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Chapter 186: My own side of three months
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SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 186: My own side of three months
ETHAN'S POV"Come on, Ethan, at least look like you're having fun. You're supposed to be the face of this whole expansion."My business partner Luke said it low, leaning toward me over his glass, nodding at the room like it was mine to enjoy. Rooftop bar, the whole city glittering out past the railing, a crowd of investors and their guests mixing brand of expensive perfume with expensive liquor. I'd been standing in the same spot for twenty minutes holding a drink I hadn't touched."I'm having plenty of fun," I said, which was a lie neither of us believed.It's been three months of this. Three months of rooms exactly like it, cities blurring into one long string of good lighting and better small talk, my face apparently now familiar enough that some magazine had slotted me into a list of the city's most eligible bachelors a few weeks back. Luke had framed the page and hung it in his office, which he thought was hilarious. I hadn't found much of anything funny lately.A woman, who I no
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 185: Starting Over Again
*Three months later*ISABELLA'S POVThe kitchen smelled like cinnamon and burnt sugar, and for a second I could not remember which one I wanted to actually make.Thanksgiving was two days away and my mother had the whole house running on holiday time, sweet potatoes lined up on the counter, a turkey thawing slowly in the fridge that had swallowed up half the shelf space. I had offered to handle the desserts as it gave my hands something to do, and because saying no to my mother during the holidays has never once worked in the history of our family.Three months. That was how long it had been since the bell over my bakery door rang behind Ethan for the last time and I stood there waiting for it to ring again but it never did. Three months since he left with no calls or texts from him. I used to think this would be different from Dominic, because at least Ethan had been mine to lose for one real night at the lake but I was wrong about that matter. If anything the last three months felt
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 184: Leaving Leavenworth
Song Recommendation: Train wreck by James Author ETHAN'S POV I almost turned around twice before I made it to her door. Five days of silence will do that to a man. Make him rehearse a hundred versions of a conversation in his car, then abandon every single one of them the second his hand actually lands on the door handle. I told myself I wasn't going to push. I told myself that the whole drive over. Somewhere between her my house and this bakery, I stopped believing it. The bell rang before I'd even finished deciding what to say. "We're closed," she called out but didn't turn. Then she did turn, and I watched every ounce of color drain sideways out of her face. "Oh. Hi, Ethan." Bright and brittle, a voice built to hold a door shut. "What.. what are you doing here?" I asked her straight out if she was avoiding me. But I already knew the answer. Some part of me had known it since her mother stood in that doorway, sighing like she'd been carrying a lie too heavy to hold anymore.
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 183: It's not that serious Ethan!
Song Recommendation: Before you go by Lewis CapaldiISABELLA'S POVThe bell over the door was the last sound I wanted to hear that evening.I had the sign already flipped to closed, the last tray wiped down, flour dust catching gold in the low light coming through the front window. My feet ached in that good, worn out way they always did after a full day, and for one small stretch of silence before that bell rang, my head had been empty of everything except tomorrow's prep list."We're closed," I called out without turning, rag still in my hand.Then I turned anyway, out of habit more than anything, and every muscle in my body locked at once."Oh. Hi, Ethan." My voice came out too bright, too fast, like i was hoping nobody notices i was bracing for something. "What.. what are you doing here?""Izzy, are you avoiding me?" I walked past him toward the far table, I moved my rag over a surface that was already clean. "No. Never. Why would I avoid you hmm?""Isabella, I was at your house
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 182: The Silence After
ETHAN'S POVI woke up reaching for her before I even opened my eyes.My hand found a cold empty space where she should have been, and for a second I told myself she'd just gotten up to stretch her legs, maybe walked down to the water's edge to watch the sunrise. I sat up fast, scanning the tree line, the empty bench, the flat gray surface of the lake with nothing moving on it at all.She was gone.Not gone-for-a-minute gone as her side the mat was cold enough to tell me she'd been gone a while.I called her twice before I even stood up all the way, my thumb clumsy against the screen. Straight to voicemail. I told myself there were a dozen reasonable explanations. Her phone had died or she'd walked home for something ordinary and simply forgotten to grab it, same as she had the night before. I've never been good at believing my own reasonable explanations when it came to her.I thought of going to her but then I remembered I had a meeting that morning I couldn't move, investors were fl
SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS Chapter 181: Gone Before Morning
ISABELLA'S POVThe cold breeze woke me before anything else did.My eyes opened to the gray light that comes right before a sunrise decides whether it's actually going to happen. For a second I didn't know where I was. Then I felt a blanket bed tangled around my legs and felt the solid warmth of an arm draped over my waist, then it all came rushing back at once.The lake. **I KISSED HIM! I FUCKING KISSED HIM!**I lay there very still, staring at the pale sky through the branches above us, listening to Ethan breathe slowly and even against my back. His hand had found mine sometime in the night and our fingers were still loosely laced together, like even asleep some part of him hadn't wanted to let go.That should have felt nice. It did feel nice, which was exactly the problem.I carefully eased his arm off me an inch at a time, holding my breath every time he moved, until I finally slid free of the blanket into air cold enough to make my skin prickle. I found my clothes in a soft pile
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