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Chapter 32: Julian’s Knowing Questions
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One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT REWROTE THE TIMELINE
Ethan and Daniel are already in the penthouse when Lucian gets home.I arranged it from the hospital. Lucian did not know until he walked through the door and found them at the kitchen island with Daniel’s laptop open and Ethan’s files arranged in the particular neat stack that means he has already been working for at least an hour. Lucian looked at the setup and then called me.“You organized this from a hospital bed,” he said.“I was resting,” I said. “Restfully.”He was quiet for a moment.“Dr. Carter is going to revoke your laptop,” he said.“She has to find it first,” I said. “Tell me everything after.”He hangs up. I know because the call drops and then thirty seconds later a text arrives. One word.Insufferable.I take that as affection and go back to Daniel’s preliminary report on my screen.Lucian presents the photograph detail to Ethan and Daniel the way he presents everything that matters, without editorializing, just the facts in sequence. The folder on Gabriel’s assistant
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: GABRIEL KANE MAKES A HOUSE CALL
Lucian leaves the hospital at nine the next morning.Not because he wants to. Because I tell him to, and because Dr. Carter tells him to, and because between the two of us we represent a combined force of persuasion that even Lucian Blackwood cannot comfortably resist. He has a meeting that cannot be moved, a call with the compliance team about Nathan Sterling that Daniel arranged and that Ethan says needs to happen before end of week, and a company that is still running despite everything trying to slow it down.He leaves with his jacket over his arm and his phone already in his hand and he pauses at the door of the room and looks back at me in the bed with my breakfast tray and my laptop that Dr. Carter has not technically forbidden and says, "No working.""I'm reading," I say."What are you reading," he says.I show him the cover of the novel Olivia brought last night along with a change of clothes and three things from the kitchen I did not ask for but apparently needed. He looks
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE SECRET THAT WAS NEVER JUST HERS
Dr. Carter is already in the examination bay when we arrive.I do not know how that is possible. I did not call ahead. I did not have Olivia call ahead. But she is there, in her white coat with her notepad and her direct, unhurried expression, and she looks at me and then at Lucian beside me and then back at me with the particular look of a woman who has been expecting this visit and is unsurprised only by the timing.“Mrs. Blackwood,” she says. “Sit down.”I sit on the edge of the examination table. Lucian stands beside it. He has not let go of my hand since the cab and he does not let go of it now, which I know Dr. Carter registers because she registers everything, but she does not comment on it.She checks my blood pressure first. Then my pulse. She asks me questions in the brisk, methodical way she has, and I answer them honestly because I am past the point of managing what I tell her. Skipped meals. Disrupted sleep. The dizziness in the board meeting corridor two weeks ago. Today
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER TWENTY: THE COLLAPSE SHE CAN’T HIDE ANYMORE
The strategy meeting is at two.It is the kind of meeting that under normal circumstances I would have run without difficulty, twelve people in the Blackwood Holdings main conference room, acquisition timelines, media response framework, the quarterly risk assessment that Marcus insists on regardless of what else is happening because Marcus believes that structure is what keeps things from becoming chaos and he is not wrong.I arrive at one fifty with my notes and my coffee and the particular focus I have been using as a load-bearing wall for three weeks, the professional version of myself that does not flinch and does not stumble and gives the room exactly what it needs for as long as it needs it.I take my seat. The meeting starts. I present the first section of the risk assessment and the numbers hold and the questions are answerable and for forty minutes everything is exactly as it should be.Then the room tilts.Not dramatically. Not the way it tilts in films, not a sudden lurch
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER NINETEEN: WHAT ISABELLA SAID WHEN NO ONE WAS LISTENING
I do not tell Lucian about the meeting.Not immediately. Not because I am keeping it from him, but because I need to understand what Isabella said before I hand it to anyone else, and the only way to do that is to sit with it in the quiet of my own head without other people’s reactions filling up the space where my thinking needs to happen.I text her the morning after the Evelyn lunch.I want to meet. Just us. No lawyers, no buffer, somewhere we won’t be recognized.She takes forty minutes to respond. I spend those forty minutes not watching my phone, which is to say I spend them watching my phone.Her answer is a coffee shop name and a time. Thursday at eleven. A place in the West Village that I have never been to and she apparently knows well enough to choose without deliberation, which tells me something about where she goes when she wants to be left alone.I take a cab. I wear sunglasses I do not usually wear. I arrive two minutes early and find a corner table with my back to the
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: EVELYN DRAWS A LINE IN THE WRONG PLACE
The restaurant Evelyn chooses is called Carême.It is quieter than Maison Privé and smaller, which means she is not staging this for an audience. She is staging it for me, which is in some ways more deliberate and in some ways more honest, and I file that away as I walk through the door and spot her already seated, already composed, her coat draped over the chair beside her with the particular precision of a woman who arrived early enough to arrange herself.She stands when she sees me. Air kiss, left cheek, the formal kind.“Ariana,” she says. “You look tired.”“Good afternoon, Evelyn,” I say.We sit. A waiter materializes and disappears with our drink orders before I have fully settled my bag. Evelyn unfolds her napkin across her lap and looks at me with the expression she uses when she has decided something and is in the process of delivering it.“I wanted to speak with you privately,” she says. “Before things move further.”“Further,” I say.“The legal process. The press attention
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 90: Evelyn’s Unexpected Approval
Evelyn Blackwood calls the morning before the trial.“I’m coming over. This afternoon. We need to talk.”“About what?”“You’ll see. Just, be home. Both of you.”She hangs up before I can respond.“That sounded ominous,” Lucian says.“Your mother wants to talk. Right before the trial. That’s never g
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 89: The Ring He Bought
After dinner, after the anniversary celebration, Lucian disappears into his study.Returns with a small box.“I have something for you. Was saving it for the right moment. Anniversary feels right.”“Lucian, you already got me an engagement ring. A gorgeous engagement ring.”“I know. This is differe
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 88: The Anniversary of That First Night
I wake up to Lucian watching me.“What?” I ask, still groggy.“Do you know what today is?”“Tuesday?”“It’s the anniversary. One year. Since we met. Since that hotel bar. Since you were crying and I asked if you were okay.”I sit up. Carefully. Nine months pregnant. Everything hurts.“One year. Tha
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 85: Moving In Together
Two weeks in the safe house hotel.Patterson’s arrested. Charged with stalking. Harassment. Criminal threats.Bail set high. He’s not getting out.But we can’t go back to the penthouse. Not yet. Security’s being completely overhauled.Cameras. New locks. Bulletproof windows. Everything.It’ll take
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