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The Last Fitting
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2026-06-23 06:10:40
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Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late Not Fine
CHAPTER FORTY ONENot FineAria's POVI knew by ten in the morning that it was going to be one of those days.Not dangerous. Not the kind that required a call to Dr. Mensah or anyone else. Just hard. The specific kind of hard that pregnancy produces without warning or reason, where your body simply decides it has been cooperative long enough and would like the day off, and doesn't particularly care that you have six weeks to a show and fittings starting at noon.My back had been aching since before I left Nina's. Not the low persistent ache I had learned to manage but something higher and sharper that arrived somewhere between the bus stop and the studio entrance and didn't leave. By ten it had settled into something I could only describe as my entire spine reconsidering its commitment to the project.My feet had swollen enough by midmorning that I had to take my shoes off under the desk, which Adaeze noticed and pretended not to.I had eaten breakfast but my stomach was doing somethi
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late The Third Party
CHAPTER FORTYThe Third PartyAria's POVThe woman came to the studio on a Wednesday.Not to me directly. She came to the front desk and asked for Jerome, which was the first strange thing, because nobody who actually knew Jerome showed up unannounced and asked for him at the front desk. His assistant turned her away. She left a card. Jerome's assistant brought it to me because the name on the card was one I didn't recognise but the firm was one I did.Hartley and Associates. Margaret's original lawyers. The ones who had held the private arrangement document for eleven years.I called Sandra before I did anything else."Don't speak to her," Sandra said immediately. "Don't let her near you at the studio. She's not there about Jerome. She's there because she knows you're there and she can't come within a hundred metres of you directly.""She sent a third party to my workplace," I said."Yes. And that is a violation of the spirit of the restraining order even if it's technically outside
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late Ten Looks
CHAPTER THIRTY NINETen LooksAria's POVThe presentation was on a Tuesday.Jerome had set it himself, which meant it wasn't optional and wasn't informal. He had cleared his entire afternoon, asked Lena to make sure the studio was in order by noon, and sent a single message to the team the night before that said only, Tomorrow we see where we are.Nobody slept particularly well.I got to the studio at seven, two hours before anyone else arrived, and stood in front of the ten looks arranged along the wall in the order they would walk. I had done this before, stood alone in front of work I had made, waiting for my own eye to tell me if it was true. In the old days, before everything, before Alex and the marriage and the three years of making myself smaller, I had trusted that eye completely. It had been the most reliable thing about me.I trusted it now.I stood there for forty minutes and looked at all ten of them, one by one and then together, and what I felt was not relief and not pr
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late The Last Fitting
CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHTThe Last FittingAria's POVBisi delivered the finished dress on a Thursday evening and the three of us, me, Bisi, and Clara, stood around it in Nina's living room like we were looking at something that required a moment of silence before anyone spoke.It was finished.Not in the provisional, almost the way it had been at every previous stage. Finished the way things are finished when every decision along the way turned out to be the right one. The shoulder line clean and certain. The seam down the back doing exactly what I had drawn it to do weeks ago on a scrap of paper in this same room. The cap sleeve that Clara had fought about for three sessions and then surrendered to completely, sitting exactly as it was supposed to on her shoulders."Put it on," Bisi said, before either Clara or I could say anything.Clara changed behind Nina's bedroom door and came out slowly, the way you come out of a room when you are not entirely sure what you are going to find waitin
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late What Nina's Daniel Found
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVENWhat Nina's Daniel FoundAria's POVI found out about Nina's man the way I found out about most things Nina tried to keep from me, which was by accident while she was looking at her phone and smiling in a way she thought I wasn't watching.His name was Daniel. Not Alex's Daniel. A different Daniel entirely, which I thought was funny but chose not to say out loud because Nina's expressions when she felt teased could be genuinely withering.He worked in media. Editorial, she had said vaguely the one time she mentioned him, in the tone of someone hoping the conversation would move on quickly.It moved on. Until Friday morning.I came out of the bathroom to find Nina at the kitchen table with her laptop open and a look on her face I hadn't seen since the early days of all this, that particular sharpness when she had found something and wasn't sure yet what to do with it."What," I said.She turned the laptop toward me.It was an internal document. Editorial notes from
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late Quiet Hours
CHAPTER THIRTY SIXQuiet HoursAria's POVWe didn't let go of each other's hands right away.Bisi noticed, obviously, because Bisi noticed everything, but she didn't say anything beyond a brief look that lasted exactly one second before she went back to her pins like she hadn't seen a thing. That was its own kind of kindness."I should let you get back to it," Alex said eventually, glancing at the dress form behind me."You could stay," I said. "If you want. I'm not done for another hour at least."He looked at me for a moment, like he was checking whether the offer was real."I'd like that," he said.He found a stool at the end of the table and sat there quietly while I went back to the hem, Bisi on one side pinning, me on the other adjusting the drape, both of us working in the particular silence that happens when two people know exactly what they're doing and don't need to narrate it to each other.Alex didn't try to fill that silence either. He just sat there, jacket off now, slee
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late The Preliminary Hearing
CHAPTER THIRTY FIVEThe Preliminary HearingAlex's POVThe courthouse steps were already crowded with cameras by the time he arrived.He had expected it. David had warned him three times this week and Sandra had warned Aria separately, and still the actual sight of it, the lenses turning toward his
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late Eight Weeks Out
CHAPTER THIRTY FOUREight Weeks OutAria's POVJerome called a full team meeting on Monday morning, which never happened on a Monday, which meant something.Everyone gathered around the center table. Bisi with her arms crossed. Kwame still holding his coffee. Adaeze sketching even now, pencil movin
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late The Arrangement
CHAPTER THIRTY THREEThe ArrangementAria's POVSandra read the document three times before she said anything.That told me more than her expression did. Sandra was not a woman who needed to read things three times. She read things once and retained them completely and moved immediately to what nee
Mr. CEO, You Lost Me Too Late What Raymond Knows
CHAPTER THIRTY TWOWhat Raymond KnowsAria's POVWe agreed on neutral ground.Sandra's suggestion. She said she wasn't letting either of us walk into a meeting with Raymond Cavendish's lawyer on territory that wasn't ours, so she booked a room at a hotel near the city centre, the kind with meeting
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