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The Billionaire's Biggest Regret Do You Know Her
HAYESPriya called me on the internal line at seven fifty to tell me there was a woman in the lobby asking to see me without an appointment. She had given her name as Quinn Grey and said it was personal.I had been expecting something from Quinn eventually. She had gone quiet for too long, and women like Quinn did not go quiet because they had accepted something. They went quiet because they were deciding what to do next.“Send her up,” I said.She came into my office the way she came into all rooms, like she had already decided how it was going to go and was simply waiting for everyone else to catch up. She sat down across from my desk without being invited to, and she looked at me with the expression she had probably rehearsed for this conversation.“Hayes,” she said.“Quinn,” I said. I did not look up from the document I was reading. I let her sit for a moment before I closed the folder and gave her my attention, and I gave her the minimum of it. “You have ten minutes.”“This won’t
The Billionaire's Biggest Regret Tomorrow
JadeI finished the fitting.I do not fully remember the last hour of it, my hands going through the motions of pinning and adjusting and making the notes Rosa needed while the rest of me was somewhere else entirely. But I finished it because the collection did not stop needing to exist simply because my life was falling apart at its edges, and when Rosa packed up at six and said goodnight, I thanked her and locked up behind her and stood alone in the showroom in the quiet of a Wednesday evening.Camille had already gone. The front desk was clear. The mood board caught the last of the daylight coming through the window.I sat down on the small bench near the entrance, and I did not move for a while.Three years.I had built all of this in three years. The showroom and the label and the collection and the Calloway partnership and the Sunday calls and the trips to Savannah and the careful maintenance of two lives that never touched each other. I had done it without putting anything down
The Billionaire's Biggest Regret What I Never Told You
JadeI called Brooke from the showroom bathroom.I locked the door and sat on the edge of the small sink counter, and I held the phone in my hand for a moment before I dialed because what I was about to do I could not undo, and I needed one more second to be the person who had not yet done it.She picked up on the third ring. “What’s wrong?”“Quinn came to the showroom,” I said. “She found a photograph of me in Savannah. She knows I have been hiding something, and she is going to keep looking until she finds out what it is.”A pause. “How much does she know?”“Not much yet,” I said. “But Brooke. I need to tell you something. Something I should have told you three years ago and did not because I did not know how, and then time kept passing, and it kept getting harder, and I kept telling myself I would find the right moment.”The line went very quiet.“I’m here,” Brooke said.I looked at the bathroom door. Through it I could hear Rosa’s radio and Camille at the front desk, the ordinary
The Billionaire's Biggest Regret What Quinn Knows
JadeShe came to the showroom on a Wednesday afternoon.I was in the workroom with Rosa when Camille appeared in the doorway with the expression she used when something had happened at the front desk that she did not know how to categorize.“There is a woman here,” she said. “She does not have an appointment. She says her name is Quinn Grey and that you will want to see her.”I set down the fabric I was holding.I had not seen Quinn since the night outside the club on Park Avenue, the three seconds of eye contact across the sidewalk before she turned and walked away. That had been weeks ago. I had told myself she was done, that losing Pierce and losing Hayes and watching everything she built collapse had been enough to make her walk away.I had been wrong about that.“Tell her I’ll be out in five minutes,” I said.I took the five minutes. I washed my hands, took off my apron, and stood at the workroom sink for a moment, looking at my own reflection and reminding myself who I was and w
The Billionaire's Biggest Regret The Sunday Call
JadeThe call did not start differently from any other Sunday.Patricia answered on the second ring the way she always did, her voice warm and easy, and we moved through the first few minutes the same way we always did, how the week went, whether the schedule had held, and what was working and what needed adjusting.I was sitting cross-legged on my bed with my coffee going cold on the nightstand, and for the first ten minutes nothing felt any different from the hundred Sunday mornings before it.Then Patricia said, “I have to tell you something that happened at the park on Thursday.”“Okay,” I said.“I took all three of them in the afternoon,” she said. “It was a good day, warm enough for the swings. There was a man there with his little boy, maybe three years old, and the father was pushing him, and the boy was laughing. You know how they get on the swings.” She paused. “Carter stopped what he was doing and just stood there watching them. For a while. Long enough that I noticed.”I h
The Billionaire's Biggest Regret Eleanor
JadeHayes asked to meet my mother properly.He said it on a Wednesday evening, sitting at my kitchen island with a glass of water, in the same tone he used for most things, like it was straightforward rather than the kind of thing that made me put down what I was holding and look at him carefully.“You’ve already met her,” I said. “Sort of. She called you directly to get your address for the bone broth.”“That’s different,” he said. “That was her using me to get to you. I want to meet her as the person you’re actually with.”I looked at him for a moment. “You understand what you’re walking into.”“She’s been trying to introduce us for months,” he said. “I think she’ll be pleased.”“She will be unbearable,” I said. “There is a difference between pleased and unbearable, and with my mother they tend to arrive together.”He almost smiled. “I’ll survive unbearable.”I stood at the counter and thought about Eleanor Ellis receiving Hayes Calloway at her Sunday table not as a bone broth deli
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