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Chapter 265 Insecure
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She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 282 Widower
(Julian)"Where's Taylor?" Gloria asks, coming through with a delectable looking leg of lamb. "I made enough for an army. She told me she loves lamb.""She couldn't make it."True, technically. The best ones are.I take my usual chair.We’ve been doing these Sunday lunches at Gloria and Nathanial’s for the past three weeks.Taylor loved them.She said my messed-up family had a lot more heart than her perfect-on-paper one ever did.I pour myself a stiff drink and don't stop when a sensible man would.The table's doing its thing.Gloria and Nathanial arguing about who was supposed to keep an eye on the gravy, which has over-reduced.Chase down the far end with Lily on his knee, feeding her something she's mostly wearing.Natasha's beside him. Half in the noise. Half somewhere I recognize."Couldn't make it," Gloria says, turning her attention back on me, like the words will rearrange if she says them twice."She's not unwell?""Define unwell."Sonia snorts. "He's sulking. Taylor probabl
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 281 Folded Small
(Nathanial)Gloria reorganizes the spice rack for the umpteenth time at eleven.Cumin, fennel, paprika.It’s been alphabetical. Then organized by frequency of use. Then paired by meats it best accompanies. Then by color.She did the linen closet on Tuesday and the garage on Sunday.The house has never been this clean.She has never been this far away while standing in the same room as me."Come to bed," I say."In a minute. This is chaos."It's oregano. It is not chaos. But I’m not stupid enough to put that between us.There was a due date.I still know it.Occasionally I catch myself counting toward it like it's a thing that's still coming.A countdown I started without being aware of it and now I can't switch it off.She's stopped saying the word out loud.We had a bad night right after she told me. We both broke down, emotions spilling out messily as we held each other on the bathroom floor.We clung together and swore we'd get through it.I believed it that night. As deep as the
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 280 The Good Part
(Chase)I don't sleep.I've never been able to sleep in the good part of anything.I lie there waiting for it to get taken back.Natasha's against my side in the dark, not asleep either.I can tell by her breathing.The first time was fast.Too long of not-this came down all at once and neither of us lasted the way we'd have wanted.I would have apologized except she laughed, this delighted, wrecked sound, and told me to give her ten minutes.It's been eleven.Her hand moves first.Flat on my chest, then lower, unhurried, like she's decided something and is taking her time about the execution.She does everything like that.Decides, then does."You're thinking," she says into the dark."I'm always thinking.""Stop."She rolls up over me, and her weight presses me down into the mattress.Natasha, who has spent the entire time I've known her three steps ahead of every man in the room, looks down at me like I'm the one thing she didn't see coming.This time there's no rush in it.This ti
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 279 Stay
(Natasha)Chase shows up at my door at eleven at night with no warning and no reason, which he never does.He shows up unannounced all the time, but not in the middle of the night.He has a key. He doesn't use it. He knocks.Wise decision given the hour."Lily's asleep," I say. It's the only normal thing I can think of."I didn't come for Lily."He's still in his dinner clothes, tie gone, like he left somewhere mid-sentence.He doesn't come in.He stands on the step like a man who rehearsed something in the car and lost all of it on the walk up."I've been giving you space," he says. "Because I thought that’s the right thing to do.""Chase-""It wasn't. It was me on the far side of the room, waiting for you to cross first, so if it went wrong this time it wasn't on me."He pulls a breath."I'm done with that. I came to cross it. I don’t want to play it safe anymore. I think you know by now that I see you. Not the girl on the beach. You. And I want to be with you. Properly."I should s
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 278 The Wrong End
(Chase)James notices I'm not eating before I do."You came to tell me something," he says. "So tell me, or eat. You're insulting the chicken.""I don't know how to be his father."There.I’ve admitted it out loud.I've successfully expanded and led a multi-billion dollar company for years, since long before anyone but my grandfather believed I was ready for it, barring one hiccup with Chloe, and I couldn't say that sentence to my own reflection.But James gets it over a Tuesday roast.We’ve kept up our Tuesday get-togethers.Always at his place, because I don’t think he wants to be exposed to any more of my cooking.He always makes far more food than two men need, and offers me his ear and sage advice whenever possible.Since that stretch earlier this year when I was coming apart and pretending I wasn't."I keep showing up," I say."And he keeps treating me like a stranger he's been told to be polite to and can't quite manage.”I sigh deeply.“I can walk into any boardroom and bend i
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 277 Never-Said-Never
(Sonia)"-and that's how I ended up banned from the catering truck," I finish.Nathanial laughs.That's twice now.He's got a bread roll in one hand and he's forgotten to be guarded, which is the entire reason I picked the brightest restaurant in the city and ordered for the table before anyone could reach a menu.Keep them fed, keep them laughing, keep the air moving.Natasha hasn't laughed once.Arms folded, watching me the way you watch a street performer.Entertained, and completely aware she's being worked.I refill Nathanial's water before he can run out and tell him the lamb ragu is already on its way and he'll thank me later."You're managing me," he accuses."I'm feeding you. There's a difference. Eat."He’s been a bit down lately and it’s nice to see him relax a little.I am also trying to soften them up so I can ask for a favor.Natasha watches the whole show, unmoved, and waits me out.She lets me run dry on small talk before she forces the matter."You didn't bring us her
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 159 The Couch
(Natasha)It's been two weeks since Shell Cove and Chase is in my kitchen again.Tonight is also the third night in a row he’s dropped by ‘just to check in’ and brought something he didn’t need to bring.Today it's a punnet of strawberries and a small jar of cream from the place on Larchmont.I men
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 150 The Wrong Raft
(Mason)The Stein M&A offices are quiet.Everyone else has gone home for the day.I stand in the center of my office and look at the single cardboard box on my desk.I’m not moving out.I’m just moving across town for a few months.But walking away from the firm I built, even temporarily, feels str
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 149 The Floral Arrangement
(Julian)I find my sister in the business center of her hotel.She has three monitors going and a wilted salad that’s clearly been sitting there for some time."Congratulations are in order," I say, dropping into one of the absurdly uncomfortable guest chairs.Piper doesn’t look up. "For what?""Yo
She Was Never Just the Billionaire’s Wife Chapter 146 Tuesday
(Chase)It’s Tuesday.This is a thing I know because the housekeeper has put a small printed card on my breakfast tray.Apparently she’s been doing it every morning since I’ve been staying here, and I didn’t notice until today.The card has the date on it.It also has the weather and a small senten
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