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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
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 179
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
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 178
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
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 177
Patricia had a folder open on the conference table by the time we arrived, tabs color coded, a level of preparation that told me this gala was going to be nothing like Ralph's cake and balloons in the break room."Investors first," Patricia said, sliding a page toward us. "The Whitfield group, the Okafor family fund, two people from the sovereign wealth side who barely speak but notice everything. Smile, shake hands, let Liam do the talking unless someone asks you something directly.""I can talk," I said."I know you can talk," Patricia said, not looking up from her folder. "I'm telling you not to unless it's necessary. There's a difference between confidence and giving people a reason to write something down."Liam scanned the list beside me, quiet and focused in the way he got before anything that actually mattered to him."Anyone from the board I should worry about specifically?" he asked."Grant's bringing his usual concerns," Patricia said. "He's the one who raised the optics co
My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 176
Sunday dinner at my place had always been loud, even before Liam, but this was the first time it had ever included him as more than a passing mention in conversation, more than a name I brought up carefully and then quickly changed the subject away from."You're actually cooking?" Amy asked, walking in with a bottle of wine and immediately eyeing the chaos on my stove."I'm attempting to cook," I corrected. "Liam's actually doing most of it.""Liam Ashford. In an apron," Ralph said, appearing behind Amy with a grin already forming across his whole face. "This I need to see with my own eyes. Photographic evidence might not be enough."He got his wish almost immediately. Liam stood at the stove, sleeves rolled up, an apron tied slightly crooked around his waist, stirring something with far more concentration than the task probably required, like the sauce might report back to the board if he got it wrong."Don't," Liam said, without turning around, clearly sensing an audience gathering
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Elena called on a Wednesday evening, and this time she didn't want to talk to me alone."Put Liam on," she said, before I'd even said hello properly. "I want to actually talk to him. Not about him.""That's oddly formal for someone who danced with him at your own wedding.""That's exactly why I get to be formal now," Elena said. "Things are different when it's my sister's whole life on the line instead of a seating chart.""You make it sound like a tribunal.""It's whatever I decide to call it," Elena said. "Get him."I found Liam in the kitchen, sleeves pushed up, halfway through drying a mug he'd already dried once."Elena wants you," I said."Should I be worried?""With Elena, always a little.""You said that last time too.""It was true last time too."We propped the phone against the stack of cookbooks on the counter, Elena's face filling the screen, sunlight behind her, a glass of wine already in hand, the sound of Marco moving around somewhere in the background."There he is,"
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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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