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The Heiress Revenge 039: Kiara Meets Selene
Kiara's POVI came home to find three people sitting in my kitchen drinking tea in a silence so carefully maintained it practically had a structure.Morgan was at one end of the table. She was holding her cup with both hands and wearing the expression of a woman who was managing something and was very committed to making the management look effortless. She looked up when I came in and her eyes said several things at once, the most important of which was: stay calm.Valentino was at the other end. He looked up when I entered with an expression that was composed and direct and told me nothing specific, which in itself told me something specific.The woman in between them was the one I looked at last, because something told me that looking at her last was the wiser approach.She was exactly what I had expected from the photograph and from the way Morgan had said her name and from the specific quality of discomfort tha
The Heiress Revenge 038: Selene Returns
Valentino's POVShe arrived on a Tuesday evening without warning.I was in the garden with Maya, who had recruited me into a project that involved relocating a series of small stones from one end of the garden to the other for reasons that she had explained at length and that I had not entirely followed but that I had gathered were important. We were on the third stone when I heard Morgan's voice from inside the house, a specific quality in it that I had learned over many years to pay attention to.Not alarm. Something closer to careful management.I set the stone down in its designated location and told Maya I would be back.She accepted this with the resignation of someone who had learned that adults frequently had to pause important projects for unclear reasons.I went inside.Selene was in the front hallway.She looked exactly as I remembered her and also not at all as I remembered her, which is the way p
The Heiress Revenge 037: Don Rafael Calls Again
Valentino's POVThe video call came in at noon on a Saturday.I was in the study reviewing the quarterly financials when the notification appeared on my screen, and for a moment I simply looked at it. The name. The profile picture that was not a photograph but a stylized initial, the kind of image a man chooses when he wants to communicate that he is not obligated to show you his face unless he chooses to.Don Rafael Miaz.He had not video called before. In twelve years of managing the distance between us, he had always used voice. Voice gave less away. Voice allowed a man to be in three different moods simultaneously without the person on the other end being able to verify which one was real.The fact that he was calling on video now told me something.I picked up.He appeared on the screen and I understood immediately why he had made the switch.He wanted me to see him.He was in a room that was clearly
The Heiress Revenge 036: What Maya Draws
Kiara's POVMaya came home from daycare on Friday with a piece of paper folded into quarters and tucked very carefully into the front pocket of her small backpack, in the specific place she reserved for things she considered important.She waited until she had eaten her afternoon snack and washed her hands and settled herself at the kitchen table with the gravity of someone who has been patient long enough. Then she took the folded paper out of her pocket and smoothed it flat on the table in front of her and looked at it with the expression of a person reviewing work they are reasonably satisfied with."I drew something," she announced."I can see that," I said, coming around to look.It was a drawing done in wax crayon, the way all of Maya's drawings were done because wax crayons were what they had at daycare and because Maya had the specific affection for them that children develop for tools that do exactly w
The Heiress Revenge 035: The Custody Hearing
Kiara's POVThe day of the first custody hearing arrived on a grey Thursday morning that felt entirely appropriate for the occasion.I was up at five. I had ironed my clothes the night before, a dark burgundy suit that I had bought specifically for professional settings and that made me feel, when I wore it, like a version of myself that had not been diminished. I did my hair. I made coffee. I sat in the kitchen in the quiet before the house woke up and I went through the case notes that Adunola had sent me the previous evening, reading each one carefully and absorbing what I needed to absorb.I was not frightened.I want to be precise about this because it surprised me. I had spent weeks dreading this day, imagining it, running through the worst versions of it in the small hours of the night when everything looks most catastrophic. But sitting there in the kitchen on the actual morning, I found that what I f
The Heiress Revenge 034: Mr. Chen Appears
Kiara's POVMr. Somchai called me on Wednesday afternoon, two days after our lunch, and said three sentences."I would like to introduce you to someone. His name is Chen. He is expecting your call."Then he gave me a number and ended the call before I could ask any of the questions I immediately had, which was either very efficient or very irritating depending on how you looked at it.I looked at it as efficient because I was trying to be the kind of person who did not waste energy being irritated by things she could not change, and also because in the two weeks I had known Mr. Somchai I had learned that he did not do things without a reason and that his reasons, when they eventually became clear, were worth the patience they required.I called the number that evening after Maya was in bed.The man who answered had a voice that was calm and measured in the way of someone who had spent a long time list
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