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Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 51
Chapter 51She helped clear the table afterward, mostly to have something to do with her hands, and made her way upstairs a little after eight, already anticipating the quiet of her own room, the chance to finally sit down and check her phone properly, in private, without an audience.She opened her bedroom door and stopped dead in the frame.The room had been ransacked.There was no other word for it. Her closet doors hung open, half the contents pulled out and abandoned across the floor in a drift of fabric — dresses she recognized, dresses she didn't immediately recognize because they'd clearly been buried at the back for years, shoes kicked into a pile near the window, a single sequined jacket draped over her desk lamp like a lampshade. Her bed, which she had made that morning with the specific tidiness of a woman who did not have time in her life for an unmade bed, was buried under a fresh layer of discarded outfits, several of them clearly tried on and rejected, one still turned
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 50
Chapter 50"And you," she said, turning to David, who was still standing in the middle of the room in a wedding dress with a veil pinned crookedly to his skull, "are you WEARING MY FRIEND'S BORROWED WEDDING GOWN THAT I HAVE NOT EVEN RETURNED YET.""In my defense," David said, "it fits surprisingly well through the shoulders."Kate made a sound that wasn't quite a scream, more of a strangled exhale of pure disbelief, and lunged.The chase that followed lasted approximately four minutes and covered, by Kate's later estimate, most of the ground floor of the house. Samuel, still in the blush dress, proved surprisingly fast despite the fabric restricting his stride, and managed to vault over the back of an armchair with an agility that suggested he'd practiced this exact escape route before. James, encumbered by the cape-robe, was slower but compensated by throwing sofa cushions behind him as he ran, a scattered obstacle course that Kate had to dodge while shouting increasingly creative th
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 49
Chapter 49She watched the screen for a full minute afterward, which she was aware was pathetic, and then set the phone face-down on her desk with more force than was strictly necessary, and made herself pack up her things and leave the office before she could check it again.The drive home did nothing to improve her mood. She checked the phone at every red light, which she knew was a bad habit and did anyway, and by the time she pulled into the driveway of the Bridgerton house, still no response had come through, and she had worked herself into a low, simmering frustration that she couldn't entirely justify and couldn't entirely shake either.Fine. He was busy. People got busy. It didn't mean anything.She got out of the car, went up the front steps, and let herself in through the front door, already composing, in her head, the mildly annoyed but not actually worried version of herself she planned to present at dinner.She had approximately four seconds to enjoy that plan before it f
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 48
Chapter 48Kate had planned it out during the last twenty minutes of the meeting, while pretending to listen to Marcus Webb walk through contribution figures for the third time that quarter. She was going to catch Seris before he left. She was going to corner him somewhere private, cross her arms, and refuse to move until he told her exactly what had happened to him in the middle of a boardroom in front of twenty people — the sudden sitting-up, the cough, the water, the whole performance that had absolutely nothing to do with concrete supply chains and everything to do with something he was clearly trying very hard not to think about.She had a system for getting things out of Seris. It had taken her twenty years to build and it worked roughly eighty percent of the time, which she considered excellent odds for a man who treated his own emotions like classified documents. Step one was patience — let him think he'd successfully avoided the conversation. Step two was proximity — corner h
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 47
Chapter 47His grandfather studied him for a moment. "That's your business to manage, not ours. Provided the terms are met, we have no particular interest in who does or doesn't know the reasons behind them.""Good," Seris said. "Because if I find out either of you have said one word to her about Bridgerton Holdings, about any of this — I will find a way to make this arrangement considerably harder for everyone involved. I don't yet know how. But I will find one."Neither of his grandparents responded to that directly, though something crossed his grandfather's face that might, in a different man, have been the ghost of approval."Dinner is at seven," Josephine said, closing the subject with the particular finality she used for most things. "Your mother has had the kitchen prepare your favorite. Go rest before then."Seris left the dining room without another word.---He didn't rest.He walked the length of the upstairs hallway twice, past the rooms he'd grown up in, past photographs
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 46
Chapter 46"My point," Cornelius said, "is that Bridgerton Holdings, at this particular moment, is not as stable as it appears from the outside. A company in transition is a company with exposure. Exposure that a determined party — a shareholder unhappy with recent decisions, say, or a competing family with sufficient leverage in the alliance — could make considerably more complicated, should they choose to."The room had gone very quiet."Are you threatening Bridgerton Holdings," Seris said, and his voice had dropped into something low and dangerous that he rarely used, that he had learned, largely, from the man sitting across the table from him."I'm informing you," his grandfather said, using the same phrase again, deliberately, "that this family has relationships across that alliance old enough and deep enough to make things difficult for any company we choose, should we decide it served our purposes. I have no particular wish to make things difficult for Bridgerton Holdings. Dari
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 4
Chapter 4The Cathedral of Saint Catherine was obscenely beautiful.Kate had been inside exactly three times before today but she'd never seen it like this. Every surface seemed to glow with candlelight. It was excessive. Elegant. Exactly the kind of wedding the Ashford family would throw.Kate sm
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 3
Chapter 3Kate Bridgerton had been awake since five in the morning, and it was entirely Seris Ashford's fault.Not that she'd ever tell him that. Seris had enough on his mind today without her adding to it. His wedding day. *Finally.*"Katie, if you don't stop pacing, you're going to wear a hole in
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 2
Chapter 2Silver woke to sunlight.That was the first wrong thing. There shouldn't be sunlight. There should be darkness, cold, the crushing weight of water filling her lungs. There should be nothing at all.She bolted upright, gasping, her hands flying to her throat. Dry. Her clothes—dry. Her hair
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 1
Chapter 1The water was colder than Silver had imagined death would be.She'd always thought dying would be warm—like slipping into sleep, like the romance novels promised. But the Crystalbrook River in December was different, its icy rivers penetrating her body to cause ice cold damage to her lung
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