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Chapter Six: The Name That Shouldn't Be There
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Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Fifty-Six: Daxton Covers for Her
The next event came almost a month later, a larger one this time, a business awards dinner Daxton had been invited to as a rising local entrepreneur, the kind of event with assigned seating and a step-and-repeat banner by the entrance that made my stomach tighten the second I saw it."You don't have to come," Daxton had said, when he first mentioned it, careful in the way he'd become about not pushing me into anything that might feel like exposure. "I know these things can be a lot.""I want to come," I said, and meant it, mostly. My business had grown steadily over the past month, four new clients from word of mouth alone, and some stubborn part of me wanted to stand in a room like that again, dressed properly, representing something that was actually mine, instead of hiding from every room that might contain a stranger who recognized my face.I told myself the risk was manageable. Robert had turned out to be nothing. Maybe every fear like that would turn out to be nothing, if I just
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Fifty-Five: A Name From the Past
I stared at that message for a long time before I put the phone down, my hands not quite steady.*Robert.* I didn't recognize the name, not directly, but that didn't mean much. I'd shaken a dozen hands that night at the mixer, half of them belonging to men whose names I'd forgotten within minutes, faces blurring together in the string-light glow of that rooftop.I thought about the man who'd been staring at me across the party, the one Daxton had so smoothly steered me away from. I hadn't gotten his name that night. I hadn't wanted it.I read the message again. *I couldn't shake the feeling I know you from somewhere.* Careful wording.....not accusing.....not certain. The kind of message someone sends when they suspect something but don't yet have the confidence to say it outright.I sat at my desk in the empty co-working space, the last of the evening light gone now, just the low glow of the overhead lamps left on, and felt the fragile, careful peace I'd built over the past weeks star
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Fifty-Four: The First Client
The email came three days after the mixer, forwarded from Daxton with a short note above it. *This is Marta, she runs a bakery supply company, needs someone to review a distribution contract before she signs. I told her you're the best I know. Don't make me a liar.*I read it twice, sitting at my desk by the window, and felt something unfamiliar rise up in my chest, something that had been buried so long under fear and survival that I almost didn't recognize it right away.Pride. Simple, uncomplicated pride, at being recommended, by name, as the best someone knew.Marta called that same afternoon, brisk and warm in equal measure, explaining her situation quickly, a distribution deal that would triple her business if the terms were fair, and could ruin her if they weren't, and she didn't have the money for a proper law firm to look it over the way it deserved."Daxton says you're sharp," she said. "Sharper than anyone he's worked with. That true?""I'd like to think so," I said, and he
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Fifty-Three: He Notices Anyway
The mixer was held on the rooftop of the same building, string lights strung overhead against the darkening sky, the kind of low, easy music playing that let people talk over it without shouting.I arrived a few minutes late on purpose. I had learned that it was easier to walk into a room when everyone was already busy talking than to arrive early and have people notice me. I spotted Daxton near the drinks table, and I immediately felt a little more relaxed. Seeing a familiar face in a room full of strangers made me feel less alone."You made it," he said, and there was something genuinely pleased in his voice that made the nerves I'd carried up in the elevator ease back just a little.He introduced me around, casual and easy, "this is Anne, she does contract work, sharpest eye I've come across in years", and I let myself settle, gradually, into the rhythm of the evening, shaking hands, answering questions about my small, fledgling business with more confidence than I actually felt.I
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Fifty-Two: She Lies About Her Name
He found out about the pregnancy the way most people did now, simply by looking at me, though he never said anything about it directly until the week I started struggling to reach the top shelf of the co-working space's shared supply closet and he appeared beside me without a word, retrieving what I needed before I had to ask."Thank you," I said, embarrassed in a way that had nothing to do with him and everything to do with how visible I'd become, how impossible it was, at this point, to pretend my life was as simple and uncomplicated as the name on my business cards suggested."Anytime," he said easily, and went back to his desk without making it a thing, without asking any of the questions I could see sitting behind his eyes, patient, unhurried, waiting for whenever I decided I was ready to offer them myself.I wasn't ready. Not for weeks after that.It was a Thursday evening, the co-working space nearly empty, most of the daytime freelancers gone home for dinner, when he finally a
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Fifty-One: Daxton Smith
He sent the contract that same afternoon, exactly as promised, a clean email with the document attached and a short note that read simply, *Whenever you get a chance. No rush at all.-D*I read through it that evening after my shift at the diner, sitting at the small table by my window with a cup of tea going cold beside me, and found myself falling into the work with an ease I hadn't expected, the familiar rhythm of it settling over me like a coat I'd forgotten I still owned.It took me two evenings to review everything carefully, I marked the parts that needed clarification and found a liability clause hidden in the fine print. If he had signed the agreement without reading it properly, his company could have been forced to pay costs it shouldn't have had to cover.I sent it back with my notes attached, careful and thorough, the way I used to do for clients who paid considerably more than whatever Daxton Smith was eventually going to offer me for this.He called the next morning inst
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Eight:The Wrong Woman On His Arm
The notification popped up before I could stop it. I’d been doing fine all these while four days of discipline, news alerts turned off, social media deleted. My phone was reduced to what it was supposed to be calls, messages, documentation, nothing more. I was building something carefully, and I c
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Three :The bride he never wanted
Three months earlier."Congratulations, Serenity, you're getting married."The fork slipped from my fingers, clattering loudly against my plate,the dining room fell dead silent while I stared across the table at my father. "Excuse me?"Dad didn't even look up,he just calmly dabbed his mouth with a
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Two: Thrown Away
I don't even remember how I got out of Jason’s office.One minute I was looking at the man I loved handing me divorce papers the next, I was trapped inside the elevator, staring at my reflection in the mirrored walls.The woman looking back at me was a stranger,her lipstick was smeared,her eyes wer
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter One: Divorced after one night
Twenty-four hours. That was how long I lasted as Mrs. Crane, I stared at the papers on Jason’s desk. I kept waiting for the words to scramble into a joke, but they just sat there, heavy and permanent.DIVORCE AGREEMENT.My throat went completely dry just a few hours ago. I'd woken up in his bed w
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