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My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 183
I woke slowly, sunlight cutting through the gap in the curtains, the warmth of the previous night still sitting somewhere in my chest before I'd even fully opened my eyes, before reality had a chance to catch up with me.Liam was already awake beside me, propped on one elbow, watching me with an expression I hadn't seen on him before, something unguarded and quiet, like he was still absorbing what had happened on that balcony as much as I was, turning it over carefully in his mind the way he turned over everything that mattered."Good morning," he said."Is it still true," I asked, my voice rough with sleep, "or did I dream the whole thing?""Which part," Liam asked, smiling in a way I rarely saw from him this early, soft around the edges. "The part where I told you I loved you, or the part where Patricia interrupted us on a balcony to tell us Drew leaked the guest list to a reporter?""The first part. I'd like to keep believing that one happened, at least for a few more minutes befor
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I didn't answer right away.Liam's words sat in the cold air between us, and instead of rushing to fill the silence, I let myself actually feel the size of them, the weight of everything that had led to this exact moment on this exact balcony.The guilt came first, an old, familiar shape I'd carried for so long it had almost started to feel like part of me. Daniel's ring still on my finger the first time Liam kissed me, both of us pretending afterward that it hadn't meant anything, that we could put it back where we found it. The year I spent convinced I didn't deserve to be happy about how we'd started, like happiness itself was something that had to be earned through suffering first.Then the drawer, cleared out without ceremony, Maria's quiet work done before I'd even asked for it.The small brass key, dropped into my palm on his way past the kitchen island like it weighed nothing at all, though it had turned out to weigh more than almost anything else he'd ever given me.Elena's v
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I stepped back before Liam and Grant could round the corner and find me standing there, my heart pounding for reasons that had nothing to do with the champagne, and made my way quickly toward the terrace doors at the far end of the room, weaving through clusters of people who barely registered me passing.The cold air hit me the moment I stepped outside, sharp and clean after the perfume and noise of the ballroom, the city spread out below in a thousand small lights that didn't care at all what was happening two floors up. I pulled my wrap tighter around my shoulders and let the quiet settle over me, grateful for it in a way I hadn't expected to be grateful for anything tonight.I gripped the railing and let myself breathe, really breathe, for what felt like the first time all evening.Everything about tonight had been a performance in one way or another. Smiling at investors whose names I'd already forgotten the moment I let go of their hands. Sitting across from Eleanor while she me
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Eleanor excused herself not long after her verdict hung in the air, drifting back into the crowd with the same quiet precision she'd arrived with, leaving me alone at the small table trying to decide whether I'd passed some test or simply failed to fail it outright.Liam appeared a moment later, sliding into the seat his mother had just vacated, loosening his collar slightly like the last ten minutes had cost him something too."Well," he said. "You're still sitting upright. That's usually a good sign, in my experience.""I honestly don't know how that went.""Knowing my mother, that means it went better than most first meetings," Liam said. "She usually decides within thirty seconds whether someone's worth further conversation, and then simply moves on to the next room. She gave you considerably longer than thirty seconds. That's practically a standing ovation, by her standards.""Is that supposed to be reassuring?""It's the best I've got tonight," he admitted, reaching for my hand
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I hadn't fully recovered from Drew's comment when Liam finally reappeared beside me, his hand finding my back automatically, some instinct clearly telling him something was wrong before I'd said a single word. "You look pale," Liam said quietly, studying my face. "What happened?" "Drew," I said. "He's here. Someone's plus one, apparently, though I doubt Patricia's list actually included him." Liam's jaw tightened, his eyes scanning the crowded room immediately, sharp and searching. "Where is he now?" "He's gone. He said what he wanted to say and left before you could catch him." "What did he say to you?" "It doesn't matter right now," I said, though it clearly did, the words still sitting cold and heavy in my chest. "Later. Not here, not with your mother about to arrive any minute." Liam looked like he wanted to argue, his eyes still scanning the room for any sign of Drew, but before he could push further, a voice cut smoothly through the noise around us, cool and precise
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The dress had taken me three tries to zip correctly, and even now, standing in the mirror one last time, I wasn't entirely sure it was the nerves making my hands unsteady or something else entirely."You look perfect," Liam said, appearing in the doorway of the bedroom, already dressed, his tie perfectly straight in a way that made me suspect he'd redone it more than once too."You have to say that." I replied as my cheeks turned red."I don't have to say anything," he said, crossing the room to stand behind me, meeting my eyes in the mirror. "I'm saying it because it's true.""I feel like I'm about to walk into an exam I didn't study for.""You've been studying for months," Liam said. "You just didn't know it. Every dinner with Elena, every conversation with Patricia, every rumor you survived at the office. This is just the final room.""That's not as comforting as you think it is.""I know," he said, smiling faintly. "I'm better with numbers than speeches. You knew that going in."T
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“You need to see this,” she said, her voice breaking into laughter as she turned the screen toward me.I leaned forward slightly, squinting at the phone. “What now?”“Girl, they are dragging him,” she said, shaking her head, her tone somewhere between impressed and amused. “Look at this headline.
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Deep down inside of me, I knew the quietness in this office wasn’t going to remain when Daniel arrived. I sat across from my lawyer, my hands resting on the arm of the chair like I needed something solid to keep me up. The clock on the wall ticked steadily, each second dragging, and I found myself
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“Who is it?” My voice came out rough, because I had successfully finished a bottle of red wine on my own.The knock came again, this time loud and it seemed whoever it was had gotten impatient.I managed to drag myself up, my body resisting every movement as I stumbled toward the door, one hand lea
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“Hello, Nina. It’s really nice to meet you.” Liam responded with a smile on his face.I could hear his voice echoing in my ears while my mind played back events from last night. It felt like my favourite memory had suddenly become a nightmare that I was living in.“What’s wrong, honey?” Daniel aske
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