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The Years He Missed

ผู้เขียน: Maya East
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Something in my chest tightened immediately.

Zach got up from the chair, then moved closer until he was standing beside me, one shoulder almost brushing mine.

“Thank you for raising my children so well.” His voice dropped.

I looked down at the little shirt in my hands.

Navy. A dinosaur wearing headphones on the front.

Truly the least dramatic object in the world to be holding while a man with blue eyes decided to crack open your rib cage from the inside.

“They still throw blueberries when they’
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  • My Sister's Fiance   temporary insanity and roberto

    “And a dinosaur nugget vending machine.”“An important priority.”“Very.”“And they’ve been tested this whole time.”“Yes.”“To see if they’re strong, smart, and chaotic enough.”“Don’t use chaotic. They’ll be proud.”“They are.”“I know. It’s genetic.”Zach nodded slowly, still looking at me. “I can do it.”“Good.”“I’ll do it your way.”I narrowed my eyes. “Don’t turn that into a romantic sentence.”“Why?”“Because I’m allergic.”“You’re not allergic.” His voice dropped. “You just like pretending.”I opened my mouth to answer, probably with something cruel, beautiful, and worthy of being printed on a mug. Unfortunately, Zach was already too close.His hand lifted, not touching me directly, only picking up a tiny sock tucked near my elbow. He placed it on the correct pile.“Wrong place,” he said.I looked at the sock. Then at him. “You came into my closet to correct my laundry?”“I came to thank you.”“You did.”“To ask permission.”“You did.”“To hear your brilliant plan.”“You did.

  • My Sister's Fiance   permission to be dad

    I stopped.The entire closet seemed to shrink by one size.Outside, the children’s voices were still alive, wet, sweet, unaware of everything.I turned slowly.Zach was standing very close. His face was calm, but his eyes weren’t. They held the same look they had when he watched Max draw an atom, when he carried Issa after her tantrum, when he heard them say their father was out making lots of money.“I want to introduce myself as their father,” he said.I stared at him long enough for my own face to start feeling unfamiliar. “Now?”“Not this exact second.” He glanced toward the window. “They’re arranging Marco’s death.”“Priorities.”“But soon.” His gaze returned to my face. “With your permission.”I let out a quiet, very short laugh. “Look at you. Learning the word permission. America really changes a man.”“Don’t get too excited. I’m still difficult to control.”“Understatement of the century.”He waited.Damn it.He was actually waiting.I touched the edge of Issa’s dress, smoothi

  • My Sister's Fiance   The Years He Missed

    Something in my chest tightened immediately.Zach got up from the chair, then moved closer until he was standing beside me, one shoulder almost brushing mine.“Thank you for raising my children so well.” His voice dropped.I looked down at the little shirt in my hands.Navy. A dinosaur wearing headphones on the front.Truly the least dramatic object in the world to be holding while a man with blue eyes decided to crack open your rib cage from the inside.“They still throw blueberries when they’re offended,” I said.“Bella.”“And Max once tried to keep a nugget in my jacket pocket for a ‘future emergency.’ Issa once cried because her glass ‘didn’t have feminine energy.’ So don’t start praising me too quickly.”“Our children are good.”Our.I folded the shirt once. Wrong. Opened it again. Refolded it.Zach didn’t touch me, and somehow that made the space between us feel crowded with something that didn’t have a decent name.“They’re smart,” he continued. “Funny. Brave. Spoiled in the wa

  • My Sister's Fiance   For Them

    The afternoon after lunch, the backyard of Zach’s estate officially turned into something between an expensive playground, a miniature military training zone, and the set of a detergent commercial that had lost its moral budget.The rain had stopped an hour ago, but the grass was still wet and gleaming beneath the gray Oregon light. The cold air clung to the windowpanes, leaving a thin layer of fog in the corners, while outside, Max’s laughter rang out far too loudly for a normal human being and Issa issued instructions in the voice of a woman who should have been running a small country before kindergarten.I stood in my bedroom’s walk-in closet in front of the tall window overlooking the yard, holding one of Max’s little navy sweaters in one hand and one of Issa’s lavender shirts in the other.I was supposed to put the clothes away.I was not supposed to be standing there watching my two children turn an Italian billionaire’s backyard into a prehistoric swamp.But down there, Max sto

  • My Sister's Fiance   empty space still pulls

    After coding, we moved on to the art project.The prompt appeared on the screen: DRAW A WORLD TOO SMALL OR TOO FAR AWAY TO VISIT TODAY. THINK ABOUT SHAPE, COLOR, LIGHT, AND MOVEMENT.Underneath were examples of a galaxy, the ocean floor, a mountain peak, the surface of a leaf, and grains of sand under a microscope.Max immediately grabbed a sheet of black paper.Issa chose the thickest white paper, inspected the corners, then exchanged it because she said the left side of the first one “looked tired.”I handed them watercolor pencils, pastels, markers, and regular pencils. “Not on the couch,” I said.No one had accused anyone of anything.Issa started by making thin lines with a gray pencil. She drew a low horizon, then built two mountains in the distance. One was taller, its peak imperfect. In the foreground, she made rows of pine trees in different sizes, not the childish triangle shapes, but small trunks, thin branches, and shadows that grew darker closer to the foreground.I stopp

  • My Sister's Fiance   the genius problem

    School decided that an attempted kidnapping, an emergency relocation, and temporarily living in a secret mansion were not valid reasons to miss a day of education.I found out when the preschool portal chimed on the tablet.INDEPENDENT LEARNING DAYUnderneath was a cheerful message from their teacher, complete with a sun emoji that felt slightly aggressive.(Because school is closed today, we’ve prepared a few light activities to help the children maintain their routine. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Have fun!)The light activities consisted of nine pages of math, two art projects, one coding module, a reading log, and an eleven-minute video about forest ecosystems.I sat on the family-room carpet with the tablet in my lap, surrounded by pencil cases, thick drawing paper, crayons, markers, number cards, magnetic tiles, and a small fox-shaped coding robot Elena had just taken out of the education closet.Of course this house had an education closet.Zach’s mansion had a bunker, an ind

  • My Sister's Fiance   A Cursed Timeline

    “Come on. We’re going home.”I finally said it again, even though my own voice sounded far away in my ears. Like it belonged to some other woman who just happened to be wearing my face.Max immediately tightened his arms around Zach’s neck.No.Wait.What?Now he was clinging to the man like it was

  • My Sister's Fiance   Hot People Ruin Everything

    And then... the blue eyes I’d once punched found mine across the crowd.Oh, good.Just fantastic.If the universe had a sense of humor, it was definitely drunk.I didn’t know who moved first. Maybe not him. Maybe not me. Maybe the room just suddenly felt too tight, too bright, too full of people wh

  • My Sister's Fiance   Five Years After the Fire

    Five years later.Oregon rain tapped softly against the kitchen’s glass wall. Steady, cold, and mildly annoying.The pan on the stove hissed quietly, the smell of almost-done corn arepas mixing with black coffee and the chorizo I was frying in the skillet next to it. A slow Latin playlist floated f

  • My Sister's Fiance   The End of Us, The Start of Me

    I sat on a slick wooden bench on a Boston sidewalk, my watch telling me it was well past midnight, and the only things keeping me company were a streetlamp and the constant buzz of phone notifications going off like a curse.My boyfriend was being kissed by an influencer on a five-inch screen.I st

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