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Autor: J.O
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-23 22:48:08

THALIA

I stepped into the room, and the sight in front of me nearly knocked the breath out of me.

He looked pale, almost white, his skin so drained of colour that for one horrible second I thought the worst had already happened. It was only the steady, stubborn beeping of the monitor beside him that kept me standing instead of collapsing right there in the doorway.

I crossed the room slowly and sat down in the chair beside his bed, reaching for his hand. It felt cooler than I expected, heavier
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  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   171

    THALIAI slept for two good hours, and when I woke up, I felt more refreshed than I had in days.Giggles floated up from the living room downstairs, and I followed the sound, still half wrapped in the blanket I'd fallen asleep under. Knox and Olivia sat there laughing over something on Olivia's phone, heads bent together, looking so light and carefree that for a second I forgot what kind of week this had actually been."Are you two on something?" I asked from the doorway, raising an eyebrow.Olivia looked up, grinning. "Just watching Knox fail miserably at some cooking video. He genuinely thought you could boil pasta in cold water.""It cooks eventually," Knox said, entirely unbothered. "Just takes longer.""That's not how physics works.""Physics is overrated."I actually laughed, a real one, surprising myself with how easily it came after everything. Olivia noticed too, her smile softening at the sound of it."Come on." She jumped up, grabbing my hand and pulling me toward the dinin

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   170

    THALIAI stepped into the room, and the sight in front of me nearly knocked the breath out of me.He looked pale, almost white, his skin so drained of colour that for one horrible second I thought the worst had already happened. It was only the steady, stubborn beeping of the monitor beside him that kept me standing instead of collapsing right there in the doorway.I crossed the room slowly and sat down in the chair beside his bed, reaching for his hand. It felt cooler than I expected, heavier somehow, like even his hand had forgotten how to hold onto anything."Thank you," I whispered, squeezing gently. "Thank you for saving me, Brandon."My throat tightened around the words, and for a moment I just sat there, staring at his still face, waiting for something, anything, some small twitch to prove he could hear me.Nothing came."It's time to wake up now," I said, my voice cracking despite my best effort to keep it steady. "Let me thank you properly. Let me actually see your eyes when

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   169

    THALIA"Catherine."Her name came out of me quiet, almost fragile, and for a second neither of us moved. We just stood there in that hallway, staring at each other, two women who'd never quite known what to make of one another suddenly bound together by the same fear.Then she closed the distance and pulled me into a hug so sudden it nearly knocked the breath out of me."I'm so sorry," I said into her shoulder, the words spilling out before I could stop them. "I'm so sorry your son is in there because of me. If he hadn't come after me, if he hadn't—""Stop that right now."She pulled back just enough to look at me, her hands still gripping my shoulders, her eyes sharper than I expected given everything happening around us."Don't you dare apologize to me," she said, leading me toward a row of plastic chairs against the wall. "Sit."I sat.She lowered herself beside me, smoothing her coat down with the kind of composure that felt almost unnatural in a hospital hallway at this hour, and

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   168

    THALIAThe doctor kept talking, but none of it landed properly.Words floated past me, scattered pieces I couldn't string together into anything that made sense. Exhausted. Stress levels through the roof. The fall was hard, harder than it should have been for a healthy man. Something about his head hitting a rock on the way down. My mind refused to hold onto any of it beyond the basic shape of what it meant: Brandon was hurt, and he was somewhere behind those doors I couldn't follow him through."Mrs. Langford?"I blinked, realizing the doctor had said something and was waiting for a response."I'm sorry, I didn't—" My voice cracked. "Can you say that again?"He softened, the way people do when they're used to delivering bad news gently. "His body had been running on empty for days. No proper sleep, barely any food, and then the physical shock of everything that happened tonight on top of it. When he collapsed, he hit his head against a rock on the way down, and that combined with ev

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   167

    THALIAThe gun didn't move, neither did Caleb's eyes.His hand shook, but not much. Enough that I couldn't tell anymore who he actually meant to hit if it went off, me or Brandon, and that uncertainty was somehow worse than if he'd looked calm.Brandon stepped in front of me anyway."How dare you," he said, voice low, "kidnap my woman."My woman? My stomach did something stupid and unwelcome at that, some tiny, traitorous flutter completely out of place with a gun three feet from my face. I hated myself a little for it. Focus, Thalia.Caleb laughed, and it came out wrong, cracked at the edges. "Your woman? You signed papers, Brandon. You let her go. I never did... I..."But Caleb never saw it coming.Someone slammed into him from behind, and the gun spun across the floor in a bright, clattering arc. Both men hit the ground hard. The man had him pinned in seconds, knee in his back, one arm wrenched up between his shoulder blades."You're under arrest." He voice was flat, fast, already

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   166

    CHAPTER 166BRANDONWe were still a few cars back when Caleb's brake lights flared unevenly, his car drifting toward the shoulder before rolling to a stop, hazards blinking on a moment later."Something's wrong with his car," Reyes said, as I eased off the gas.I watched Caleb get out, circle to the front, lift the hood. Smoke, faint but visible, curling up into the streetlight."I’m pulling back," I said. "If he sees us sitting here, this is over."I turned down a side street and parked far enough away that the angle blocked our view of Caleb entirely. Which meant we'd also lost him. If he called someone, got a ride, walked off in some direction we couldn't predict, we'd have nothing.I sat there for a second, jaw tight, refusing to let this be the moment everything fell apart.Then it hit me.The PI. The same one I'd hired months ago to dig into Clara, back before any of this started, before Thalia vanished and my entire world narrowed down to this one search. I hadn't even closed t

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   THREE

    THALIAThe meeting dragged on for nearly forty minutes.Charts flashed across the screen as Dr. Harlan talked about revised timelines for Project Elara. Clara stood beside him, explaining sections of the presentation as if she had always been part of the team.I stayed quiet.My pen tapped against

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   TWO

    THALIABy the time the car rolled through the iron gates of the estate, the tightness in my chest had already become hard to ignore.Thomas stopped in front of the entrance and stepped out to open my door.“Welcome home, ma’am.”I nodded faintly and walked inside.The house was quiet. Too quiet.Wi

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   ONE

    THALIAShopping for sexy nightwear alone should have felt embarrassing.Instead, I found myself smiling.My fingers drifted over rows of silk and lace as I moved slowly through the boutique. Black lace sets, satin slips, delicate babydolls—each piece more daring than the last.Tonight was special.J

  • I LEFT WHEN HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON   FIFTY FIVE

    THALIABy the time I got to work the next morning, I was still irritated from Brandon showing up at my apartment the night before like he had lost every remaining ounce of sense he possessed.The nerve of that man still annoyed me.I walked into the lab with my coffee in one hand and my laptop bag

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