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Morana’s POVMonday morning I wore the Bottega Veneta suit. The deep brown one that made my shoulders look broader and my waist look smaller and my whole existence look like a threat. Heels that clicked against marble with authority I’d spent five years suppressing.I walked into Mortaine Patent at 8am sharp and the lobby went quiet the way buildings quieten when they understood something had permanently changed.The receptionist who last week had looked at me with cautious sympathy stood up so fast her chair scraped back. “Good morning Ms. Mortaine.”“Good morning.” I said and kept walking.The elevator ride to the executive floor gave me exactly enough time to review the restructuring plan I’d drafted on Sunday while Tristan slept and I sat at his kitchen island with Mrs. Thompson’s leftover and my laptop Gerald from the board was already in the corridor when I arrived. He straightened immediately with the expression of a man recalibrating which way the wind was blowing.“Ms. Mort
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Tristan’s POVShe fell asleep in the car twenty minutes outside Manhattan. Well that half sleep where your head keeps dropping and you keep jerking it back up and then giving up entirely. Her cheek pressed against the cold window and her fingers still wrapped around the folder in her lap. I drove the rest of the way watching her in my peripheral vision more than I watched the road.Which was a problem. A separate problem for a separate day.By the time we pulled into the garage she was properly out. Deep breathing and face finally relaxed in a way it almost never was when she was awake and running seventeen things simultaneously in that head of hers.I sat in the parked car for a moment. Morana Mortaine asleep in my passenger seat with dried tears on her face and her hair coming loose around her shoulders. I’d been watching her from a distance for years. Before Rothschild had a name worth saying out loud. Even before she disappeared into Xavier’s orbit and became Morana Greene and s
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Morana’s LOVI’ve been standing at the window for the last twenty minutes. Not because I was avoiding the conversation. I heard every word and watched the documents go across the table. The evidence stack up and Beth is on the screen doing her brother’s jaw-set thing when she was trying not to show how tired she was. I heard Theodore say everything. I turned around.They were all looking at me. Theodore with his careful love. Felix with his absolute loyalty. Dr. Wilder with his thirty years of carried guilt. Mabel with her calculation that has somewhere along the way become something else. Beth on the screen with her exhausted honest eyes. Tristan from across the room with an expression I was only just learning to read correctly.I looked at each of them in turn and understood what this moment was.This was the version of it where I got to decide what Mortaine actually was. Not what my father had made it or what Mabel had protected. Hell not even what Xavier had tried to steal or wh
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Morana’s POVeveryobe arrived in stages to the penthouse. Theodore first because Theodore was always first. He came in his good coat with his briefcase and his expression that said he’d been preparing for this specific meeting for longer than anyone had told him to. He kissed my cheek, looked at me the way he’d been looking at me since I was twelve years old. Like he needed to confirm I was still in there.Felix came twenty minutes later with coffee for everyone and his laptop and three printed copies of everything he’d found. He set it all on the dining table without being asked and started organizing it the way he organized everything. Dr. Wilder arrived by car. Tristan had sent one for him. He walked in carrying a briefcase that probably contained thirty years of documented guilt and looked around the penthouse with the expression of a man who understood that what happened in this room tonight was going to determine what happened to everything else.Mabel arrived last. She steppe
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Morana’s POVDr. Clive Wilder talked for a long time and I let him. I didn’t interrupt or ask questions. Interrupting felt wrong like stopping someone mid-confession after they’d been carrying it for thirty years.He told me about my mother. The way you talked about things that broke you permanently. Mira Mortaine. MCRF at three times what I currently produce. Her body generated the compound with an efficiency that made everything Xavier extracted from me look like the rough draft it actually was.My father found her through a private medical network. Some cardiologist who noticed anomalous healing markers in a patient and didn’t know what to do with them. Ivo Mortaine knew exactly what to do with them.He spent eighteen months studying her blood before he asked her to dinner. Romantic huh. “She knew he was a researcher” Dr. Wilder said to his coffee cup. “She knew he was interested in her biology. She wasn’t naive. But she believed the interest had become secondary to the love. I th
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Morana’s POVThe kitchen smelled like medical doctor and I don’t know if it makes sense. Clive made coffee without asking and I sat at the table and looked around at the life of a man who’s been hiding for fifteen years.There are books on every surface. Research papers in stacks that suggested a specific organizational system only he understood. A photograph on the windowsill above the sink that I couldn’t see properly from where I was sitting.He set mugs in front of us and sat across the table and looked at me like he was still processing the fact that I existed.“How did you find me?” He asked.“The same way Xavier did probably.” I shrugged because there is nothing to hide. He nodded slowly. Not looking at all surprised. His hiding time is actually over now. “He came to see you. What did he tell you?”“What did he tell me or what did he offer me?” Dr. Wilder wrapped both hands around his mug. “They’re different things.”“Both” Tristan said from beside me. Following my lead the
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