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Chapter 149

مؤلف: Quillian Dark
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"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
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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

  • My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend    Chapter 25

    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

  • My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend    Chapter 19

    “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

  • My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend    Chapter 5

    “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

  • My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend    Chapter 4

    The familiar vibration of my phone pulled me out of the first peaceful sleep I had had in days. It danced on the wooden nightstand, clashing with the smooth melodies of Frank Sinatra's voice drifting somewhere nearby. It all felt like I was in a dreamland but with someone banging on my head to wak

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