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THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 75: The filling
JADEN’S POVThe filing arrived on a Wednesday.Ethan brought it to me in the late morning with the expression he wore when he was delivering something he had already assessed and did not like the assessment of. He set it on my desk without preamble and stepped back.I picked it up.Read the cover page.Set it down.Picked it up again and read the body of it properly. Every clause. Every cited regulation. Every carefully constructed allegation wrapped in the language of legitimate concern.It took me fourteen minutes.When I finished I set it on the desk and looked at it for a moment.Then a smile crossed my face.Not the warm kind.The other one. The cold precise one that Ethan recognized and that made him shift slightly where he stood on the other side of the desk.Adrian Cross had filed a formal complaint with the regulatory board.The complaint alleged irregularities in my company’s acquisition practices. Specifically it cited three transactions from the past eighteen months and su
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 74: The lunch
OLIVIA’S POVThe visit had gone better than I expected.Better than I had quietly been dreading on the drive over that morning. I had sat in the passenger seat watching the city move past the window and running through versions of how it might go. My father asking Jaden direct questions that required careful answers. Jaden retreating into the controlled professional version of himself that did not leave much room for the kind of conversation my father preferred.I had underestimated both of them.My father had been himself entirely. Warm and unhurried and asking the kind of questions that seemed simple until you noticed they were not. How long had Jaden been in construction. What had drawn him to it. Whether he preferred the building or the business of it.Jaden had answered each one with more than I expected him to give. Not performing openness. Actually opening. Something about my father’s particular quality of attention invited that. He had always been able to do it. Make people fe
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 73: Peaceful day
OLIVIA’S POVI got home later than I intended.The afternoon had stretched itself. My father had wanted to walk through every room of the new house slowly. Had asked the maids questions with the thoroughness of a man conducting an inspection. Had rearranged two things in the kitchen and declared the bedroom pillows acceptable after testing three of them.By the time I left him settled and comfortable in his armchair with his evening medication taken and the television on at the volume he preferred it was already past seven.I was tired in the good way.The specific tiredness of a day that had taken something from you worth giving.I came in through the front door and went upstairs without stopping. The shower was long and hot and I stood under it with my eyes closed and let the day run off me in the particular way water ran off a day that had been full of things that mattered.When I came out I dressed in my night clothes and looked at the bed for a long moment.Then I went downstairs
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 72: Leaving the hospital
OLIVIA’S POV The house Jaden had arranged for my father was nothing like our old apartment.I had expected something comfortable. Something functional. A decent space with enough room for a man recovering from surgery to move around without difficulty.I had not expected this.Three bedrooms. A proper sitting room with furniture that had been chosen rather than acquired. A kitchen that was fully stocked before my father had even arrived. Two maids who introduced themselves at the door with the same quiet professionalism as the staff at Jaden’s house.I stood in the entrance and looked around and thought about the man who had arranged all of this without telling me he was doing it.My father was going to be comfortable here.More than comfortable.I understood the other part of it too. The practical calculation underneath the generosity. If I was visiting my father in a house that Jaden had arranged in a neighborhood appropriate to his public image, the story remained clean. No photog
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 71: Enough to start with
OLIVIA’S POV It’s one year already, I stood at the window and let that sit for a moment.Three hundred and sixty five days inside a contract I had signed in Jaden’s waiting room at the office. While my father’s monitor beeped in the hospital and my hands shook and a man I did not know placed a pen in front of me and waited with the calm certainty of someone who already knew the answer.One year ago I said yes.And now I was standing at this window in this room in this house and the woman who had said yes felt like someone I could remember clearly but could no longer fully inhabit. Like a coat I had worn through a difficult winter that no longer fit the same way.I looked out at the grounds below.The gardener was not there this morning. The garden held its own quiet. Frost on the far edge of the lawn where the light had not yet reached. The sky above it low and pale and carrying the specific quality of a new year morning that had not yet decided what kind of day it intended to be.
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 70: What I said
JADEN’S POV She sat across from me and I watched her face as she spoke.She had been carrying this for days and I had not known. I had seen something was wrong. I had noticed the managed mornings and the careful distance and the phone face down on the couch. I had asked if something happened and accepted her answer even though I did not believe it.I looked at the photograph on her phone screen.Camille.I knew immediately. Before Olivia confirmed it. Before the words beneath the image. I knew it from the restaurant. From the angle of the shot. From the specific calculation of everything about it including the date stamp placed prominently enough that it could not be accidental.Three weeks before Olivia arrived.Camille had chosen that photograph deliberately. Had found Olivia’s number from somewhere. Had constructed the message with the particular precision of a woman who understood exactly which detail would land hardest and had placed it there intentionally.My jaw tightened.No
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