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Chapter 75: The Strings That Bind Us
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2025-07-06 11:13:32
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"That's not his shirt."Allie says it without thinking — the words just come out, automatic, the way you correct a small wrong when your brain is running on tired and you've lost the energy to calculate every sentence before it leaves your mouth.Liam goes very still."You still remember what he wears," he says. Flat. Not a question."I said the shirt isn't his. Nick doesn't wear blue dress shirts—""So you've inventoried his wardrobe.""Liam."He turns away, jaw tight, and she watches him discard the shirt back on the chair with the disgust of a man who has decided this particular piece of clothing is personally offensive to him. Which, given everything, it probably is.She grabs clothes from her closet — the same impulse she's had since she was seventeen, when this room was a refuge and the first rule was always when overwhelmed, shower — and heads for the bathroom.Sh
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Vivian watches Liam's expression shift and her whole body floods with the specific, electric satisfaction of a woman who has just found the exact nerve she was looking for.She presses harder."It's actually quite sad, when you think about it." She leans in, voice dropping to something intimate and rueful, like she's sharing something she'd rather not. "Allie and Nick were practically inseparable growing up. He used to come over all the time — stayed over sometimes, even. We all just assumed they'd get married eventually. It seemed so inevitable." She pauses, perfectly timed. "I think that's why she still held onto the photo. Some things you can't let go of, even when you should."Liam's jaw does something she can't fully read.Good enough.Vivian is so focused on his face that she doesn't notice Allie until she's already there — fruit plate in hand, setting it on the coffee table with the quiet efficiency of someone who has de
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Vivian is practically vibrating with suppressed fury.She sets the dish beside Allie's plate with enough controlled force to rattle the table setting, smiles her most devastating smile, and retreats to her seat. But her jaw is locked. Her fingers, wrapped around her chopsticks, have gone white at the knuckles. Her eyes keep cutting to Liam — to the easy, unhurried way he's already resumed conversation with David, as if the last thirty seconds didn't happen, as if Vivian isn't sitting three feet away fantasizing about setting something on fire.Allie eats the prawn.It's perfect. Of course it is.She does not look at Liam again.Dinner ends. David and Liam migrate to the living room, the conversation shifting to equity markets and something about a waterfront development, the language of men who have made money and are making more. Lisa disappears into the kitchen with the practiced efficiency of someone who has realized this evening we
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