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Chapter 14: The Dress That Started Rumors
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One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER NINETY: THE DOOR THAT IS OPEN
I write in a private journal.Not a record. Not documentation. Not the kind of writing I do in the ethics division office with the quarterly reports and the vulnerability assessments and the precise language of things that need to be legible to other people. This is the other kind, the kind that is only for me, written in the mornings before the household wakes, at the kitchen island with the coffee that is still the first thing and the city coming up outside the window and the particular quality of the hour before anything is required of anyone.I have been writing in it for a year.Tonight, on the terrace in the particular quality of a spring evening that has decided it is finally warm enough to be outside, I write a list.Not the inventory of what I have lost or what was taken or what the year cost, though the year cost things and taking inventory of cost is sometimes necessary and I have done it. This is the other list. The list of what I have.Lucian. Who chose me in a hotel bar
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE: THE RENEWAL
It happens on a Thursday morning in March.Not because Thursday is significant. Not because March has any particular claim on them. Because on a Wednesday evening Lucian said, tomorrow. And I said, yes. And that was the whole of the planning.Mrs. Caldwell is the witness.She arrives at nine with the particular expression of a woman who has been told what the morning requires and has determined that it requires nothing from her except her presence and her silence and her genuine affection for the two people she has been watching, across two years of penthouse mornings and Sunday dinners and containers of food sent without announcement, find their way to each other.She sits in the armchair by the window.She folds her hands.She waits.Emma is in the doorway.She is holding Patricia.This was not arranged. Emma arrived for her Saturday visit, which is today because the week compressed itself, and she came through the door with her school bag and her navy jacket and found the living ro
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT: ONE THING STILL UNFINISHED
I drive upstate on a Saturday morning in February.Not with Lucian. Not with Olivia or Daniel or anyone else. I tell Lucian where I am going and he looks at me for a long moment with the expression that has replaced the managing expression over the course of this year, the one that says he has a position on this and has decided that having a position on it is not the same as it being his decision.He says, "Do you want me to come."I say, "No."He says, "All right."That is the whole of the conversation.Patricia stays with Mrs. Caldwell, who says of course, and I drive north through the city's thinning edges and then through the particular landscape of upstate New York in February, which is bare and cold and quietly beautiful in the specific way of things that are not trying to be anything other than what they are.The drive takes ninety minutes.I spend them thinking about what I am going to say and then deciding not to think about what I am going to say, because the thinking is not
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN: WHAT JULIAN PROPOSES
It happens at Sunday dinner in January.Not a special occasion. That is the pattern now, Sunday dinners that are not occasions but have become one through repetition, the particular transformation of a regular thing into a significant thing simply by its consistency, by the fact that it is always there, always the same table and the same people and Mrs. Caldwell's cooking and Julian arriving uninvited and the particular noise of a family that has learned to be loud together.Julian arrives at six forty-three with his girlfriend, whose name is Clara, and who has been coming to Sunday dinners for four months with the particular ease of someone who has decided she belongs and has been correct about that decision, and who has a quality of attention to Emma that Emma has been calibrating against, slowly and with the typical Emma deliberateness, and which she appears to have determined is genuine.Emma is at the table with her bridge drawings.Patricia is in the curved chair that she still
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX: THE HOUSE IN THE HAMPTONS
We go in December.Not because December is the right time for the Hamptons, which is cold and grey and entirely indifferent to the idea of a weekend getaway, and not because the property has been unavailable before now. We go in December because Lucian suggested it in October and I hesitated for exactly one day and then agreed, and then we agreed on a weekend and rearranged two schedules and arranged Patricia's care with Mrs. Caldwell who said of course without requiring explanation, and the weekend arrived.We drive out on a Friday afternoon.Emma is with Isabella for the weekend, which is one of the arrangement's regular structures now, the alternate weekends that have settled into the household's rhythm alongside the Wednesday dinners and the Saturday visits and the specific particular logic of a life shared across two households by people who are figuring out the sharing as they go and finding that the figuring is better than the alternatives.Patricia is in the back seat.She has
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE: THE PROFILE PIECE
Benjamin Ross sends the certificate by courier on a Thursday morning.I am at the Blackwood Holdings ethics division office, which has become in the nine months since I returned to work a room I think of in the specific way I think of spaces that have been earned rather than assigned, the particular relationship with a room that develops when you built what is in it and understand what it is for.The certificate arrives in a flat envelope with a handwritten note on the card inside.I owed you something true. I hope this counts.I read the note twice.Then I read the name of the award engraved on the certificate.Investigative Journalism Excellence. The piece is titled The Woman Who Didn't Disappear. The recipient is Benjamin Ross.I set the certificate on my desk and sit with it for a moment.Benjamin Ross, who wrote three favorable pieces about Gabriel Kane for payment and retracted them publicly in a shareholder meeting while the room watched and then spent four months interviewing
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 8: The Job Offer She Can’t Refuse
The email arrives on a Tuesday morning while I’m eating cereal over the sink like a functional adult.**Subject: Position Offer - Senior Marketing Analyst - Blackwood Technologies**I drop my spoon.It clatters into the sink. Milk splashes onto my shirt. I don’t notice.Blackwood Technologies.No.
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 7: Sophia Knows Something’s Wrong
Sophia shows up at seven PM with three bottles of wine and a look that says she’s not leaving until I talk.“You look terrible,” she announces, pushing past me into my apartment.“Thanks. You look great too.”“I’m serious.” She sets the wine on my counter. Studies me with those sharp eyes that miss
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 6: When Best Friends Lie to Each Other
Lucian’s phone rings thirty seconds after Ariana hangs up.Ethan.He stares at the name on the screen. His best friend since freshman year of college. The guy who was there when Lucian’s father died. When he launched his first company. Every major moment of his adult life.The guy whose ex-girlfrie
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 5: The Breakup She Should Have Controlled
Three days.I give myself three days to be pathetic. To ignore Ethan’s calls, sleep until noon, and let Sophia bring me takeout I don’t eat.On day four, I shower. Put on the black blazer that makes me feel competent. Drive to Ethan’s office building downtown.I’m done hiding.His assistant recogni
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