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Chapter 184: After Closing Night
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2026-06-27 02:19:42
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My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father Chapter 184: After Closing Night
Closing night was a Saturday in February, and it was the kind of closing night that good productions produced: the cast knowing it was the last one and performing it with the specific fullness of people who understood they were saying goodbye to something, the audience feeling something without knowing quite why, the whole room carrying the weight of the last time without being able to say so.I had done closing nights before. The Edinburgh production, the Harlem revival. I knew how they felt from the inside. This one felt different in a way I had been expecting and that still arrived with more weight than I had prepared for, and I understood that the weight was not entirely about the show, which had been extraordinary, but about what February meant beyond the production calendar.After the final curtain and the notes from the director and the speeches that closing nights required and the drinks that the producers had arranged in the lobby where the cast stood around with the slightly
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 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
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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
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Blair's first fitting was scheduled for a Thursday afternoon. I'd deliberately arranged it when most of the team would be gone, not wanting an audience for what I knew would be an uncomfortable encounter.Riley offered to stay, but I sent her home. Whatever happened between Blair and me needed to h
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