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Chapter 9 - Invisible protection.
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His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 17 - A home worth building.
Two days blurred into one long stretch of meetings, site visits, and paperwork that never seemed to end."You have the Han family at nine," Priya said, sliding a schedule across Teresa's desk before she'd even set her bag down. "Then the Marina Bay walkthrough at eleven. Then you're back here by two for the Ambrose follow-up call.""And after two?""After two, you sleep. If I have anything to say about it.""You don't.""I know." Priya sighed. "Doesn't stop me from trying."By the time Teresa got home most nights, Emma was already fed, bathed, and halfway through a bedtime story, courtesy of Mrs. Lim, who had appointed herself household commander without asking anyone's permission."You're late," Mrs. Lim said one evening, not looking up from the stove."Yes.""Sit.""Mrs. Lim, I really need to look over these floor plans before...""Sit." Mrs. Lim set a bowl down hard enough to make her point. Eat first, floor plans will not run away."Teresa sat."You can't build beautiful homes for
His Hidden Devotion. Chapter 16 - The cost of a photograph.
Teresa wasn't able to sleep and every time she closed her eyes, the photographs came back — cropped edges, careful angles, Emma erased from every frame like she'd never been standing there at all. She lay in the dark and listened to the city outside her window, and somewhere around three, she gave up pretending rest was coming.She got up instead and walked down the hall. Stood in Emma's doorway.Her daughter slept the way she always did, sprawled sideways, one arm flung off the mattress, mouth slightly open. The stuffed rabbit had fallen to the floor.Teresa picked it up and set it back beside her."I'm not losing you," she whispered. "Whatever he throws at me. I'm not losing you."✦ . ⁺ . ✦ . ⁺ . ✦Natalie arrived very early with tired eyes that told Teresa she hadn't slept either."Show me the video again," Natalie said, before she'd even sat down.Teresa handed over her phone. Natalie watched it twice, jaw tight, then passed it back."It's unsettling," she admitted."Unsettl
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. She
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
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