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CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT
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THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIFTY NINE
“DO YOU THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO LOVE TWO PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME?’YULIAN.Maya walked in and I crossed the room and I put my arms around her before she had finished closing the door behind her.No words.Not yet.Just her, in my arms, in my actual arms, my own body finally back where it belonged, and she pressed her face into my shoulder and I felt her exhale — long and slow and unsteady — and I held on and let her have however long she needed.She had been crying. I could tell from the way she held herself, slightly depleted, the particular exhaustion that came not from physical tiredness but from the kind of hurt that used up something deeper than energy. I did not ask what happened yet. I already knew enough from the phone call and the rest could wait until she was ready.I just held her.After a while she pulled back. She looked up at me and her eyes were swollen and her face was completely open in a way Maya's face was rarely completely open, all the careful management gone, jus
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT
“LIES TELL ME LIES BABY TELL ME HOW YOU HATE ME.”MAYA.I sat in the car for a long time.The engine was off. The road was quiet. The house was somewhere behind me and I was not looking at it and I was not going back to it and I was just sitting with both hands in my lap and letting the tears do what they were doing because there was nothing else to do with them.I was useful.The word kept coming back. Not dramatically, not with the force of something new — with the quiet weight of something that had always been true and had simply never been said out loud before. Like hearing the name for something you had been living with for so long you had stopped noticing its shape.Useful.Not loved. Not chosen. Not our daughter who we worried about and wondered about and hoped for. Useful, in the specific way of something that served a purpose and was appreciated for the serving and nothing beyond that.I pressed my head back against the headrest and looked at the ceiling of the car.My phone
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN
"THEY SAME TIME HEAL ALL WOUND BUT YOUR WOUNDS CUT SO DEEP…."MAYA.I packed light.One overnight bag, the small one, just enough for a day or two. I moved around the hotel room folding things neatly and putting them in and tried not to think too hard about where I was going because thinking too hard about it made my hands do the shaking thing and I needed my hands to be steady for this. Yulian sat on the edge of the bed and watched me.He did not say anything for a while. He just watched with that quiet attentiveness he had, the kind that did not demand anything from you but that you always felt."You don't have to do this today," he said finally."Yes I do," I said. "If I wait I'll talk myself out of it.""That's not necessarily a bad thing."I looked at him. "Sera didn't do this alone, Yulian. She's not — she's not the kind of person who operates without information. She knew things she should not have known. About the arrangement, about the timing, about how to move pieces in a wa
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIFTY SIX
"ONLY THE BIKE UNDERSTANDS."KAYDEN.The circuit smelled the same as it always did.Fuel and rubber and hot tarmac and underneath all of it something electric, the specific charge of a place that existed for speed and nothing else. I had been coming to circuits since I was seventeen years old and the smell had never changed and it hit me the moment I stepped out of the car and I felt something in my chest loosen by about one degree.Just one.But it was something.Rico was already there when I got to the garage. My head mechanic, twelve years on circuits together, a short man with grease permanently under his fingernails and the particular ability to read a rider's state of mind from forty feet away that I had always found either useful or deeply inconvenient depending on the day.He looked up when I walked in.Looked at my face.Looked back down at the bike."You look terrible," he said."Good morning to you too," I said."You sleep at all?""Some."He made a sound that communicated
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE
"YOU ARE MY MATE."MAYA.Yulian was beside me.The real him, back where he belonged, and I kept catching myself looking at him the way you looked at something you had been afraid of losing and had gotten back — with a kind of grateful disbelief that needed to be confirmed by looking again every few minutes.But underneath the relief something else was sitting.Sera.I had been trying not to think about it too directly since I woke up but it was there, the same way a bruise was there — not always painful but always present, and if you pressed on it you felt the full extent of it immediately.Sera was out there.Probably already in motion. Probably already somewhere she should not be, doing something I would have to deal with eventually, because that was Sera. She did not wait. She did not hold back once she had decided something was hers. She tore through obstacles the way weather tore through things — not with cruelty exactly, just with complete indifference to what she left behind.A
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR
"OBESSION OR LOVE?"SERA.A day and a half.That was how long I had been in this house and I was already losing my mind.Not because the house was unpleasant. It was not unpleasant. It was extraordinary, actually — the kind of home that had been put together with real thought and real money and the specific attention of someone who cared about every room feeling like it meant something. High ceilings. Good light. The kind of kitchen that made you want to actually cook in it. A master bedroom with a view of the grounds that I had stood at for ten minutes on my first morning just taking in.Maya had done well for herself.I had done well for myself, I corrected internally. This was mine now. This was what I had come back for and what I had worked toward and what I had every right to be standing in.Except.Yulian was not here.That was the part I had not fully planned for. I had assumed — and I could see now that the assumption had been naive, though I was not ready to use that word out
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER SIX
“REAL EYES, REALIZE, REAL LIES.”MAYA."When you look at me." He gestured at himself, at Yulian's face, Yulian's body, all of it. "You do this thing where you—" He paused. "You know which one you're talking to. It shows. Not a lot but it shows if someone is paying attention.""I'll work on it," I s
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FIVE
“WE ALL EAT LIES, WHEN OUR HEARTS ARE HUNGRY.”MAYA.The next day.Okay.So.My husband and his best friend had swapped souls overnight because of a orb that was delivered to our home by our pack shaman. My husband was now in Kayden's body. Kayden was now in my husband's body. I was the only person
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER FOUR
“THE THOUGHT OF YOU CONSUMES ME LIKE AN UNCOMMITTED SIN.”MAYA.“What’s going on?” Yulian aksedHis eyes moved to me first, the way they always did."Nothing," I said, and I bent down and grabbed a dish towel off the hook on the cabinet and crouched down to press it to the small spill on the floor.
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER THREE
“PARALLEL LINES WERE NEVER MEANT TO MEET.”MAYAI did not turn around immediately.I gave myself exactly three seconds. One, two, three — counted in my head while I kept my eyes on the wine glasses in front of me and kept my hands steady on the bottle and kept my face doing absolutely nothing. The
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