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Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Five: The Library in Spring
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Married to My Enemy's Son Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Five: The Library in Spring
May arrived with its customary renewal, the estate grounds blooming with the particular abundance that followed a long winter. Nadia found herself on a bright morning standing in the garden where Eleanor had spent so many of her final months, understanding that the arrival of spring carried a bittersweet quality it had never held in previous years. Harlowe joined her, now eight years old and increasingly thoughtful about the world around her, settling onto the bench beside Eleanor's empty chair with quiet contemplation. "Do you think she can see the garden now?" Harlowe asked. "From wherever she is?" Nadia considered the question carefully, understanding that it deserved genuine reflection rather than easy reassurance. "I don't know for certain," she said honestly. "But I like to think that the love she gave us, the way she taught us to see each other more clearly, continues regardless of where she is now. In that way, I think she's still very much part of this garden and part of
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caiden read the letter in silence, and Nadia watched his expression move through something that looked, at first, like grief renewed, before settling into a quieter, more complicated stillness. He handed it to her without speaking. The handwriting was unmistakably Eleanor's, though slightly less steady than in the manuscript she'd written for Harlowe months earlier, evidence of a hand that had grown weaker even as the mind behind it remained entirely sharp. Caiden and Nadia, If you are reading this, I have likely already gone, and I imagine you are both exhausted in the particular way grief exhausts people, not simply sadness, but the sheer physical weight of having loved someone thoroughly enough that their absence registers in your body as much as your heart. I wanted to write you something separate from what I left for Harlowe because there are things I want to say to the two of you specifically, as the two people who taught this old woman more about genuine love in a han
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Cullen landed six hours later to find Caiden waiting alone at the arrivals gate, his expression telling him everything before either of them had the strength to say a word. "She's gone," Cullen said, not as a question, his bag sliding from his shoulder to the floor as his knees seemed to lose their strength beneath him. Caiden caught him immediately, pulling his younger brother into an embrace that neither of them had ever needed quite this desperately before. "I'm sorry," Caiden said. "I'm so sorry, Cullen. She waited as long as she could." "I told her to wait for me," Cullen said, his voice breaking completely now, years of composed academic authority dissolving into raw, unguarded grief. "I told her, and she didn't." "She heard you," Caiden said. "Nadia held the phone for her right until the end. She heard every word, Cullen. I promise you that." They remained together in the airport arrivals area, oblivious to the travelers moving around them, two brothers who had built an e
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They found Eleanor propped against pillows, considerably paler than Nadia had ever seen her, though her eyes remained sharp and alert despite the obvious physical toll the morning had taken. "You both look considerably more frightened than the situation requires," Eleanor said, her voice weaker but still carrying the same characteristic dryness that had defined her throughout every crisis this family had weathered together. "Eleanor," Caiden said, taking her hand carefully, his composure entirely gone now. "I know what the doctor told you," Eleanor said. "I insisted he be direct with me as well. I want to use whatever time remains properly, rather than pretending toward a recovery that isn't coming." Nadia felt tears falling freely now, no longer making any attempt to hide them. "I don't know how to do this without you," Caiden said. "I thought I would have more time to prepare." "No one is ever properly prepared," Eleanor said gently. "I certainly wasn't when my own husband di
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