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Chapter 30 — The Mutual Friend
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2026-09-04 16:02:27
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I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 140 — The Central Question
They continued sitting together on the bench as the afternoon breeze gently disturbed the pond’s surface. Their conversation had left a lot to think about, and Elara could no longer ignore the question that had been on her mind for weeks.“I need to ask you something,” she said, turning to look directly at him. “I think this question gets to the heart of everything we’ve been talking about these past few days.”“I’m listening,” Kael replied, giving her his full attention.Elara steadied herself; she understood the importance of what she was about to ask, a question that had been circling her mind since, long after their divorce, but she had never allowed herself to ask it so directly until now.“If I had never become successful,” she said slowly, choosing her words carefully, “if I had never built Vale Capital, if I had never proved that I could create something remarkable on my own, would you still want me?”She watched him closely, knowing that her question touched on something she
I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 139 — His Answer
They met again three days later, after Elara asked for time to think about their previous conversation. Kael agreed without hesitation. He understood that they didn’t have to rush to settle everything just because waiting and sitting with their feelings was uncomfortable.This time, they chose a quiet park near her office. Neither of them wanted a formal setting. Both seemed to understand, without clearly discussing it, that their next conversation required a different kind of space. "I've been thinking about something since our last conversation," Kael said after they sat down on a bench overlooking a small pond. “It’s a question you never asked me directly, but I think it’s been behind everything we’ve talked about.”"What question?" "Why I kept myself so distant throughout our entire marriage. I've spent months working through this in therapy, and I think I finally understand it clearly enough to actually answer it honestly."Elara turned to face him, listening closely.“I was a
I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 138 — Full Listening
Kael sat quietly in the office, thinking about her question. He understood that everything he had learned over the past several months, including all the difficult personal work he had done with Dr. Patel and the lessons about listening and being present instead of trying to impress others, had to guide him in this moment.His first instinct was to explain himself. He wanted to tell her about his childhood and how he learned to hide his emotions from a family that never taught him to be truly open and vulnerable. He wanted to apologize at length and list all the ways he had failed her. He even considered mentioning the unsent letter still sitting in his desk drawer, which showed that he had started facing his mistakes privately, months before she asked him this question.But he recognized this instinct for what it was. He knew where it came from, and he deliberately chose not to act on it.As he sat there, Kael realized that explaining himself, no matter how sincere he was, would mean
I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 137 — The Full Weight
Elara fell silent for a moment after speaking for nearly an hour. Her voice had grown a little hoarse from finally expressing the feelings she had kept hidden for so many years."There's more," she said quietly; she knew she still had something deeper to share. "Things I've never fully admitted to anyone, not even Daniel, who knows more about what I went through during those years than almost anyone else in my life today.”“Take all the time you need,” Kael replied. His voice was patient, even though everything he had heard so far was clearly difficult for him to absorb.Elara took a moment to steady herself. She knew that what she was about to share required her to be even more honest than she had been so far."I used to lie awake at night," she said, "counting the exact ways I'd made myself shrink that day. It wasn’t anything dramatic or obvious, nothing you would have noticed. Little compromises, opinions I'd swallowed rather than let out, interests I'd quietly abandoned because sh
I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 136 — Everything Unsaid
She arrived at his office that evening, after regular business hours. The building was mostly quiet, giving them the privacy they needed to talk.Kael met her at the door, looking cautious and attentive. “Thank you for coming.”“There’s something you need to understand before I start,” Elara said as she sat in the chair opposite his desk. She had sat in that same chair many times over the past few months while they worked together. “This won’t be easy for either of us. I’m going to tell you things I’ve kept to myself for years, and I’m not going to hide how much they hurt me.”"I understand," Kael said. "I'm ready to listen."Elara took a deep breath, reminding herself that she didn’t need to plan every word or decide what to say first. She only needed to begin.“You forgot my birthday in our second year of marriage,” she said. “You said you had a work emergency, but that was a lie. You were having dinner with Serena, while I spent the entire evening alone. I kept telling myself it wa
I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 135 — The Decision to Be Honest
In the days after visiting their old house, Elara felt increasingly restless. She slowly began to realize that something was still bothering her, something she couldn’t fully understand or resolve by thinking about it alone.She had examined every version of Kael she had known. She had weighed the genuine changes she had seen in him against the many ways he had failed her in the past. She had also honestly faced her doubts about whether she could ever trust him enough to open her heart to him again without being afraid that he would hurt her.But one evening, as she sat alone in her apartment, she finally realized that she had been approaching this entire question incompletely.During their five years of marriage, she had spent too much time holding back her true feelings. She had softened her words to avoid upsetting Kael, kept her frustrations to herself, and ignored her own hurt rather than risk the difficult conversations that honesty might require. In the end, she had walked away
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