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CHAPTER 24
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2026-05-09 17:44:24
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Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 56
Derek's POVI was sitting at my desk staring at my phone and trying to talk myself out of something stupid.The idea had been sitting in my head since morning. Simple enough on the surface — call Sophie, ask her if she wanted lunch. Nothing complicated about it. People asked people to lunch every day without it meaning anything.Except that I was her husband and I had never once in two years of marriage thought to ask her to lunch, and the fact that I was thinking about it now meant something that I was not ready to look at directly.I put the phone face down on the desk.Then I picked it up again.The truth — the honest, uncomfortable truth that I had been avoiding with increasing effort over the past week — was that I didn't know what was happening to me. Something had shifted and I couldn't point to the exact moment it started or explain what had caused it, and both of those things bothered me considerably because I was a man who liked to understand the mechanics of things.I kept
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 55
Sophie’s POVShe was walking in through the front door with a man beside her — someone I didn't recognize, tall and well-dressed, his hand resting on the small of her back the same way Ares's hand had been resting on mine when we walked in. Lana was in a cream colored coat, her hair perfect, looking like she had spent the morning being taken care of and was entirely accustomed to it.She looked up at exactly the same moment I looked at her.Our eyes met.The air seemed to freeze between us for one long second. Neither of us moved. I was half in and half out of Ares's car, one hand on the door frame, and she was standing at the entrance of the same restaurant with a man who was not her brother, and we looked at each other across the short distance of the pavement with complete and total awareness of what we had both just seen.Then Lana's mouth curved.Slow. Small. The particular smile she had been using on me for two years — the one that said she knew something and was already decidi
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 54
Sophie’s POVEach word placed deliberately. Quietly. With the particular weight of someone who had chosen them carefully and meant every single one of them exactly as stated."Ares—""I'm not finished." He said it gently, but it stopped me completely. "You are not a contract. You are not an obligation or a consequence or a situation to be managed." He looked at me for a long, unblinking moment. "You are not nobody to me. You have never been nobody to me."I stared at him."From the moment I saw you on that pavement in the rain," he said, his voice dropping lower, "with your legs giving out and your face—" He stopped briefly. His jaw moved. "I saw you, Sophie. Not the wife. Not the name. You. And everything I have seen since then has only—" He paused, like a man choosing the right word with great care. "Confirmed it."The restaurant went on around us. Quietly. Entirely unbothered. A couple at the next table laughed at something. A waiter moved past with a tray. The candle between us b
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 53
Sophie’s POV My hand went out automatically and found the edge of the table and I gripped it and stayed very still and waited for the world to right itself.It took a few seconds.Ares was on his feet before I had fully registered that he had moved.He was around the table and beside me with speed. His hand closed around my elbow, steadying, and his other hand came to my waist, and I felt the warmth of both points of contact cutting through the dizziness like something solid to hold onto."Sophie." His voice was low and close and stripped of everything except concern. "Are you alright?"I blinked. The room had leveled out. The bright edges of my vision had settled back to normal."I'm fine," I said. I made my voice light. Easy. "I just stood up too fast. It happens sometimes. I'm fine."He looked at me.Not the polite look of a person accepting a reassurance because it was offered. The actual look — that grey, careful attention moving over my face, reading it the way he read everyth
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 52
Sophie’s POVI set the water glass down carefully."Ares—""I'm not finished," he said. Not unkindly. Just — not finished. "I want you working closely with me. Not as a favor. Not as something I'm offering out of obligation or because of the house or Derek or any of that." His eyes held mine and they were very direct and very certain. "I want you there because I think you're capable and because I trust you, and those two things together are rarer than you would imagine."The candle flickered between us.I looked at it for a moment. Then I looked back at him."I don't think I'm the right person," I said quietly.He said nothing. He waited."I haven't worked in — in anything, really, since before the marriage. I don't have experience in a company like Callahan Industries. I don't know the people or the systems or—""Sophie.""I'm serious, I don't want to let you down when you've already—""Sophie." His voice was the same quiet firmness it always was when he wanted me to stop moving and
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 51
Sophie’s POVLoud. Sudden. The sharp, indifferent blare of city traffic communicating something to someone with zero awareness of or interest in what it had just interrupted.The world crashed back in.Sound. Movement. The pavement. The restaurant entrance. The couple who had nearly knocked me over already gone around the corner. Two women walking past talking, not looking at us.Ares's arm loosened.Slowly. The way he did everything — with that deliberate unhaste that I had learned was not carelessness but the opposite of carelessness. His hand slid from my waist and he took a small half step back and the warmth of him against my back disappeared and the cold morning air filled the space immediately and completely.I felt the absence of it like something had been taken.He looked at me for one more second. Just one. Then he said, quietly and simply, "Come on," and turned toward the entrance with his hand returning to the small of my back as we went up the two steps and through the d
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