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Chapter 42: My Story

Author: Roseheart
last update publish date: 2026-05-29 19:53:58

MILA'S POV

The parking garage felt like a tomb. The air was cold, smelling of concrete and exhaust, and my heart was beating so hard it hurt my ribs.

I looked at Jax’s face, watching the color completely drain from his cheeks as he stared at his phone.

"Jax?" I whispered, wiping a fresh tear from my cheek. "What is it? What did Sullivan say?"

Jax didn't answer right away. His grip on my cardboard box tightened so much the cardboard groaned under his large hands. The muscles in his jaw were tick
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    Chapter 24The intercom buzzed again before Rook could answer, and the delivery person said that the box was getting heavy and that someone needed to come down and sign. I told Rook that it was probably my mom because she was the only person who would send a box from Heart's Bakery to his building at eight thirty at night.Rook said that your mom does not sleep, does she, and I said that she never sleeps when she is baking, and he laughed and said that he would go down and get it because I was not supposed to be in the lobby alone after dark. I told him that I could go with him because the judge said we could be in public together as long as we were not holding hands in front of Lily, and he said that he would rather go alone and bring it up because it was marked fragile and he did not trust me not to drop it.I told him that I was a pastry chef and that I never dropped anything fragile, and he said that I dropped a bowl last week, and I said that was different because I was upset, an

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    Chapter 23The phone was still ringing in Rook's hand, and the cold air made my nose sting while I waited to hear what Helen had to say. I told him to answer it quickly because Helen never called on Saturdays unless something important happened, and I was afraid that good news would get cold if we waited too long.Rook answered and put it on speaker so I could hear, and Helen said that she had news and that it was actually good for once. She said that Judge Morales reviewed the police reports about Mark and the blog and the bakery, and that she was satisfied that Rook and I were not responsible for the harassment and that we followed her order exactly. Helen said that the judge was willing to move the full custody review up from sixty days to thirty days because of our cooperation and because Lily's therapist wrote a letter saying that Lily was thriving with the current arrangement.I asked if that meant that I could come home sooner, and Helen said that it meant that the review would

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    Chapter 22The camera click behind us made my hand tighten around the key, and I turned quickly because I thought it was another blog trying to catch us breaking the judge's order. It was not a blog, and it was Mrs Kowalski standing ten feet away with her phone out and Lily peeking from behind her coat, and she was smiling like she had just caught us doing something wonderful instead of something wrong.Mrs Kowalski said that she forgot Lily's water bottle and came back to get it, and that she could not help taking a picture because we looked so nice in the snow. She showed us the photo, and it was not the hand holding or the key or anything the judge would care about, and it was just Rook looking at me and me looking at him with the burned cookie between us. I let out a breath I did not know I was holding, and Rook laughed and said that Mrs Kowalski was going to get us in trouble.Mrs Kowalski said that love was not trouble and that the judge should mind her own business, and then sh

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