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The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 194
[CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL - ANGEL'S WARD, 8:45 PM] Grayson had been sitting in the corridor outside Angel's room for two hours. The doctor had come by at six. He had looked at Angel's charts, checked her responses. Had come out of the room and told Grayson that everything was as it should be, that her body was doing what it needed to do, that there was no cause for alarm. Grayson had asked when she would wake up. The doctor had said soon. Just like earlier this morning. He had waited and waited. She had not woken up. He looked at his phone. A message from Shayla from three hours ago telling him she would not make it back to the hospital this afternoon, that she was sorry, that she would explain when he got home. He had read it and set the phone down and gone back to looking at the door. Now it was almost nine at night and Angel was still unconscious and Ayven was still in a coma. Grayson stood there for a moment looking at Angel's door and then he looked down the corridor in the
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[CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL - GRAYSON'S ROOM, AFTER] Grayson had his laptop open on the small table and his phone beside it and the particular focused expression of a man who had made the decision that functioning was the only thing available to him and had committed to it completely. He was already reading something on the screen when she came back into the room after using the bathroom and he glanced up briefly. "Go home," he said. "Shower and eat something real and rest for a few hours." "I will come back this afternoon," she said. He looked back at the screen. "You don't have to." "I am aware of that." She picked up her bag from the floor beside the couch. "I will come back this afternoon." He was quiet for a moment. Something shifted in his face that she caught from across the room, something brief and internal that he managed back into stillness before it became anything she could name. He did not look up from the screen again. "Luke is downstairs," he said. --- Luke drove t
The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 192
[HOSPITAL - GRAYSON'S ROOM, MORNING, NOVEMBER 23RD] Shayla woke up because her back had decided it was done tolerating the couch. She shifted and immediately felt the protest of every muscle she had asked to do something unreasonable overnight, her lower back first, then her hips, then the particular deep ache that came from sleeping in a position her pregnant body had not agreed to. She pressed one hand into the cushion and pushed herself upright and sat there breathing through the discomfort until it settled into something manageable. The room was still dim. The curtains were doing most of the work against the morning light trying to come through the window, and the hospital smell was exactly what it had been when she fell asleep, antiseptic and the flat recycled quality of air that had been moving through the same building for too long, and underneath those things the faint smell of the food she had brought last night which Grayson had eaten mechanically. Grayson was in the cha
The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 191
[VINCENT'S ESTATE - MASTER BEDROOM, MORNING]The sunlight coming through the gap in the curtains hit him directly in the face and Vincent turned his head away from it and immediately regretted the movement because his skull registered the turn as a personal attack.He lay there for a moment with his eyes closed and his forearm pressed over his face, taking stock of his own body the way he did every time he woke up after a night like last night. The headache was sitting behind his eyes with the particular settled quality of pain that had been there for hours and had made itself comfortable. His mouth tasted like something that had no business being in a human mouth. His shoulders were stiff.He pulled his hand through his hair and felt it catch on the knots in it."Fuck," he said, to the ceiling.He lay there another moment and then the night came back to him in a sequence that was unhelpfully clear. This was the thing he had never been able to explain to anyone who had not seen it, th
The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 190
[CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL - ROOFTOP, 11:45 PM]The rooftop access door closed behind him and the night air came at him all at once, cool and sharp and carrying the particular quality of air that had not been breathed inside a building, and Grayson stood there for a moment and just let it hit his face.He was not running.He needed to be clear about that, at least to himself, because he had watched Shayla leave and he had spent months with the particular shape of what leaving looked like and this was not that. He knew where she was. She was one floor down in a room he would go back to. He just needed to be outside the walls of it for a little while, needed to be somewhere that was not a hospital corridor or a hospital room or a hospital chair, somewhere the air moved.The city spread out below him the way it always did from this height, dense and lit and entirely indifferent to everything happening on this rooftop or in the floors below it. He walked to the railing and put both hands on t
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[HOSPITAL - GRAYSON'S ROOM, 10:45 PM]The folder was sitting open across her lap and Shayla was reading the same line she had already read three times.Zero percent biological relation.She turned to the next page. Zero. The next. Zero. She went through all five pages and closed the folder and sat there holding it in both hands with tears running down her face that she was not trying to stop because there was nobody in the room to hold herself together for.She had run partly because of Angel.That was the truth she had been carrying for months, the real center of it, the thing underneath all the other things she had told herself and told Vincent. Finding out Grayson had a daughter she did not know about had broken something in her that she had not known how to repair from inside the marriage, so she had stepped outside it and told herself she was healing.And the whole time the child she had built that pain around was not even his.Shayla pressed her lips together hard. She looked at
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Grayson's hands tightened on the tablet, his knuckles going white as the blood drained from them. The screen seemed to burn into his retinas, that thumbnail image searing itself into his brain where he knew it would haunt him forever.Shayla. His Ayla. With another man.For a moment, he could not b
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[GRAYSON CROSS MANSION - LIVING ROOM]The drive home from the hotel had been silent. Painfully silent. Shayla had sat in the back of the SUV with her arms crossed, staring out the window with unseeing eyes while Grayson held her hand and Ayven sat quietly on her other side, sensing that something w
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[7:30 PM - Grayson Cross Mansion] Ayven had just returned to his room after dinner. Shayla sat on the couch in the living room, staring at her phone with a dejected expression. Her finger hovered over Ruby's contact for the twentieth time that evening, but she could not bring herself to call again
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Shayla's eyes fluttered open. She blinked slowly, trying to orient herself, where she was and why her head felt like it had been stuffed with cotton.She looked around and saw she was in the school clinic.Her gaze moved across the room, landing first on Ruby, who sat in a chair beside the bed with
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