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CHAPTER 80: THE RULING THAT GIVES THEM BACK
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2026-09-18 00:09:59
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I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 15 - MARA AND ELIAS
Elias’s POVI found the night nurse in the break room at half past nine, sitting alone with a mug of something that smelled like it had been reheated twice."Mara Okoro?"She looked up. Mid-forties, steady eyes, the particular stillness of a woman who spent her nights listening to rooms full of people who couldn't speak."Dr. Crane.""Can I sit?"She gestured to the chair across from her. I sat. The break room was empty, the day staff gone, the night shift scattered across the ward. A fluorescent tube buzzed overhead with the persistent whine of something that should have been replaced months ago.I'd spent the drive over rehearsing how to start this. I'd settled on direct."I need to talk to you about Nora Ashworth," I said. "Off the record. Nothing I say leaves this room, and nothing you say gets charted, documented, or reported to anyone in this facility."Something shifted in her face. Not surprise. Recognition. The look of a person who'd been waiting for a conversation to arrive
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 14 - THE LETTER BOARD
Elias came on Wednesday with a flat case under his arm and the look of a man who hadn't slept in two days.He closed the door. Checked the hallway first, a quick glance both ways, then pulled it shut and turned the lock. I'd never heard anyone lock that door before. The sound of it, that small metallic click, rearranged everything."Okay," he said. He sat. Unzipped the case and pulled out a laminated board, A3 size, alphabet in rows with numbers underneath and a handful of common words along the bottom. YES. NO. PAIN. HELP. STOP. He propped it against the bed rail where my right hand could reach it."Here's how this works. I point to a row. You blink when I reach the right one. Then I go letter by letter across that row and you blink again. It's slow. It's going to feel like running a marathon one inch at a time. But it works, and by the end of this visit, you'll have said more than you've been able to say in eleven months."He paused. Looked at me."What do you want to tell me first?
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 13 - WHY SHE'S AFRAID
Elias came back on Monday with questions.Not the letter board. Not yet. He'd said Monday for the board, but first he needed to understand what he was walking into, and understanding, through a system that held only yes and no, was like trying to describe a house fire through a keyhole.He closed the door. Sat in the plastic chair. Set his coffee on the table, the good kind again, and I smelled it and it smelled like the outside world, like a life where a person could walk into a shop and choose things and carry them in their hands."I've been thinking about Thursday," he said. "About what you told me. I haven't slept particularly well, if I'm honest, which is saying something because I used to sleep through my flatmate's band practice in medical school and they were genuinely terrible."He was nervous. I could hear it underneath the ease, the way humour sat on top of anxiety like a coat over wet clothes. He was nervous because he'd crossed a line on Thursday and he was about to cross
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 12 - THE BLINK
Elias came back on Thursday, the way he said he would.Same time. Same unhurried walk down the corridor. Same first name when he entered the room, as though we'd been mid-conversation and he was simply picking it up again."Morning, Nora. I brought my own coffee this time. Your break room should be investigated."He set something down on the side table. I smelled it, real coffee, dark and rich, nothing like the weak institutional stuff that drifted in from the hallway during shift changes. He sat in the plastic chair. Pulled it close. Same position as last time, at my eye level, where I could see him in the periphery without turning my head.I'd spent the days since his first visit thinking about almost nothing else.Mara and I had discussed it, in our way. Her talking quietly during night rounds, me answering with the finger, one twitch for yes, two for no, the crude code we'd built in the dark. She'd asked the right questions.Did he seem safe? One twitch.Did he push too hard? Two
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 11 - DR. CRANE
Nora’s POVThe new doctor came on a Monday.I knew it was Monday because Mara had been off the night before, her one free day, Sunday, and the replacement nurse had done the rounds without looking at me once. Sixteen hours of being furniture again, of listening to footsteps that passed my door without slowing. By Monday morning I'd started to understand how much Mara's presence had changed things. One person who knew I was in here, and the whole texture of my confinement shifted. Without her, the walls came back in.The morning rounds were the usual. Dr. Patel, who spoke about me in the third person as though I were a case file with a pulse. The physio, Beth, who rotated my joints in silence. The day nurse, who logged numbers and left. The same parade of hands and clipboards, the same efficient indifference.Then, just before lunch, a voice I didn't recognize."I'm looking for Mrs. Ashworth's room. I'm Dr. Crane, neurologist. I've been asked to do a secondary assessment."The day nurs
I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 10 - THE GRIEVING HUSBAND
Victor’s POVThe trick to grief was consistency.Not sincerity. Anyone could be sincere for five minutes, a catch in the voice, a hand pressed over the eyes. But sincerity wore out. People saw through it the way they saw through a cheap suit, something in the drape that wasn't quite right.Consistency was the long game. The same measured sadness at every visit, the same tired gratitude to the nurses, the same quiet dignity of a man holding himself together for his son. Never too much. Never theatrical. Just the steady, reliable image of a husband doing his best under impossible circumstances.I'd been doing it for eleven months, and I was very good at it.The drive to the facility took forty minutes. I used it the way I used every commute, productively. Phone on the dash, calls queued, the business of dismantling Nora's empire conducted at seventy miles an hour on the motorway with the seat warmer on."Marcus," I said when he picked up. "The Bellman property. Where are we?""Contracts
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