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Chapter 116: Tessy's Crisis

작가: Mary Anthony
last update 게시일: 2026-04-25 15:19:16

The call came on a Sunday evening in November, which was when Tessy always called, the slot they had maintained across nearly two decades of friendship with the reliability of a standing appointment neither had formally proposed but both had come to depend on.

Chloe was in the living room when her phone rang, half-listening to Marcus explain something that had happened at school with the narrative enthusiasm of a child who had recently discovered that stories improved with embellishment. She sa
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    The first acquisition offer arrived when Jack was seventeen, which he had not told them until he turned it down.Chloe discovered this in the way she discovered most things about Jack's business: indirectly, through a reference in a conversation that assumed she already knew, and then a brief recalibration on his part when he realised she did not."You turned down an acquisition offer," she said."It wasn't serious. The terms were exploratory. I didn't want to discuss something that wasn't worth discussing yet." He said this with the efficiency of someone who had thought about whether to mention it and decided it fell below the threshold of required disclosure. "There are more serious ones now."This was how they arrived at the conversation, on a Sunday in March, Jack eighteen and sitting at the kitchen table with a printed summary of three acquisition proposals, the same table where three years earlier he had sat with a printed spreadsheet explaining his business model and a composur

  • 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 28

    Three days until Fashion Week.The journalist's name was Victoria Chen, and she wrote for the most influential fashion publication in the country. Her profiles could make or break designers. When she requested an interview, Lucien's PR team insisted I accept."This is exactly the coverage we need,"

    last update최신 업데이트 : 2026-03-22

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 27

    Ten days until Fashion Week.I was in the studio reviewing model schedules with Riley when Blair walked in unannounced."We need to talk," she said without preamble.Riley immediately stood up, positioning herself between us like a bodyguard. "You're not supposed to be here. Security should have st

    last update최신 업데이트 : 2026-03-22

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 24

    Two weeks until Fashion Week.I was leaving the studio around eight in the evening, exhausted from another eighteen hour day. Derek, my security guard, walked slightly ahead of me toward the subway entrance.That's when I heard it. A small sniffle coming from the shadows near my apartment building

    last update최신 업데이트 : 2026-03-21

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 25

    In Lucien's car, driving away from the police station, I couldn't stop crying.It wasn't just tears. It was full body sobs that shook my shoulders and made it hard to breathe. All the stress and fear and humiliation of the past hours came pouring out.I'd been arrested. Handcuffed. Treated like a c

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