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CHAPTER 40: THE CONVERSATION
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I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat CHAPTER 41: ELARA'S RESPONSE TO THE PAPERS
Elara's POVAlexander told me about the filing that evening, in the study, with the door shut and two drinks poured and neither of us drinking them.He kept his voice level, but I've known him long enough to hear underneath it, and underneath it he was rattled in a way I'd never seen. The trust, frozen. A sealed order, sprung out of nowhere. A lawyer named Blackwood. Accounts locked that he needed unlocked. He laid it out flat and cold, the way he does when he's frightened and doesn't want to show it, and he watched my face the whole time to see how I'd take it.I didn't panic.That's the thing about me that Clara never understood, that Alexander sometimes forgot. I don't fall apart when the ground shifts. I recalculate. Panicking is what you do when you have no next move. I always have a next move."How bad," I asked."Bad. If it holds, the transfers get reversed, the structure comes apart, and there are questions I don't want asked about how any of it was set up in the first place."
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat CHAPTER 40: THE CONVERSATION
Alexander's POVI closed the study door and stood with my back against it for a moment, and I made myself breathe.Sorted. That was the word I'd used upstairs. It'll be sorted, a misunderstanding, Oliver's handling it. I'd said it to Clara's blind, worried face with the same voice I use to close a deal that's already slipping, the confident voice, the nothing-to-see-here voice.It was not going to be sorted. I'd known that before I finished the call.I went to the desk and sat down and pulled up the accounts again, the way you press on a bruise, and there it was, the same as it had been ten minutes ago. Frozen. All of it. Every account tied to the trust, locked behind a court order I'd never seen coming, a sealed filing that had gone in three days ago while I sat at my own dinner table congratulating myself on how calm things had gotten.Three days ago.I sat back in the chair and made myself think, coldly, the way I think when there's real money on the line, which there was, more tha
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat CHAPTER 39: SERVED
Morning came, and I made myself be ordinary.That was the whole task of it. Be ordinary. Get up, don't rush, don't let one thing in my body betray that this was the day. I got the girls up and did their hair, slow, by feel, the blind woman's careful way, and I sent them down to breakfast, and I moved through the morning at exactly the pace of every other morning, because Alexander was still home, drinking his coffee, reading something on his phone, a man with no idea that his day had a hole in the middle of it he couldn't see yet.I was upstairs doing Luna's hair when the call came.I heard it start below me. Not the sound of the phone, I was too far for that, but the sound of Alexander's voice, which changed. That was the thing I'd been listening for all morning without letting myself admit it. His voice, carrying up faintly from the study, and then, mid-sentence, changing.Not louder. That was what told me. A man who's angry gets loud. A man who's just been handed something he didn'
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat CHAPTER 38: THE NIGHT BEFORE HE'S SERVED
He couldn't sleep either, that last night, and that was almost the worst part, that we lay awake in the same dark for different reasons and only I knew both of them.I'd counted it down all day. Tomorrow was the third business day. Tomorrow, sometime in the morning, Oliver Grant would call him, and the papers would land, and the certainty would go out of him. Tonight was the last night of the world as he believed it to be. He just thought it was an ordinary Thursday.He came to bed late and lay down beside me, and for a while neither of us spoke. I kept my breathing slow and even, the breathing of a sleeping woman. But he shifted, and sighed, and shifted again, restless in a way he usually wasn't, and after a while he spoke into the dark."Clara. Are you awake?"I let a pause go by, then made my voice soft and thick, half asleep. "Mm. I am now.""Sorry." He didn't sound sorry. He sounded like a man with something sitting on his chest. "I can't sleep. My mind won't stop.""Work?""Some
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat CHAPTER 37: THE INHERITANCE FREEZE FILED
The message came on a Tuesday, and I almost missed it, because I'd stopped checking the phone as often as I used to.That was the strange thing about the weeks that had just passed. After the gallery, after eight months, after we need to meet and move it forward, Damian had gone quiet. Not cold, quiet. A message every so often, spare and careful. Still building. Not yet. Need two more pieces. Almost. Weeks of it, that patient silence, while I gathered and photographed and waited and paid the cost of waiting one bedtime at a time, and some nights I'd lain awake wondering if it was ever actually going to happen, or if I'd spend the rest of my life like this, in the dark, seeing everything, doing nothing.Then, Tuesday. Tap running, door locked, the phone in my hand, and there it was.It's filed. The freeze on the trust went in this morning. Sealed. He'll be served in three business days.I read it three times.Filed. After all the silence, all the almost, all the weeks of nothing, one p
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat CHAPTER 36: LILY TELLS CLARA SHE LOVES ELARA
Clara’s POVIt came at bedtime, which is when Lily says the truest things, half asleep, her guard down, whatever's been sitting in her all day floating up to the surface.I was doing the voices for her book, the way I did every night, the way I'd done through three years of blindness with the pages memorized because I couldn't read them anymore. Lily had her head on my arm and her thumb near her mouth, that old habit that only came back when she was very tired, and I closed the book and reached to turn off the lamp."Mommy," she said, sleepy. "Can I tell you something?""Always.""I love Elara." She said it into my sleeve, small and easy, no weight to it, no idea what she was handing me. "Like a different kind of mommy. Not the same as you. A different kind. Is that okay?"I kept very still.The lamp was still on. I hadn't turned it off yet. I sat there with my hand near the switch and my daughter's head on my arm and I felt the words go all the way down, slow, like a stone sinking th
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