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Chapter 107: The Twins' Personalities
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My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 135: First Collection
The collection did not have a name until four days before the showcase.Emma had been working on it for seven months, which Chloe knew only in the general sense because Emma had not invited detailed involvement, had not brought sketches to the kitchen table for feedback or asked questions about construction that implied she wanted help rather than just information. She worked in her room, in the space she had gradually converted from a child's bedroom to a working studio over the years, the walls covered in her illustration work and reference images and fabric samples arranged with the precise organisational logic that was entirely her own.Chloe had respected the boundary because Emma had not set it explicitly but because it was visible, and because she had spent enough years learning when presence was support and when it was interference to read the difference in her own daughter.What she had offered, and what Emma had accepted, was practical rather than creative. Access to fabric
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 134: Hall of Fame
The Fashion Industry Hall of Fame had inducted one hundred and twelve people in its forty-year history.Chloe and Lucien would be the first married couple inducted in the same year. The committee had noted this in their letter with the particular tone of institutions acknowledging a historical first while being careful not to make the historical firstness the primary point, subordinating it correctly to the achievements that had produced it.Lucien had read the letter, set it down, and said: "They're going to make the married couple thing the story.""Some of it," Chloe agreed."The work should be the story.""The work will be most of the story. The married couple thing will be the headline." She looked at him. "We can't control the headline. We can control what we say."He nodded, accepting this with the pragmatism he had developed over years of being a public figure in an industry that had its own relationship with narrative.The ceremony was in New York in June, held in the same in
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 133: Next Chapter
Blair called on a Sunday in April, which was their usual time, but her opening sentence was not the usual opening."I'm selling the boutiques," she said.Chloe waited, knowing there was more."All ten locations. I've had an offer from a retail group that wants the brand and the infrastructure. They'll keep the sustainable focus, keep most of the staff, continue the supplier relationships I've built." A pause. "It's a good offer. It's the right time. And I'm ready to stop.""Stop running them," Chloe said. "Not stop working."Blair's voice warmed slightly, the specific warmth of being understood without having to explain. "Correct. I've been thinking about what I actually want to do. Not what I'm good at, not what made sense as the next step from modelling. What I want." Another pause, longer. "I want to go back to the beginning of where I went wrong and do something different there."She explained what she meant across the next twenty minutes, and Chloe listened with the full attentio
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 132: The Foundation
Catherine had been the foundation's executive director for three years when she presented the annual report at the board meeting in January, and Chloe sat at the table and listened to her speak about the organisation with the authority of someone who owned its direction, and felt something that was entirely positive and required a moment to identify.She was no longer the most important person in the room.Not marginalised, not replaced, but correctly positioned: a founder and board member who provided strategic direction and whose vision had shaped everything, but who was not the operational centre. Catherine was the operational centre. She knew the programme details, the beneficiary numbers, the staff challenges, the partnership negotiations, all the daily substance of a growing organisation, with a fluency that came from full immersion.Chloe knew the big picture and trusted Catherine with the rest.This had taken longer to genuinely feel right than she had expected. The intellectu
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 131: Empty Nest Begins
The house was quieter than it used to be.Not quiet, not yet, not with Marcus still requiring the full presence of parenting and Emma and Jack oscillating between independence and the baseline need for home to be reliably there. But quieter in the specific way of a household whose density had changed, one person removed from the daily count in a way that redistributed the atmosphere of the place.Leo had been gone for six weeks when Chloe first sat with the quietness directly, on a Sunday morning in October, standing in the doorway of his bedroom. Clara had kept it tidy in his absence, not changed, just maintained. His drafting table was clear. The fabric swatches were still pinned to the board above it. The streetwear samples that hadn't made it into his luggage hung on the rail in the corner.She stood there for a moment without going in.She was not sad exactly. She had a postcard from Leo pinned to the kitchen noticeboard, sent from Kyoto after his first week at the fabric manufac
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 130: Decisions
The acceptances arrived across three weeks in March, each one producing a response in the household that Leo bore with increasing difficulty.Wharton arrived first. Lucien read the email over Leo's shoulder at the kitchen table and said nothing for a moment, then said, with the controlled enthusiasm of someone managing their reaction: "That's a significant programme." Which was Lucien for: I want this for you and I am trying not to say so too loudly.Parsons arrived four days later. Chloe was in the studio when Leo forwarded it to her and she called him immediately, and in her voice was the same controlled enthusiasm, the same careful management, which Leo recognised as identical in structure to Lucien's and different only in direction.The London College of Fashion arrived the week after. Blair sent a voice note when Leo mentioned it, twenty seconds of genuine excitement followed by a recommendation that he consider the Paris campus of a programme she had heard about from someone in
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 21
I wore long sleeves to work the next day, even though it was warm outside. A black turtleneck under my oversized blazer, hiding the bruises Travis had left on my arm.But I'd forgotten about the meeting with Lucien to review final production schedules.We sat in his office, spreadsheets and timelin
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Five weeks until Fashion Week.The collection was coming together beautifully. Every piece was precisely constructed, the innovative techniques working even better than I'd hoped. We were ahead of schedule for once, which should have relieved the pressure.Instead, the tension was getting worse. Be
آخر تحديث : 2026-03-20My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 22
Three weeks until New York Fashion Week.The internal preview was scheduled for a Tuesday morning. All the major Cross Luxury Group board members would attend, along with key stakeholders, investors, and fashion industry consultants Lucien trusted.I barely slept the night before. My collection was
آخر تحديث : 2026-03-20My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 18
I was crying over a sketch when Lucien found me.It was past midnight. The building was empty except for security and the cleaning crew. I'd been working on collection details, refining pieces, making sure every element was perfect.Then I'd drawn something without thinking. A small jacket with ori
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