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CHAPTER 71
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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
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[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
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[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
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[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
The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 189
[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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[FIVE STAR DINING HOUSE - 7:30 PM]Wendy had chosen the green silk dress deliberately.Not because she was trying to be obvious about it. She knew herself well enough to know the difference between dressing for someone and dressing as someone, and this was the first thing. Vincent had always noticed green. Not in the way men noticed things to comment on them, but in the smaller quieter way of someone who registered beauty without making a performance of registering it. She had watched him do it enough times to know it was real.She had been sitting at the table for thirty minutes when the waiter came to refill her water for the third time and asked if she would like to order something while she waited. She told him no. She told him her guest was on his way.The restaurant was the kind of place where the lighting was warm enough that everyone looked like the best version of themselves. The kind of place where the sound of other people's conversations was present but distant, a low plea
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It took Shayla a full minute to snap out of the chaos of thoughts running wild in her head. A full minute of being frozen on top of Grayson Cross, her boss, her ex-boyfriend, the father of her child, with their lips pressed together and his hands on her waist and every single rational thought in he
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"Ayven is missing, mama bear." Ruby's voice cracked on the other end. "Someone took him. I got to the school and he was already gone. Someone picked him up and I found his shoe and…"The phone fell from Shayla's hand.She felt air leaving her lungs in quick succession, each breath shorter and more
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Grayson sat at his desk pretending to review quarterly reports while actually watching Shayla out of the corner of his eye.She had been different since she came to work in the morning. Distant. Distracted. The easy warmth that had been building between them over the past th
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Ruby stared at the woman in the doorway, taking in every detail of her appearance. She was beautiful. Effortlessly so. The kind of natural beauty that did not need makeup or styling to shine. Her dark hair fell in soft waves around her face, and her skin had that dewy glow that suggested she had ju
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