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{ CONTRACT WITH HIS BROTHER }

Penulis: Emmanuel Okeme
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-30 00:05:09

LEILA

The cabin of George’s SUV was heavily insulated, swallowing the Beverly Hills downpour until it was nothing more than a distant static. 

I sat against the plush seat, forcing my spine into a straight line to keep my chattering teeth from clicking together. My wet hair plastered flat against my forehead, dripping slow streams down my jawline and onto the collar of my soaked wool coat. 

I was shivering, but my

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  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM }

    LEILATwo weeks had passed since the interview, since the prize money cleared, since I'd signed the lease on this apartment; the Apex committee's idea of a welcome gift, all glass and clean lines on the fourteenth floor. I still hadn't gotten used to the quiet of it. No water stains on the ceiling, no thin walls carrying someone else's argument through. Just floor-to-ceiling windows and a skyline that didn't belong to anyone who could take it away from me. I was scheduled to meet with the general contractor and all the partners next week to begin turning two years of drawings into something real. Five hundred million dollars in capital, my name on the paperwork instead of buried under someone else's. Everything I'd wanted since the night I typed my resignation letter into the dark was finally sitting in front of me. The soft tap against my door dragged me from the early morning sleep. Blinking away the haze, I walked slowly and pulled it open.My breath hitched instantly, a rush o

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { I WILL BREAK THEIR BONDS ASUNDER }

    KARL I'd watched the clip four times before I stopped pretending I was going to stop. Her voice was steady even under pressure, the audio coming through the tablet speakers clear and crisp in the quiet of the penthouse living room. The way she'd talked about the museum, the migration routes mapped into the hallways, something almost proud settling into her posture as she spoke to the lens. I hadn't expected that. I'd expected the exhaustion from her collapse to still be sitting on her somewhere, and instead she looked like a woman who'd finally been given a room worth speaking in. She was commanding the space entirely on her own terms, completely independent of my name. Then the question about the baby landed, the warmth draining out of the studio set in real time, and George rising from the crowd before she'd even had the chance to form a defense.

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { LET'S MAKE THEM ASSUME }

    LEILA Three days later, George's car hadn't fully stopped before the first camera flash hit the front windshield. By the time George opened my door, a wall of reporters had already closed around the entrance steps of the Apex Prize headquarters, microphones stretched out ahead of them like spears, voices overlapping into a single wall of noise that cut through the afternoon air. "Ms. Stonne, KTLA, can you confirm the rumors about your pregnancy?" "Leila, Los Angeles Times, over here, just one question about your career!" "Ms. Stonne, is it true the design's being expanded to a second site?" George stepped forward before I got out of the car, his frame filling the space between the open door and the nearest microphone before I'd even found my footing on the pavement. He held one hand up, and the chaotic noise dropped by half almost instantly unde

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { YES, I WANT YOU TOO }

    LEILAI felt the answer in my chest before I found the word for it, something loosening there that had been pulled tight for months.The quiet of the small apartment room felt less heavy now, the pale morning light showing the steady line of his jaw as he waited for me to speak.He hadn't moved since he'd asked. He just stayed there, letting the silence fill the room entirely."Yes," I said, and I made myself say it clearly. "I want that too."He was already moving before I'd fully finished the sentence, like he'd been holding himself back the entire time.His hand found my jaw first, careful, and then his mouth was on mine, unhurried and warm despite how fast he'd crossed the space between us.I felt his other hand settle at my back, steadying me, and I let myself lean into it, into him, into the first thing in days that hadn

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { THE BABY IS KARL'S }

    GEORGE"The baby is Karl's."The name sat in the recovery room longer than either of us seemed willing to be the one to break it.I had spent months building a picture of us in the back of my mind without ever imagining some faceless, formless idea of a child. I hadn't built another father into that picture.Now I had one, and it was the last name I would have chosen if choosing had ever been on the table.I thought of him in ways I didn't want to, standing in doorways, sitting across dinner tables, existing in every room I'd ever shared with my own family before I'd learned to stop expecting anything from it.I thought of the version of him that must have touched her once, gently enough that this had happened, and how strange it was that everything else I knew of him could sit inside the same man.Karl had l

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { WHOSE BABY IS IT? }

    LEILAThe ceiling above me was wrong. Too white, too smooth, nothing like the water-stained tile of my apartment.I lay still for a moment, my eyes wide as I tried to place myself in the unfamiliar room.The white wall panels were sterile, the bright morning sun throwing sharp squares of pale light across the edge of my blanket.I tried to reconstruct how I had gotten into this bed, my mind searching for the last clear moment before the darkness had taken my system.The podium. I remembered the cold metal of the podium under my fingers, the heavy weight of the microphone in my hand, and the first words of my presentation leaving my dry lips.I remembered the white glare of the camera flashes from the back benches.After that, nothing. A massive gap where memory should have been. There was no transition line t

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { FOUR }

    EVELINA The door opened.Aria Vance walked in with one hand resting lightly on Julian’s arm. She glanced around the table easily, already smiling before anyone spoke.Julian looked across the room. His eyes passed over me without stopping before settling on his parents.“Dad. Mum.” A beat. “ This

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { THREE }

    EVELINA The corridor felt different when I stepped out of Dr. Yuen’s office.People were moving faster. Reception staff straightened behind their desks. Nurses glanced toward the entrance like they were expecting someone important.A name passed quietly through the hallway. “Aria Vance.”I kept wa

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { TWO }

    EVELINA The notification was still on my screen when I woke up.CONGRATULATIONS. YOU HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THE APEX URBAN PRIZE. Final submission window: 7 days.I stared at it through a few hours of broken sleep and the dull ache climbing up the back of my neck.Outside the studio windows, the sky h

  • THE WIFE HE THREW AWAY: My ex-husband's regret    { ONE }

    EVELINA “Sign them whenever you’re ready.”A white envelope landed on my keyboard. For a second, I thought it was another batch of revisions from Sterling Group. Then I saw the words on the front.Divorce Agreement.Julian Sterling stood across from me in his charcoal suit, still buttoned up. His

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