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Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! 195
It hadn't been the rejection itself that had lodged so deeply. Anton had faced plenty of rejections across a long career, and most of them rolled off him without leaving any lasting mark. It was the specific quality underneath Seth's refusal, the barely concealed judgment, the sense that Seth considered himself too principled to be associated with a man of Anton's particular reputation. Anton had built an empire through decades of careful, sometimes ruthless calculation, and he had made his peace, long ago, with whatever moral judgments others chose to level at the methods behind it. But something about a younger, less established man delivering that judgment so casually, so certain of his own superior footing, had struck a nerve Anton hadn't expected and had never quite managed to smooth back over.Six years. He'd tracked Seth's progress from a careful distance across all of them, watching the firm grow, watching the reputation solidify, watching Seth build exactly the kind of princi
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! 193
She got up eventually, rinsed her cup, and stood for a moment at the window looking out over the city that had held both the worst and the best of the past year of her life, Webb's betrayal and Seth's steady presence through it, Dahlia's reckoning and the marriage now waiting just three days ahead.She felt ready. Not in the narrow sense of being ready for a wedding day, the flowers and the dress and the careful choreography of the ceremony itself, though she was ready for that too. She felt ready in the larger sense, the sense that actually mattered, ready for the marriage itself, for the ordinary Tuesdays and the difficult weeks and everything the years ahead would eventually require of both of them.She thought about calling Seth, just to hear his voice, and decided instead to let the quiet afternoon simply be what it was, hers alone, a private threshold crossed in solitude before the public one arrived in three days' time with all its witnesses and ceremony.She sat a while longer
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! 192
The week before the wedding turned out quieter than Lena had expected.She'd braced herself, in the months of planning leading up to it, for a final stretch of chaos, last minute vendor emergencies, some crisis with the venue or the catering that would require her particular skill at calm, methodical problem solving right up until the ceremony itself began. Instead the logistics simply held. The details, painstakingly settled over months, stayed settled. The people she loved arrived in the city one by one, Clara first, then Ruth's unannounced Tuesday appearance, then a scattering of Seth's colleagues and old friends filling in around the edges of the week.She found herself, on a Wednesday afternoon three days before the wedding, with an entirely unexpected stretch of stillness. Seth had gone to the firm for a few final hours before officially handing things over to Ife for the coming weeks. Clara and Ruth had gone shopping for something neither of them would specify. The apartment, u
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! 191
That evening, once Ruth had retired early with the specific efficiency she brought to most transitions, he told Lena about the conversation, recounting it as accurately as he could manage, including Ruth's exact phrasing.Lena covered her face with both hands, though he could see, even through her fingers, that she was fighting a smile rather than genuine distress."She said that will do," Lena said, her voice muffled. "Seth, I need you to understand something. Ruth has never said that will do to anyone in living memory. Not to my father. Not to my mother's other suitors, back before she chose my father. Not to a single person I've ever watched her assess in my entire adult life.""I know," Seth said. "I could tell from your face just now, before you even said it, that this was significant.""It's significant," Lena confirmed, finally lowering her hands, her expression somewhere between disbelief and genuine delight. "That's the closest thing to a blessing Ruth is capable of giving. I
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! 190
Ruth cornered him in the kitchen on her second morning, exactly the way he suspected she'd cornered plenty of men before him, no preamble, no easing into it, simply appearing at his elbow while he waited for the coffee to finish and asking the question she'd apparently been sitting on since her arrival."What are your intentions," she said, "regarding Lena's professional ambitions, once the two of you are married?"Seth turned to face her fully, understanding this was not a question that tolerated a distracted answer given over one shoulder. Ruth stood with her own cup already in hand, watching him with the particular sharpness he'd noticed in her since she'd arrived, the look of a woman conducting an assessment she had no intention of pretending wasn't happening."I intend to stay out of them," he said, "except when she asks me directly for something. And I intend to make sure the domestic logistics of our life together never fall disproportionately on he
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! 189
The next morning, Ruth was already up and dressed by the time Lena emerged from her bedroom, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea and an expression that suggested she'd already formed several new opinions overnight that she intended to share before the day properly began."Your kitchen is missing a proper kettle," Ruth announced, by way of greeting. "That machine you have makes tea taste like it's apologizing for existing.""Good morning to you too," Lena said, smiling despite herself, pouring her own coffee from the machine in question."I mean it," Ruth said. "I'll be bringing you a proper kettle before the wedding. Consider it my gift, alongside whatever else your registry demands of me."Seth emerged a few minutes later, and Ruth's assessment of him continued in real time, watching him move through his own morning routine with the same careful attention she'd apparently been paying since her arrival the previous afternoon.
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Chapter eight
The carpet was red, which people always found significant. I had walked red carpets eleven times in five years, and I knew exactly how to do it: the angle of the shoulders, the specific degree of smile that read as warmth without being eager, the way to pause at the right moments so the photograph
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Chapter five
“You heard me.” Her eyes were ice. “Apologize to her now.”“For what?” I looked at Cassia. She stood between my parents with her head down, looking small and fragile, the perfect victim. “For asking why she’s in your house? For asking why she’s—”“For everything,” my father cut in, his voice drippi
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Chapter four
Humiliated and ashamed with tears streaming down my face, I ran out of the café as fast as I could.I forgot about the evidence, forgot about everything except getting somewhere safe.I drove toward my parents’ house, the place that had always been my refuge.Despite everything—despite the distance
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Chapter three
He sat on a white couch, looking relaxed and handsome in a tailored suit. And beside him, holding his hand—Cassia.“—so grateful to have her back,” Darius was saying, smiling at her with such warmth it made my chest ache. “I thought I’d lost her forever.”“And what about your wife?” the interviewe
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