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TWENTY THREE

Autor: J.O
last update Data de publicação: 2026-03-20 21:20:59

BRANDON

Clara kept staring at me after Thalia left, like she had just heard something absurd.

“Wait… what does she mean by divorce papers?”

I didn’t answer.

Not immediately.

Because the moment I tried to explain it, it sounded ridiculous even in my own head.

My jaw tightened, and I looked away, running a hand through my hair.

“It’s nothing,” I said finally.

Clara blinked. “Nothing?”

“It was just an argument.”

Even to me, the excuse sounds silly.

“We had a small fight,” I added, like that would
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Diane Lind
I hope Mr. Vale calls her while she is with Let’s Go Brandon
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lindabilbo
So why Brandon didn’t want to divorce Thalia,he doesn’t love her I thought he’s still in love with his ex or does he have feelings for Thalia, Claire wants him to get the divorce thinking that she would marry him and raise their son or is he Brandon son or her ex husband
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Cyu
I guess she just want a chance to meet his ex and perhaps change her stupid mind. This novel title is more strong than the character's will.
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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   FIFTY

    THALIAI stood just behind the stage entrance, my hands resting lightly against each other as I adjusted my grip, then released it again when I realized I was doing too much.“You’re good,” the event coordinator said quietly as she passed me. “It’s almost your turn.”I nodded once without respondin

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

    THALIAAcross the city, my new apartment still smelled faintly of fresh paint.Freedom had a strange scent.I stood in the middle of the living room, staring at the half-opened boxes scattered everywhere. The place wasn’t nearly as large as the Langford estate, but it felt lighter somehow. The sile

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

    BRANDONThe first thing I felt was anger.It sat heavy in my chest all afternoon, refusing to fade.I stood in my office at Langford Pharmaceuticals, staring through the floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked the city. Traffic crawled below like ants. People moved through their ordinary lives, wh

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

    THALIAI had just placed the cardboard box in the passenger seat and was about to start the engine when someone called my name.“Thalia!”The voice came from behind me.I froze for a second before turning around.Brandon was walking out of the company building, his expression already dark with ange

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