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Chapter 87: Julian’s Romantic Subplot
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One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE: ADRIAN AND OLIVIA
Olivia sends me a text on a Saturday morning, ten days after the shareholder meeting, while I am on the terrace with Patricia in the particular careful way of someone who has been told by Dr. Carter that fresh air is beneficial and by Lucian that the terrace has a wind chill and by her own body that being outside after ten days of hospital and penthouse is the most necessary thing.The text says, I need to tell you something. Is now a good time.I text back, terrace. Come up.She arrives in four minutes, which means she was already in the building, which means she came knowing she was going to ask this and wanted to be close enough to arrive quickly once the answer was yes. This is entirely consistent with Olivia, who plans her approaches the way she plans everything, with the precise efficiency of someone who does not waste motion.She comes through the terrace door and stops when she sees Patricia."Oh," she says."Yes," I say."She's." Olivia pauses. "She has your expression.""She
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER SEVENTY: PATRICIA HALE COOPERATES
Patricia Hale’s deposition takes two days.Ethan handles it personally, which is the right decision for reasons that are both legal and practical, because Ethan understands the specific architecture of what she built over six years better than anyone else in the room, and because the particular patience required to sit across from someone for two days and extract a complete account of something they participated in requires a quality of professional composure that Ethan has in abundance.He sends me a summary on the second evening.I read it in the penthouse, which is where I am now, home from the hospital for four days, finding my footing in the specific and significant way of someone whose life has changed shape and is learning to move inside the new shape without losing the balance she spent months building.Patricia Hale is fully cooperative.This is the detail I sit with longest, not the specifics of what she provided, which are extensive and confirm everything that was already d
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE: GABRIEL KANE’S QUIET END
The financial oversight authority acts within the week.I know this because Ethan sends a brief, professional email on a Thursday morning, seven days after the shareholder meeting, with the subject line Update and three paragraphs that contain the following information in the measured, precise language of a lawyer who has been waiting for this specific email to arrive and has written it with the care of someone who understands that some things deserve to be said correctly.Gabriel Kane’s assets are frozen pending investigation.Three of his companies are placed under regulatory review.The contingency custody filing, the one prepared in the parallel jurisdiction with the compromised judge, has been flagged by the judicial oversight body that Daniel’s contact reached six weeks ago. The filing is suspended. The judge is under review. The mechanism Gabriel built to take Emma is dismantled.I read the email twice.Then I forward it to Lucian with no message attached.He responds in four m
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT: ISABELLA IN THE CORRIDOR
The nurse tells me at four in the afternoon.She comes in while Emma is still holding Patricia and Sophia and Noah are on the far side of the room with Julian and his girlfriend, the assembled warmth of people who have earned their place in this room through the specific and unglamorous work of the past six weeks, and she leans down and says, quietly, that there is a woman in the corridor outside the maternity ward who has been sitting there for two hours and has not asked to come in.She says the woman’s name.I look at Lucian across the room.He is already looking at me.“Go,” I say.He goes.Emma does not ask where he went. She is still in the conversation with Patricia that has been running since the introduction, a quiet, one-sided account of things Emma considers significant, delivered in the low, direct voice she uses when she has decided something deserves her full attention. She has covered the telescope and the astronomy notebook and three constellations visible from the pen
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN: TWO DAUGHTERS
Emma arrives at two in the afternoon.Julian brings her, which was the arrangement, because Julian’s car is larger and because Julian has been Emma’s most reliable adult companion in waiting rooms and corridors and he understood without being asked that the transition from waiting room to room with the baby in it requires the same quality of steady, undemanding presence he has been providing since yesterday morning.Emma comes through the door with her school bag and her navy jacket and the particular composed expression she wears when she is doing something significant and has decided to be equal to it. She looks at me first, which I have noticed is always her first move in any room, the quick inventory, confirming that the person she is most uncertain about is present and accounted for.I am in the bed. I look back at her.She nods once.Then she looks at the bassinet.She does not move toward it immediately. She stands at the door and looks at the bassinet from across the room with
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX: THE NIGHT THE BABY CAME
She has been in the world for fourteen hours when we name her.Not because we did not know the name. We have known the name, both of us, for longer than we have said it aloud to each other, the particular way of knowing something that does not require discussion because it is already true, like a decision that was made before the making of it was necessary.Lucian says it first.Not with ceremony. Not with the weight of an announcement. He says it the way he said it in the dark at midnight to the bassinet, quietly and with the specific care of a man trying a word that belongs to something real.“Patricia,” he says.I look at him.“Yes,” I say.He looks at her.She is awake for the first time in several hours, the particular alert wakefulness of a newborn who has decided the world requires inspection, her eyes moving with the unfocused but insistent attention of someone who is gathering information. She has dark hair. She has Lucian’s jaw. She has, I think, my instinct for reading a ro
One Night with My Ex's Billionaire Best Friend Chapter 66: Evelyn’s Change of Heart (Almost)
After Lucian leaves, I sit at the table. Numb. Broken. Lost.Evelyn returns. Without Emma. Without Mrs. Caldwell. Just her.She sits across from me. Silent. Studying.Finally she speaks. “That was painful to watch.”“I ruined everything. I thought I was proving myself. Instead I destroyed our partn
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
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