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CHAPTER 45
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2026-05-19 04:43:03
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Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 49
Sophie’s POVLow and warm. Easy and unhurried, the way he had said it that night in the kitchen when I had sat down because his voice told me to and my body had simply obeyed before my brain could interfere.The same two words.The same voice.The same devastating effect.The heat moved through me in one long wave — starting in my chest and dropping lower and spreading outward until it reached my face and I felt my cheeks go warm in a way that I was absolutely certain was visible. My hands tightened slightly in my lap. My breath did something embarrassing. Every single nerve in my body responded to those two words the way it had responded in the kitchen and apparently the days between then and now had done absolutely nothing to build up any tolerance.I stared straight ahead through the windscreen at the cemetery road and the bare winter trees lining it and tried to remember how language worked."Don't—" I started.He glanced at me from the corner of his eye. Waiting."Don't call me
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 48
Sophie’s POVThe spark was immediate. Not a metaphor — a real, physical thing, a current that moved from his palm into mine and up the inside of my arm and spread outward from there. I felt it in my shoulder. I felt it in my chest. I felt it in places that had nothing whatsoever to do with my hand.I kept my face forward and kept walking and tried very hard to breathe normally.He must have felt something too. Because I caught it from the corner of my eye — the way his head turned toward me, just slightly, and the way his hand adjusted around mine. Not loosening. Not tightening. Just — adjusting, the way hands did when they were paying attention to what they were holding.I didn't look at him. I looked at the path.His hand was warm. Large. The kind of hand that held things steadily without gripping them hard, and that quality — that steadiness — moved up through my arm along with everything else and I focused very carefully on the placement of my feet on the uneven ground.He held m
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 47
Sophie’s POVHe must have heard my footsteps on the path because his head turned first — just slightly — before he turned fully. And when he did, and when his eyes found me across the short remaining distance, his expression was something I had never seen on his face before.Open. Completely unguarded. The face of a man who had been somewhere deeply private and had not had enough warning to put his walls back up before being found there.We looked at each other across his father's grave."Sophie." His voice was softer than I had ever heard it. Like the cemetery had taken something out of it that the rest of the world kept in."I didn't know you'd be here," I said. My voice had gone hushed without my deciding to make it that way."Neither did I," he said. "Until this morning."I looked at the headstone. Then back at him. His eyes were darker than usual in the grey light, and the thing sitting in them — the complicated, unresolved thing — was something I recognized completely. It was t
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 46
Sophie’s POVI picked up the three items from the desk and put them carefully into my bag. I stood, and we shook hands across the desk the way we had last time, and then I walked back down the corridor and through the waiting room with the television still going soundlessly on the wall, and out through the automatic doors into the grey morning air.I stood on the pavement outside the hospital for a moment.I breathed in. Breathed out.Then I went to buy the flowers.A bunch of white freesias from the florist on the corner two blocks away. My father's favorite, because my mother had loved them, and everything he had loved he had loved because of her first. I paid for them and held them carefully against my chest and got on the next bus.The private cemetery sat behind a low stone wall on the edge of the city, old and quiet, with tall trees standing along its perimeter like they had always been there and had decided they always would be. Edward Callahan had insisted on having my father
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 45
Sophie’s POVThat particular combination — antiseptic and recycled air and something underneath both of them that couldn't be named but that the body recognized on some deep animal level as the smell of people being unwell. I had sat inside this smell twice before. Once when my mother died. Once when I had come here for my test results and Dr. Thomas had said three months in a quiet, careful voice and the whole world had changed shape.I crossed the lobby to the reception desk and gave my name.The receptionist typed something, checked her screen, gave me a small nod. "Please take a seat. He'll be with you shortly."I sat in one of the plastic chairs along the wall and put my bag on my knees and folded my hands on top of it. The waiting room was half full. A woman across from me with a small child who was drawing something on the back of a leaflet, his tongue pressed between his lips in concentration. An older man in the corner with his eyes closed, either sleeping or simply resting.
Ex-Husband's Regret: Your Uncle Wants Me Now CHAPTER 44
Sophie’s POVNot the way it had when Ares did it. When Ares had tucked my hair behind my ear, heat had run all the way down my body and I had forgotten how to breathe. When Derek did it now, I felt his hand, I felt that it was kind, but my heart just kept beating its normal, ordinary beat.And my mind went back, without me wanting it to, to the gala. To the moment I had thanked Derek for the dress and watched his face go blank for that one telling second before he took credit for something he hadn't done.He had let me thank him for a gift another man had sent.I gently pulled away. I put a little distance between us, sliding back on the stool.Something flickered across Derek's face — a hurt look, quick and real — but it disappeared almost as soon as it came. He cleared his throat."What are you going to do today?" he asked."I'm going to visit my father's grave," I said.He nodded slowly. "Okay."For a moment he just looked at me. And then, to my complete surprise, he leaned in and
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