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CHAPTER 57: MOMMY THINGS

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She'd come up without a sound, the way she did, and she was looking past me at the room, at the boxes, at the stripped-and-remade bed, at the photograph on the nightstand where her mother's photographs used to be. She took it all in with those dark serious eyes, slowly, and said nothing.

"Hello, sweetheart," I said, warm, recovering. "Did you need something?"

Luna looked at the boxes.

"Those are Mommy's things," she said.

"I'm just keeping them safe for her."

"That's Mommy's room."

"Well, it's
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  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 57: MOMMY THINGS

    She'd come up without a sound, the way she did, and she was looking past me at the room, at the boxes, at the stripped-and-remade bed, at the photograph on the nightstand where her mother's photographs used to be. She took it all in with those dark serious eyes, slowly, and said nothing."Hello, sweetheart," I said, warm, recovering. "Did you need something?"Luna looked at the boxes."Those are Mommy's things," she said."I'm just keeping them safe for her.""That's Mommy's room.""Well, it's my room now, for a while. Since Mommy's staying somewhere else." I kept my voice gentle, reasonable, the voice I used on Lily to such good effect. "You can come see me here any time you like."Luna didn't answer that. She looked at the photograph on the nightstand, the lake, me and Alexander and the girls, and she looked at it for a long moment, and then she looked at me."You put your picture where Mommy's pictures go," she said. Flat. Not a question. "You're always putting your things where Mo

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 56: ELARA IN HER KINGDOM

    Elara’s POVI moved into the master bedroom the day after Clara left, and I told myself it was mine now, and I almost believed it.That was the thing I kept doing that week. Almost believing it. Standing in the doorway of the room I'd wanted for two years, the big one, the one with the good light and the view of the garden, and telling myself I'd won it, that this was the moment everything had been for, and feeling, underneath, a cold thread I could not cut no matter how hard I pulled.Because I had won. Hadn't I. Clara was gone. Out of the house, out by evening, one bag, and the court had given the girls to Alexander and given me, by extension, the household, the bedroom, the life. Everything I'd worked toward. It was mine.So why did it feel like standing in a house that might catch fire.I started with her things.Clara had left most of it behind. She'd taken one bag, that was all, and the closets and the drawers were still full of her, her clothes, her books, the small ordinary ev

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 55: WHAT FULL CUSTODY MEANS

    Damian had told me, on the call, exactly what came next, in his steady lawyer's voice, and the first thing that came next was the worst thing I have ever done.I had to leave my own house. And I had to leave my daughters inside it.That was what full residential custody meant, stripped of the legal words. The girls stayed. This was their home, the mansion, the only house they'd ever known, and the court had ruled that stability meant they stayed in it, with Alexander. And the person who left was me. Today. This afternoon. I would drive back to the house that had been mine, and I would pack a bag, and I would walk out the door, and my daughters would stay behind in it without me, and this would be the arrangement now, until a review that was months away.Alexander's lawyers had insisted on it. Immediate. Clean. The mother was out by evening, stability preserved, the word they'd used to take my children while leaving them exactly where they were.I drove back from the courthouse to the

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 54: THE HEARING, ALEXANDER'S MOVE

    I wore grey to the preliminary hearing, and I did not cry, and I lost anyway.I want to say that plainly, the way it happened, because for weeks I'd let myself believe that having the truth and having the evidence and having Damian would be enough. I walked into that courtroom with a mountain of proof and my eyes wide open and my head level, and I still walked out having lost my children, and no amount of being right protected me from it.It went the way Damian warned me it might, and faster.Alexander's team went first, and they did not talk about money. That was the strategy, and it was clever, and I watched it work in real time. They didn't touch the frozen accounts, the transfers, the forged pages, none of it. They stood up and they talked about one thing only. My mind."Your Honor, this is a woman who concealed a restored sense, her sight, from her husband, her children, and her physicians, for a period of four months." Alexander's lead attorney was calm, reasonable, and grave. "

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 53: THE STORM

    The man on the step handed me the envelope before I reached the door."Clara Whitmore?" he said."Yes.""You've been served." And he was gone, back to his car, unhurried, a man who did this every day, leaving me standing in my own drive with papers in my hand while Mrs. Rose watched from the doorway.I opened it right there. I could, now. I could read it standing in the daylight with my own eyes, and I did, and it was exactly what I'd known it would be, what Elara had promised me in the kitchen he would do. A petition. Emergency custody. Alexander moving to establish that I was unfit, unstable, a woman who had deceived her family about a disability and could not be trusted with two small children, requesting the court grant him primary custody pending evaluation.They'd filed it that morning. The same morning I'd been at Damian's office filing mine. We'd raced each other to the courthouse after all, and we'd both arrived."Are the girls inside?" I asked Mrs. Rose."In the playroom. Th

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 52: THE REVEAL

    I left before the house was fully awake.I'd dressed in the dark, kissed both my sleeping girls, and told Mrs. Rose, quietly, in the kitchen, that I was going out and would be back for the afternoon and that she should keep the girls close and call me if anything happened. She looked at me for a long moment, this woman who'd asked me in a garden if I could see and got no answer, and she didn't ask again. She just said, "Go do what you need to do. I've got them."I took my own car. That was the first thing. Not a driver, not a taxi, my own car, which I hadn't driven in three years, and I got in and put my hands on the wheel and pulled out of the drive and drove myself down streets I could see, and it was the most ordinary and the most impossible thing in the world.And I didn't use the hidden phone. I used my own. Because there was nothing left to hide.I called Damian from the road."They know," I said, when he picked up. "Both of them. It's out. I told them yesterday, I stopped prete

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