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Chapter forty
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The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter forty one
NicoleKim told me about the vote in the kitchenette, at the coffee machine, with the voice of a woman delivering a birth announcement."Seven to nothing."I didn't say anything. I just stood there, holding a mug, and listened to the water drip."He walked out, and the chair called the vote anyway. For the minutes. Seven to nothing, ma'am. Nobody even asked for a recess." She was grinning so widely I thought her face might split. "My friend in the boardroom said it was like watching somebody flatten a bug with a very large book.""Kim.""I'm just reporting.""You're gloating.""I'm *celebrating,* ma'am, there's a difference." She poured her own coffee and clinked her mug against mine. "To Section Nine."I clinked back and my lips curved upwards It felt *wonderful.* Another point on the board. Another door he'd walked up to with his jaw set and a piece of paper in his hand, only to find it welded shut. Kai had tried to remove me from his building, and the whole board of directors had
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter forty
KaiIt was a typing error that finally did it.Not a big one. A date on a notice of appearance, filed in the wrong box, on the wrong day, so the clerk's office stamped it late and charged us a fee of eleven hundred dollars. It landed on my desk at eight-fifteen on a Monday morning, with a yellow flag on it, and I looked at it for a long time.*She never misses.*That was my first thought, and it was the one that made my hands go cold. Six weeks of watching her work, and I'd have bet my father's house she couldn't write a date wrong if she tried. Every filing was spotless. Every stamp was straight. I'd read every page I could find in a dark office at midnight, and the only flaws I'd found were small, and crooked, and leaned the same way.And now, this. Plain, stupid, and sitting in the open like a coin on a pavement.Maybe it was a test. Maybe it was a trap. I knew all of that.And I didn't care.Because I had *had it.* I'd had the delays and the paper trails and the pleasant way she l
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter thirty nine
NicoleThe best gossip in any building happens in the ladies' room, and I was in a stall when I heard mine.I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I had gone in to splash cold water on my face and I had just locked the door when two women came in laughing, and one of them said, in a whisper "Did you hear about the coffee?"I became very calm"What coffee?""You didn't? The mailroom boy told me. The CEO sent her a coffee. Personally. Not an assistant, *him,* he gave the order himself and she sent it back.""Never.""Sealed. With a *note.*""What did the note say?""Something legal. He didn't read it, but his expression changed so much that his assistant was terrified.""His expression changed?*""That's what I said!"I stood in my stall with one hand pressed flat against the cold metal door and the other one clenched."I'm just saying," the second woman said. "It's a lot. He cancelled his ten o'clock for that and the hearing? Somebody in the gallery said he sat there like a statue, and then he fo
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter thirty eight
KaiMy mother set the table herself, which should have been my first warning.She never did. There were people for that, but when I walked into the dining room that Sunday, she was standing at the head of it, straightening a fork by a single millimeter, and she looked up at me with eyes that said, *run.*I didn't run. I'm Russo. We don't run, we sit down and get eaten."Kai." My father didn't get up. He sat at the far end of the long mahogany table with a glass of red wine, in the same carved chair he'd occupied since before I could walk, and he smiled with his mouth only. "Punctual. Good. Your sister's already here."Summer was on his right, in a cream blouse, with her hair pinned up. She lifted her hand in a small wave without quite meeting my eyes.Same as at the Walkers'.I sat. A maid I didn't recognize poured my wine. The room was exactly as I remembered it, the heavy drapes, the chandelier, the portraits of dead Russo men glaring at the soup. I'd watched a girl in a gray unifor
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter thirty seven
Chapter 37NicoleI saw him on the courthouse steps, and for a second the world stopped.I was walking out with my file under my arm, still shaking from the corridor, still pretending my hand wasn't trembling on my bag. I had just stood too close to a man and almost done something very stupid with my eyes.And then there was a boy.He couldn't have been more than nineteen. He was standing at the bottom of the steps with a cardboard coffee tray, probably someone's intern, in a rumpled white shirt with the sleeves pushed up and no coat. Hair falling over his forehead. A way of standing with his weight on one hip, like the world was something he'd been asked to carry and hadn't quite agreed to. He turned his head to look up the street, and I saw the line of his jaw.It was Kai.Not *now* Kai, not the one in the charcoal suit with the cold eyes. The other one. The one in the garden at dusk, with soil on his knees, holding the hose and pretending he'd been told to water the roses.My breat
The CEO's Ex Lover Chapter thirty six
KaiShe almost won.That was what I couldn't stop thinking about, all the way down the stairs and along the gray stone corridor, with my hands in my pockets and my heartbeat doing something stupid. I don't know much about law but I know how a person sounds when they're about to finish a sentence, and I know how they sound when they stop.She'd stopped.Right in the middle of it. *This motion should be denied, and the claim dismissed...* She'd been rolling downhill, with the whole room leaning toward her like a field of wheat in the wind, and the old lawyer looking like a man watching his own house burn, and then, nothing. A breath. A cough. A turned page she didn't need and she had asked in a calm tone that she needed an extra thirty days.Thirty days. After *that.*Nobody else would have noticed it. The judge didn't or was the least concerned, but I'd been watching her for an hour, and I had watched her stand there in the cold with the light on her face, saying everything I'd neede
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