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CHAPTER 008
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2026-04-23 23:56:04
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Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 012
MAEVE Okay. Breathe. The bar noise fell away behind the glass and the cool air inside the car hit my bare arms and I pressed the back of my head against the seat and stared up at the roof and told myself I was fine. I was completely fine. Alexander Hagreeves had grabbed my hand on a dance floor and I had felt absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Jane was still twisted around in the passenger seat, her seatbelt cutting diagonally across her silver sequinned top, her 4C curls slightly wild from dancing, one acrylic nail pointed at me like a weapon. "I need to talk about what just happened," she announced, saying something either way. "Jane—" I began but she held her finger higher and cut me off. "No, I'm going." She shifted forward. "The audacity. The sheer, unearned, absolutely staggering audacity of Alexander fucking Hagreeves to grab your hand in the middle of a dance floor after sitting there all night letting your sister hang off him like a coat." She shook her head slow
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 011
MAEVE "I need a reason," Alexander said. Not asking. Demanding, his jaw was tight and his eyes fixed on my face like the answer was already somewhere in my expression and he was simply waiting for me to stop hiding it.I looked at him standing there under the street lights and thought about all the reasons I actually had.Because in another life you held my sister the way you were supposed to hold me. Because I died on a concrete floor outside a hospital window and the last thought I had was your name. Because our child never got the chance to breathe. Because you spent three years looking at Dorothy exactly the way I spent three years waiting for you to look at me.I couldn't say any of that.I pulled in a slow breath through my nose and let it out. "I've neglected myself for a long time," I said evenly. "I've been so focused on you that I stopped paying attention to what I actually wanted. What I felt for you — I don't think it was love. Not really. I think it was an obsession. An
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 010
MAEVE The first day. Dorothy had come home that very morning and they had already been together. I stood frozen in the crowd with the music thumping up through the floor beneath my feet and the realisation moving through me slow and cold from my throat all the way down into my stomach. Every moment rearranged itself in my head — the ease with which he had handed Dorothy Grandma Mary's necklace, the warmth that had flooded his voice when he called back yes to her through my bedroom door, the way his body had tilted toward her in every room like she was the thing his attention was permanently pointed at. It assembled itself into one clear picture and I could not look away from it. How long had he been deceiving me? How many mornings had I woken up believing I was working toward something real while he had been carrying on with my sister behind every closed door? And my child. My innocent child who had never drawn a single breath, who had died on that concrete alongside me without ev
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 009
ALEXANDER Maeve wore a red shirt that hugged every inch of her upper body like a second skin and with a low neck line that showed parts of her I'd never seen before, and that damn skirt. It made my throat go dry, the shirt might've stopped just above her belly button but the skirt was only inches away from showing her ass.It pissed me off that she came out like this, she's engaged...and most definitely not to this man who kept staring like he wanted to eat her up...just like every other man in here. Does she even realize what she's doing?"You should get back home." I could not recognize the hoarseness of my own voice. My grip on her tightened slightly when I saw the look on her face. Like she couldn't care less about what I wanted, about what the people around were thinking."I'm an adult," came her chilly response, "if I want to dance in a club with my friends, I will." Then she ripped her wrist from my hold with so much force I feared I'd hurt her. My heart thumped loudly, I wasn
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 008
MAEVE "Yes? I'm here, Dorothy." He responded softly."Come down and have some tea with me." My sister practically sang, and Alexander immediately did as she called."Yes," he called back to Dorothy.His eyes came back to mine and whatever had been sitting in them a moment ago closed over and hardened. His jaw tightened. He released my wrist and straightened his jacket with one smooth pull and turned for the door without another word.I almost groan because of the soreness in my wrist. I grit my teeth and refused to look at him again, listening to his footsteps move down the hall.It still hurt, but I told myself it was okay. Finally, I cut every tie with Alexander. I looked at the yellow curtains and made myself breathe evenly until the splinter feeling in my chest dissolved into something duller and more manageable.That was the last time.I came downstairs a few minutes later and was stunned when I saw Dorothy was already standing in the middle of the living room with the sapphire
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 007
MAEVE He walked in like he owned the room, which was exactly the kind of thing Alexander Hagreeves did without noticing he was doing it. The door clicked shut behind him and he stood there letting his eyes move slowly around the space, unhurried, taking it all in.Then he found the walls.Every cell in my body clenched.His old favourite basketball players stared back at us from every angle, posters I had pinned up years ago and never taken down because I had been that girl, the one who memorised his preferences and decorated her bedroom walls with them and called it completely normal. Shameful pieces of evidence, every single one of them, and I hadn't had a single moment to get upstairs and tear them all down before he followed me here.His expression didn't change but his eyes said everything. Those eyes that had spent years scrutinising contracts worth hundreds of millions, picking apart details other people missed entirely, had swept across my walls and understood immediately wha
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