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Chapter 64
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They stayed two hours longer than planned.Elena opened a second bottle of wine and the conversation moved away from strategy and into something easier. She told stories about Alex at twenty-two, newly determined, chronically overconfident, walking into rooms as if he'd already won them."That part hasn't changed," Izzy said."I'm sitting here," Alex said."We know," Elena said, echoing Izzy's line from earlier.Izzy laughed. Alex looked between them with the expression of a man who understood he'd lost some kind of vote without being told there was a vote.Elena watched him with undisguised warmth. Izzy watched Elena watch him and understood something about their dynamic that Alex probably couldn't see from inside it. Elena wasn't just his godmother. She was the person who'd kept the light on in the window during the years he'd been most closed off. She'd stayed in his orbit when other people had accepted the distance as permanent.That mattered. The people who stayed without being a
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Friday came faster than Izzy expected.She changed three times. Not because she didn't know what to wear but because each option felt like a statement and she wasn't sure which statement was right for dinner with the woman who could influence Alex's entire board.Sophie sat on her bed watching the process with a cup of tea."The green," Sophie said."I wore green to the foundation gala.""You looked incredible at the foundation gala.""Elena wasn't at the foundation gala forming an opinion about me.""The navy then."Izzy looked at the navy dress. Classic, clean, says nothing wrong and nothing particularly interesting. Safe.She put it back."The green," she said.Sophie smiled into her tea. "Obviously."Alex picked her up at six-thirty. He was in the car already when she came out and she watched his eyes move over her through the window before she got in. That look. The one he didn't bother managing anymore."Green," he said."Don't.""I didn't say anything.""Your face did." She pul
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Alex called Elena at ten.She picked up on the second ring, which meant she'd been expecting the call. That told him Vivienne had already been in contact."I was wondering when you'd call," Elena said."Then you already know why.""I have some idea. Come for lunch."He looked at Izzy across the room. She was on her own phone, pacing slowly, working through something with Sophie. She caught his eye and raised her eyebrows.He held up two fingers. *Two hours.*She nodded and went back to her call.Elena lived forty minutes out in a house she'd owned for thirty years, with a large garden, no staff on weekdays. She opened the door herself and looked at Alex the way she'd been looking at him since he was twelve. Like she could see exactly what he wasn't saying."You look better," she said."Than what?""Than you have in two years." She stepped back to let him in. "Sit down. I made soup."They sat in her kitchen. She was seventy-one and moved like someone who had decided aging was optional.
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Julian came at nine.Izzy was still there. She'd made coffee, found bread in Alex's kitchen that hadn't expired, and was reading something on her phone at the island when Julian walked in and stopped like he'd hit glass.He looked at her. Looked at Alex. Looked back at her."You stayed," he said."Good morning Julian," she said."This is the best Monday of my life.""Sit down," Alex said.Julian sat, still visibly delighted, and accepted the coffee Izzy pushed toward him with the air of a man receiving a gift. Alex watched him look between them again, cataloguing details, reading the room the way only Julian could."You're both very calm," Julian observed."We're calm because there's a situation," Izzy said. "Save the commentary.""Right. Yes." Julian straightened. "Vivienne.""Tell us what you know," Alex said.Julian opened his phone. "Cameron met with Vivienne's lawyer on Thursday. Lunch, private room, two hours. My contact at the restaurant confirmed it." He set the phone on the c
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Three days later Vivienne Dane called Alex directly.He didn't answer. She left a voicemail so carefully worded that it could have been benign to anyone who didn't know her history. “Just checking in. Heard things are going well, would love to catch up." He played it for Izzy that evening.She listened to the whole thing with her arms crossed."She knows," Izzy said."Probably.""Not probably. She called the day after you told the board the contract terms were changing." She looked at him. "Someone talked.""I know.""Who knew about the change?""Legal, Elena, two board members.""Elena wouldn't.""No.""So it's one of the board members or someone in law who talks to Vivienne's circle." She uncrossed her arms. "What does she want?""To remind me she exists. To plant something before we get ahead of her."Izzy was quiet for a moment, thinking. He watched her do it. She had a particular way of working through problems, still and focused, her eyes moving slightly like she was reading so
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He took her to dinner the next night as promised, no reservations this time. He showed up at her apartment at seven with containers from a place she'd mentioned once, three weeks ago, in passing. A Thai restaurant she'd said she hadn't been to since before everything got complicated.She stared at the containers."You remembered that," she said."You mentioned it once.""In passing. I mentioned it in passing, Alex."He set everything on her kitchen counter like it was unremarkable. "Do you have plates?"She got the plates. She was doing the thing where she had to actively manage her expression because he kept doing exactly this. Small precise things that proved he'd been listening when she hadn't known he was listening. It was becoming a pattern and the pattern was dismantling her carefully.They ate at her kitchen table. Her space this time, smaller than his, lived-in. Books stacked on the counter, a plant Sophie had given her that was surviving against all odds, her mother's old cer
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Security moved toward Cameron, but the damage was done. Every camera in the room swung toward Izzy and Alex."Is it true?" a reporter shouted. "Was the engagement fake?"Alex stepped forward, but Izzy grabbed his arm. "Don't. Let me handle this.""Izzy....""Trust me."She walked down the stairs, d
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Izzy didn't move. "You're sorry.""I know you don't believe me." Vivienne took off her sunglasses. Her eyes were red, exhausted. "I don't blame you. But I need to say it anyway.""Say what, exactly? That you're sorry for abusing your sister? For trying to destroy Alex? For bribing my ex to sabotage
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The gala was in six hours, and Izzy's dress didn't fit."I told you to try it on last week," Sophie said, tugging at the zipper that wouldn't budge past Izzy's ribcage."I've been slightly busy preventing corporate espionage and emotional blackmail." Izzy sucked in her breath. "Try again."Sophie y
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The gala preparations consumed the next four days.Izzy had never seen anything like it. The estate transformed into something out of a fairy tale, with white flowers everywhere, crystal chandeliers hung in the gardens, and ice sculptures that cost more than her old apartment’s yearly rent.She tri
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