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POV: Hazel"You rented a home in a city I have not agreed to live in. Tell me why I should not feel like a parcel you have tied up with string and stamped with your name."I said it in the kitchen, at nine that night, while the toaster ticked on the counter. The lease lay between us on the table. I had not raised my voice. It would have been easier if I had.Julian stood very still in the doorway with his tie loosened and his coat still on. He looked at the paper, and then at me, and I watched the colour leave his face."Priya told you.""Priya told me nothing. I found it. Do not punish her.""I would never." He closed his eyes for a second. "Hazel, let me explain.""Please do.""It was meant to be a surprise." The words came fast, as if he had practised them. "You were so frightened of Paris, and I thought, if the hardest part is already done, if the flat is there and the school is arranged and the way is clear, then you will only have to dance. I wanted to take the weight away.""Wh
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 403
POV: Hazel"You are lying, Hazel. You always put your weight on the right when the left one hurts, and today you are standing like a flamingo. Tell me the truth, or I will tell Julian."Nora said it with her hands on her hips, still in her rehearsal tights, her dark hair coming loose from its knot. She had grown taller in a year. She had also grown bolder, and I was not sure which of the two I was more proud of."It is only the cold," I said."It is not the cold. It is the third day in a row. I count too, you know."I sat down on the studio floor and began to unlace my shoe. The room smelled of rosin and wet wool and the sweet orange peel that Theo left everywhere. Around us, the apprentices were stretching in pairs, pretending not to listen."Nora, if I tell you something, will you promise not to turn it into a drama?""I promise nothing." She sat opposite me, crossing her legs. "Go on.""Sometimes my knee does a thing. A small thing. It catches, and for one second I am eleven years
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 402
POV: Hazel"You are afraid, Hazel. I can see it in your hands. Nobody shakes over a gift unless they suspect it is a trap, or a test, or a grave. Which one do you suspect?"The woman who said this stood in the middle of my studio at the Foundation, turning slowly on one heel to look at the mirrors. She was perhaps sixty, tall as a heron, with silver hair twisted into a knot and a long green scarf thrown over one shoulder. She wore flat shoes, and she walked like someone who had been trained never to waste a step."Madame Fontaine," I said. "Thank you for coming so far.""Élodie. Madame is for the stage." She dropped her bag on the piano and looked at me properly. Her eyes were light grey, and very tired, and very bright. "I came because letters are cowardly. I wanted to see how you stand.""How do I stand?""As if the floor might open."I did not answer. She had said it so plainly that it did not even sting. It was only true."Sit," she said, as though it were her studio. We sat on th
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POV: Hazel"Tell me honestly, Miss. If the money behind this company vanished tomorrow, would anyone still clap for you? Every review I read this week printed his name first, and yours somewhere underneath."The reporter smiled when she said it. She was young, sharp, and very well dressed, and she held her little recorder out like a knife she was pretending was a pen. I sat on a wooden trunk in the wings of the theatre in Lyon, with an ice pack strapped to my knee and a cup of tea going cold in my hand."What is your name?" I asked."Maxine Dray.""Maxine, I have been asked that question in nine cities. You are the first person to ask it to my face.""And your answer?""My answer is that you should stay for the second act tomorrow. We do not have one. The tour ended tonight." I smiled. "But if we did, you would see Nora Pryce dance the second solo. She was a girl in a closet a year ago. Now strangers cry when she lifts her arm. Ask her whose money did that."Maxine blinked. She had ex
RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO chapter 400
POV: Hazel“Open it, Hazel. Not because I want to see your face, although I do. Open it because I have never been so frightened of giving anyone anything in my whole life.”Julian said it on the roof of the tower at midnight, the day after the opening, in a wind that smelled of rain and rivers. The city spread out around us, jewelled and enormous. Below, a late train crawled across a bridge like a string of lit beads.He held out a small black box. I took it with both hands. My shoulder ached from the fall, and my knee wore a tight bandage, and I did not care.Inside, on a bed of grey velvet, lay a watch.It was plain. Brushed steel, with a narrow strap of dark leather. A round white face, no numbers, only two thin black hands. It looked like something made by a man who did not trust ornament.I turned it over. On the back, in small, clear letters, someone had engraved a single word.Now.“I do not understand,” I whispered.“You have counted for a year.” He sat on the low wall beside
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POV: Hazel“Do not look up, Hazel. Walk exactly as you always do. Do not hurry, do not slow, and when I say left, you go left, as fast as you have ever moved in your life.”Adrian’s voice came low and calm through the small earpiece I wore under my hair. I stood in the wings, in the dark, with the ballet ending in front of me like a long exhalation. Thirty dancers held the final pose on the white stage. The last note of the cello trembled in the air, and then went still.The curtain would fall. The audience would rise. And I would walk out, nine steps, and stand on the tape mark.“Four officers are above you,” said Adrian. “The man on the catwalk is called Dorian Vale. He is wearing a stage hand’s black. We have a sniper’s view of him, and we have a net rigged below his feet. We are ready. But we need him to move first.”“I know.”“If he drops anything, it will be on your mark. It will be heavy. I want you to be a foot to the left before it arrives.”“I understand.”“Are you afraid?”
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