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Chapter 17: The Notebook
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My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 43:The Letter He Left
(POV: Blake)I didn't move from his desk until everyone else had gone to bed.The envelope sat open in front of me. One page and my father's handwriting — precise and unhurried even at the end, the specific script of a man who had never in his life written anything in a way he wants to pass his information to others.I picked it up and read ---“Blake My Son”No preamble, You never liked preamble neither did I.“I am writing this because there are things a man cannot say standing up. I have spent my entire life standing up and I have discovered, rather late, that it costs something. I am writing this so the cost doesn't pass entirely to you because I knew a day like this will come.”“I made decisions. Across the years decisions about Sterling Global, about the family, about you that I believed were right. I understand now that believing a decision is right and it simply being yours are not the same thing. The distance between those two things is the distance between a legacy and a l
My ex husband lost me to his rival CHAPTER 42 :THE DNA RESULTS
(BLAKE POV)I'd been staring at the same line for twenty minutes.Probability of paternity: 0.00%The laptop was open in front of me. The report was on the screen. I had read it several times already and I was reading it again because some part of my brain kept insisting that if I looked long enough the numbers would rearrange themselves into something I could work with.But they didn't.I pushed back from the desk and went to the window and stood there. and looked at the activities going outside the streets.but my brain was not responding to what I was seeing.I went back to the desk and closed the laptop Sat there with my hands flat on the wood.I had signed the court authorization on a Tuesday afternoon between two other documents my lawyer had flagged as more urgent. Routine,Standard procedure in contested custody cases. The court requests it, we comply, we move on. I initiated the bottom without finishing the paragraph because there was nothing to find. Nathaniel was my son. I ha
My ex husband lost me to his rival CHAPTER 41:The Weight Of Gone
(POV: Blake)I didn't move from his room for a long time after. Just sat there while the house filled up around me with people who had protocols for painful moments like this.The lawyers and the authorities. The Sterling Global PR team who materialized within the hour the way they always did — quietly carrying their folders and their carefully worded press statements and their low voices that made crisis management sound like condolence.I answered every question. I signed everything they put in front of me. I shook hands I didn't feel.And then they were gone and the house went quiet. I was sitting in the chair across from his desk looking at the empty chair by the window.He sat there every morning by the window. Just with his coffee looking out at the city like he was counting something only he could see. I spent years thinking it was arrogance. That particular stillness of a man who worked hard for the things he owned and he knew it.Sterling Tower was visible from here. My name
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 14: What He Owes Her
(BLAKE POV)---"I need to see you," I said. "Today."Come to "my study by four o'clock."He hung up before I could say what it was about.Thirty six years. Not once had he asked what was wrong before telling me where to show up.---Alexander was already seated when I walked in.Both hands in his lap,the large chair holding him differently. “I sat down”"The board is restless," I said. "Lorenzo called me twice this week. Luciano is building alliances with Lawson and two other members I haven't located yet."Alexander didn't say anything."The Gilded Rose photograph is circulating online. Parents at Nathaniel's school are talking and aria's presence at the estate is becoming a public conversation." I leaned forward. "And Olivia—""What about Olivia.""She's different. She said something to me in the library that I can't shake. Something has shifted and I can't locate where.""What did she say?""She asked if I was speaking as her husband or as the man who staged his mistress's return
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 39: The Morning After His Voice
OLIVIA POVI was still awake at five when the city started outside the window.Not the restless kind of awake,the kind where your body has given up trying and your mind just keeps going without it.I turned over and looked at the wall.Alexander Sterling had called me at midnight directly.Not Blake,not a lawyer nor anyone connected to the ongoing machinery of divorce proceedings and custody filings and board maneuvering.Alexander directly Just to ask how I was.I lay there until the room got light enough and I stood up ---Ivan was already at the table.She looked up when I came in and Said nothing.I put the kettle on and stood at the counter while it heated."You didn't sleep," she said."No.""Me neither." She wrapped both hands around her cup. "You want to talk about it?""Not yet."She nodded. No follow up or asking questions Just — accepted it and moved on the way she always had when I needed space more than I needed words.I made my tea and sat across from her.The window
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 38: Ivan's reconciliation
OLIVIA POV Ivan looked like she hadn't slept in days. She was sitting at the corner table when I arrived, her hands wrapped in a cup of coffee she ordered but hadn't touched. She looked up when she saw me and something in her face shifted. I sat down. Neither of us spoke for a moment. Then she put her cup down. "Liv." Her voice was quiet. "The last time we talked — when I told you about Luciano, I didn't tell you everything I've been sitting with it since then and I can't keep sitting with it." I looked at her. "There was someone else," she said” "Lorenzo came to me," she said. "I didn't go looking for him. I need you to understand that." "Okay." "I was heading to your office that day and met him on my way." She looked at her cup. "He was warm,concerned. He said he'd been watching what was happening to you from the outside and it troubled him deeply." "What exactly did he say?" "That Blake was making decisions that were going to hurt everyone around him. That
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 37:His Apartment
(OLIVIA POV)"You came back," he said.He was already at the door. Black shirt. Sleeves rolled up. Something on the stove behind him smelling like garlic."You invited me," I said."I know." He stepped back. "Last time you didn't have a choice."I walked in.This was different."You know where ever
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 36: Neutral Ground
(LUCIANO POV)Blake walked in and sat down without a word nor shaking my handI hadn't expected him to. But I noticed it anyway.I had chosen the table at the back away from the bar. Away from anyone who might recognize either of us.He looked at me across the table."You called the meeting," he sa
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 33: Meeting Nathaniel
(OLIVIA POV) I bought him three things. The book he'd been asking about before everything fell apart. A set of good drawing pencils. And a chocolate bar. The kind he hid under his pillow thinking I never noticed. I packed them in my bag and prepared for work. --- "This isn't what I assigne
My ex husband lost me to his rival Chapter 32 : Meeting Alexander
(LUCIANO POV)Madam Chen opened the door before I knocked.She looked at me, Stepped back. Let me in without a word.The house was still quiet,noo movement upstairs. No sound from the kitchen. Just the early morning quiet of a house everyone is still asleep.She led me down the hallway. Opened the
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