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In the name of vows CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER THIRTY ONEChristine was up before dawn once again , eyes fixed on the ceiling, chest tight with the kind of ache that doesn’t go away with sleep.She hadn’t really rested just drifted in and out of a haze all night, mind circling the same anxious loop. Adrian’s stare across the boardroom. The sound of whispering behind half-shut folders.She blinked up focusing on the cracks in the ceiling like they could give her all the answers she needed.It was not yet fully daylight when her phone rang on the nightstand. The screen glowed:Dad.Her heart sank a little in her chest.She sighed, reaching for the phone. “Morning.”“Chrissy.” Her father’s voice was thick, groggy. But there was something else something quiet and urgent threaded through. “Can you come home this morning? Just come for breakfast. Please.”She sat up slowly. Her body felt heavier than usual.“Alright,” she said.She didn’t take long. Showered in silence. Pulled on black cigarette trousers and a pale blue blouse
In the name of vows CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER THIRTYADRIANs POVAdrian Kellerham stood at the edge of the glass, the New York skyline sprawling beneath him like a glittering lie. From this height, the world looked clean.The lights in the city made him think back to Christine’s eyes as they glowed with fury instead of the usual warmth.He still hadn’t touched the drink in his hand. The scotch sat in his glass like a promise he couldn’t keep. He rolled it once, then set it down. He wasn’t thirsty. He was burning.Her voice from earlier still clung to the corners of his mind.You think marriage is the answer to everything.She hadn’t yelled. She didn’t need to. The way she’d looked at him shoulders straight, voice like steel it had cut sharper than anything she could’ve screamed.And what’s worse ? She wasn’t wrong.He had wanted to fix it all with a contract, a signature, a deal. Just like he always did. But this wasn’t a merger. This was Christine.And she didn’t want saving especially not by him.Adrian put a hand again
In the name of vows CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER TWENTY NINEChristines povChristine sat at the long boardroom table staring forward, her fingers locked tightly around the edge of her coffee cup. The cup was warm, but her hands were cold. Around her, the low hum of conversation buzzed like an approaching storm shoes against floor, the soft movement of papers, throat clearing from executives.Her binders sat untouched before her, lined with yellow highlights, tabs carefully marked, numbers she’d memorized like a second language. All the preparation in the world couldn’t still the shaking in her ribs.This was it.The vote.The clause. The one that had haunted her since the moment her legal team confirmed its legitimacy. A document written before she was born, by a man who’d believed a woman’s power should be tethered to a wedding ring.“Ineligible.”The word alone made her taste metal.She sat up as Mr. Hayworth, the most senior member of the board, adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat. His eyes always polite, always
In the name of vows CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT CHRISTINES POVChristine sat alone in her office, hands tangled in her lap, her gaze locked on the city skyline. The midday sun burned the glass towers bright, but inside her, everything chilled. Not the clinical air‑conditioning kind. A dread colder than any winter storm.Minutes. That was all she had. Minutes before the board reconvened.She hadn’t eaten — a plate of food untouched on the desk. She couldn’t stomach it. How could she, when the foundation beneath her was slipping?Her phone buzzed softly.She glanced down.Dad.His name glowed on the screen. Picture of him in his old sweatshirt, grinning, hair silver at the temples the same smile he gives her when he’s trying to be stronger than he feels.She didn’t answer. Not because she didn’t want to but because if she heard his voice, she might fall apart. And she couldn’t afford to.If he spoke, it’d be hope. “You can fix this, Chrissy. You always do.”But hope today felt like betrayal something soft that c
In the name of vows CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVENCHRISTINES POVChristine was at the boardroom before anyone else arrived.The city beyond the floor to ceiling windows was still not fully bright. A soft grey dawn spilled in, casting long, moody streaks across the polished walnut table. The room felt cold, not from temperature, but from the kind of silence that carried weight. History. Consequence.She set her files down on the table, aligning them with precision she didn’t feel. Her hands, however, betrayed her trembling ever so slightly as they smoothed the files title page.Pull yourself together, she told herself.But the room didn’t make it easy. There was something cathedral-like about it. All that glass and steel and history pressing in. Every chair around the long table had been a throne for a decision that changed the company, the family, the legacy. Triumphs had happened here. So had betrayals.Her eyes drifted to the chair across from her. Her father used to sit there. Before him, her grandfather.She
In the name of vows CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER TWENTY SIXCHRISTINES POVChristine was awake before her alarm had the chance to ring.The early light pressed gently through the curtains, casting faint shadows on the wall . She didn’t move at first. Just lay there, eyes fixed on the ceiling, her chest caught in that familiar, unrelenting ache. The kind that felt both dull and sharp all at once. The kind that made breathing feel like a task.Sleep had come in fragments, if at all. And when it did, all she could hear was Adrian’s voice with it steady, deceptively kind. Again and again, her mind replayed the conversation. His eyes, too calm. His words, too careful. That so called confession, looked too vulnerable and had felt more like a strategy than sincerity.She lay quietly on the bed for long in confusion. She could still feel the weight of his gaze, like a stone resting on her chest.Was it honesty?Or just another game he knew he’d win?She couldn’t let herself be moved. Not now.Her phone rang against the nightstand,
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