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Chapter 80: Reminiscing
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2026-06-22 20:16:15
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THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 81: I miss you
OLIVIA’S POVThree days after the rooftop.That was how I had started measuring time lately. Not in contract days the way I used to. In the distance between moments that mattered.Three days since the phone in his pocket and the laugh I had stored privately and the corridor and the words that had been replaced before they could become words.Three days of carrying what I had admitted to myself in the dark and not knowing what to do with it in the daylight.The mornings had been different since then.Not dramatically. Nothing between Jaden and I was ever dramatic. But there was a quality to the breakfasts now that had not been there before the rooftop. A slightly longer eye contact. A conversation that did not rush toward its conclusion. The particular ease of two people who had spent an evening somewhere without performance and could not fully unknow that.I was in the library on Thursday morning when my phone rang.I looked at it without picking it up immediately.The number was save
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 80: Reminiscing
OLIVIA’S POVI did not sleep for a long time.I lay on my back in the dark with the ceiling above me and the house quiet around me and my mind doing the thing it had been doing for weeks. The thing I had been managing carefully and measuring precisely and trying to keep inside appropriate boundaries.It was not staying inside appropriate boundaries anymore.I had known that for a while.I had been knowing it for weeks the way you knew things you were not ready to say out loud. Carrying the knowledge carefully. Setting it down in one place and picking it up and moving it somewhere more manageable and finding it had moved back on its own while you were not looking.I was falling in love with Jaden Parker.I lay in the dark and said it clearly inside my own head for the first time without immediately following it with a qualification or a redirect or a reminder about clause one.I was falling in love with Jaden Parker.There it was.Sitting in the middle of my consciousness like somethin
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 79: The loop
OLIVIA’S POVThe house was quiet when we got back.Staff had been reduced to the night team. The entrance hall was softly lit the way it always was at this hour. The particular settled quality of a house that had been waiting for its people to come home and was now exhaling.We came in.Set things down.The evening had a different quality inside the house from the rooftop. Something slightly more aware of itself. Like the space between us had noticed where we were and what it meant that we were walking toward our separate floors.I turned toward the staircase.Jaden was beside me.We walked up together the way we sometimes did at the end of evenings. Not out of deliberateness. Just the natural movement of two people going in the same direction until they weren’t.At the top of the stairs the corridor split.My floor to the left.His to the right.We stopped.“Goodnight,” I said.“Goodnight,” he said.I turned left.I took one step.Two.Three.“Olivia.”His voice.Low and quiet and ca
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 78: The Dinner
OLIVIA’S POVThe restaurant was nothing like anything he had taken me to before.No doorman. No photographer positioned at a discreet distance. No table of industry names arranged across the room like a strategic map of who mattered to whom this season.Just a rooftop.Small and warm and lit with the particular quality of places that understood atmosphere without overexplaining it. Eight tables. Maybe ten. Each one with enough space between it and the next to feel private without being isolated. The city spread out below and around us in every direction. All of it visible. All of it at the exact right distance.The kind of place that did not appear in any publication because it did not need to.I stood at the entrance for a moment and looked at it.Jaden was already speaking to someone near the host stand. A brief exchange. Familiar but not formal. The ease of a person who had been here before and been known here before.He came back and led me to a table near the far edge.The view f
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 77: Dress comfortable
OLIVIA’S POVThe week had been heavy.Not in a dramatic way. In the specific way of weeks that carried too much underneath the surface of ordinary days. The regulatory complaint sitting in a public database with Jaden’s company name attached to it. Elena somewhere across the city holding documents that could change everything and not yet ready to move. Adrian believing he had bought himself time.I had been carrying the weight of knowing things I could not yet do anything about.By Thursday afternoon I had read the same page of the same book four times and retained nothing and given up entirely and was sitting in the library armchair looking at the window when I heard footsteps in the corridor.Jaden appeared in the doorway.I looked up.He looked at me the way he did sometimes when he had decided something and was about to deliver it as information rather than a question.“We are not going to the Harrington event tonight,” he said.I frowned slightly. “I thought that was confirmed.”
THE CONTRACT BRIDE’S REVENGE Chapter 76: Run out of it
OLIVIA’S POVI found out about the complaint from Ethan.Not because Jaden told me. He had not mentioned it at breakfast or dinner the previous day and I had not known anything was happening until Ethan arrived. On Thursday morning I passed the study door and heard the particular quality of a conversation that was not routine.I did not listen at the door.But I noticed.The energy of the house was different again. Not the focused surgical intensity of the Eastbridge response. Something quieter than that. More contained. Like a man who had received news and decided exactly what to do with it before anyone else in the room had finished reading the headline.I went to the library, read some books that interest me. I stayed there for two hours.Then I went to the study.Ethan was gone by then. The house had returned to its surface quiet. I knocked and heard Jaden’s voice and came in and sat down.He looked up from the desk.I looked at him for a moment.“Adrian filed a regulatory compl
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 p
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 requir
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 th
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 pr
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