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Chapter 195: Alexander's Notebook, Continued
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MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 195: Alexander's Notebook, Continued
Alexander comes home for winter break with a new notebook.It's different from the last one. The last notebook was small and careful. It was the observations of a child learning to understand the world. This notebook is larger. It's filled with the handwriting of someone who's learning to understand himself.He finds me in my office and he asks if I have time to read something.I set down my work immediately. When Alexander asks if you have time, it means whatever he wants to share matters. It means he's been working up the courage to show you something vulnerable.He sits down across from me and he opens the notebook."I've been documenting my own journey," he says. "The way I documented yours and Dad's. But this time I'm looking at my own healing. My own process of understanding what it means to love myself and what it might mean to love someone else."He hands me the notebook.I start reading.The first entry is dated from three months ago, just after he started university."Today
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 194: The Second Home
Six months into the brownstone and it finally feels like home.Not in the way that the penthouse felt like home. That space was where we survived. This space is where we actually live. There's a difference. In the penthouse, we were always aware that we were in the sky. We were always conscious of the view and the height and the distance from the ground.In the brownstone, we're just people in a house.Dominic has finished building raised garden beds in the backyard. He's planted vegetables and herbs and flowers. The garden looks like something from a magazine but it also looks real. It looks lived in. It looks like a space where someone shows up and tends things and pays attention.I've converted one of the upstairs bedrooms into a proper office for my foundation work. It's not as intimidating as the penthouse study but it's better. It's more intimate. It's a space where I can write and work and think without feeling like I'm floating above the world.The kitchen has become the heart
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 193: The Therapy Reunion
The phone call comes on a Tuesday afternoon.It's Dr. Voss. Her voice is warm but different somehow. There's something in her tone that suggests this isn't a clinical call. This is personal."I'm retiring," she says without preamble. "At the end of the year. And I'm having a retirement party. I want you and Dominic to come. I want you to speak about what therapy did for you."I set down what I'm doing."You're retiring?" I ask."I've been doing this for forty years," she says. "I think it's time. I think it's time to let the next generation of therapists do the work.""What do you want us to talk about?" I ask."The truth," she says. "What our work together actually meant. How it changed you. What you're doing now because of what we did in that office."We say yes immediately. Of course we say yes. Dr. Voss is the person who guided us through the hardest work of our lives. The person who taught us how to communicate. The person who held space for our transformation.Dominic is quiet w
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 192: Alexander at University
The envelope arrives on a Thursday in March.It's from the University of Michigan. It's thick, which is the universal sign of acceptance. Alexander comes home from school and he sets it on the kitchen counter and he just stares at it for a long time before he opens it.I watch him from across the kitchen where I'm making tea.He's nervous. After years of knowing exactly what he wanted to do with his life, he's suddenly facing the reality that it might actually happen. He might actually get to study psychology. He might actually get to become the healer he set out to become years ago when he decided that understanding trauma and recovery was his calling.He opens the envelope slowly.He reads the letter silently. His expression doesn't change. His hands don't shake. He just reads the words that say he's been accepted to the program. That he's been accepted to study psychology with a focus on trauma and recovery. That the university wants him.When he finishes reading, he sets the lette
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 191: Twenty-Five Years Planned
Twenty-five years feels significant in a way that twenty didn't.Twenty years felt like a milestone. It felt like proof that we'd survived something and built something from the survival. But twenty-five years feels like a statement. It feels like we're no longer proving anything to anyone. We're just living a life that we've chosen so many times that the choosing has become invisible.I bring it up to Dominic on a Saturday morning in the garden.He's pruning the roses. He does this every weekend now. He tends them the way he tends everything that matters. With attention. With consistency. With the understanding that things grow when you show up for them."What do you want to do for our twenty-five year anniversary?" I ask.He sets down the pruning shears and he looks at me."I don't know yet," he says. "What do you want to do?""Something bigger than twenty," I tell him. "Something that marks the fact that we've arrived at a different place. We're not just surviving anymore. We're ac
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 190: The House
The penthouse has been our home for so long that I've stopped thinking of it as temporary.We've raised children here. We've done therapy here. We've built a life here. The city spreads out below us and we've come to think of it as ours in the way that you think of things that have held your most important moments.But something is shifting.I notice it first in the way Dominic looks at the windows sometimes. Like he's looking out at the world and understanding that there's something else out there. Something different. Something that might be exactly what we need at this stage of our lives.We don't talk about it directly at first. We just start looking at real estate listings on Sunday mornings. We look at houses in neighborhoods we've never been to. We look at properties with yards and gardens and space that isn't vertical."What are we doing?" I ask Dominic one Sunday."I don't know yet," he says honestly. "But I know something about this space doesn't feel right anymore."We star
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 142: Thank You. This Helped.
He told me on a Sunday evening in April.Not immediately. Not the way he had learned to tell me things that required telling, which was promptly and directly and without the strategic delay that had once characterized how he managed information. This was different from that. This was not a delay bo
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 135: Later
The email came from a senior editor at a publishing house I had heard of.Not a cold approach. She had been at the national conference in Chicago. Had heard the keynote. Had, apparently, been thinking about it for three months before she wrote to me, which I understood as a signal about the kind of
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 134: Further Away
My body knew before I did.That was the thing I had learned about trauma anniversaries, not from a book or a therapy session specifically, though Dr. Okafor had mentioned it and I had filed it alongside the other clinical information I had accumulated over the years of working with her. I had learn
MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE Chapter 131: Isabella's First Day Of School
Isabella had been ready for school for approximately eight months.This was her assessment, not mine, delivered first in March when we told her September was the timeline and received with the particular expression she wore when information did not align with her own evaluation of the situation. Sh
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