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Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Seventy
Darius pov"I have a proposal," she said as soon I answered the phone on Saturday morning."I'm listening.""We are both adults," she said, in the even, considered voice she used when she had thought something through and was presenting the conclusion rather than the thinking. "There are things between us that are clearly unresolved, and I am not interested in pretending they are not there because pretending has not been working and I find it exhausting. The children need stability and not confusion. I am not interested in a relationship."I started to speak."I'm not finished," she said.I closed my mouth."What I am interested in," she continued, "is being honest about what is happening. Whatever is between us, we can acknowledge it without giving it a structure that neither of us is ready for and that would complicate things we cannot afford to complicate. No labels and no expectations. No history dragged into every conversation as a weight we have to carry. Just honesty about what
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Sixty nine
Brynn povIt was a Thursday, which seemed to be the day things happened between us that I had not planned for.I had dropped the children off and stayed longer than I intended to, which had also not been planned, though I had been telling myself for the better part of an hour that I was staying because Julie had wanted to show me the drawing she was working on at his kitchen table and it would have been abrupt to leave mid-drawing. This was true. It was also the kind of truth I had been using a lot lately to explain decisions that had a different reason underneath them that I was not quite ready to look at directly.Julie's drawing was finished. Jake had gone upstairs to read. The kitchen had the particular quiet it always had at this hour, the tail end of an evening, the children moving toward sleep, the house settling into itself. I had picked up my bag and come into the hallway to say goodbye and I had turned to say something, some logistical thing about the weekend schedule, and h
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Sixty eight
Darius povI found her when the room had thinned to the last thirty or so, the committed professionals who stayed until the end of these things and the people who had nowhere better to be, and the staff beginning the quiet work of clearing, and the particular quality of a party in its final hour, the energy lower, the conversations more honest.She was near the exit, saying goodbye to someone, and I waited until the goodbye was finished and then I crossed the room.I had been telling myself all evening that I was not going to do this.I had watched her and Seth at the bar, the laugh, the ease of them together, the way she turned toward him the way she used to turn toward—I had been telling myself all evening that I was not going to do this and I was doing it anyway, which told me something about the gap between my intentions and my actual state that I was going to have to examine later.She saw me coming and waited, with the composure she always had in public, and she said the standa
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Sixty seven
Brynn PovI had not put him on the guest list.I want to be clear about that. The event was mine, I had curated every name on that list with the focused attention I brought to things that mattered professionally, and his name was not on it, and I had felt the particular satisfaction of a woman who had successfully managed her environment when I signed off on the final version three days ago.He arrived through a partner company's invitation, which was legitimate, which I could not challenge without a conversation I did not want to have in front of two hundred industry professionals, and so I saw him come through the door at eight-fifteen and I noted his presence and I returned to the conversation I was having about distribution rights in the Nordic market and I was completely fine about it.I monitored his position in the room for the next forty minutes.This was not something I did intentionally. It was more that I became aware, periodically and against my will, of where he was and w
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Sixty six
Darius's POVThe photo arrived on a Monday morning, appearing in my inbox with a subject line that made my stomach drop before I'd even opened it."Press Flag - Potential Story Re: Brynn Haverton"My assistant Marcus had forwarded it with his usual efficiency, a brief note explaining that a gossip column was planning to run it in tomorrow's edition unless we wanted to intervene.I opened the attachment and felt something twist sharply in my chest.The photo was professionally shot, clearly taken by someone with a decent camera and an eye for composition.Brynn and Seth at what looked like an upscale restaurant, sitting close across a small table in a way that suggested intimacy and familiarity.They were both laughing at something, genuine joy written across their faces, Brynn's head tilted toward Seth in a way that was unmistakable even to someone who didn't know their history.The angle of her body, the warmth in her expression, the way Seth was looking at her like she'd hung the mo
Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back! Sixty five
Seth showed up at my hotel room the evening after Darius's office visit, takeout in hand and a determined expression on his face."We need to talk," he announced, settling onto the couch without waiting for an invitation."Hello to you too," I replied, but I took the container he offered me anyway because arguing with Seth when he was in this mood was pointless."Darius came to your office yesterday," Seth said without preamble.I paused with my chopsticks halfway to my mouth. "How do you know that?""Lena told me," he admitted, referencing my assistant who'd apparently decided my personal life was fair game for gossip with my best friend. "She said he looked devastated when he left.""Good," I said, trying to mean it."Brynn," Seth sighed, setting down his food. "I think you should hear him out."I stared at him. "That's easy for you to say. You're not the one who spent three years being destroyed by him.""You're right," Seth agreed. "It is easy for me to say because I'm not emotion
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