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Book 2: Chapter 90: The Name
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HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 92: The Life She Chose
Six weeks later. I sat on the porch of my Ashford Lane home at four in the afternoon, in the specific golden slant of light that arrives in October only for the fifteen minutes between three fifty seven and four twelve, and I did not do anything with the slant except let it fall across my face for the length of time it took to fall. Vivienne was asleep on my chest. She had grown. Doctor Song had cleared her out of the neonatal unit at ten days. Doctor Reyes had cleared her for normal feeding at three weeks. She was, at forty two days old, the exact weight of an ordinary six week old baby, and Doctor Reyes had said the word thriving twice at the pediatric visit two mornings earlier. Ethan was in the chair beside me. He was reading a book. He had not stopped reading books since the trial had ended, in the specific quiet way certain men read when they have finally stopped being expected to spend every waking hour of their lives being the person who fixed things. He had not asked fo
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 91: The Last Letter
I took the envelope from her.I turned it over. The front was blank except for my name, written by hand, in a small careful cursive I did not immediately recognize. The back was sealed with plain wax. There was no return address. There was no sender's name.The nurse waited to see if I wanted her to leave.I nodded. She left.I opened the envelope.The letter inside was two pages long, handwritten on the specific rough paper federal detention facilities issued to inmates who requested it. The signature at the bottom was clean, deliberate, and unmistakable.Marcus Vale.I read it once.He did not begin with an apology. He did not begin with a plea. He did not, in the two pages of careful handwriting, offer a single sentence in defense of himself, or in explanation of the last seventeen years, or in the specific soft language of a man attempting to secure a lighter sentence from the woman his cooperation had helped convict. Marcus did not do any of that. Marcus, in the two pages of a le
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 90: The Name
I did not answer immediately.I looked down at her. She was so small. She fit across my chest in the exact shape her body had learned inside mine over the last thirty two weeks, and she was breathing, evenly, in the specific quiet rhythm of a person who had not yet been in the room long enough to be surprised by anything, and I understood, holding her, the specific thing I had understood at three in the morning about who she was going to be named for."Vivienne."Ethan looked at me.He did not question it. He did not point out, in the specific soft way another man might have pointed out, that the name belonged to a woman who had betrayed me for eleven years. He looked at me for a long moment, understood something in my face, and nodded once."Vivienne.""Yes.""Are you sure.""I am sure.""Then Vivienne."He said it quietly, once, over her small warm head, the way a man says a name he has just accepted he is going to say for the rest of his life. He did not ask me to explain. He had k
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 89: The Hours
Amelia's POVThe first contraction was not the worst one.The second contraction was not the worst one. Nor the third. Nor the tenth. None of the ones that came in the first hour approached the specific quality of pain I had remembered from the night I had delivered Noah seventeen years earlier, alone, in a hospital ward that had rain running down the windows, with no name to put on the father's line of the birth certificate. The pain that night had been made harder by the room being empty.The pain tonight was not made harder by the room being empty.Ethan was beside me.He had come back through the anteroom door before I had finished the second breath of the first contraction, and he had been beside me on the bed since, and he had not moved except to hand me ice chips and to press the small firm pressure on the base of my spine that only he had ever known how to press, and he had spoken to me the entire time in the specific quiet voice he had used on our wedding night, seventeen yea
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 88: What He Finally Understands
I stood up.Noah watched me for a second, in the specific way he had watched me the night he had walked down a staircase in the safe house and told me the sentence I had been unable to say to myself in seven years. He did not smile. He nodded once, small, and turned and led me through the double doors.The delivery wing was quiet.Amelia was in a small private room off the corridor. Ethan was in the chair beside the bed. Doctor Song was at the far side. Doctor Reyes was in the anteroom doorway. All of them looked up when I walked in. None stayed. Ethan stood, kissed Amelia.s forehead, met my eyes for a full second, and stepped into the anteroom.Doctor Song followed.Doctor Reyes followed.Noah followed last, and closed the door behind him gently.I was alone with her.She was propped up on two pillows. The monitor beside the bed was ticking softly. Her hand was on her stomach, in the position I had watched her keep it in for four weeks, and she looked at me with the specific tired st
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 87: Since I Couldn't Have You
Damien's POVI sat in the hallway outside the delivery wing.Nathan sat beside me. He had come to the hospital the second Ethan had called him from the car. He had brought two coffees neither of us drank. He did not speak.The hallway was quiet.Somewhere behind the double doors, Ethan was in a room with Amelia and Doctor Song and Doctor Reyes and three nurses and every specialist Presbyterian could put on a thirty two week delivery in a specialist unit at ten in the evening. Noah was in the wing. Amelia had asked for him to be there. Doctor Reyes had agreed on the condition that he stay in the anteroom, and Noah had accepted the condition without arguing.I was in the hallway.I had not been asked to be anywhere else.Ethan came through the double doors at eleven twelve.He was in scrubs. His hair was pushed back. He looked, if anything, calmer than he had at Teterboro, in the specific way certain men calm down inside a crisis because a crisis gives them a clear list of things to do
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter One: The Birthday He Forgot
The candles are still burning.Two little flames sitting in the center of the dining table. I have been watching them for a while now. Not because they are beautiful, but because watching them gives me something to do other than check the door.The food went cold an hour ago. The wine I opened at s
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 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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