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Chapter 6 - You weren't meant to see it.
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2026-07-16 19:28:45
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His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 15 - The door he never crossed.
Emma's question had followed her to bed, sat with her through the night, and was still there when Teresa opened her eyes the next morning."Careful with that panel," the contractor said, waving two workers back from the cabinetry. "That's imported. You drop it, you're buying it."Teresa crouched beside the drawings, tracing a finger down the measurements. "The depth's off by two centimeters on the third unit.""You sure?""I measured it twice." She didn't hear the two men behind her at first — not until one of them laughed, low, and the other one's voice carried was loud enough to be heard. "Mr. Luca's strange, you know that?" One of them stated.Teresa's hand went still on the page."Why did you say that?" The other man asked curiously. "He came by this morning," the first voice went on. "Before anyone else got here.""For what?""Rejected half the imported furniture. Just like that." He added. "Why?""He said Teresa wouldn't approve of the quality."Teresa's throat tightened. Sh
His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 14 - The man everyone believes.
She didn't reply. She looked at the photograph one more time. Emma between them, that ordinary courtyard, someone standing far enough away that neither of them had felt it and then she deleted the notification without opening the message thread again.It wasn't the picture that stayed with her. It was the distance. How far away someone had to be standing to get that angle. How long they must have waited, watching, before Asher had what he wanted.She set the phone face-down on the counter and didn't touch it again for the rest of the night."The Ambrose Hotel wants us in the boardroom at two," Priya said, sliding a folder across Teresa's desk before she'd even set her coffee down. "Their board, their chairman, the whole thing. This is the lobby redesign. This is the one.""I know what it is.""You don't sound excited.""I'm terrified," Teresa said. "That's not the same as not excited. Get me the elevation drawings. All three versions.""Already printed." Priya dropped a second stack on
His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 13 - The space between us.
"Can we go? Please? Please please please?" Emma had the school flyer pressed flat against the kitchen table, both hands smoothing out a crease that had already given up."Let me see." Teresa leaned over her shoulder. "The design exhibition?""They have a room where you build a whole house. A whole one, Mommy." Emma added. "Can we go? Can we?" Emma continued, pouting her lips. Teresa looked at the flyer, then at Emma's face, and felt something in her chest loosen for the first time in what felt like a month."Okay, go get your shoes," she said."Yayyy.....mommy is the best." Emma was already running to get her shoes. ✦ . ⁺ . ✦ . ⁺ . ✦The exhibition hall buzzed with the particular chaos of small children given permission to touch things adults would normally stop them from touching. Emma had abandoned Teresa's hand within thirty seconds of walking in. "Look! Look, Mommy!""I'm looking, sweetheart."Emma held the little cardboard house up like a trophy, red construction-paper s
His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 12 - Where you feel the safest.
"He probably just quit," Priya said, not even looking up from her screen. "People do that, most especially site guys." "Maybe," Teresa said, barely understanding what Priya was talking about. "You don't sound convinced.""I'm not thinking about it." She wasn't, either not with three inspection reports open on her desk and a contractor who'd just called twice in five minutes. "Get me the import certificates for the marble. All of them!""Why?" Priya asked. "Because customs flagged the shipment."Priya's head came up. "The whole shipment?""Yes. The whole shipment!" Teresa emphasized. The site manager was pacing the entryway like the marble itself had personally betrayed him."Three months," he said. "Three months we waited on that stone, and now it fails inspection?""Moisture content," Teresa said, scanning the report. "It's not the marble's fault. It's how it was stored in transit.""So what, we start over? Wait another three months?""No." She was already flipping to the supplie
His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 11 - A voice that won't stay silent.
Teresa sat on the edge of her bed, phone in both hands, thumb hovering over the screen.She pressed play again. "...she'll never leave me alive."Silence.She stared at the wall for a second, then pressed it again."...she'll never leave me alive." It was the same voice, same unfinished sentence, and the Same cold feeling crawling up her spine."Stop," she whispered to herself. "Just—stop."Her thumb didn't listen. She played it for the third time, fourth, till she actually lost count. Each time, something else came loose in her chest; Against her will, she found herself reliving a moment she'd spent years trying to forget. The flashbacks of when she was still with Asher, her ex husband...A wine glass shattering on tile. Asher standing over her while she knelt to pick up the pieces, telling her she'd dropped it on purpose and she hadn't. His hand around her wrist, just tight enough. "Sweetheart, be more careful next time."Loud enough for the housekeeper to hear and soft enough to s
His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 10 - A promise never made.
The words lingered in the room long after Natalie stopped speaking.Lucas looked at the registration records on the laptop again, then closed it with more force than he intended. "There has to be a mistake.""There isn't," Natalie replied. "I checked three separate databases before I came here.""He shut that company down years ago.""I know."Lucas rested both hands on the table and stared at the polished wood between them. Teresa watched him carefully. This wasn't the calm, unreadable man she'd come to expect. He looked as though someone had pulled a thread he hadn't realized was still holding everything together."If my father wanted to help Teresa," he said quietly, "he would've done it openly.""You don't think he paid the fees?" Natalie asked.Lucas gave a humorless laugh. "My father doesn't spend money without expecting something in return."Teresa folded her arms. "Then maybe that's exactly what this is."Lucas looked at her."He knows about the custody case," she continued. "
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