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Chapter 152
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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
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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
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"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
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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 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
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"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
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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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By the time I got home, the quiet felt louder than the party.The hallway was dim, the kind of soft lighting that usually made everything feel calm, but tonight it just made the silence heavier. I shifted my bag on my shoulder, digging through it for my keys as I reached my door, my fingers brushin
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I didn’t go back into the party.I couldn’t.The music still pulsed faintly through the walls as I pushed open the stairwell door, the heavy metal slamming shut behind me with a dull echo that felt louder than it should have. The sudden quiet wrapped around me, thick and suffocating, broken only by
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“Come in,” his voice came from inside, steady, like he had expected me.Of course, he had.I pushed the door open and stepped in without hesitation, closing it behind me with a soft click. He was at his desk, sleeves rolled just enough to show his wrists, his posture relaxed but focused, like he
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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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