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CHAPTER 21 Miscalculation
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2026-06-18 14:16:06
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Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 29 Lies
(Nate’s POV)My jaw locked.Of everything she could have said. Of every question in the world—where am I, what month is it, am I dying—the first word out of her mouth after weeks of silence was that name.“Grandma—”“Where is she, Nate? She was here. I remember. Right before I—she was in my room, she was shaking my shoulder, she was saying something about a fire—”“She is not here,” I said tightly.“Well, where is she? Call her. Tell her I’m awake. She’ll want to—”“She’s gone, Grandma.”The old woman went still.I sat up straighter. I had rehearsed this, in the car and in the shower and in the dark of my bedroom at three in the morning when I couldn’t sleep—I had built the sentences and I had lined them up and I had told myself that when the moment came, I would deliver them cleanly, and she would understand.“Sabrina set the fire,” I said.My grandmother’s eyes narrowed.“She lit a curtain in the bedroom. She was angry about the divorce, about Alexis, about the house.” I kept my voi
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 28 The Old Woman
(Nate’s POV)Mara needed the wine cellar unlocked.She was standing at the bottom of the stairs with her phone against her hip and a list in her other hand, and she looked at me the way you look at a concierge who is taking too long.“Alexis wants the Sancerre for tonight,” she said brightly. “And the rosé from the second shelf. And anything sparkling, actually—Jenna’s coming, and Jenna only drinks sparkling.”“Who the hell is Jenna?” I asked flatly.“From Pilates.” She said it like I should know. Like this woman had been a fixture in my life and not a stranger who had appeared in my kitchen three days ago eating my yogurt. “So can you unlock it, or…?”I unlocked it.I stood there with the key in my hand while Mara walked past me into the cellar and started pulling bottles off the rack, checking labels against her list, humming something under her breath. She did not say thank you. She did not look at me again.I went upstairs.The second floor was quieter than it used to be. Alexis’s
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 27 Afraid of Me
(Felix’s POV)Sabrina went still beside me and I knew before I turned my head.I didn’t need to see. I felt it in the way her arm locked against mine—every muscle going tight at once, her whole body bracing like a woman who’d just heard a sound in a dark house.I turned anyway.Alexis. Fifteen feet away, heels clicking across the lobby floor, phone in her left hand, handbag in her right, walking toward the lifts like she owned the building and was mildly annoyed that people were using it without permission.She hadn’t looked up. She was going to.I had about six seconds. I took one of them to look at my sister.Sabrina’s face had gone white. She was standing in the middle of a hospital lobby with the sound of her child’s heartbeat still ringing in her ears, and Alexis was about to walk straight into all of it.No.“Hide,” I said. I unhooked my arm from hers and I did not look back. “Stay low. Don’t move.”I was already walking.I cut across the atrium at an angle that put me between A
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 26 Waiting Room
(Sabrina’s POV)Adrian drove me to the hospital himself.He would not let Eric send a car, would not let Charlie come along in the front seat with a packed lunch and a blood pressure cuff he’d stolen from Adrian’s bag. He said it was a medical appointment, not a field trip, and he said it with the door already closing on Charlie’s face.“We need to talk about Alexis,” I said, before we’d cleared the driveway.Adrian’s hands adjusted on the wheel. “Sabrina—”“Tyler hasn’t called me back. I texted him yesterday and he read it and he hasn’t called me back, which means Eric told him not to, which means Eric is handling it, which means nobody is going to tell me anything!”“That sounds about right,” Adrian said mildly.“Adrian. She is faking a terminal illness. I have a witness. I have a doctor’s name. I have—”“You have a scan today.” He glanced at me sideways. “You have a baby in there who has been through smoke and stress and a month of chaos, and today we get to see them, and I am aski
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 25 The Report
(Sabrina’s POV)I told my brothers I had an errand.Eric looked at me skeptically across the table.“What kind of errand?”“The personal kind,” I said lightly. “I need an hour. Maybe two. I’ll be fine.”Charlie opened his mouth. Adrian opened his mouth. Felix actually stood up.“Sit down,” I said, pointing at Felix. “All of you. I am a grown woman. I am going to a café. I will text you when I get there and I will text you when I leave. That is the deal.”Eric looked at me for a long moment. Then he nodded once.“Take the driver,” he said.“Fine.”“And text Adrian when you arrive.”“I just said I would.”“And if anything feels wrong—”“Eric.”He raised both palms. I kissed his cheek on the way out and he pretended not to be worried about it, badly.The café was in a town I didn’t know, small and quiet, with wooden tables and a window seat that looked out on a street where nothing was happening.I arrived early, ordered tea, and sat down.My phone vibrated, and I picked it up instantly.
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 24 Someone New
(Sabrina’s POV)His name was Luca Ferrante, and my brothers greeted him like he had never left.Charlie came out of the kitchen wiping his hands and bellowed “FERRANTE!” across the porch so loudly that Luna bolted off my lap and disappeared under a chair.Felix vaulted the porch railing and tackled Luca around the middle before the man had both feet off the gravel.Even Eric—Eric, who shook hands with cabinet ministers—pulled him into a hug with one arm and clapped his back hard enough that I heard it from the hammock.“You took your time,” Eric told him.“Your directions were terrible,” Luca said dryly. “As usual.”Tyler smiled. Tyler almost never smiled. That was when I understood how far back this went.“Luca and Tyler roomed together at Columbia,” Adrian explained quietly, appearing beside me. “He’s been around since before I could drive.”“Is he—” I started.“Architect. Runs his own firm. Builds things that Tyler pretends not to be impressed by.” Adrian paused. “He’s good people,
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 7 That Bitch
(Sabrina’s POV)I did not knock.My hand was on the door before I had a word ready. Through it I had heard the name and the name was still ringing, and I was not going to lie in that bed for one more minute with the name on the other side of a wall.I turned the handle and walked in.Five heads cam
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 6 The House Fills
(Sabrina’s POV)The room was silent since I had said that name.Eric had not moved since I said it. Aunt Nancy’s hand had gone tighter around mine, but her eyes were on Eric, and Eric’s eyes were on the carpet at the foot of the bed.“Alexis Atwood,” I rasped again, my throat scraping on the second
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 5 The Brother
(Sabrina’s POV)I woke up because there was someone in the room.Not in the room—in the next room. Through the door I could hear the soft give of a couch and the slow constant noise of someone breathing. I tried to sit up, but my chest hurt. My throat felt as if I had swallowed gravel.My hand went
Divorce Suits Me Better CHAPTER 4 Another Man’s Name
(Nate’s POV)The doctors finished talking but I didn’t move.My grandmother was on a ventilator. She might wake up. She might not. The smoke had done what smoke does. Every hour she stayed under was an hour she might not come back from.That was what the resident said. The resident was twenty-eight
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