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CHAPTER 2: Non-Answer
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2026-02-16 06:02:57
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SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 159 :Confess to her
VIVIAN’S POVSix weeks had passed since Dominic transferred out of my care. I kept telling myself I was fine. I filled his old Thursday slot with a new patient who was struggling with anxiety after losing his job. My schedule stayed full, my notes were clear and on time, work felt steady. I had thought about him only a manageable number of times. I had not opened his file once since I sent the referral. I was fine. Or at least I tried to be.I had just finished with my last patient for Tuesday and I gathered my things to go home. The office had gone quiet and everyone else had left for the day. I turned off my computer, checked that the lights in the hall were off, and walked through the waiting room toward the exit.Then I stopped dead.Dominic was sitting in the chair by the window. He stood up the moment he saw me. There was something different in the way he held himself. No careful composure trying to manage the space around him. Just a man getting to his feet because the person h
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 158: Still in denial.
DOMINIC’S POVThree days had passed since that last session with James and his words would not leave me alone. I kept hearing him say that fear of my own feelings was not the same as healthy self awareness. I had spent the last three days walking around my penthouse and asking myself the same questions again and again. Was I really different now? Or was I just delaying the same mistakes with a different face?The doorbell rang and pulled me out of my thoughts. I opened the door and found Mia standing there with two bags of groceries in her hands.“Hi Mia… what… what are you doing here?” I asked.“I have come to cook for my brother,” she said, stepping inside without waiting for an invitation.“Mia, I am fine. I can cook for myself.”“I know you can but I want to. Let me take care of you would ya?”She walked straight to the kitchen and started unpacking. I followed her and helped put things away. We moved around each other the way we used to when we were younger. For a while we worke
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 157: The Realization
DOMINIC’S POV I arrived early for the fifth session with James but stayed in my car until the exact time. I had spent the entire week turning over what I said in his office last time. The words had come out before I could stop them. *She makes the room feel different when she is in it.* I had not planned to say that. I had not even planned to admit it to myself in that way. All week I kept hearing James’s response in my head. I had wanted to argue with him. I had wanted to insist that it was just another version of the same problem. But I could not make the argument hold even if I tried. I walked into his office and sat down. James gave me his usual nod and waited. He never rushed the beginning of a session. He let the silence sit until I was ready to fill it. “I have been thinking about…what I said last week,” I told him. James nodded again. “Tell me about that.” I looked at the plant by the window. The leaves were now slightly uneven on one side. “I said she makes th
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 156: New Room
DOMINIC’S POVDr. James Sterling’s office felt different from the one I had left behind. The walls had warmer colors. More books lined the shelves, a large plant sat in the corner, its leaves reaching toward the window like it had been there for years. James himself was fifty-two. He moved with the kind of stillness that came from decades of sitting with other people’s difficult truths without being shaken by them. I sat down across from him and felt the weight of starting over.This was my first session with him. I had transferred because I needed a different approach. I told him that much. I said I felt the previous work had reached a point where I needed fresh eyes on things. James nodded without pressing for more details. He simply asked me to tell him what I hoped to work on.I talked about the patterns I had been fighting. I told him about Aria and how I got obsessed. About how I had turned love into control and scared her. I used plain language because he was a stranger and str
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 155: I let myself fall too deep
VIVIAN’S POVI sat in my office for twenty-three minutes without moving after Dominic left. I know the exact time because I watched the clock on the wall without meaning to. The second hand moved steadily while I stayed completely still. The chair across from mine still held the shape of him. The slight indent where he always sat. I stared at that empty chair and did not let myself name what I was feeling until the last person had left the building and the hallway outside was completely quiet.Then I named it.Heartbreak.It was not the loud kind that made people cry in movies. It was just a heavy, quiet ache that settled deep in my chest and made every breath feel a little harder. I processed it the way I would guide a patient to process it. I identified the feeling, I traced its origin and I examined whether it was appropriate. The answer was no on the professional level and yes on every other level. That was the problem.I had known him for five months across fifty-minute sessions.
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 154: The right Decision
DOMINIC’S POVFor two weeks I had been careful. I arrived exactly on time instead of eight minutes early. I kept my answers shorter and more focused on what I was doing rather than how I was feeling. When Vivian asked how something landed with me, I gave her the practical version instead of the one that would have required me to sit in the room with her as a person instead of a therapist. I knew what I was doing. I knew it was avoidance. And I knew she had noticed it too.Last Thursday she had asked, in that calm way of hers, if something had shifted. I told her I was processing some things privately and she accepted it without pushing. That was the correct therapeutic response. It was also what made everything harder.I booked today’s session knowing what I was going to do. I arrived on time, sat in the same chair I always sat in, and waited for her to settle across from me. The room looked the same. It always looked the same. I was the one who had changed.We started the way we usua
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