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CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: Hello
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I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: Hello
Liam's POVThe boy walks up to me and stops.He tilts his head all the way back to look at me with the complete fearless assessment of someone for whom size is interesting information rather than a deterrent, and I look down at him and the thing that has been moving through my chest since I saw the three of them in this park gets considerably more specific.Dark blonde hair.Grey eyes.The grey eyes are the thing.A very specific grey that I recognize in the way you recognize something you have been trying not to recognize for long enough that when the recognition finally arrives, it lands with the full weight of all the time you spent avoiding it."Hello," the boy says.His voice is the voice of a small person who has a great deal to say and has decided that starting with the basics is the courteous approach.I look at the woman across from me.Then I crouch down."Hello," I reply.He looks at me very directly."I am Ace," he says."I'm Liam," I choke out.He considers this."That is
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Big City, Small World
Emma's POVI see him before he sees me turn.He is standing on the path approximately twenty meters away and he is looking at my children and he is very still in the way that people go still when something has happened to their body faster than their brain has caught up with it.I know that stillness.I know it because I have been doing a version of it since Thursday afternoon when Bertrand called and a different, quieter version of it since I picked up Willa's drawing pad and found the tall figure with the three letters above his head.He has not changed.This is the first thing I think, which is an absurd thing to think because two years is not very long and people do not change dramatically in two years, but I had expected something, some visible mark of the time that has passed, some difference I could point to and say, he is not the same, and instead he is just standing on a path in my park in my city in my Saturday looking exactly like himself.Dark hair.That jaw.Both hands lo
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: The City She Made
Liam's POVParis does not feel the way I remember it.I land Saturday morning instead of Monday because I have moved the flight and I have not examined why I have moved the flight and I am not going to examine it now in the back of a car on the way from Charles de Gaulle while Paris arrives around me in the October morning.The city is doing what it does, cream and grey and rooftops and the specific quality of light that happens here and nowhere else, and I sit in the back seat and look at it and feel, without understanding why, like I am in someone else's city.Not a foreign city.Someone specific's city.The hotel is the George V, where it always is, and my room looks out over rooftops and the morning air coming through the cracked window smells like bread and stone and autumn. I stand at the window and look at the city and I tell myself today is for getting oriented and the meeting conversation begins Monday.I believe this for approximately forty minutes.Then I go for a walk.I t
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: Saturday Has Other Plans
Emma's POVBertrand calls back on Friday evening while I am attempting to get three post-birthday, still-slightly-sugared two year olds into the bath, which is an exercise that requires the strategic intelligence of a military operation and the patience of someone who has made peace with being wet by the end of it."I've been thinking," he says."So have I," I reply, removing a rubber duck from Ace's hand before he can use it as a projectile."He's going to come to the office regardless of whether we agree to a meeting," Bertrand says. "Liam Carson does not fly to Paris to be told no by a lobby.""That's Liam for you," I reply."Emma, if he walks into our offices on Monday morning and demands a meeting and you are not there, he will find another way in. He will come back Tuesday. He will come back Wednesday." A pause. "Men like this do not run out of days of the week when they're persistent."Ace has found a second rubber duck.I confiscate that one too."What are you suggesting?" I a
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
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