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Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 57
Chapter 57She had been washing the same glass for a while. She wasn't sure how long. Long enough that the water had gone from very hot to warm, long enough that Callum had dried two plates while she stood holding it, long enough that she had to make a conscious decision to finish washing it and hand it over.She finished washing it.She handed it over.Callum dried it without comment.She washed a mug. Then another mug. Then the large serving bowl that always took longer than it should because the shape was awkward and it didn't fit properly under the tap."The lunch thing doesn't bother me," she said, to the bowl, mostly."Okay," Callum said."They have a professional relationship. It makes sense that they'd meet.""Sure.""The alliance is a three-year project. They're going to have a lot of meetings.""Probably," Callum agreed.She handed him the bowl. He dried it with the careful attention it required, both hands, making sure the base was done properly."It just caught me off guar
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 56
Chapter 56Sunday dinner at the Bridgerton house was never quiet.It couldn't be. There were too many people and not enough table — technically the table was big enough, but between the elbows and the side conversations and the fact that nobody in this family had ever once waited for someone else to finish a sentence before starting their own, quiet was simply not something that happened between the soup and the dessert.Kate liked it that way, usually.Tonight she was sitting between Theodore and James, which was her own fault for arriving seven minutes late and losing her usual chair to Samuel, who had spread himself out with the specific territorial confidence of a man who believed possession was ninety percent of the law and the other ten percent was speed."Move," she'd said."I'm settled," Samuel had said, not looking up from his bread roll.She had sat between Theodore and James.The roast was good. Their mother had done the potatoes the way their father liked, crisped at the e
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 55
Chapter 55He won two of the arguments and lost one, which he hadn't expected.The one he lost was about long-term infrastructure investment strategy — specifically, whether a development of this scale should be locking in contractor relationships early or staying flexible for the first eighteen months to take advantage of market movement. He had said early lock-in, stability over flexibility. Silver had said eighteen months of flexibility, citing three specific case studies from comparable developments where early contractor lock-in had cost the project more than the stability had been worth.He had pushed back. She had cited the studies again, specifically, without looking them up, which meant she'd read them and retained them, and he'd made her say them twice to check whether the details held.They held."Fine," he said, for the second time that lunch. "The flexibility argument works if the market moves the way your cases suggest it will. If it doesn't, you've lost your stability w
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 54
Chapter 54The restaurant was called Mira.Small. Dark wood. Good acoustics, which meant conversations stayed at the table they started at, which was why Edmund Winters used it for business lunches and why Seris had picked it.He got there six minutes early.He told himself this was normal. He was always early. It had nothing to do with wanting to already be seated when she arrived, to have the menu open and a water glass in hand, to be the person who was relaxed in the space rather than the person who walked in and had to find it.He told himself this, and it was almost true.Silver arrived at exactly two o'clock.Not one fifty-eight, not two-oh-two. Two o'clock on the dot, which meant she had either timed it deliberately or was simply the kind of person who arrived exactly when she said she would, and both options were faintly irritating for different reasons.If she'd been two minutes late, he could have used the waiting. Said something easy about the traffic, made a joke, deployed
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 53
Chapter 53He set the phone down, picked it back up, and typed: *Send me the three sentences.*She sent them.He read them.She was right. She'd been right at eleven at night, working through clause language that wouldn't have needed fixing for months, in a room he'd bet good money looked like a disaster zone given what Oliver had mentioned once, in passing, about Kate's office when she was deep in something. She'd been right and she hadn't planned to tell him and now he had a sharper contract than he'd had twenty minutes ago.*Good*, he typed. *This goes in the draft.**Obviously*, she typed back. *Why else would I have written it.*He put the phone in his jacket pocket and turned back to the window.The delivery truck had returned. It was attempting the parallel park again. Against all reasonable expectation, it was going to make it.He watched it ease into the space, slow and careful, correcting twice before it landed clean.He thought about Friday.Not with dread, exactly. More wi
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 52
Chapter 52Wednesday morning. Eight forty-seven. City grey outside.Seris stood at his office window with his phone in his hand and said the sentence out loud, quietly, to the glass."I was hoping we could meet for lunch Friday. Alliance follow-up."He listened to how it sounded.Fine. Clean. Nothing in it that gave anything away.He said it again.Still fine. Still clean.He dialed.Silver picked up on the second ring.He had not prepared for the second ring. He had prepared for four rings and voicemail, which would have given him a chance to leave a message in his own time, controlled, no silences to fill. The second ring removed all of that and left him holding a live call before he'd fully decided he was ready."Silver," he said."Seris." Her voice was even. No warmth, no cold. Professional, the way she'd been at every session."I was hoping we could meet for lunch Friday. Alliance follow-up."He delivered it exactly as rehearsed."Sure," she said. "Which restaurant?"He named the
Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine Chapter 5
Chapter 5Kate tuned them out, her attention caught by movement at the altar. Seris had pulled out his phone.At his own wedding.She watched his expression shift—just slightly, just a micro-expression that most people would miss but Kate had known him long enough to read. Surprise. Then something
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
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