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Chapter Fifty-Five: A Name From the Past
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We picked up Rowan from Carol's a little after noon, both of us a little sheepish walking down the hall together, though Carol didn't seem to notice or care, just handed him over with a smile and told us he'd been an angel the whole time."You two have a nice morning?" she asked, and something in the way she said it made me wonder if she'd noticed more than she let on."We did," Daxton said, easy, not embarrassed at all, and I felt my face warm anyway.We went back to Daxton's apartment instead of mine because many of Rowan's things had slowly ended up there over the past few weeks without us planning it. There were extra baby clothes in a drawer, diapers under the bathroom sink, and a portable crib that now stayed permanently in the corner of Daxton's bedroom.Daxton prepared lunch while I fed Rowan, the three of us easily fell into the comfortable routine we had built over the past few months, even though we had never talked about it or given it a name.After lunch, Rowan lay on a b
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Marcus called within minutes of the email, his voice tighter than I'd ever heard it."It's smaller than I feared, but I want you to see it before you panic," he said. "The reporter didn't get everything. She got enough to run something, but her editor apparently pulled back on the more specific claims......no names beyond yours, no confirmation of a child, it's vague enough that most people reading it won't connect the dots unless they're already looking hard."I sat there gripping the phone, some of the dread in my chest loosening slightly, though not fully."What does it actually say," I asked."That an unnamed woman connected to a prior high-profile divorce has reportedly been living under an assumed name," he said. "That's essentially it. No Crane name attached directly, no mention of a business, no mention of Rowan, it's thin.....thin enough that I think this dies quickly if nobody feeds it anything further."I let out a slow breath, Daxton's hand tightening around mine across th
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The meeting ended without a formal decision about Vanessa's future, Patricia insisting the board needed time to discuss it properly, separately, without either Vanessa or myself in the room. Daxton walked me out afterward, his hand steady at my back, both of us quiet until we reached the elevator."That could have gone worse," he said, once the doors closed."It could have gone better too," I said honestly. "Nothing's actually resolved, she still knows everything, she's still angry and a board decision doesn't erase either of those things.""No," he agreed. "But it does mean she's not going to have institutional cover to keep going after you. Whatever she does next, she'll be doing it as someone the board is already watching carefully."I wanted that to feel like more of a relief than it did.We didn't have to wait long to find out what came next. Two days later, while I was at my desk finishing a contract review, my phone rang with a number I didn't recognize."Is this Anne Grayson?
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