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Chapter 18 – Being In Love?

Author: Olivia GW
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-21 10:24:20

Natalie's POV

I walked out of Brandon’s office, but my mind stayed behind.

His questions. His tone. The way he kept trying to explain things like they’d make sense if I just gave him a second chance.

It didn’t sit right.

Especially the part where he said there was nothing going on between him and Carmilla. Please.

He might’ve convinced himself of that, but I wasn’t born yesterday. The way she acts around him? The way his mother talks?

There’s history there... maybe messy, maybe not, but I wasn’t about to be the idiot in the room pretending not to see it.

And his mother?

That one stung more than I wanted to admit.

It’s not like I needed their approval. I didn’t even want it. But hearing how little they thought of Brandon’s ex-wife—of me—made something tighten in my chest.

Like all those years I spent taking care of his grandfather, running back and forth between hospitals and boardrooms, meant nothing.

They really saw me as just some invisible housewife they could brush off and forget.
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