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Evelyn My mother left at four with a container of food the housekeeper had packed for her and a promise from Clara to call more often. They’d spent three hours in the other living room and I’d heard them the entire time, laughter and low voices and the particular ease Clara had with her grandmother that she hadn’t had with me since she decided I was no longer cool enough to confide in. I’d spent those three hours upstairs doing nothing useful. After my mother’s car pulled out I gave it an hour. Let Clara settle back into her room, let the house get quiet enough that an interruption wouldn’t feel like an ambush. Then I walked down the hall and knocked on her door. “Yeah.” I pushed it open. She was on her bed, legs crossed, phone face down beside her, which meant she’d heard my footsteps and put it away before I got there. She looked at me with an expression that wasn’t hostile exactly. More like waiting to see what I wanted so she could decide how hostile to be. “Can I sit?” Sh
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 117
Evelyn The kitchen was the only room in the house that felt like it belonged to nobody in particular. No photographs on the walls, no evidence of Alfred’s careful image management, just countertops and cabinet doors and the coffee maker I’d bought three years ago because Alfred’s preferred one made too much noise in the mornings. I stood at the counter watching it brew and didn’t think about anything. That was the goal. Just the coffee, just the sound of it, just the smell. Five minutes of not calculating anything. The housekeeper’s footsteps moved from the foyer toward the front door before I heard the bell. Early for a visitor. I wrapped both hands around my mug and waited to hear who it was. Then I heard her voice. “Is Evelyn home? Tell her her mother is here.” I set the mug down. My mother hadn’t come to this house in over a year. The last time I’d visited we hadn’t parted well, which was how most of our encounters ended, her telling me I had more than enough and me walkin
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 116
EvelynThe press conference was still playing on my phone when the car pulled into the driveway.I watched myself on the screen. Standing at the podium beside Alfred in the navy dress his stylist had picked out, reading the statement his team had written, my voice even and apologetic while Alfred’s hand rested on the small of my back the entire time. Ownership disguised as support.“I made a mistake that I deeply regret. I allowed a difficult period in my marriage to lead me into a situation that was unfair to my family and to the public who has supported us. Alfred and I are committed to working through this together.”I pressed pause on myself mid-sentence.The woman on that screen had my face and my voice and I genuinely did not recognize a single thing about her. She stood there and said those words without flinching, without her eye twitching, without her jaw locking the way mine wanted to every time Alfred’s thumb moved against her spine like he was reminding her he was there.A
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EvelynI was still sitting on the couch when I heard Alfred’s car in the driveway. The front door opened and slammed shut hard enough to rattle the frame.He walked into the living room and stopped when he saw me. His tie was loosened, jacket slung over one arm, and his face was red.“Do you have any idea what you’ve done?”I looked up at him. “Alfred…”“Do you have any fucking idea?” He threw his jacket onto the chair and pulled out his phone, shoving it in my face. “This is everywhere. Every news outlet, every gossip blog, every social media platform. My wife caught in an affair with my former employee.”“They’re out there now and my campaign is in freefall because of you.”“Your campaign has been in freefall for months because of your own actions.”“My actions?” He laughed but it came out harsh. “My actions didn’t put photos of me fucking a twenty-five-year-old all over the internet.”“No, you just had people killed instead.”He went still. “What did you just say?”“Including your
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Evelyn I pulled into the driveway too fast and nearly hit the mailbox. Alfred’s car wasn’t there but both kids’ cars were parked in their usual spots. I grabbed my purse and ran to the front door, my hands shaking as I unlocked it. “Clara?” No answer. I walked through the foyer into the living room and found them both sitting on the couch. Clara had her phone in her hand, tears streaming down her face. Nathan sat beside her with his arms crossed, jaw clenched so tight I could see the muscle jumping. “What’s wrong? What happened?” Clara looked up at me and her expression was pure devastation. She held out her phone. I took it and the screen was open to some gossip website. The headline read: “GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE’S WIFE CAUGHT IN AFFAIR WITH CAMPAIGN STAFFER.” Below it were photos. Me and Theo at the coffee shop. Me getting into his car. Me leaving his apartment building late at night with my hair messed up and his hand on my back. The photo quality was clear, profe
The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin Chapter 113
EvelynI pulled into Theo’s street just after three and parked two houses down from his house. His car was in the driveway, curtains drawn in the front window.I sat there for a minute looking at his door, my hands still gripping the steering wheel. After the meeting with Richard, after setting everything in motion to strip Alfred’s accounts and secure my own future, I’d driven here. Needing to see Theo. Needing to tell someone what I’d done.I got out and walked up the path. Knocked twice.He opened it almost immediately like he’d been waiting. His tie was loosened, shirt untucked, top two buttons undone. His hair was messed up like he’d been running his hands through it all day.“Hey.”“Can I come in?”He stepped back and I walked past him into the living room. The TV was on mute, some news channel playing footage of campaign rallies and political commentary. His laptop sat open on the coffee table surrounded by papers and empty coffee mugs.“I heard what happened,” I said, turning
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