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The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 222 You Defended Me
(Serena)Heat flashes through me.I inhale through my nose and it passes like a wave smashing then sucking back.“Do not use that name,” I say. “Do not ever use that name. That was my name first.”She laughs, brittle and bright but tears still roll down her cheeks. “Oh, please. You named ghosts. I had a real child.”What did she just say?“And now I’ve moved on to a man who shares my real values. And you can’t stand it because you’re bitter and barren and—”I move before the last word. My hand lashes out at her cheek.The slap lands and the room goes silent.Her cheek flashes red and for a millisecond she looks at me. Then she collapses to the floor like the slap knocked her over.In a heartbeat both Nico and James are beside her. Crouching down.Her eyes flood with something hot and ancient and feral as she looks at me.I know what she’s saying, look at them both here for me.She’s right. James is by her side, not mine. Nothing has changed.Then James says, “Savannah, what the hell d
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 221 Family Values
(Serena)Charity Fundraising DinnerOne Week LaterGreat, another event I can’t avoid and I also can’t avoid some of the other guests.It’s a damn Hale reunion.Margot. Charles. Savannah on Nico’s arm. Now I just need James to walk in.I’m here alone and planning on wrapping this up early.Lat night we hit the club again for Friday drinks and I need some sleep.Savannah and Nico look like an algorithm for intimacy. Shoulder-to-shoulder, heads bent in a private pocket of air, laughter synced.His jacket’s midnight; her dress is architectural white. Her hand lands on his forearm, feather-light; his thumb rubs her knuckles as if they’ve been this way forever.I hate myself for noticing. Let them do what they do. I don’t need to notice it at all.They’re standing near the big floral tower… so every glance catches them on the way through. Intentional. Of course. By Savannah.I go the other way so that I don’t have to make polite conversation.“Of all the gin joints,” a voice says behind me
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 220 An Unexpected Truce
(James)Sunday morning.I should be at home, asleep, or maybe running along the river with my headphones in.Normal people rest on weekends. But I’m not normal people. I’ve never been.The company building hums even on Sundays, because I built it that way.I don’t want a company that stops when the calendar says off-duty.I want momentum, people who show up because they believe in what we’re building.There’s a handful of us here.I’m in my office reviewing drone division performance.Chopper Rick’s field reports read like war stories… wires fried, software lag midair, a hard landing that totaled one prototype but he found it’s limits. The man is like a dog with a bone. He never gives up.That’s what I want. Brutal honesty. Failures we can learn from.My weekend assistant knocks lightly before pushing the door open. “Nico Morel-Hale to see you. Sir.”I don’t look up. “Send him in.”Unexpected but not unwelcome. We’ve never really had a chance to talk about any of this. Not properly.A
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 219 Dinner with the Devil I Know
(James)Saturday night and the city feels louder than usual.Maybe it’s just me.The club last night is still in my head, Serena’s laugh still ringing in my ears like an earworm.I’ve been trying all day to bury it under meetings, calls, a workout that should’ve left me too exhausted to think. But it didn’t.Serena laughing with me, teasing me, like before we had everything to lose.Serena, looking at me like she wasn’t impressed but she wasn’t shutting me out either.That look is dangerous.I know it’s over between us. I know it.We can’t ever go back to the way we were.The question is, will we ever be ready to try something new? With each other?And now I’m here, in an expensive hotel dining room with my mother.One of those things I couldn’t put off any longer. I’ve been dodging my mother since I got back from Lapland. I mean, we’ve talked.We’ve argued. But being a captive audience is a very different beast.Like it or not, my mother knows me in many ways.The waiter clears plate
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 218 People Can Change
(Serena)My parents sit across from me at the island.It’s the kind of quiet you have before someone says something they’ve been waiting to say for a while, and I’m braced for sparks.“Alright,” I say, folding my arms. “I’m here. Say your truth.”Mom smooths her dress down over her knees, eyes flicking up and away again. Dad looks nervous.Finally, Mom speaks. “We weren’t good back then.”“That’s the understatement of the century. But I get how hard it would’ve been.”“Both our parents were very strict. We didn’t listen. We fooled around and I got pregnant.”“They told us we’d never make it. They told us how hard it would be, and they told us we never got to go back home when shit never worked out,” Dad says.“But we loved each other. We knew better. We’d work hard and everything would be amazing,” Mom continues.“But it was just like they said. It was Hell most of the time. But we ended up pregnant again.”Mom’s tense, but she nods. “We fought. Too much. We drank too much because we
The Billionaire Married Me, Then Forgot How to Love Me 217 Building New Foundations
(Serena)I wake up restless.My sheets are twisted, my pillow too hot, my body unwilling to go back to sleep.I get out of bed and pace to the bathroom. Last night keeps looping in my head.James sitting next to me at the club, smiling in that easy way like it was just us again. Before he told the world we were together.The way we teased each other, like before everything went to hell.I laughed with him. Genuinely laughed. And God help me, it felt good.It shouldn’t feel good. It should be a warning siren.I push my hair back and stare at my reflection in the bathroom mirror.I look the same, but I don’t feel the same.I’m… unsettled. My life is calmer now, freer.I’m not suffocating under the constant drama of being James Hale’s wife. I know that.I’ve been telling myself that for 2 months.But then Savannah opened her mouth last night, and I realized how quickly she can still slice through me.Even without James, even without me tied to Hale life, she still carries a blade sharpen
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