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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
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
The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 188
[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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[HOSPITAL - GRAYSON'S ROOM, EVENING] The security guard who spotted her first came toward her the moment she stepped through the hospital entrance with the food bag in one hand and the clothes bag in the other. He took both bags from her without being asked and fell into step beside her, two other guards closing in around her, and they moved through the hospital corridors without a word exchanged between any of them. They stopped outside a door on the third floor. The guard who had taken her bags handed them back to her. "Mr. Cross is inside," he said. "You can go in." Shayla took the bags. She stood there for a moment with both of them in her hands and she looked at the door and she breathed once, slowly, all the way down. Then she pushed it open with her shoulder and stepped inside. Lucas was mid-sentence when she came through the door. He stopped speaking immediately. His eyes moved from her face to her stomach to her face again and something passed through his expression that
The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 186
[GRAYSON CROSS MANSION - LATE AFTERNOON]The security guard at the gate recognized her before she finished rolling down the window and waved her through without making her wait, which told her that Grayson had never removed her from the approved entry list. She did not know why that particular detail landed the way it did, somewhere in the center of her chest, quiet and certain.The cab pulled up to the front of the mansion and she paid the driver and got out and stood there for a moment looking at the house.Everything was exactly as she remembered it. The stone facade. The large windows. The garden that Matthew kept immaculate regardless of who was or was not in residence. She had stood in front of this house on the worst night of her life and walked inside it and somehow it had become the place she thought about when she thought about home. She had not understood that until she left it.She walked to the front door. The security guard posted there opened it for her without being as
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The rest of the day passed in tense, uncomfortable silence.Shayla stayed at her desk, going through emails and correspondence with mechanical efficiency. She updated spreadsheets. She confirmed appointments. She drafted memos.She did everything except look at Grayson's office.Every time she felt
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THE HALE APARTMENT>SHAYLA’S APARTMENT."Momma, I invited a guest to my birthday party!" Ayven announced the moment Shayla walked through the door.She set down her bag and purse, exhaustion weighing on her shoulders. "A guest? Who?""Ricardo! He's really cool. He sings that song you like. The one w
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Bellamy's was exactly as exclusive as its reputation suggested.The restaurant occupied the top floor of the building in the financial district, all floor-to-ceiling windows and understated elegance. White tablecloth. Crystal stemware. The kind of hushed atmosphere where business worth millions was
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The use of her first name, the raw desperation in his voice, made something crack in her chest."Listen?" The word came out sharp, cutting. "I should listen? Do you have any idea what I went through, Grayson?"His name on her lips—not Mr. Cross, but Grayson—seemed to hit him like a physical blow."I
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