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Book 2: Chapter 13: Amelia's Oldest Fear
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HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 20: The Door He Shouldn't Open
I did not answer Nathan that night. I answered him three days later, in the only way I have ever known how to answer anything difficult, by doing the thing I had already decided to do before I had fully admitted, even to myself, that I had decided it.Amelia's assistant tried to stop me at the elevator. I told her I would wait as long as necessary, and something in my face must have suggested I meant it, because she let me through with the particular resigned expression of someone who had clearly been warned about me and decided the warning was not worth enforcing today.Amelia looked up from her desk when I walked in, and whatever composure she had been holding together for the cameras and the board and her own son collapsed, for exactly one second, into something raw and exhausted, before she caught herself and rebuilt it in front of me, brick by visible brick."Get out.""I heard about Serena.""I said get out, Damien. I do not have room in this week for you.""You're right." I sta
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 19: Damien Hears The News
(Damien's POV)I saw it the way everyone else did, on a screen, at an hour I should have been asleep, another headline stacked on top of the ones from the week before. Lumière executive vanishes amid mounting scandal. My first reaction was not concern. It was something uglier, something I was not proud of, a hot flare of satisfaction that Ethan Vale's carefully built life was coming apart at the seams while mine had already finished burning years ago, in front of an audience just as hungry as this one.I let myself sit in that feeling for exactly as long as it took to be disgusted by it.Because underneath the satisfaction, unwelcome and immediate, came the memory. My own name in headlines just like these, my own company bleeding out in public while a woman I had destroyed watched from somewhere safer than the wreckage I had made of both our lives. I had been the villain in a story exactly like this one, and here I was, briefly, quietly thrilled to watch someone else wear the headline
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 18: The Boy Who Looked Closely
Noah's POVMum wanted to hand everything straight to Olivia and let the professionals handle it, and mostly, I understood that. But professionals move at professional speed, and I had already spent an hour after she went back to bed with the employee's name pulled up on my screen: David Reyes, systems administrator, badge photo still smiling out of an old company directory like he had no idea what I already knew about him. It had not been hard to find. His entire digital life was arranged like a scavenger hunt for anyone patient enough to look.I found him myself. Not hard, actually. He posted enough about his gym schedule online that guessing which branch, which morning class, took about four minutes.I did not plan to say anything to him directly. I told myself that the whole drive over, holding onto the plan the way you hold onto a promise you already suspect you are going to break the moment it becomes inconvenient.He was coming out of the gym, hair still damp, gym bag over one s
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 17: The Resignation
"Get him on the phone," I said. "Now, before his lawyer tells him not to talk to me."Olivia patched him through eleven minutes later, and Marcus Whitfield's voice came through sounding like a man who had rehearsed this call and still was not fully ready for it, each word arriving a half beat slower than it needed to."Amelia. I wasn't expecting to hear from you directly.""You've been with this company nine years, Marcus. I think you owe me a direct conversation before I read about the rest of it online."A long pause. "It's not about you," he said. "I want to be clear about that. It's about him.""Ethan.""I don't trust him anymore. I heard what's circulating, the DNA result, and I have children of my own, Amelia. I can't put my name next to a company where the man married to the founder might have lied about something like that. I have to think about my own reputation too.""The photograph was fabricated. Olivia can send you the forensic breakdown herself.""I heard that too," he s
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 16: Someone Wants Her Broken
"Show me," I said.Olivia sent the breakdown while we were still on the phone, three images stacked on top of each other, the original photograph and two versions beneath it with sections circled in red, the kind of forensic detail that would mean nothing to a stranger scrolling past a headline but meant everything to the two of us standing in that kitchen. "Look at the shadow under his jaw," she said. "It falls at an angle that doesn't match the light source in the rest of the room. And the reflection in the mirror behind the bed doesn't show either of them at all, which it should, given where the camera is supposedly standing. Someone composited his face and Serena's onto a stock hotel photograph and did it well enough to survive a glance, but not well enough to survive someone actually looking.""How well enough to survive a glance is that photograph doing right now, exactly.""It's been shared eleven thousand times in the last hour," Olivia said. "I know how that sounds. I'm telli
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 15: The Hotel Photograph
(Amelia's POV)I stared at the photograph long enough that the image stopped looking like anything at all, just shapes and colors, a bed, two people, a hand where a hand should not be. My own pulse had gone strange in my ears, loud and slow at the same time, the specific dissonance of a body trying to process something the mind had not yet agreed to accept."Ethan.""I have never been in that room." His voice had gone rough, stripped of the careful calm he had been holding onto all week. "Amelia, I swear to you, I have never sat on that bed, I have never seen that carpet, I do not recognize a single object in that photograph.""It looks like you.""It is not me." He said it with a kind of desperate flatness, a man repeating a fact he could feel slipping out of his control the more times he had to say it.I looked at him, and I wanted, more than I had wanted almost anything in the last several days, to simply believe the certainty in his voice and let that be enough. But belief had bec
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Five: The Baby He Wanted Gone
Sophia arrived within the hour of me calling her, walked through the curtain still in her work clothes, sat down beside me and took my hand and did not say I told you so even though she had every right to.Damien did not come back.Not that afternoon. Not that evening. Sophia was the one who stayed
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Four: The Morning She Collapsed
I did not sleep that night.I lay in the guest room and listened to them downstairs, his voice and hers, easy and low, the sound of two people completely at home with each other, until the house finally went quiet somewhere past midnight. Then I stared at the ceiling until morning came and did it a
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Three: A Guest Who Became a Queen
It had barely been an hour. Vanessa was already on the sofa, one hand resting on her stomach, completely at ease, like she had been sitting in that spot for years. And that was when I heard her voice carry in from the sitting room, warm and unhurried, the tone of someone who had already decided thi
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Two: He Came Home With Her
I am still at the table when morning comes.I did not plan to stay. At some point in the night I told myself I would get up, clear the plates, blow out what was left of the candles, go upstairs and take the blue dress off and lie down like a person with some dignity. I told myself that somewhere ar
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