about

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    The next morning came too quickly.Like I was moving through someone else’s life.I smiled when I needed to. Nodded at the right moments. Flavian didn’t say anything.Maybe he didn’t notice or maybe he noticed everything and chose not to push.He kissed my forehead before leaving, his hand lingeri

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    The city glittered beneath them like a living constellation.Fiona stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of the penthouse suite, her arms wrapped loosely around herself as she stared at New York unfolding through glass. Behind her, she felt him before she heard him.“You’re thinking too loudly,” he

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