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CHAPTER 84: THE NEW HOME

Author: Sire Bliss
last update publish date: 2026-09-23 00:28:28

The settlement money came through in the spring, and I bought us a house.

Not a big one. Not anything like the mansion, and that was the entire point. A small house on a quiet street, two floors, a real yard, a kitchen with good light and a doorframe I could measure the girls against. Bunk beds, finally, which settled the great top-bunk war of the previous three months, though not without a formal coin toss that Luna won and Lily contested for a week.

It was ours. Bought with money that had bee
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  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 84: THE NEW HOME

    The settlement money came through in the spring, and I bought us a house.Not a big one. Not anything like the mansion, and that was the entire point. A small house on a quiet street, two floors, a real yard, a kitchen with good light and a doorframe I could measure the girls against. Bunk beds, finally, which settled the great top-bunk war of the previous three months, though not without a formal coin toss that Luna won and Lily contested for a week.It was ours. Bought with money that had been stolen from me and given back, turned from a weapon into a home. There was something right about that, using the thing they'd tried to take my life with to build the girls a new one.The moving day was chaotic. Sophia came, and Mrs. Rose, and even Damian showed up in an old t-shirt I'd never seen him in, carrying boxes, and the girls ran between everyone's legs getting in the way and being delighted, and by evening the house was full of half-unpacked boxes and pizza and the specific happy exha

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 83: GOODBYE TO THE MANSION

    The divorce moved faster than the custody case, because there was nothing left to fight about.Alexander didn't contest anything. His lawyer sent word through Damian that he'd sign whatever was put in front of him, and I understood it wasn't generosity, it was a man with no cards trying, too late, to look like he'd folded on purpose. I took the settlement Damian negotiated, my share of the marital assets, the house sold, split, my name off the deed for good. I didn't want the mansion. I wanted it gone, turned into money and distance.But there were things in it that were mine. My mother's things, the girls' baby keepsakes, the boxes Elara had packed away. And so, three weeks after I brought the girls home, I went back to the house one last time to collect what was ours.Damian offered to come. So did Sophia. I said no. This was a thing I needed to do alone, walk through that house one final time with my own eyes and my own two feet and take back what belonged to me, and then close the

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 82: THE FIRST NIGHT

    The apartment had never made so much noise.I stood in the middle of it that first evening and just listened, because I couldn't quite believe the sound. Lily in one room narrating a game to herself at full volume. Luna in the other, arranging her books on the windowsill by some system only she understood. The two of them called back and forth, arguing about who got which drawer, laughing at something I couldn't see. The small plain rooms I'd lived in alone for three months, silent, suddenly full, overflowing, loud.This, I thought. This exact noise. This is what I was protecting.Mrs. Rose had helped me settle them and then gone, the way she said she would, hugging each girl hard at the door, hugging me hardest, whispering, "You did it. You brought them home," before she left me to it. And then it was just us. The three of us. For the first time in months, and in a real way for the first time ever, because this place was ours, only ours, no Alexander, no Elara, no cameras, no perform

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 81: SHE GETS THEM BACK

    I drove to the mansion myself, with the court order on the passenger seat, on a Tuesday afternoon, and I did not shake the whole way, which surprised me.Mrs. Rose had known before I called. I'd barely said the words, I'm coming for them, it's done, before she was crying down the phone, this woman who never touched anyone, never wept, and she said, "I have their bags half packed already. I packed them this morning. I had a feeling." And then, "Come get your girls, Clara. Come get them and take them home."The gate was open when I pulled in. Mrs. Rose was on the step, and behind her the front door stood wide, and I got out of the car with the court order in my hand and I did not need it, because no one was going to stop me, but I brought it anyway, because I'd earned the right to walk up to that door holding it.Then the door burst open, and Lily came out at a dead run."MOMMY!"She hit me so hard she nearly knocked me over, all arms and legs and gap-toothed grin, and I caught her and

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 80: THE RULING THAT GIVES THEM BACK

    Clara’s POV"I'm prepared to rule," the judge said, and I stopped breathing.Damian's hand found my arm under the table, steadying, and I sat very still, the way I'd sat still through everything, except this time my heart was going so hard I was sure the whole room could hear it."This has been an unusual matter," the judge began. "I want to speak plainly, because the record deserves plain speech." She looked at her notes, then set them aside, and spoke without them. "At the preliminary hearing, I made a determination that primary custody remains with the father, pending review. I based that on the stability of the children's existing environment, and on my concern about the mother's concealment of her restored sight. I want to address both of those, because both have changed."I kept my eyes on her. I did not look at Alexander. I did not look anywhere but at the woman about to decide my life."On the concealment. I've now heard testimony establishing that Mrs. Whitmore concealed her

  • I Regained My Sight Just in Time to See My Husband Cheat   CHAPTER 80: THE RULING THAT GIVES THEM BACK

    Clara’s POV"I'm prepared to rule," the judge said, and I stopped breathing.Damian's hand found my arm under the table, steadying, and I sat very still, the way I'd sat still through everything, except this time my heart was going so hard I was sure the whole room could hear it."This has been an unusual matter," the judge began. "I want to speak plainly, because the record deserves plain speech." She looked at her notes, then set them aside, and spoke without them. "At the preliminary hearing, I made a determination that primary custody remains with the father, pending review. I based that on the stability of the children's existing environment, and on my concern about the mother's concealment of her restored sight. I want to address both of those, because both have changed."I kept my eyes on her. I did not look at Alexander. I did not look anywhere but at the woman about to decide my life."On the concealment. I've now heard testimony establishing that Mrs. Whitmore concealed her

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