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Chapter 6

作者: Casey Rover
last update 公開日: 2026-04-18 14:29:09

This past week was probably the worst week of my entire life.

And I have had some weeks.

Everyone in the office kept giving me pitiful looks whenever we passed each other in the corridor. The sympathetic eyes, the small sad smiles, like working with Rhett was the worst thing that could ever happen to you. It made everything worse.

I would say he was taking out his issues with Liam on me but he was like that with everyone. He scared everyone, and the worst part was that you never really knew wh
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    This past week was probably the worst week of my entire life.And I have had some weeks. Everyone in the office kept giving me pitiful looks whenever we passed each other in the corridor. The sympathetic eyes, the small sad smiles, like working with Rhett was the worst thing that could ever happen to you. It made everything worse.I would say he was taking out his issues with Liam on me but he was like that with everyone. He scared everyone, and the worst part was that you never really knew what he did that was so scary — he just was.So maybe he didn't hate me specifically.Maybe he just hated earth."Where's the report, Nova.""Where's my coffee, Nova.""Nova, the Henderson file.""Nova, the three o'clock needs to be moved.""Nova.""Nova.""Nova."As much as it pained me to say it — and it did pain me, genuinely, somewhere in my chest — I was starting to see why Liam didn't like him.Nobody did, honestly.At least it was Friday. At least tomorrow was Saturday and I would not have

  • My Boyfriend's Brother   Chapter 5

    "Nova.""I'm going.""Just listen to me for one second —""Liam, I'm going to be late.""You don't have to do this." He was in the doorway of the bedroom, arms folded, wearing the face he wore when he'd already decided how this conversation was going to go. "You don't have to prove anything. There are other jobs.""I know there are other jobs.""So why this one?"I picked up my bag. Checked my phone. 8:31. The Tube from here was twenty-two minutes if I left right now and ran slightly."Because it's the one I have," I said."Nova —""Liam." I looked at him. "I'm going."Something crossed his face. Not anger — something quieter than that. The specific expression of a man who had just realised that the usual tools weren't working and didn't know what to do about it. He was used to me folding. We both knew it. I had folded consistently and reliably for three years on things that mattered and things that didn't and somewhere between last night and this morning I had apparently run out of f

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    The sitting room took about ten minutes to fully decompress.Cole poured everyone something stronger. Gerald retreated to his study, which was his version of processing. Eleanor sat next to me on the sofa and did the thing she did where she held my hand briefly without making it into a moment, and I thought, not for the first time, that she had wasted an enormous amount of warmth on this family.Liam had gone quiet. The fighting-Liam always collapsed into quiet-Liam afterward — all the energy burned off, leaving something that looked almost like remorse. Almost."So," Eleanor said, in the voice of a woman steering a ship that had already hit several rocks and was determined to reach shore anyway. "How is everyone?"Cole raised his glass. "Emotionally, or —""Nova, love." Eleanor turned to me with a smile that was genuine despite everything. "How's things? Last time we spoke you were at the bakery. Are you still there?"I opened my mouth.I was going to lie. I had a whole lie ready — y

  • My Boyfriend's Brother   Chapter 3

    Eleanor Holt's front door was dark green with a brass knocker that had been polished so many times it had probably forgotten what unpolished felt like.I stood in front of it and did my usual thirty second ritual — straighten up, breathe, remind myself that I was a person who belonged places and not a stray who had accidentally followed Liam home three years ago and never left.It helped. Slightly.Liam rang the bell. Eleanor opened the door with the specific warmth of a woman who was genuinely happy to see you, which still caught me off guard every single time."Nova." She took both my hands. Squeezed them. "You look wonderful. Come in, come in."We came in.The house smelled like something roasting and old wood and that particular expensive-house smell that wasn't a product, just money settling into the walls over generations. Gerald was already in the sitting room with a drink, which meant he'd been there long enough to need one, which was always a sign."Liam." Gerald. Then a paus

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    "Nova, baby, it's not what you think."I stared at him."It's really not what it looks like.""Liam.""She means nothing, you know that, you know I love you —""Liam.""Just let me explain, please, just five minutes, I swear on my mother —""Do not swear on your mother."He closed his mouth.I sat on the edge of the bed — the very edge, as far from the Daisy situation as the mattress would allow — and looked at the wall while he talked. He was good at talking. Three years and the man had never run out of things to say in this specific scenario. I'd started to think he rehearsed.The story this time was stress. Work pressure. A moment of weakness. Daisy was a mistake, Daisy was nothing, Daisy was a symptom of a problem he was going to fix starting right now, starting today, he meant it this time.He always meant it this time.I nodded in the right places. I let my eyes do the glossy thing. Somewhere around the twelve minute mark I produced two tears — not on purpose, they just showed u

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    I heard them the moment I stepped into the house.They were loud.I stood in the doorway, closed my eyes, listened, and tried to guess the girl. It had become a little game of mine. A girl has to entertain herself somehow.The moan that floated down the stairs was high pitched and dramatic, with that particular performance quality. It was too easy."Yep. That's definitely Daisy."My boyfriend was upstairs. With Daisy. Again.Daisy was the most frequent. Then Hannah. Then Paige, who only showed up occasionally and always smelled like the same vanilla perfume that I'd started associating with Liam's guilty face. Sometimes there were new ones — girls I hadn't catalogued yet — but he usually cycled back to his usuals. Creatures of habit, the both of them.From upstairs, Daisy confirmed my suspicions at a volume that suggested she either genuinely lost her mind or had never heard of neighbours.She was always so extra.He wasn't even that good.I set my bag down by the door. Took off my sh

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