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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Some Months Old
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I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER TWENTY: The Name on the Page
Liam's POVMarcus puts the page on my desk at four seventeen on a Wednesday afternoon and steps back.He does not say anything.He does not have to.I look at the page.It is a company registration document from the French business registry. Standard format. Filed approximately two years ago. Registered address on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Business category. Board composition.And then the founder line.I read the name.I read it again.My office is very quiet.Outside the window, Los Angeles is doing the thing it does in the late afternoon, the light going gold and sideways, long shadows across the city that always look more dramatic than they have any right to.I pick up the page."How did you find this?" "The French business registry is public record," Marcus says, and there is something in his voice that is not quite apology but is in the same neighborhood. "I was focused on the operational structure. Board composition. External communications. I should have looked at the ori
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER NINETEEN: Two
Emma's POVI wake up at five forty seven in the morning to the sound of Ace singing Happy Birthday to himself in the next room.Just the first line.On repeat.With increasing confidence."Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me."I lie in the dark and listen to my son serenade himself at five forty seven in the morning and feel something move through my chest that has no clean name, something warm and enormous and slightly helpless, the feeling I have learned is just what love feels like when it has nowhere left to grow and keeps growing anyway.I get up.The apartment looks like what happens when you tell Adèle that the budget for birthday decorations is flexible and then make the mistake of leaving before she starts. There are balloons on every surface. There are small paper flags running from the kitchen doorway to the window. There is a banner that says DEUX ANS in letters large enough to be read from a passing aircraft and which Grey had examined yesterd
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: What Doesn't Add Up
Liam's POVThe thing about Talia is that she is very good at most things.She is good at rooms. She walks into them and they rearrange themselves for her, people turning, conversations pausing, that particular atmospheric shift that very beautiful and very confident people generate simply by arriving. I have watched her do this for three years and I have found it consistently impressive and I am finding it tonight something else entirely.We are at a fundraiser for something I agreed to attend six weeks ago when my calendar had a gap and Helena thought it would be useful optics, and Talia is working the room the way she works rooms, moving through it with the ease of someone who has never once worried whether they belong somewhere.I am watching her.Not the way I usually watch her, with the particular appreciation of a man who chose this, but with the slightly removed quality that has been settling over me in increments for months, the feeling of watching something I know well from a
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Chaos Theory of Raising Tiny People
Emma's POVHere is what nobody tells you about raising toddlers in Paris.The city does not care.Paris has survived revolutions and occupations and approximately four hundred years of extremely strong opinions about bread, and it looks at three almost-two-year-olds dismantling a café table with the serene indifference of something that has seen considerably worse and come through fine.I find this comforting.It is a Tuesday morning and I am at our usual café on Rue Cler because Philippe does not flinch when Ace reorganizes the sugar packets and gives Grey the small quiet corner table he needs to eat his breakfast in his specific sequence and has at some point in the past three months simply begun producing Willa's order before I have finished sitting down, which is either excellent service or a sign that we come here too often and I have chosen to interpret it as excellent service.Ace is currently explaining something to a pigeon on the pavement outside with the focused urgency of
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Thread
Liam's POVMarcus finds the thread on a Monday morning and delivers it the way he delivers everything significant... without preamble, without editorializing, setting a single printed page on my desk and stepping back and waiting.I look at the page.It is a photograph.It is not a clear one but a frame grab from what looks like a conference venue security footage, slightly pixelated at the edges, the kind of image that was not meant to be seen by anyone who was not specifically looking for it.It is the photo of a woman walking through what appears to be a hotel lobby, shot from above and slightly behind. Dark hair, a purposeful stride that suggests someone who knows exactly where they are going and has already decided everything about the meeting they are walking toward and she is wearing a structured blazer and carrying a leather portfolio and she is completely, deliberately not looking at any camera."This was taken at the Hôtel de Crillon," Marcus says. "Eighteen months ago. Ther
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Some Months Old
Emma's POVThe twins are running.I say twins because that is what it feels like when Ace and Grey move at full speed through an apartment simultaneously, two small people with absolutely no concept of obstacles or consequences, and Willa walks behind them at a measured pace with her rabbit under her arm and the expression of someone who has decided that dignity is worth the sacrifice of speed.They are fourteen months old and my apartment has ceased to be a living space and has become a terrain.Everything below knee height is either bolted to the wall, removed entirely, or has already been destroyed by Ace and is currently being examined by Grey and will subsequently be reorganized by Willa into a system only she understands.I move the coffee table on a Wednesday after Ace uses it to launch himself at the sofa for the third time in a day and I stand in the living room and look at the space where it was and think about the apartment in LA with its perfectly curated surfaces and its
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