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Chapter 148
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My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 152
I woke before Liam did, which almost never happened, and lay there for a while just watching the early light move across the ceiling of his apartment, still faintly stunned by the previous night, by how much of himself he'd handed over across that table without once making it feel like a performance of vulnerability instead of the real thing. "You're staring," he murmured, eyes still closed, and I laughed, caught. "You're pretty when you're unconscious. Sue me." "I own several lawyers," Liam said, finally opening one eye. "I could make that happen." It was easy, warm, the kind of morning that belonged only to the two of us, and it stayed that way for exactly as long as it took his phone to light up on the nightstand, the screen turning face-up automatically the way phones did now, some small design choice that felt, in that moment, like an intrusion he hadn't invited either. He glanced at it the way he glanced at everything, quick, assessing, filed away in half a second, and
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 151
The restaurant Liam had chosen didn't have a name on the door, just a discreet brass number and a host who greeted him by name before we'd even stepped fully out of the car. He'd bought out the small private room upstairs for the evening, not because the occasion demanded it, but because it was simply how he moved through the world, reserving whole spaces the way other people reserved tables. I'd stopped being surprised by it months ago, even if I'd never quite stopped noticing it."No calls," he told the host quietly as we were led up the narrow staircase. "For either of us. Nothing gets through unless someone's on fire.""Of course, Mr Hale."It was the first time in three days I'd seen him actually close a door on the outside world instead of half-listening to it through one, and something in my shoulders loosened as the door shut behind the waiter who'd poured our wine and then left us entirely alone, no hovering staff, no phone screens lighting up on the table between us. Even th
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 150
"You don't have to take it," Liam said, watching my thumb hover over the screen, his voice carefully neutral in a way that told me exactly how much effort the neutrality was costing him. "I mean it.""I know," I said. "But I want to."He didn't argue. That was the part that still surprised me sometimes, six months into this: the version of Liam who ran board meetings by simply stating what would happen and watching the room rearrange itself around him was the same man standing three feet away, hands in his pockets, letting me decide how to handle his ex-fiancée without once reaching for the phone himself. A year ago he would have taken the call out of my hand entirely, out of some blend of protectiveness and habit, the reflex of a man used to absorbing every hard thing on behalf of everyone in his orbit. He didn't reach for it now. I answered."Hello, Nina." Camilla's voice was different than it had been in the conference room, softer, almost fragile, the practiced fragility of someon
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 149
"She's gone," Ralph said, poking his head into the conference room the second the elevator doors closed behind Monica Reyes, as if he'd been counting down the seconds in the hallway.The room exhaled all at once — Amy's shoulders dropping, Ralph loosening his tie he'd only worn because Liam asked him to look presentable for once, the particular collective sag of people who'd been holding themselves upright for a reason that no longer needed holding. I should have felt it too. Instead I sat very still, running my answer back through my head for what had to be the tenth time, listening for the version of it that sounded like a mistake."Everyone out for a minute," Liam said, and it wasn't a request, though his voice stayed easy, almost casual. That was the thing about Liam that still occasionally caught me off guard, even now — he never had to raise his voice to clear a room. People moved, the way employees at a company he owned outright had learned to move for a decade before I'd ever
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 148
"You're doing the thing," Liam said as he came up behind me in the mirror, adjusting his own cuffs with the unhurried precision of a man who'd sat through a hundred harder mornings than this one."What thing," I said, though I already knew."The overthinking thing," Liam said as he set his hands lightly on my shoulders, turning me gently away from the mirror. "You've read that shirt's mind for ten minutes. It has nothing left to tell you."I'd changed it three times already, telling myself the pale blue one made me look calm instead of like someone bracing for impact, even though I didn't believe it either way. It was easier to obsess over a shirt than over the actual morning waiting for us downstairs."I just want this to go well," I said, smoothing a wrinkle that wasn't there."It will," Liam said, and then, softer, "and if it doesn't, we'll handle that too. Together. That's the part that's different this time."I reached up and straightened his collar, more out of habit than necess
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 147
Ralph was waiting on the sidewalk when we pulled up, his coat thrown on over pyjama pants, phone pressed so hard to his ear I could see the white of his knuckles from the car."She's inside the diner on Forsythe," Ralph said as he jogged over to meet us, out of breath. "Not outside anything. Inside. Sitting across from the reporter like it's a coffee date.""That's new," I said as I climbed out, glancing at Liam. "Last time she at least pretended it wasn't planned.""She's not pretending this time," Ralph said, glancing between us like he wasn't sure which one of us needed the warning more. "I think she wants you to walk in on it."Liam went quiet for a second, studying the glowing sign of the diner across the street, and I watched something shift in his expression, not anger exactly, more like recalculation."Then we don't walk in," Liam said finally, surprising both of us."You're joking," I said as I turned to look at him fully. "She's in there right now.""Which means whatever she
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The knock came without warning, followed immediately by Amy pushing the door open like she owned the place. Ralph trailed behind her, coffee in hand, already looking like he had something to say.“Tell me you’re not buried in spreadsheets again,” Amy said, walking in without waiting for an answer.
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 3
LATER THAT DAY“What do you mean you can’t make it?” I asked, knowing fully well I wanted her to hear the disappointment in my voice.On the other end, Amanda sighed. “Nina, I’m so sorry. Kayla had homework. I sat down to help her and completely lost track of time. I should’ve called earlier to let
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 2
The loud movement downstairs dragged me the hell out of sleep.At first, I thought I was dreaming when I kept hearing voices and strange sounds in my head. The sounds came muffled through the wooden floors, persistent enough to keep tugging at my consciousness until I finally decided to open my eye
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 1
“Wait a minute. Isn’t that the boss’s wife sitting right there?”My ears heard those words despite the loud music playing while I sat still with my glass of champagne in my hand. Honestly, it took a lot for me not to turn my head in their direction.I sat alone at one of the VIP tables watching cam
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