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Chapter 96 — Disgust
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2026-09-28 03:15:07
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I Own Twenty Percent of My Ex Husband’s Company Chapter 100 — Told Himself
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The weeks after the last conversation with Kael settled into something Serena had not fully felt before. A real, empty stretch of time with nothing scheduled to fill it. No lingering hope to organize her days around. There was no careful performance to keep up for anyone else’s benefit.She stopped attending the family gatherings that had once filled her social calendar, along with charity events, gallery openings, and quiet dinners with mutual friends who still moved comfortably within the Sterling family’s circle. Without Kael’s attention to pursue, she began to realize that she had little genuine interest in most of it. The social life she had built around herself for years suddenly felt empty, now that the person at the center of it was no longer there.She spent her evenings mostly alone. At first it felt uncomfortably strange after years of careful, constant performance for various audiences. Gradually, it began to soften into something she found herself, cautiously, willing to
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Serena did not leave immediately after Kael suggested she consider telling Elara herself. She sat there a moment longer. The weight of the entire conversation settled heavily into the quiet office. She understood, with a growing clarity she could no longer avoid, that something between them had reached its real, end."I think we both know this is over,"Kael said. His voice was gentle now, the earlier disgust was gone. He was just plain and honest. "Not just because of what you just told me, though that certainly closes any remaining door I might have been leaving open. But because I don't think either of us has actually been trying to build something real for a long time now.""I know," Serena said quietly."I'm sorry," Kael continued. "For my part in all of this. I let you believe, for years, that we were building toward something real, even while I was too distracted, too avoidant, to actually keep that promise. That wasn't fair to you, regardless of anything else that happened."S
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