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Chapter 43 Lucian's Pov
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2026-04-20 20:40:04
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Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 62 Daniel's Pov
I sat across from Dad and looked at the menu, which was large and laminated and offered things in the careful, descriptive language of menus that did not list prices.I ordered the fruit cup and a hot chocolate.Dad ordered something from the waiter without looking at the menu and then looked at his phone briefly and then put it face down on the table, which was his version of full attention."How is the gym?" he asked me. Not ‘how are you?’ Rather, it was, ‘how is the gym?I swallowed hard. "Good," I said. "Lucian is teaching me the jab combination. I'm working on the footwork.""The footwork," Dad repeated."The way you move your feet when you're in position," I said. "It matters more than the punch because if your feet are wrong, the punch doesn't land correctly."Dad looked at me with emotion blazing in his eyes. "I can get you a proper boxing coach," he said. "If you want to pursue it seriously. There are facilities—""I don't want a coach," I said.The words came out before I
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 61 Daniels Pov
Dad called at nine on Sunday morning.I was in the kitchen with Mum, who was making eggs the way she made them on weekends, unhurried, with the radio on low and her hair still loose from sleeping. Lucian was coming over at eleven and we had talked about the zoo the night before, the three of us at the kitchen table after dinner, and I had looked up the animals online before bed and had a list of the ones I wanted to see in order of priority, starting with the snow leopard.I had not seen a snow leopard before. And I couldn't just wait to see one. The phone was on the counter and when Dad's name appeared on the screen, Mum looked at it and then looked at me and handed it over without changing her expression, which was something she had gotten better at over the past months. It was clear that she was not performing how she felt about the call before I had answered it."Daniel," Dad said. He said my name the way he said most things in the morning, with the precise, forward-moving qualit
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 60 Lucian's Pov
Seraphina relaxed her head on my shoulder."No one is looking for us here," she said."That's the point," I said.She was quiet for a moment."I did not know places like this felt like this," she said. "I have been to farmers markets and outdoor events, the curated kind, the kind with the correct vendors and the correct crowd and the velvet rope that isn't a velvet rope but functions as one. This is different.""How?" I said."No one is performing anything," she said. "That man at the record crates with the dog on his lap. The woman selling the jewelry who told me about the stone being from a river in New Mexico. The band…none of them are here to be seen as being here. They are just here.""Yes," I said."I want more of this," she said."There is more of it," I said. "There is a great deal of it."In the weeks that followed, I gave her more of it.Not planned in the way that Kieran had planned things, with the research and the strategic deployment and the calculated targeting of prefe
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 59 Lucian's Pov
I had been thinking about what she had missed.Not in the abstract, not in the way you think about deprivation as a concept when you read about it or hear about it from the outside. But in the concrete way of a man who had listened to a woman talk for three hours on a balcony and had received every detail she gave him and had filed each one with the same attention he gave everything that mattered.She had missed the ordinary.Kieran Blackthorne had provided, by every available account, a life of extraordinary material quality. The house and the car and the stylist and the events and the correct wine and the correct placement of the napkins and the comprehensive, expensive infrastructure of a life that looked, from any external angle, like everything.But she had been lonely in it.Not because the things were wrong. Because the things had been provided as substitutes for the things that could not be acquired, the daily, small, ordinary things that make a life feel like it belongs to yo
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 58 Seraphina's Pov
I told Lucian about Daniel.About the way becoming Daniel's mother had given me the first experience I could remember of being fully, unconditionally necessary to someone. Not as a function or a wife or a consequence to be managed. As his mother. The person whose voice he wanted at two in the morning and whose presence he sought across any room. The person he had looked at with those too-old eyes in the car driving away from the mansion and said, ‘you've been sad for so long, maybe now you'll be happy’.About the moment I had decided to leave.Not a single dramatic moment. An accumulation that had reached a threshold. Kieran's voice saying, ‘mistake’ and the word sitting in the air of the room and my own recognition, arriving slowly and then completely, that the word was accurate not in the way he intended it but in the way I had been afraid to let myself think it. The marriage was a mistake. Not Daniel, not the years, not the woman I had been forced to become inside them. The arrange
Revenge Of The Rejected Ex-Wife Chapter 57 Seraphina's Pov
The apartment was warm when we got back.It was the warmth of a place that has been left with the heating on and returns the favor by receiving you without the cold adjustment period of a space that has been sitting empty. I had started thinking of this as one of the small, accumulated pleasures of a home that was actually mine, the fact that I could set the temperature before I left and come back to it as I had left it without negotiating the preference with anyone.It was beautiful for real. Lucian was loosening his tie in the hallway, the jacket already off and folded over the chair by the door. I stepped out of my heels one at a time and felt the floor under my feet and the specific relief of height relinquished after a long evening, the body returning to its natural geometry.The emerald gown had held up through the dinner and the dancing and the bar encounter and Dr. Tricia’s card pressed into my palm and the car ride home, and it still looked like itself, which I noted with th
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