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Chapter 83

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The morning after committing to Lucien, we start fighting back.

"First step," Lucien says over breakfast while Charlotte colors at the table, "we expose Victor's smear campaign. My investigators have been gathering evidence."

"You've had investigators on this?"

"Since the first attack on your team. I wasn't going to sit idle while he destroyed you."

"But I told you not to help."

"I told you I'd respect your decision. I didn't say I'd stop protecting you."

I should be angry. But I'm not. I'm gra
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  • 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 178: Jack's Speech

    I had declined the EthicsTech Conference twice before.The first time, four years ago, I had declined because the programme that year read like a celebration of ethical tech rather than an examination of it, and I did not want to be on a stage confirming that the industry was doing well when I was not certain it was. The second time, two years ago, I had declined because Bridge was in the middle of the government partnerships expansion and I did not have the capacity for anything that was not that.This year I accepted, because the regulatory challenge and the disclosure had made me a different kind of speaker than I would have been before them. Not more authoritative exactly. More honest, which was a different thing.The conference was held in Amsterdam in February, in a large converted industrial building near the waterfront that had the quality of spaces that had been repurposed with care: the original structure visible, nothing hidden, the history of the building part of the exper

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 176: Nadia

    The approval came on a Tuesday in September, fourteen months after they had begun the process, in a document that was straightforwardly administrative in its language and that Jack read three times before the content of it fully arrived.He called Priya from his office. She answered on the first ring, which meant she had been waiting."It's approved," he said.A silence, brief, the kind that was not absence but the opposite of absence."Alright," Priya said. Her voice had the quality it had when she was receiving something large and was processing it in the register below language. "Alright.""We can travel in six weeks," Jack said. "The coordinator will call this afternoon with the specific timeline.""Six weeks," Priya said."Six weeks," Jack confirmed.Neither of them said anything else for a moment, and the silence between them was the specific silence of two people who had been carrying a weight for fourteen months and had just been told they could set it down, and were discoveri

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 175: Priya's Own Crisis

    The offer arrived in June, three weeks after the Bridge disclosure had moved from crisis to process, the remediation plan underway and the third-party audit scheduled. Jack was in the middle of the mentor pool expansion work when Priya called him at eleven in the morning, which she did not normally do, and said: "Meridian has approached us."Jack knew the name. Everyone in health technology knew Meridian Pharmaceuticals: a Swiss corporation with a global footprint, a genuine reputation for research investment, and the kind of balance sheet that made acquisition offers feel like geological events rather than business decisions. "What kind of approach," he said."A serious one," Priya said. "Full acquisition. They want to meet next week.""Are you going to meet them."A pause. "I think I have to understand what they're offering before I can decide whether to decline it.""That's a yes," Jack said."That's a yes," Priya agreed.She met with Meridian's acquisition team on a Thursday, in a

  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 20

    I'd finally moved out of Tessy's apartment two weeks ago. The small studio I'd rented in Brooklyn wasn't much, but it was mine. One room with a tiny kitchen, a bathroom barely big enough to turn around in, and a Murphy bed that folded into the wall. But the rent was cheap, the building was safe, an

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  • 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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  • My Ex's Boss is My Baby's Father   Chapter 19

    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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  • My 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

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