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Brace Yourself
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2026-08-07 20:41:43
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HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Blueprint of Revenge
Roberta's POVSaturday morning light came through the windows. Pale. Quiet. The house was still.I woke up and knew.Not gradually. Not the slow assembly of a decision made over coffee. I opened my eyes and the ceiling was there and the thought was already fully formed, sitting in the centre of my chest like something that had been waiting for me to catch up to it.I pushed the blankets off. I got up.Today, I start. Today, I take back what's mine. I can't meet Aslı Karahan empty-handed. I couldn't sit across from one of the most formidable women in the development world and say I designed the building you're about to put your name on and hand her empty air. She would look at me the way everyone had always looked at me. The way the nurses looked at me in that hospital. The way Irene looked at me across every room she had ever allowed me to stand in.Like nothing.I was done being looked at like nothing. I lost the proof in Jace's house. But I still have my hands. I still have my mind.
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET Brace Yourself
Roberta's POV The car rode in silence all the way home.I watched the city pass and thought about Nolan's face when the slap happened. The way his eyes had gone wide. Too young to understand what he had witnessed. Old enough to be frightened by it.I'm sorry you saw that.I meant it. I had meant every word I said to Millie and I did not regret a single one of them, but Nolan — Nolan had done nothing. He had sat in that chair with his tablet and his glass and his innocent, uncomplicated aliveness and he had not asked to be brought there.It's already done, I told myself. You can't take it back.I couldn't take any of it back.The car stopped.I got out.***Brett was in the sitting room.He stood when I came in — stood up from the sofa like he had been waiting, or like he had been trying to look like he hadn't been. He looked at me and something moved in his face and for one second — one full, complete second — I thought: he's going to ask me what happened. He's going to see it on my
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET What She Brought To The Table
Roberta's POV I made her wait.Twenty minutes. I sat in the car outside the restaurant and watched the time on my phone and let Millie sit inside alone with whatever she had planned for this meeting, whatever she had arranged, whatever she thought was going to happen tonight.Twenty minutes.Then I checked my lipstick in the driver's mirror. Straightened the collar of my jacket. Picked up my bag.Then I took a breath.This is not the same woman she betrayed. This is not the same woman who cried in her kitchen. This is not the same woman who trusted her.I walked in like I owned the floor.I saw her before she saw me.Millie. At the corner table she had chosen — the one with the best view of the entrance because Millie always chose seats with sightlines, always wanted to see people arriving. That hadn't changed.What I hadn't expected was the small figure beside her.Nolan.He was sitting with a glass of something in front of him, legs dangling off the chair, looking at his tablet. Da
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Door He Wouldn't Open
Roberta's POV I knocked a second time."Come in."I pushed the door open.He looked up from his desk. Just for a second. Then his eyes went back down to whatever was in front of him and something in that half-second — the way the look came and went, the way he didn't quite land on me the way he always landed on me — made me stop just inside the doorway.I sat in the chair across from him."Are you done?" I said. "We can go home."He didn't look up.I had planned it on the walk here — that I would tell him at home, not in this office, not with his company around us and the day still on both of us. Home felt right for that kind of truth. Home felt like the right place to say *sit down, Brett, there's something I've been carrying and I can't carry it alone anymore.*But he wasn't looking at me."The driver will take you," he said.I looked at him.At the top of his head. At his hands on the desk. At the complete, deliberate focus on whatever was in front of him that had nothing to do wi
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET Love, Guilt, and the Truth
Brett's POVI looked at Vanessa for a long moment.The silence between us was heavy. I could feel her watching me. Waiting. Like she expected me to say something she wanted to hear. "What I do with my personal life," I said, "is not a conversation I'm going to have with a member of my staff."My voice was quiet. Not angry. Just final. The way I was final about everything that had been decided."Your job right now is to make sure Roberta has what she needs. Full team access. System permissions. Introductions to the junior architects. I need you to make sure she settles in." I paused. "Is there anything else?"Vanessa held my gaze for one more second. Something flickered in her eyes. Disappointment. Resentment. Hurt. I couldn't tell which. Maybe all of them.I held her gaze. Then I said something honest. Something she didn't expect."You're right," I said. "It hasn't been long. I'm aware of that every single day. Grief doesn't follow a schedule, and I'm not pretending otherwise."Vanes
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Lie Lives Another Day
BrettIt was me. Roberta, it was me. I was in that hospital. I gave the order. I have been sitting beside you every day knowing what I did, and I can not do this anymore, I can not look at you like this and keep—She pulled back.She looked at my face.I felt her looking."If Irene arranged it," she said, and her voice had that quality it got when her mind was moving fast — clipped, focused, the slight furrow between her brows deepening. "If she was behind it. If the VIP was a Riggs connection. Brett, she is capable of that. I wouldn't put anything past her at this point. If she orchestrated Ziva being moved from that ICU deliberately—" She stopped. Her hands tightened slightly where they rested against my chest. "Then that is a conspiracy. That is criminal. That ties her directly to Ziva's death and I can—" Another stop. She pressed her lips together. "This is the thread. This is the one that connects everything."She was spiraling, and I watched it happen and said nothing because I
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Stranger 's Arms
Roberta's POV "Come out of the car." His voice was low. Firm. Not asking. I looked up at him. He was standing outside the open door. My legs wouldn't move. He didn't ask again. He reached in. One hand under my arm. The other around my waist. He pulled me out gently. I stumbled. My knees buc
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET The Betrayal Behind the Comfort
Roberta’s POV"Mommy." Ziva's voice was very quiet. "I want to save Nolan.""Ziva""I want to." She looked up at me. Her eyes were dry, but her face was doing the thing it always did before the real cry came, the way she held everything in with every muscle. "I saw him today. He's not okay. He does
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET His Life in My Hands
Ziva's POVDaddy came to my classroom.I saw him through the window first. His suit. His shiny shoes. His hair looked like a movie star.My heart jumped."Mrs. Alvarez, that's my daddy! That's Jace Riggs!"Mrs. Alvarez looked. Some kids looked too. I sat up straight. I wanted everyone to see. I alw
HIS FORSAKEN WIFE HIS GREATEST REGRET Her Only Crime Was Being a Girl
Roberta’s POVThe second I saw Ziva standing at the bottom of the stairs, her little face pale and frightened, something inside me broke.I crossed the room before I even thought about it and pulled her into my arms.“Grandma?” Ziva whispered.But Irene looked straight at her.“You have a brother,
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