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Chapter Sixteen: The Architect
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Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Ninety-Two: Time Passes
The weeks folded into each other quietly after that, the way ordinary life does once the big, dramatic things finally settle.Rowan grew quickly, so quickly that some mornings, it felt like he had changed overnight. Around four months old, he learned to sit on his own. At first, he would wobble and fall to the side with a surprised look, but after a few tries, he finally learned to balance himself.By six months, he was babbling all the time, making little sounds that didn’t really mean anything, yet somehow seemed to mean everything. Daxton always answered him seriously, as if they were having a real conversation. It never failed to make me laugh.My business grew too, slower but steady, four regular clients turning into seven, then nine, enough that I finally stopped doing the anxious math every week and started, instead, actually saving a little each month for the first time since I'd left New York.Peggy and I never fully repaired things, though we'd nodded to each other once, mo
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Ninety-One: What Vanessa Wanted
Daxton's voice changed the second Vanessa started talking. Not louder. Just tighter, the ease of the last hour draining out of it word by word."How bad," he said. "Okay. How long ago did it go down."I sat there watching him, my hand still resting where it had been against his chest a moment ago, feeling the shift in his body before I understood what was causing it."Don't touch anything else until I get there," he said. "I mean it. I'll be there in twenty minutes."He hung up and looked at me, apologetic already."Server outage," he said. "A big one. We've got three clients whose systems run through us, and if this isn't fixed tonight, we lose all three by morning. I have to go in.""Go," I said, even though some small, tired part of me wanted to ask him to stay, wanted tonight to just belong to us a little longer."I hate this timing," he said, already reaching for his shoes. "Tonight, of all nights.""It's fine," I said, and meant it, mostly. "Go fix your servers. I'll be here."H
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Ninety: What Real Feels Like
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
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Eighty-Nine: Serenity's Answer
I didn't sleep. Dana's question just sat there in the dark, over and over, until the sky outside went gray.I got up before Rowan woke, made tea I didn't drink then sat at the table and made myself actually answer it instead of running from it.Did I love Jason, once? Yes. But it was fast...one dinner, one night, a handful of honest moments squeezed between months of two strangers being polite to each other. I'd fallen for a feeling more than a person. For what he might become to me, not what he'd already proven himself to be.Daxton was different. There was no single perfect night with him. Just month after month of small things, he fixed my sink, he sat with me through a panic attack at two in the morning, he built a crib on a Saturday and stayed for lunch like it was nothing, he showed up at the hospital twice, once for a false alarm, once for the real thing, and both times he didn't have to be asked.That wasn't the same shape as what I felt for Jason, it didn't need to be. Slow a
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Eighty-Eight: Dana's Doubt
Dana called on a Sunday evening, her usual time, and I answered from my small kitchen table, Rowan finally down for the night, the apartment quiet around me in the particular way it got once he was asleep and the day's noise finally settled."How's my favorite almost-toddler," she asked, the same way she opened most calls now."Sleeping, thankfully. Growing so fast I can barely keep up with the clothes.""And how's his mother.""Good," I said, and heard, even as I said it, how easily the word came out, how little I had to search for it lately.Dana was quiet for a moment on the other end, and I could picture her exactly, sitting in whatever chair she favored these days, considering her next words the way she used to consider a difficult question from a student who hadn't quite earned the answer yet."You sound different lately," she said finally. "Lighter. I've noticed it the last few calls, actually.""Is that a bad thing?""Not necessarily," she said. "I just want to make sure I und
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Question Daxton Doesn't Ask
Daxton came by that evening the way he did most evenings now, letting himself in with the spare key I'd given him a few weeks earlier, a small, ordinary trust I still hadn't fully gotten used to extending to anyone.Rowan was fussing in his crib when Daxton arrived, two months old now and still working out the difference between hungry and simply wanting to be held, and Daxton went straight to him without even setting his bag down, lifting him out and settling into the chair by the window with the easy, practiced confidence of someone who'd been doing this for months instead of weeks."Hey, buddy," he murmured, warming a bottle with one hand while balancing Rowan against his shoulder with the other. "I know, I know. Bottle's coming."I stood in the kitchen doorway and watched them, the particular ache in my chest that had become familiar these past months, love and something more complicated tangled together so tightly I'd stopped trying to separate them.Daxton knew everything. He'd
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 Seven: The Wrong Sister
Everywhere went silent across the dining table where nobody moved and nobody spoke, Sloane's smile completely frozen on her face. Jason looked at her for a long moment before finally setting down his glass and saying calmly, "If circumstances had been different, I would still have married the woma
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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