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Chapter 181
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My Husband Brought Another Woman, I Chose His Best Friend Chapter 181
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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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
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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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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.
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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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