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Chapter 41
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Olivia POVI noticed the pattern before I understood what it meant Roman disappearing into calls with unfamiliar numbers more often than usual, Adrian suddenly cagey whenever I asked what he'd been working on, a folder on Roman's desk one evening that he closed a little too quickly when I walked into the study without knocking.At first I assumed it was simply ordinary business, the usual churn of deals and negotiations that had always occupied a significant portion of Roman's attention. But the secrecy felt different this time, more deliberate, Adrian and Roman occasionally exchanging glances across the dinner table like they were sharing a joke I wasn't in on, and my curiosity, never particularly patient to begin with, grew harder to ignore with every passing day."What are you two hiding?" I finally asked, a week or so after the Blackridge mention, catching Roman and Adrian mid-conversation in the study, both of them going instantly, suspiciously silent the moment I appeared in the
My Ex’s Replacement Is A Hockey Billionaire Chapter 41
Olivia POVEthan's words kept coming after that first morning, slow and halting at first, like a stream finding its way back through ground that had gone dry for too long, and then, gradually, faster, fuller, until by the end of the second week he was stringing together short sentences with a confidence that still made my chest ache every single time I heard them.Dr. Alvarez, his therapist, wanted to see him twice that week instead of the usual once, and I sat in the waiting room both times, knee bouncing with nerves I couldn't quite shake despite how well everything seemed to be going, until she finally called me in on the second visit with an expression that told me, before she said a word, that the news was good."This is remarkable progress," she said, settling into her chair across from me while Ethan colored quietly in the corner, seemingly unbothered by being discussed. "In my experience, selective mutism this severe and this prolonged doesn't typically resolve all at once. It
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Olivia POVThe federal investigation into Webb Industries moved faster than anyone expected, Vanessa's documentation proving airtight enough to trigger raids on Webb's offices within a week, his own board scrambling to distance the company from him entirely once the scope of the conspiracy became public. Roman spent those weeks buried in calls with his own board, his legal team, and a growing chorus of business journalists suddenly very interested in a story that had, somehow, evolved from a custody battle into one of the largest corporate fraud scandals the city had seen in years.Through all of it, Ethan remained our steady center, oblivious to the financial complexities swirling around him, content instead with ordinary things — a new set of colored pencils Mrs. Doyle had picked up, a particularly stubborn puzzle he refused to let either of us help with, the gradual, warm rhythm of an ordinary life slowly, finally settling into place around him.I found myself, more and more often,
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Olivia POVThe prosecutor's office arranged the meeting for two days later, a small conference room downtown, Priya seated beside us, Vanessa's own defense attorney across the table looking considerably less confident than he had during the custody hearing months earlier.I hadn't wanted to come, if I was honest with myself. Some part of me would have been perfectly content never seeing Vanessa's face again for the rest of my life. But Priya had been firm — my presence, as the person Vanessa's actions had most directly harmed, carried weight in a room like this, and Roman had squeezed my hand in the car and told me I didn't have to say a single word if I didn't want to, that simply being there was enough.Vanessa herself looked different, stripped of the polished, camera-ready presentation she'd always maintained before. Plain clothes, hair pulled back simply, no makeup to soften the exhaustion visible in every line of her face. For the first time since she'd walked back into our live
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Olivia POV"Her lawyer," I repeated, sitting up straight, the warm, lazy contentment of a moment ago evaporating instantly. "Why would her lawyer be here? She's in custody.""That's what I'd like to know." Roman was already dialing Adrian back, his voice sharp with the particular wariness that had become second nature to both of us over the past weeks. "Put him on."A moment later, a man's voice came through the speaker, clipped and professional. "Mr. Callahan, my apologies for the late hour. My name is Gerald Finch. I represent Ms. Sinclair in her ongoing legal matters. I have documentation I need to deliver personally, given the sensitivity involved.""You could have sent it through my attorney," Roman said, flat."Ordinarily, yes. This particular matter requested direct delivery, per my client's specific instructions." A pause, and something in the man's tone shifted, careful in a way that made the hair on my arms stand up. "It concerns Ethan."Roman's whole body went rigid. "What
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Olivia POVWe stayed at the lake house for four full days, and by the time we finally packed the car to head back, I'd nearly forgotten what it felt like to check the news the moment I woke up,The habit crept back the second we crossed back within range of decent cell service, my phone buzzing with two days' worth of accumulated notifications the moment it found a signal, and I felt the familiar knot of anxiety tighten in my stomach even before I looked at the screen.Most of it was noise — follow-up coverage on the Webb Industries scandal, a few messages from Anaya wanting details, one from my mother asking, with the particular gentle persistence only mothers seem to manage, whether I was finally going to tell her the whole story instead of the carefully edited version I'd been feeding her over the phone.I stared at her message for a long moment, guilt creeping in around the edges of the peace I'd just spent four days building. She'd been fighting her own battle this whole time, an
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