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Chapter 118: Leo's First Love
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My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 183: The Complication
By the third week of rehearsal I understood the shape of the complication clearly enough that I could have described it to someone precisely, which meant it was no longer the kind of thing I could manage by simply not describing it.The show was called Meridian, which I had noted when I first got the script with the private amusement of someone whose sister-in-law had recently declined an acquisition offer from a corporation of the same name. The coincidence meant nothing. I had not mentioned it to Jack. It seemed like the kind of detail that was funny in inverse proportion to how much you explained it.The show was about a lighthouse keeper and the community of a small island, and it was structured around the idea of the meridian as both a navigational concept and a personal one, the line you crossed that changed everything about which direction you were facing. The score was the best new musical writing I had encountered in two years of Broadway work: complex without being inaccessi
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 182: The Cast
Diane called me on a Thursday in March with the kind of energy she reserved for things she considered genuinely significant, which I had learned to distinguish from her ordinary energy across two years of working together."There's a callback," she said. "New musical. Original book, original score, world premiere in the fall. The composer has been developing it for six years and the producers finally have the backing to do it properly. They want you for the second lead.""Who's the composer," I said.She told me. I knew the name from two off-Broadway productions I had seen, both of them scored with the specific intelligence of someone who understood that music in theatre was not decoration but structure, that the score was doing work the book could not do and that the work needed to be precise. One of those productions had won an Obie. The other had transferred to a small Broadway house and run for eight months, which was not a long run but was the right length for what it was."When'
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 181: Broadway
The show ran Tuesday through Sunday, eight performances a week, and on Mondays I cleaned my flat and did my laundry and called my mother and slept for as much of the afternoon as my body would allow, which was usually three hours before something in me decided that sleeping past four in the afternoon was a moral failure and woke me up regardless of what I wanted.I had been in New York for two years. The Edinburgh production, a new play about three generations of a Scottish family that had been written by someone who had been saving it for twenty years and it showed in the best possible way, had transferred to an off-Broadway venue the previous spring after a run at the Festival that had produced the kind of reviews that made transfers possible. The casting director who had seen it was a woman named Diane who had been in the Edinburgh audience on the third night and had come backstage afterward with the specific directness of someone who did not have time for preamble, told me I was g
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 180: Bridge
The first government approached us in March, six months after the disclosure.It was the Dutch Ministry of Education, which made a certain sense given that the conference had been in Amsterdam and the speech had circulated more widely than I had expected, the full transcript published by the conference organisers and shared in enough policy circles that it had reached people I had not known were paying attention. The ministry's director of youth employment programmes sent a direct email to my professional address, not routed through Bridge's partnerships team, which I took as a signal that she had done her research and understood that this kind of conversation needed to start at the level where the values decisions were made.She wanted to discuss using Bridge's matching framework for a national youth mentorship initiative. Not Bridge the product, but Bridge the methodology: the way we thought about matching, the equity framework, the success metrics we had revised after the algorithm
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 179: The Anniversary
The reservation was for seven thirty, a restaurant in Marylebone that Priya had chosen because she had walked past it three years ago and noted it as a place for a specific occasion, storing it in the way she stored things she intended to return to, with the quiet certainty that the right moment would present itself.Five years felt like the right moment.The nanny had Nadia for the evening, which we had arranged a week in advance with the coordination that all evenings without Nadia required now, the planning that had become automatic in the four months since the placement. We had become, without quite deciding to become, people who planned carefully in order to have unplanned time, which I recognised as one of the structural changes of parenthood that no one described accurately in advance because the description would not be believed.We took a taxi rather than the Underground because Priya was wearing something that deserved a taxi, which she would have contested as a reason if I
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 177: Chloe and Nadia
I arrived on a Saturday in December, taking the train rather than a taxi from the station because I had always preferred arriving into a neighbourhood on foot when I could, the walking giving me time to transition from travelling to being somewhere.Jack and Priya's street was quiet in the way of London streets on Saturday mornings, the particular stillness of a residential area that was not yet fully awake. I had been to the flat many times across the years, knew the specific sound the front gate made and the way the entry phone required a second press if the first did not register. Small things accumulated across years of visiting people you loved in their homes.Jack answered the door. He looked different than he had at the wedding two months ago, different in the way that new parents looked different: not diminished, not depleted exactly, but rearranged, the priorities reshuffled in a way that was visible in the face before it was visible anywhere else."She's in the front room,"
My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 66
I don't sleep that night. I lie in the hotel bed, replaying the conversation with Lucien, staring at the check, feeling the baby kick.By morning, I'm exhausted and no closer to an answer.My flight to London is at six PM. I have one day left in New York.I'm packing when there's a knock at my door
Last Updated : 2026-03-31My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 63
Three weeks into my London life, Blair flies over to visit. I pick her up at Heathrow with Leo, who bounces with excitement."Mom! Mom!" He runs to her at arrivals, and she drops her bags to hug him."Hi, baby. I missed you so much."Watching them together, I see something different in Blair. She h
Last Updated : 2026-03-30My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 57
I wake to beeping machines and antiseptic smell. Hospital. Again. My mouth tastes like cotton and my head feels stuffed with wool."Chloe?" Lucien's voice, rough and urgent. "Can you hear me?"I force my eyes open. The lights are dim, thankfully. Lucien sits beside the bed, his hand gripping mine l
Last Updated : 2026-03-29My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 59
Lucien's penthouse is exactly what I expected. Sleek, modern, expensive. Floor to ceiling windows overlooking Central Park. Minimalist furniture in shades of gray and white. Abstract art on the walls. Everything perfect and controlled, just like him."The guest room is down this hall," he says, whe
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