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Chapter 35: The Loyal Assistant

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Marcus asked to meet the next morning instead of calling, which told me before he said a word that whatever he wanted to say, he did not trust a phone line to carry it.

We met at the same coffee shop as always, tucked in the back corner where the noise of the espresso machine covered our voices from anyone who might be listening. He was already there when I wheeled myself in, two cups waiting, his hands wrapped around his like he needed something to hold onto.

"I want to tell you something I pr
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    I had barely made it back to my seat before Damien Cross crossed the room toward me, and something in the deliberate, unhurried way he moved told me this was not a man who did anything without already having decided exactly why.I was still steadying myself from Margaret's voice cracking on the phone, is it true, and had not fully composed my face by the time he reached me, though if he noticed anything unusual in my expression, he gave no sign of it at all."Mrs. Whitmore." He extended a hand, and his grip was firm, brief, entirely professional. "Damien Cross. I do not believe we have properly met.""You know my name already." I studied him, curious despite everything else churning in my chest from Margaret's call. "That seems like an advantage you have over me.""Hart Global is not a small company, and you are not exactly unknown within it, even from the edges of a room." Something almost like amusement moved behind his eyes. "I have been considering an investment here for several m

  • The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband    Chapter 63: Society Turns

    Leonard called me back that same night, and the first words out of his mouth were not about the board vote at all.I had barely put the phone down from Marcus's warning about the timeline compressing when it rang again, and for one disoriented second I braced myself for something worse."There is an investor gala Thursday," he said. "Hart Global co sponsors it every year. Adrian is expected to attend as CEO, at least for now, and given the optics of everything happening, I think you should be there too. Show the room the company is stable regardless of what is coming for him personally.""Together." I let the word sit there, testing its weight. "In public. After everything.""Not together. In the same room, for entirely different reasons." His voice softened slightly. "I know how that sounds, Evelyn. But investors talk. If neither of you shows up, the rumors already circling this company get worse, not better. I would not ask if I did not think it mattered."I went, in the end, wheele

  • The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband    Chapter 62: The Spy

    Marcus called me back within the hour, and the first thing he said made my stomach drop clean through the floor.I had spent that hour pacing between the kitchen window and my desk, Noelle's question still ringing in my ears, then how did someone else get in, unable to sit still with the answer still hanging unresolved."I traced the access," he said, no preamble at all. "Whoever pulled the key duplication data, whoever knew exactly when Noelle's office would be empty, it routed back through a login on Renata's own office computer."I sat there gripping the phone, feeling something cold and sick spread through my chest."Renata.""I know." His voice carried a rawness I had never heard from him before, a man forced to confront the possibility of a betrayal that would have cut deeper than almost anything else in this entire fight. "I do not want to believe it either. She has risked everything for us since the day she first came to me.""Marcus, if she is the one who—""I am not finished

  • The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband    Chapter 61: The Missing File

    Noelle called me at eleven the next morning, and the moment I heard her voice I knew something had gone badly wrong.I had spent that same morning still sitting with the weight of the night before, the case file spread across my desk, the decision to finally start using it instead of hiding behind it. I had barely finished telling myself I was ready for whatever came next when her name lit up my phone."I need you to stay calm," she said, which was never a good beginning, and never something she said unless the thing she was about to tell me required exactly the opposite. "I was doing a full inventory of the case file this morning, getting everything organized the way you asked, and there is a section missing."My stomach dropped straight through the floor. "Missing how?""The physical documents relating to the original surveillance contract. The vendor invoices showing Vanessa's personal account funding the investigator. I had them in a separate folder, clearly labeled, in the locked

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    I did not sleep that night either, but for the first time in months, it was not fear keeping me awake.I lay there in the dark replaying Vanessa's voice, Elias adores me, over and over, that particular casual cruelty landing sharper each time I turned it over, and felt something in my chest that had nothing left of hesitation in it at all. For weeks I had let myself believe there was some version of this where Vanessa simply disappeared quietly once Adrian's world collapsed around him, a woman who had made terrible choices but might, in the end, deserve some small measure of the mercy I still occasionally caught myself extending toward her.That mercy died somewhere between my living room and this sleepless ceiling.I called Marcus first thing the next morning, before the boys were even awake, my voice steadier than I expected given how little rest I had actually gotten."I need something from you," I said, before he had finished saying hello. "I need you to stop treating this as one

  • The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband    Chapter 59: The Threat

    Vanessa came back five days later, and this time she did not bother knocking softly or waiting for Marta to answer, she simply let herself in through the side door the way she used to when she still believed this house was halfway hers.I had spent those five days half expecting her, replaying our last conversation, the way she had left so pleased with herself, so certain I would eventually agree to her quiet, convenient version of peace. I had not called her back. I had not intended to."You did not call me back," she said, standing in my living room doorway, arms crossed, none of the raw, pleading desperation from her last visit anywhere in her voice now. Something harder had replaced it, something that had clearly been building for days."I told you I needed time to think," I said carefully, watching the shift in her with a wariness I kept carefully hidden beneath my composed expression."You have had time." Her voice sharpened further. "Adrian thinks I told you something. About th

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