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The Bet That Ruined Us Chapter 205
[THE DON’S MOB(VOLKOV)- NIGHT] The drive was connected to Ivan's laptop and he had been going through it for three hours. He worked the way he worked everything, methodically, moving from folder to folder with his eyes tracking the screen and his hand on the mouse and his mind already several steps ahead of what he was currently reading, pulling out the files that were useful and tagging the ones that needed more attention and discarding the ones that were noise. Monica had been thorough. He would give her that. The woman was infuriating in almost every possible way but she was thorough and the drive reflected it, financial records going back four years, internal communications, acquisition strategies, security protocols, contractor details, supplier contracts. Everything a person needed to dismantle a company from the outside if they knew what they were doing with it. He knew what he was doing with it. Behind him, Jake poured another glass. "That is your fourth," Ivan said. "I
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[GRAYSON CROSS MANSION - NOVEMBER 25TH, 9:00 AM]Angel opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling.It was not her ceiling. The shape of the room was wrong and the light came through the curtains at a different angle and the pillow under her face smelled like someone else's shampoo and it took her about four seconds to remember where she was and why.Ayven's room.She lay there for a moment and let the morning settle around her. The house was quiet, that particular early-morning stillness that belonged to no one yet. She could hear nothing from downstairs and nothing from the hallway.She reached for her glasses on the nightstand and put them on and the room sharpened into focus around her. The LED clock on the desk showing 9:04 and below the time in smaller numbers the date.November 25th.She had woken up late because she cried till early hours of the morning before sleep finally took her.She looked at the date for a moment. Then she looked at the ceiling again.She got up and went b
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Angel changed into her pajamas. Brushed her teeth and got ready for bed.Shayla lay down beside her on the bed. Angel curled up close. Rested her head on Shayla's shoulder.Grayson sat in the chair beside the bed. Picked up a storybook from the nightstand.He started reading. A fairy tale. About a princess and a knight and a dragon.His voice was soft. Soothing. Perfect for bedtime.Angel's eyes started getting heavy. Drooping. Closing.Within fifteen minutes, she was asleep. Breathing slow and steady. Peaceful.Grayson set down the book and stood up quietly.Shayla lifted herself carefully from the pillow they had both been sharing, moving in increments, watching Angel's face for any sign of waking. Angel did not wake. Her breathing was slow and even and her hands were loose on the blanket and she looked younger than ten in the way that sleeping made children look younger, all the effort of being awake gone from her face.They both leaned down at the same time. Both pressed their lip
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[CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL - ANGEL'S WARD, AFTERNOON] The discharge paperwork took longer than the actual process of leaving. Shayla worked through each form carefully, reading everything before she signed it, making sure the follow-up appointment dates were correctly entered and the medication instructions matched what the doctor had told her verbally. She had learned a long time ago that the details in medical paperwork were the details that mattered when you were standing in a pharmacy at ten at night trying to explain something to someone who had not been in the room when the doctor said it. Dr. Osei reviewed everything one final time. He checked Angel's eyes with his small light, checked her reflexes, pressed two fingers to her wrist and looked at his watch. "She is cleared to go home," he said. "The trauma therapist needs to see her at minimum twice a week. If she has a panic attack or a night terror that she cannot come out of on her own, bring her back immediately. Do not wait
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Shayla stood at the observation window for twenty minutes.That was as long as they allowed in any single visit and she used all of it. She stood with her hand pressed flat against the glass and she looked at her son lying in the bed surrounded by the machinery that was doing the work his body was not yet ready to do for itself, and she looked at the rise and fall of his chest and she counted the seconds between each breath and she talked to him inside her head because talking out loud through the glass felt like the wrong kind of desperation.Nine years old.He had turned nine years old in that bed and he did not know it and she could not tell him, she stood there and she looked at him and she did everything she could to keep herself from breaking down there.The doctor came by while she was at the window. Stopped beside her. Told her what he always told her, vitals strong, responding to treatment, healing progressing, no change in consciousness, no timeline. She thanked him and he m
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[GRAYSON CROSS MANSION - MASTER BEDROOM, MORNING]Shayla woke up the way she had been waking up lately, gradually, consciousness arriving in pieces rather than all at once, her body taking its time about deciding to be awake. She lay still for a moment with her eyes closed and felt the quality of the morning through the curtains, the particular warmth of sunlight that had been building since early and was now pressing against the fabric with some insistence.She stretched carefully, working around the weight of her stomach, and opened her eyes.The room was familiar in the way that rooms you have been away from for a long time became familiar again, not instantly but in layers, each thing you recognized adding itself to the accumulation of coming home. The ceiling. The curtains. The particular quality of light in this room at this hour."Grayson?"The bathroom door was open and the light was off. She was alone.Then she smelled the food.She turned toward the bedside table and found t
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The ice cream parlor Ricardo chose was upscale and charming, the kind of place that specialized in artisan flavors and charged accordingly.Ruby pulled into the parking lot, with Ricardo's silver Porsche right behind her.Ayven was already unbuckled and bouncing in his seat. "Is this the place with
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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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