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Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 034
ALEXANDER Dorothy was shit at her job.One week since Maeve walked out and I had spent most of it quietly doing Dorothy's work before anyone else noticed it wasn't being done. Files that came back organised in a way that made no logical sense. Meeting reminders sent to the wrong people. Calls forgotten, calls returned to the wrong contacts, a client left waiting because she couldn't locate the transfer function on a phone she had been using for three weeks. I fixed all of it without comment and went home every evening more worn down than the one before.And it wasn't the kind of tired that fixed itself with sleep.My eyes kept drifting to the desk outside my office. Not to Dorothy sitting behind it. Just the desk itself. The surface of it, the angle the morning light hit it, the empty corner where that stubborn little succulent used to sit that had somehow made itself part of my mornings without my permission. Gone now. Like everything else she had taken when she left.I hated that I
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 033
MAEVE I didn't really plan to sleep for eleven hours.I pulled Jane's guest room duvet up to my chin fully expecting to lie there running everything through my head the way I had been doing for weeks. Instead I was just gone. Out completely before I'd finished the thought.When I woke up I felt lighter than I had in years. Like my heart was bigger, my chest wider. Somehow not smelling the familiar scent of my old room back at the Quinlan house was reason enough to make me feel like I could do anything, achieve anything. I lay there in the quiet and just let that feeling exist.Coffee smell drifted under the door. Jane's voice floated from the kitchen, firm and instructional, clearly mid-disagreement with one of her plants.I smiled at the ridiculous snippets of the one sided conversation that reached my ears.I padded out in my socks and Jane handed me a mug without turning around and kept pressing her case to the plant. I stood there and drank my coffee and thought quietly that I wa
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 032
Jane was waiting at the door when the Uber pulled up.She had her arms crossed over her chest and her 4C curls pulled up into a messy bun and she was wearing an oversized sweatshirt that said something I couldn't read from the car, and the moment I stepped out she looked at my face and her expression did something that she didn't try to hideShe just looked at me. At my swollen eyes and my scabbed lip and the mark on my cheek that hadn't fully faded yet. She looked at all of it and her jaw tightened and her eyes went bright and she crossed the small distance between us and pulled me into a hug that had nothing careful about it, both arms wrapped around me completely, her chin on top of my head, squeezing like she was trying to make up for every hour of last night that I had spent alone in that room.I stood there with my arms at my sides for exactly two seconds before I hugged her back.We stood on the sidewalk like that for a while. Neither of us said anything. A man walking his dog
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 031
My mother's expression changed.The warmth didn't leave all at once, it curdled, slowly, the smile holding its shape while everything behind it shifted into something harder and colder and considerably more honest."Why are you so stubborn?" Her voice came out tight. "We took you in. We raised you. We gave you everything and last night you said those words and now you're standing here refusing to apologize?" She shook her head, her eyes moving over my face with something that wasn't worry anymore. "After everything we've done for you."Just as my lips parted to speak, Dorothy appeared in the kitchen doorway.She looked between me and my mother and then her face settled into that expression of hers, soft and pained and perfectly constructed, and she crossed to my mother and put a gentle hand on her arm. "Mama, don't be too hard on her." Her voice was warm and careful as usual. "Maeve truly loved Alexander. Seeing his ring on my finger must be breaking her heart right now, she already c
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 030
MAEVE I cried all through the night.For the little girl I had been, growing up believing her real family was out there and everything would finally make sense when she found them. For the love I had poured into people who measured it back out to me in careful portions. For my unborn child. For my second chance and what it was going to take to actually use it.Somewhere in the early hours I just ran dry. I had nothing left. My chest was hollow, throat raw, eyes burning in the dark. I stared up at the ceiling till it became brighter outside, [the sounds of birds and the burn in my eyes from the sun rays that streamed in through the windows made me realize morning had come And that I hadn't slept a wink.I dragged myself to the mirror and willed myself to stare. My eyes were puffy, red and swollen and heavy. My lip scabbed over. And there on my cheek, sitting clear as the day was the full print of my father's fingers still pressed into my skin.I had no more tears. I had numbed past
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MAEVE Alexander, for the first time that I could remember, had his displeasure and anger written all over his face, and he didn't bother to hide it. He looked at me like I was a disappointment, yet...those blue eyes remained trained on mine like he couldn't look away. The tingles in my spine that gaze left behind was something I wished I could ignore all together.He came around the desk and stopped close enough that I could see the vein working in his jaw and I kept my hands loose at my sides and my chin level and breathed through my nose.Better to get this done and keep with. I've made sure he's certain I want nothing else to do with him now all he has to do...is let me go."You actually left." His tone was accusatory, words almost forced out like he was still processing the fact."I did," I nodded, "I was no longer comfortable, so I left."His blue eyes darkened. "My grandmother asked you for one dance." His voice was low yet carried a weight that pressed down in my shoulders, th
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