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Chapter 52—Ghosts from the Past
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2026-02-12 14:36:52
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Christopher's POVThe divorce was finalised on a Wednesday morning.My lawyer sent the confirmation at 9:47 and I read it at my desk at Horizon Homes with a coffee going warm beside me and felt the particular quality of an ending that had been a long time coming, not sharp or painful but clean, the closing of something that should have been closed years ago so that both people involved could get on with actually living.Sophie and I had exchanged no words beyond what the legal process required, and that felt right. There was nothing left to say that would have added anything useful. The settlement had been fair, she had the penthouse and a financial arrangement that reflected the decade she had spent inside a marriage that had asked things of her she had never been properly compensated for, and I hoped she was well.I sent her solicitor a brief professional note and closed my laptop and looked out the window of the Horizon Homes office for a moment, at the grey morning and the street
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Robin's POV I had not known what to expect when Christopher opened the door to a small elegant woman in pearls who looked at him like he was both a delight and a mild disappointment, which turned out to be exactly the right way to look at him. I had also not expected her to walk into a room she had never been in and immediately make it feel like she belonged there more than anyone else, but that was apparently what stinking wealth and decades of confidence did for a person. I had heard about Grandma Rose across months of knowing Christopher, enough to understand she was different from the rest of his family, the one person in it who had always told him the truth rather than a version of it designed to keep him useful. Hearing about her and watching her were different things. She had taken my hand in both of hers and said she had wanted to meet me for a long time, and something about the way she said it, direct and warm and entirely without the careful social performance I had come
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