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Her last name, His claim Chapter 68
Maya made tea.That was the first thing she did when we got inside, before questions or anything else.I sat at her kitchen table.Olive arrived twenty minutes late and we sat with our tea in silence.Then Olive said, quietly, "Whenever you're ready."I started at the beginning.I told them about our apartment in New York.How it had started well, the two of us building something together, his company in its early stages, both of us working, tired, and telling ourselves that the long hours were temporary, a season, something that would ease when the next milestone was reached.H
Her last name, His claim Chapter 67
It’s been four days since the Wednesday dinner, and I am still not myself.It probably wouldn’t be visible to people that didn’t know me, but for someone like Enzo, it was impossible to hide from him. I could see the effort he put into not pushing for me to share, whatever it was that was making me pull away. I appreciated it, and it was also making everything harder.It was Saturday morning, Enzo was at my apartment because we'd planned to go to the farmers market. We had breakfast.I was present enough to answer questions and pour coffee and perform the basic tasks, but something on my face must have shown exactly the kind of pressure I was putting on myself, because he was looking at me like he was running out of patience. "Elena," he said."Mm.""What did I do?"I turned to look at him.He was holding the dishtowel and looking at me."Nothing," I said."Something is wrong. It's been days, and you're…" he stopped, then continued, "...you're here, but you're not here. And I've bee
Her last name, His claim chapter 66
It was a Wednesday.I remember that specifically because Wednesday had become our dinner night. He cooked. He always cooked when we were at his place, which was fine with me because Enzo in a kitchen is one of my favorite things and a perk of being in a relationship with him. He cooked the way he did everything he cared about, with full attention and the results were extraordinary in a way that made my own efforts little.Tonight was pasta again. This one is different from the last one, something with a sauce that had been simmering long enough to make the whole apartment smell like somewhere in Italy.I was sitting at the kitchen island watching him finish it, wine in hand, enjoying the view.I'd been working up to it all week.Telling him.After the conversation about Felicia, after the days of quiet and the evening on the couch where he'd held me without asking anything, after thinking about everything thoroughly, I'd arrived at a decision.He needed to know.The pregnancy was the
Her last name, His claim Chapter 65
The thing about carrying something heavy was that you got used to the weight.I'd been carrying the story of the hospital for five years and in that story Enzo had known. He'd known and made a choice and that choice had been the final confirmation of everything I'd believed about where I ranked in his life. That was the version I knew and held on to. This new version had me rethinking everything I thought I knew.This version had a woman named Patricia making decisions she had no right to make, and Enzo in an office somewhere not knowing.I didn't know what to do with this version.So I did what I always did with things I didn't know what to do with.I went quiet.It wasn’t even intentional, it just happened that way. Less talking at dinner, more time working and reading. Enzo noticed soon enough.We were at my apartment, Tuesday evening, finishing dinner, and I was doing the thing where I thought I was hiding, sitting across from him with my fork moving but my head somewhere else e
Her last name, His claim Chapter 64
It started as a perfectly ordinary conversation.We were at his place, a quiet Sunday evening, the kind that had become familiar enough that I'd stopped noticing how comfortable I was in his space. He was on the couch with his laptop doing something he'd described as just a quick look that had already consumed forty minutes, and I was in the armchair with my book.He closed the laptop eventually.Stretched, rolled his shoulders, and smiled at me."Tell me something that has nothing to do with work," I said, without looking up from my book."I've been thinking about expanding the Hong Kong office.""That's work.""It's also geography."
Her last name, His claim Chapter 63
The week after Amanda was soft. There was no other word for it. Enzo stayed in Maplewood. There in the mornings sometimes, he goes to New York for a day or two, back again. A rhythm that had established itself without either of us designing it.He was different.Or maybe I was finally seeing clearly enough to see what had been different for a while. He talked more. Not about work, he'd always talked about work, but about other things. Small things. Something funny that had happened with his driver on the way from the city. A memory from years ago that surfaced .He'd spent years, maybe his whole adult life, being extremely deliberate about what he revealed and to whom. There was the professional Enzo and the private Enzo and the private one had been kept so carefully that even I, six years married to him, had sometimes felt like I was standing just outside a door that was never quite fully open.The door was open now.I was also more trusting now, but the instinct to protect myself w
Her last name, His claim Chapter 36
After we hung up, I sat there staring at my phone, feeling something warm blooming in my chest.This was getting out of hand. I was getting out of hand.But I couldn't seem to stop.I was shelving books in the romance section, ironic right, when Maya came running over, phone in hand."Elena."Somet
Last Updated : 2026-03-26Her last name, His claim Chapter 35
He left on a Tuesday morning.I knew because he texted me at 6 AM: Flying to New York for a few days. Business stuff. Miss you already.I stared at the message, still half-asleep, feeling sad about him leaving. Missing someone after one night apart shouldn't be possible. We'd been separated for fiv
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He poured us wine and we fell into a rhythm. Me chopping, him stirring, both of us moving around the kitchen like we'd done this a thousand times before.Except we hadn't.In our old life, we'd been too broke for fancy ingredients and too busy for elaborate meals. Dinner had been takeout or somethi
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I didn't sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw him walking away. Saw the look on his face, hurt, angry, done."I'm done chasing you."The words played on a loop in my head, taunting me, accusing me.By the time my alarm went off, I'd been staring at the ceiling for three hours, my phone clutche
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