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Chapter 9: Pressure Has a Voice
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2026-02-04 06:33:54
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Elizabeth had just finished her morning tea when Claire stepped into the living room, posture subtly alert.“There’s a vehicle entering the driveway,” Claire said quietly.Elizabeth’s pulse skipped.“Media?”Claire shook her head slightly.“No. It’s… private.”Before Elizabeth could ask further, she saw it.A long black sedan.Polished. Elegant. Unmistakable.Anderson crest on the front grille.Her stomach dropped.“She wouldn’t,” Elizabeth whispered.Claire’s expression told her otherwise.The car door opened.Margaret Anderson stepped out as if arriving at a charity gala instead of her former daughter-in-law’s apartment.Perfectly dressed.Perfectly composed.Perfectly lethal.Elizabeth’s spine straightened instinctively.She had faced Margaret before.But never like this.Not when she had something to protect.The doorbell rang.Once.Not twice.Margaret never repeated herself.Claire looked to Elizabeth.“Do you want me to refuse entry?”Elizabeth hesitated.If she refused, it wou
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Margaret Anderson never reacted emotionally.She responded strategically.The morning briefing had just ended when her assistant closed the office doors and placed a slim tablet on her desk.“Ma’am, we intercepted internal chatter from Crestline Media,” the assistant said carefully. “They’re preparing a speculative reconciliation piece.”Margaret did not immediately look at the screen.“Speculative based on what?” she asked calmly.“Private medical appointments linked to Elizabeth Carter.”That made her pause.Margaret finally lifted her eyes.“Medical.”“Yes.”Margaret tapped her fingers lightly against the mahogany desk. The movement was subtle, but it signaled deep calculation.“Health scandal?” she asked.“No indication.”“Cosmetic?”“No.”The assistant hesitated.“It appears to involve obstetrics.”The silence that followed felt surgical.Margaret’s expression did not change.But her mind accelerated.Obstetrics.Elizabeth Carter.Recently seen with Lewis.Four months post-divorc
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Elizabeth did not sleep that night.Not because she was afraid.Not because she regretted telling him.But because Lewis Anderson, once informed, did not remain still.And she knew without needing proof that he would already be planning.She sat at her kitchen table long after midnight, the lights dimmed, fingers wrapped around a glass of water gone warm.Four months.She had carried this alone for four months.And now he knew.The apartment felt different somehow. Smaller. More fragile. As if the walls themselves understood that something irreversible had shifted.A soft knock at her door startled her.Her heart leapt into her throat.She checked the clock.1:12 a.m.Lewis.Of course.She walked to the door slowly but didn’t open it.“You don’t sleep, do you?” she asked through the wood.“I do,” he replied calmly. “When necessary.”“And this isn’t necessary.”A pause.“Elizabeth.”The way he said her name had changed. It carried weight now. Ownership but not dominance. Something clos
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Lewis did not like being wrong.But what unsettled him more was the possibility that he had been intentionally misled not by a report, not by an employeeBut by Elizabeth’s silence.Evan arrived at his office before eight the next morning, a tablet in hand and something careful in his expression.“You asked for verification,” Evan said.Lewis didn’t look up from his desk. “And?”“The clinic visit was logged under gynecology,” Evan replied. “Not fertility.”Lewis’s pen stilled.A slow, controlled silence filled the room.“Be precise,” Lewis said evenly.“It was a standard obstetrics department,” Evan clarified. “Routine consultation.”The word landed like a detonation without sound.Obstetrics.Routine consultation.Lewis leaned back in his chair slowly.“Are you certain?” he asked.“Yes.”Another silence. This one heavier.Lewis’s mind recalibrated instantly. Every memory from the past week replayed with new clarity.Her guarded posture.Her instinctive step backward.Her hand brushin
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Lewis had built his empire on reading between lines.But for the first time in years, he was choosing to believe what was directly in front of him.A fertility clinic.Not a prenatal specialist.Not an obstetrician.A fertility clinic.The conclusion settled heavily in his chest not relief, not quite sorrow, but something closer to regret sharpened by guilt.Elizabeth wanted a child.And she thought she couldn’t have one.That explained the guarded posture. The distance. The almost invisible flinch when he stepped too close.She wasn’t protecting a secret from him.She was protecting herself from disappointment.Lewis stood at the edge of his penthouse balcony, the wind tugging at his shirt as the city moved indifferently below.Five years ago, they had talked about children.Not seriously. Not in plans written down or nursery colors debated over dinner. But in soft conversations late at night, when Elizabeth would curl against him and trace patterns on his chest.“Someday,” she had w
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Lewis didn’t sleep.By dawn, the city outside his windows was washed in pale gray, and his phone lay face-up on the kitchen counter, silent but heavy with unfinished conversations.Elizabeth’s voice replayed in his mind.I won’t let them take this from me.She had never been a woman who spoke in half-measures. Whatever “this” was, it mattered enough for her to stand her ground against his family and against him.That alone made it dangerous.Lewis straightened his cuffs as he stepped into Anderson Global’s private medical wing. The facility existed for discretion: executive health evaluations, confidential consults, favors owed and called in quietly.He didn’t like using it.But uncertainty was a liability.“Dr. Hayes,” he said as a gray-haired woman approached. “I need your professional opinion.”She studied him over her glasses. “On?”“A hypothetical,” Lewis replied. “A woman. Mid-thirties. Under extreme stress. Significant lifestyle changes. What would cause… protective behavior?”
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