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CHAPTER TEN
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HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER SIXTY FIVE
He confronted Roman the morning after.Not because Roman was the first thing on his mind the first thing on his mind was Aria, was always going to be Aria in the foreseeable future but because Roman was the piece of the situation he could do something about immediately, and doing something about Roman was also the thing he needed to do for his own understanding of the complete picture.Roman was waiting for him.He was in the guest suite, sitting in the chair by the window with the particular quality of someone who has known a conversation was coming for a long time and is not, when it arrives, surprised. He looked at Adrian without the performed warmth, without the smooth social ease of the preceding weeks. He looked at him with whatever was actually there, which was something complicated and tired and not entirely without guilt."You know," Roman said."I have known for a while," Adrian said. "I have been completing the picture."Roman nodded. He looked at his hands. "She left," he
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR
He had intended to reveal the news to her that night. 3 weeks planning, not like he prepared for work meetings, with a detailed agenda and expected objections and handy responses. He was planning it the way he planned his most treasured things: by living with them until they became clear matters, thoroughly analyzing them during the internal inventory he maintained, examining them from every perspective until the form was perfect.The form was perfect. The restaurant was booked. The words were arranged not set down because that's not how he rolled with authenticity rather a prepared person arranges an authentic thing: knowing the sequence, knowing the crucial points, knowing that the delivery will have to be genuine and off the cuff but trusting that his prior rehearsal will prevent him from losing the thread when the time is right.He would confess that the contract was a mistake. He kept a secret from her that night.N
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER SIXTY THREE
The collection was named Inheritance.She had written the title down on the program documentation three months ago, before she had even planned on leaving, before she had overheard the words, before anything of the after had happened. The reason she had decided on the name was because it was truthful everything that she had created had been based on what her mother had left her, and that was definitely something to give a name to.She did not change it. The title still fitted. The truth does not become less true if everything else changes.When she got to the Institute, it was already ten o'clock in the morning. The exhibition was scheduled at five o'clock. What she managed to do in those seven hours was a reflection of the specific and efficient worry of a person who has something major happening and who, at the same time, needs to be doing something: last tasks on the clothing, the hemming of the dress which she had postponed for two weeks yet the dyeing of the but the organization
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER SIXTY TWO
The entire planning took three months.After all, she was deliberate about it. From working through her mother's documentation and by building nine months of things carefully herself, she realized that doing something right was a better option than doing it fast. More often than not, the difference between them was one's willingness to be patient at the stage of preparation.She carried on as if it was a usual day. Although it was a bit challenging for her at first, she actually found that she was quite capable of compartmentalizing her thoughts and feelings. She went to the Institute, spent hours in the collection, shared the breakfast table with Adrian, and spoke about the collection, the investigation, and the day-to-day routine. Surprisingly, she was able to manage all of this without letting the fact of her planning change the face of their life.No one was informed about it. Not Marianna only much later, when the plan was more advanced. Not Cassandra, who would have told Adrian.
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER SIXTY ONE
What Aria Overheard Choosing to overhear wasn't part of her plan.She had been going to him this movement has become, since November, one of the regular activities of her nights. Sometimes without a clear goal, sometimes simply for the pleasure that: he must be in this apartment and I want to be with him. This feeling had come quietly and unannounced, the very way the most important feelings come, and for weeks she hadn't even thought about it while following them. January, Tuesday evening. She was done in the studio, had washed hands and got changed out of work clothes, and was heading through the penthouse to his study, since the study light was on and that would be the place where he was.The study door was left open. She wasn't eavesdropping. She didn't pause. Before she even had a moment to decide whether to look for words, words came to her."I regret the marriage." His voice.It had a calm yet sharp tone, the kind of calm yet sharp one has when they are making a really hard dec
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER SIXTY
December was packed.The collection was almost ready and so the team had to focus all their attention on the remaining details those tiny things that can be overlooked here and there but when taken altogether that make the difference between a good piece and a perfect piece. The Anderson trial had made news which meant the journalists took an interest in everyone connected to it which meant that she and Adrian had to handle the very specific twists and turns of being secondarily newsworthy to both of them very much disliked and felt quite uncomfortable with. The wrist was mending which explained why she was slowly getting back to the physical tasks of producing art which also meant that the jacket was developing very cautiously and in a very step-by-step manner of a thing properly done rather than quickly thrown together.Throughout all of this, Luca was there.She had not, at least not very much in the first few weeks after the accident, during the funeral time she had treated the b
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT
She put on the first jacket.She had decided that day with much consideration what to wear when she finally introduced her work to the world. Normally she would have gone for the coat, the tenth piece, the grand finale. But the coat was the finale and she was a novice. And as we all know a novice a
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN
Thursday was the night before the showcase. She was awake, as she had been for a good part of the last eight months, ever since the happy conception, the discovery that it was to be twins, the lonely night spent taking all the flushes on her own, and finally the sleeplessness and exhaustion that
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER FORTY SIX
The last showcase was in May which was to say that it was the month for the collection at its most concentrated: the finishing, the presentation preparation, the fittings and amendments and the constant "bargaining" as between what she wanted and the fabric could be made to do and how often the two
HOW I BECAME THE BILLIONIARE’S SURROGATE. CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
It was in February, a Wednesday night, an actual punch up, over something that was not what it looked like it was.She had been at the Institute all day long , the kind that packs in detail and decision and that particular, exhausted energy that is acquired when you have been making good choices fo
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