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Chapter 36
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2026-06-25 07:03:04
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The night before our gathering, I couldn't sleep.It wasn't nerves about the commitment itself, not in any way that felt like doubt. It was the strange, suspended quality of standing at the edge of something enormous, the last quiet evening before an entirely new chapter began, the kind of feeling I imagined people described before major surgeries or long flights to unfamiliar countries, anticipation and apprehension tangled together so thoroughly I couldn't separate one from the other.I'd agreed, at Eloise's gentle insistence, to spend the night before the ceremony alone, a small concession to tradition even within a ceremony that defied nearly every other convention. Killian and Kade were staying at a hotel near the venue, the two of them sharing a suite with what I imagined was either companionable ease or barely restrained chaos, depending entirely on whether Killian had remembered to pack anything beyond the suit itself.My phone buzzed around midnight. Kade.Can't sleep. Killia
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Planning a wedding that wasn't technically a wedding turned out to be considerably more complicated than either of us anticipated."We can't call it a wedding," Kade said, sitting at my kitchen table with a notepad covered in crossed-out terminology, looking genuinely stumped for the first time in months. "Legally it isn't one. I don't want anyone confused about the actual legal standing of this, especially given how much scrutiny our family already attracts.""Commitment ceremony sounds like something from a documentary about a cult," Killian said, sprawled on my kitchen floor for reasons that remained unclear even to him, idly bouncing a tennis ball off the ceiling. "We need something better.""Union celebration?" I offered, twenty-six weeks along now and increasingly disinclined to care about semantic precision when my feet were swollen and my back ached in three distinct places."Better," Kade said, writing it down. "Still not quite right, but better."We landed eventually, after
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 36
We managed to keep the pregnancy private for nearly two months, which, given the particular fishbowl quality of my professional life, felt like a small miracle in itself.It ended the way most of our private matters seemed to end eventually, through a leak nobody could quite trace, a grainy photo of me leaving an obstetrician's office circulating through the same gossip blog that had once printed the lobby photo of Killian leaning into my space all those months ago.The headline this time carried a different, almost gleeful energy.The $2 Billion Baby? Mia Perez Spotted Leaving Prenatal Appointment, Carter Twins Still in the Picture.I expected the old wave of dread to hit, the same visceral panic that had once sent me sprinting for a bathroom stall to hide from the world's speculation. Instead, sitting in my office reading the comments with a strange, detached calm, I found I simply didn't care nearly as much as I once had."You're not panicking," Priya observed, dropping by with her
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The test itself was almost anticlimactic, a simple blood draw at a private clinic Kade had vetted personally, the kind of quiet, clinical efficiency that felt strange compared to the emotional weight we'd all been carrying around it.The results were scheduled to take ten days. We spent those ten days trying, with varying degrees of success, to live normal lives in the meantime.I went back to work, throwing myself into a contentious licensing dispute that demanded enough focus to occasionally drown out the constant, low hum of anxiety sitting beneath everything else. Killian threw himself further into the youth center, organizing an entire summer program that hadn't existed before his arrival, channeling his nervous energy into something productive rather than letting it curdle into the old, restless chaos he might once have indulged.Kade, characteristically, handled his anxiety by simply being present, more present than I'd ever seen him, showing up not just on our designated weeke
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The days that followed the announcement felt suspended in a strange, careful quiet, the three of us circling the news like it was something fragile we'd all agreed not to drop.Kade, predictably, threw himself into research. I came home one evening to find him at my kitchen table surrounded by printouts on shared custody arrangements, blended family structures, even an article about a throuple in Oregon who had apparently navigated something similar with a family law attorney specializing in exactly this kind of arrangement."You're researching us," I said, equal parts touched and faintly alarmed."I like to understand the terrain before I walk into it," he said, not looking up from a particularly dense legal brief. "I don't want either of us making decisions about this baby out of panic instead of preparation.""Kade." I sat across from him, gently closing the laptop he'd been simultaneously typing into. "It's been four days. The baby is the size of a blueberry. We have time.""I kno
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It started, the way most disruptions to my carefully rebuilt peace seemed to start, with something small and easily dismissed.I'd been tired for nearly two weeks, the kind of bone-deep exhaustion that no amount of coffee seemed to touch, and I'd chalked it up to overwork, to a particularly brutal merger that had eaten three consecutive weekends, to simply being thirty years old and apparently no longer able to function on five hours of sleep the way I had at twenty-five.It was Priya, of all people, who finally said the thing I'd been quietly avoiding even thinking."You've turned down coffee twice this week," she observed, dropping a stack of files on my desk with her usual brisk efficiency. "And yesterday you nearly threw up at the smell of the breakroom microwave popcorn, which, in fairness, always smells slightly like betrayal, but you've never reacted like that before.""I'm just tired.""Mia." She gave me a look that managed to be both gentle and entirely unconvinced. "I'm not
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He chose the bowling alley.I almost laughed when I saw the address, the absurdity of it landing somewhere between sweet and devastating, given everything that had happened since the last time we'd stood under those buzzing fluorescent lights together.The lanes were empty when I arrived, the place
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Three days passed before I saw either of them again.The silence wasn't dramatic, no slammed doors, no ambushes in lobbies, no formal requests through the internal system. It was just absence, a quiet, careful distance that felt somehow more unsettling than every chaotic confrontation that had come
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"A man called me," I said carefully, watching Kade's face for any flicker of the answer he hadn't given yet. "Said he used to work for your family. Said he had information about the attack five years ago that your mother left out when she told me her version."Kade set his coffee down with delibera
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I didn't sleep.I sat up most of the night with the email open on my laptop, the cursor blinking beside that unfamiliar phone number, my mind cycling through every possible scenario until exhaustion and adrenaline blurred together into something close to delirium.By the time the sun came up, weak
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