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Chapter 40: The Evidence
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THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 45: Finishing it
Dexter’s POVShe said then finish it.Two words. Even and direct and looking at me over the rim of the mug with those eyes that had never once given me anything I had not earned and were giving me this now with the particular clarity of someone who had thought about it in the night and arrived somewhere on the other side of the thinking.I stepped forward.She stayed in the doorframe, leaning against it slightly, the mug in both hands, not moving back but not moving toward me either. Giving me the space and letting me use it. That was Daisy. She had always let me use the space. The difficulty had always been me and whether I would.I took the mug from her hands.She let me. Watched me set it on the small table just inside her door, the one that held her camera bag and a stack of books and the particular accumulating evidence of a person making a space of their own. I turned back to her.She was still in the doorframe. Looking at me with those eyes.I put my hands on her face.Both of
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 44: Not nothing
Daisy’s POVI did not sleep well.Not badly, I want to be precise about that because badly would have meant something was wrong and nothing was wrong. Nothing was wrong in the way that something being right for the first time in a long time could keep you awake with the particular pleasant restlessness of a person whose chest had something in it that had not yet found a place to settle.I lay in the dark and looked at the ceiling and thought about his hand at my jaw.The warmth of it. The deliberateness of it, the way it had moved to tuck the hair back and then stayed, not gripping, not demanding, just present against my jaw with the particular certainty of someone who had made a decision and was not second-guessing it. I had stood there and felt it and not moved away and that was its own kind of decision.Then he kissed me.I pressed my hand over my eyes in the dark and breathed.The brush of it. The stillness that came over me when it happened, the complete and total stillness of
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 43: Bad timing
Ivy’s POVI had not planned to come home when I did.That was the honest truth of it, I had been at Sarah’s, a friend from my old job, and we had been having the kind of evening that extended itself naturally, one glass of wine becoming two becoming a third and a conversation about nothing important that felt important the way those conversations did. I had genuinely lost track of time.When I looked at my phone at eleven fifteen and saw it was eleven fifteen I had said goodbye and got in a cab and come home and let myself into the apartment with my keys and walked into my kitchen and found my brother and my best friend not looking at each other with the most elaborate casualness I had ever witnessed.I knew what I had walked into. I had walked into the tail end of something and I was not obtuse and I did not need a forensic analysis to understand what the counter-staring and the careful positioning and the slightly too-even voices were communicating.I had looked at the ceiling beca
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 42: She held my shirt collar
Dexter’s POVMy hand was at her jaw.She had not moved away. That was the first thing, the fact that she was still there, still looking at me, still letting the moment be what it was without shutting it down or stepping back or doing any of the things she had done in hallways and kitchens and corridors over the last weeks when the moment arrived and she had decided it was not yet time.She was not deciding that now.I kept my hand where it was. Felt the warmth of her skin under my palm, the slight angle of her jaw, the particular stillness of someone who was present in a room completely. Her eyes were on mine and they were doing what they always did when she was feeling something she had made peace with, clear and direct and not hiding anything.“Daisy,” I said. Her name, in my voice, at whatever volume the kitchen required.“I know,” she said.I leaned in.Slowly. Deliberately. The kind of slow that was its own statement, not hesitation, intention. I was giving her every second to de
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 41: Chemistry
Daisy’s POVThe next day we came home together to a quiet apartment, after work.I noticed it the moment Dexter pushed open the front door, the particular quality of a space that had been empty for a while, the absence of Ivy’s shoes by the door, the kitchen light off, the living room undisturbed. She had texted me at nine saying she was staying at a friend’s and not to wait up, which at the time had made me smile because Ivy’s timing was rarely accidental.Tonight I was less certain whether to be grateful or terrified.We came in and I put my bag on the hook and he put his keys in the dish and we moved into the kitchen the way we always did at the end of an evening, the instinctive migration toward the room where the light was good and the counter was there to lean against and the kettle was available if anyone needed something to do with their hands.Nobody turned on the kettle.We stood in the kitchen in our coats and the apartment was very quiet around us and the evening was still
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 40: The Evidence
Ivy’s POVI came home to an empty apartment.That was the first thing, the particular quality of a space that had been recently occupied and recently vacated. Not the empty of a place where nobody had been all day. The empty of a place where two people had been and were now somewhere else together.Both doors closed. No sound from either room. No Daisy on the couch. No Dexter in the study with the light on and a case file open. Just the apartment in its Friday evening quiet with the city outside the windows doing its weekend thing.I stood in the hallway for a moment and just registered it.They were out. Together. At the dinner that had been booked and confirmed and anticipated since Wednesday morning when I had heard his voice through the walls saying have dinner with me and her saying yes and I had stood in the corridor with my hand over my mouth being extremely mature about the whole situation.I went to the kitchen.The counter told its own story.A takeout menu, the one from t
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 15: The floral cologne
DAISY ♡Ivy made pasta on Thursday evening.The good kind, the kind she only made when she had time and the particular domestic energy that came over her when she wanted an evening to feel normal. Sauce from scratch, proper parmesan, the kitchen smelling warm and like something that required no co
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 14: The return
LILY♡I do not lose.That is the foundational truth I built myself back on after Dexter. Eight months of careful reconstruction, my professional reputation polished back to its best, my social calendar full again, my appearance as controlled and considered as it has always been. I went through t
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 13: At 11 P.M
DEXTER♡I was not waiting.I want to be clear about that. I was not sitting on the couch in the dark at eleven fifteen on a Saturday evening waiting for Daisy Brown to come home from a date with a cardiologist whose staff profile I had looked at twice and whose publication history I had absolutely
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 12: The first date
DAISY ♡Casper picked me up at seven.He was waiting outside the building when I came down, not in the lobby checking his phone, not parked at the curb sending a text to say he was there. He was standing outside, his hands in his jacket pockets, looking at the street with the easy patience of someo
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