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Deals, Daughters, and Defibrillators

Author: Krystal Bahmz
last update publish date: 2026-01-27 16:19:56

The group chat stared at me from the corner of my phone screen, taunting.

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I leaned back in my chair, spinning slowly with my toes brushing the floor, rolling my stylus across the desk. My monitor was still cluttered with chairs, lights, and numbers. My brain needed something that wasn’t a blueprint.

I tapped.

Hazel had left twenty-three unread notifications from last night, when I’d been busy getting proposed to in a room full of old men and crystal. Rhea had followed with a fi
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  • The Billionaire's Regret   Two Bombs Before Sunset

    I stepped closer.One step.Two.The afternoon wind lifted the hem of my dress, then dropped it back against my knees. Below us, the garden looked too peaceful. Trimmed grass. Lemon trees. White iron chairs with no idea their owner was about to ruin a good man’s life on a second-floor balcony.Adrian didn’t move.He just stood in front of me, his hands empty now, shoulders straight, his face calm in a way that made my stomach want to turn itself inside out.If I stopped now, fear would take over again.It would slip into the gaps between my sentences, make me choose safe words, wrap the facts in ribbon, then save them for later until “later” turned into another black envelope in a stranger’s hands.So I said it.“Sebastian isn’t just your stepbrother.”Adrian’s eyes stayed on my face.I forced air into my lungs.“He’s my ex-husband.”There was no sound from the garden. No car passing on the street out front. Even the birds that usually acted like they had urgent business in the trees

  • The Billionaire's Regret   Please, Listen

    At the mansion, the house felt too bright.Adrian carried his suitcase to the guest room that, over the past few months, had become more his room than a guest room. I watched from the kitchen doorway as he moved down the hall, Poppy still glued to his side, talking nonstop about the yacht, Marco, Bunny, the captain coat, and why the ocean didn’t have fences.I made lunch like a normal woman.Or, more accurately, like a woman trying not to explode in front of a four-year-old.Tiny pasta. Butter. A little Parmesan. Shredded chicken Salma had left in the fridge. Strawberries cut in half because if I cut them into quarters, Poppy would accuse me of “insulting the fruit’s original shape.”Poppy sat on the tall stool, still refusing to take off her coat. “Poppy, the coat.”“NOOO.”“Why?”“Authority can leak out if I take it off.”I looked at her. “I’m going to pretend that sentence doesn’t make me want to call your pediatrician.”Adrian sat on the other side of the island, the sleeves of hi

  • The Billionaire's Regret   Please Listen

    I lowered my hands from my face.Approval.My daughter, a mini dictator with cheeks like milk bread, needed approval for something that most likely involved an expensive coat, Bunny, and a bad decision.I stood up this time. Slowly. My knees felt a little strange, like I had been sitting too long in the wrong position, when clearly the wrong thing was the entire plot of my life.Near the small mirror on the wall, I stopped.My face was still put together.Damn it. I even looked good while the world was trying to bite my ankles. There was irony in that, and I would appreciate it later, after I finished not falling apart.I touched my hair, smoothing down one loose strand. Unnecessary. But my hands needed some small job that didn’t involve destroying the future.I left the phone on the bed.Then I went back and picked it up.No.I stared at the thing for a few seconds, then opened my chat with Adrian.His last message was still there.[I’ll send the flight details later.]The cursor bli

  • The Billionaire's Regret   INTERMEZZO : BITTERSWEET

    I lowered my hands from my face.Approval.My daughter, a mini dictator with cheeks like milk bread, needed approval for something that most likely involved an expensive coat, Bunny, and a bad decision.I stood up this time. Slowly. My knees felt a little strange, like I had been sitting too long in the wrong position, when clearly the wrong thing was the entire plot of my life.Near the small mirror on the wall, I stopped.My face was still put together.Damn it. I even looked good while the world was trying to bite my ankles. There was irony in that, and I would appreciate it later, after I finished not falling apart.I touched my hair, smoothing down one loose strand. Unnecessary. But my hands needed some small job that didn’t involve destroying the future.I left the phone on the bed.Then I went back and picked it up.No.I stared at the thing for a few seconds, then opened my chat with Adrian.His last message was still there.[I’ll send the flight details later.]The cursor bli

  • The Billionaire's Regret   The Bomb Was in My Hands Now

    I lowered my hands from my face.Approval.My daughter, a mini dictator with cheeks like milk bread, needed approval for something that most likely involved an expensive coat, Bunny, and a bad decision.I stood up this time. Slowly. My knees felt a little strange, like I had been sitting too long in the wrong position, when clearly the wrong thing was the entire plot of my life.Near the small mirror on the wall, I stopped.My face was still put together.Damn it. I even looked good while the world was trying to bite my ankles. There was irony in that, and I would appreciate it later, after I finished not falling apart.I touched my hair, smoothing down one loose strand. Unnecessary. But my hands needed some small job that didn’t involve destroying the future.I left the phone on the bed.Then I went back and picked it up.No.I stared at the thing for a few seconds, then opened my chat with Adrian.His last message was still there.[I’ll send the flight details later.]The cursor bli

  • The Billionaire's Regret   The Things He Knows, The Things He Doesn’t

    The phone screen went dark.Just like that.One second, Adrian was still there, his voice still warm in my ear, too calm for a life that was slowly turning into a family crime archive. The next second, all that remained was my reflection in the small black glass of the phone: green eyes that looked too large, lips with lipstick still perfectly in place, and the expression of a woman who, at a glance, could have been thinking about dinner.Excellent.At last, one useful Belsky aristocratic talent: looking as if I were choosing wine while actually watching the house burn from the inside.I lowered the phone to my side.“Daddy, no, Bunny needs to see the ocean too! She has civil rights!”From behind the glass door, Poppy’s voice burst across the deck again.Sebastian answered, lower, almost swallowed by the wind. I couldn’t catch the words, but his tone sounded like that of a grown man who had just realized he was losing an argument to a four-year-old and a cloth rabbit.Damn it.Even fr

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