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Chapter 68 - The Conference
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Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 80 - One More Night
Elara's POVThe keypad's light blinked green in the dark, and Julian's face, when I turned around, had already gone somewhere careful."It's storage," he said. "Old files. Nothing worth losing sleep over.""You flinched.""I didn't flinch.""You did. Same flinch you did the first week, when I asked what happened to your wife.""I told you. I don't talk about her.""You told me you never had one." I crossed my arms, more to keep my hands from shaking than anything else. "Which is it, Julian? Because you can't have both. Either there was a wife, or there wasn't, and you've given me two different answers standing in front of two different doors."He didn't say anything for a second. Just looked at me the way he looked at contracts he hadn't decided whether to sign."It's complicated.""Everything with you is complicated. That's not an answer, that's a stall.""Maybe I need a minute to figure out how to say it.""You've had three months.""I didn't know your name three months ago. Things
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Julian's POV"She hasn't stopped asking since dinner."Weiss looked up from her tablet, unsurprised. "That's what a name does, Julian. It's not a door that closes gently once it's been opened.""I need it to close."The words came out before I'd fully decided to say them, and I watched her face register what I'd actually meant, the way a person registers a sound a half-second before they understand it was an alarm."Say that again," she said. "Slowly. So I'm certain I heard it correctly.""The Sydney lead. The surgical signature. I need it to have been a mistake."She set the tablet down. "It wasn't a mistake.""I know it wasn't a mistake. I'm asking you to make it look like one."The room went very quiet. Somewhere down the hall, faintly, I could hear Elara's footsteps — pacing, the particular restless rhythm of a woman with new information and nowhere yet to put it."You want me to tell a patient with a documented traumatic brain injury and memory loss that a legitimate diagnostic l
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Elara's POV"You're doing the thing again."Dr. Weiss said it without looking up from the monitor, her English precise. "Frowning like you're trying to remember something. It won't work like that. I've told you this before.""You've told me a lot of things before. I don't remember most of them.""Fair." She smiled, and kept working. "Hold still. Two more minutes."I held still. The machine hummed around my head, a sound I'd learned to associate. Julian sat in the corner of the room, where he always sat during these appointments, close enough to be present, far enough to not crowd the doctor's work."Done," Dr. Weiss said, and the machine's hum wound down into silence. "Sit up slowly. There's always a moment where the room disagrees with you."The room disagreed with me. I sat with my eyes closed until it stopped."Well?" I said, once it had."Give me a few minutes to look properly. I don't like guessing out loud." She was already moving to her workstation, already pulling images onto
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 77 - Hope Has a New Destination
Ian's POV "You shouldn't be standing that long." "I've been sitting for eleven weeks, Danvers. I'll stand as long as I like." She didn't argue further, which I was starting to understand was her version of picking her battles. My kitchen table — Elara's kitchen table — had become a case room again, the same board Danvers had built for Claire now sharing wall space with a second one, newer, thinner, pinned with far less than the first had ever managed. "This is everything," Sullivan said, gesturing at it from his chair. He'd aged in the months I'd lost. Not dramatically. Just the particular tiredness that settles into a man who has spent a season hoping and finding nothing to justify it. "Eleven weeks. This is the entire case." I looked at it properly for the first time. A photograph of Elara from the day of the press conference, the last confirmed image anyone had. A map with a single red pin at the hospital, another at her house, a thin dotted line between them representing
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 76 - Protection or Deception?
Elara's POV"Anke."I still hadn't gotten used to turning toward it.Julian said it again, gentler this time, and I realized I'd been staring out the window instead of answering, the way I did most mornings now, watching a garden that wasn't mine slowly learn a new season without me."Sorry," I said. "What?""Nothing important. You looked far away.""I feel far away most of the time." I turned from the window. Three months now, or close to it — long enough that the staff no longer flinched when I forgot which door led to which room, long enough that Julian had stopped correcting me gently when I called the housekeeper by the wrong name and started simply telling me the right one without comment."Better today?" he asked."Better than yesterday. Worse than the day before that." I sat across from him at the breakfast table, the one with the view of the garden, the one he always chose. "Is that a real answer or does everyone just say that.""I don't know. I've never lost my memory.""Luc
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 75 - Awakening to an Unfamiliar World
Ian's POVWhite. Then a ceiling. Then a sound I didn't have a name for yet, rhythmic, patient, counting something I couldn't place."Mr. Vance?"A woman's voice. Not Elara's. I turned my head — it cost more than turning a head should cost — and found a nurse leaning over the rail, her hand already reaching for a call button."Where," I said. My voice came out wrong. Old, somehow. Unused."You're in the hospital. Sydney. You've been asleep a while." She said asleep carefully, like a word chosen to be gentler than the true one. "Do you know your name?""Ian Vance.""Good. Do you know what year it is?"I told her. She wrote something down, relief moving across her face in increments."Elara," I said, before she could ask another question. "Where is she?"The nurse's face did something I didn't like. "I'll get the doctor.""Where is she?""Mr. Vance—""Where is Elara Rhodes?"She left instead of answering, which told me more than any sentence could have, and I lay there with a body that d
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