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CHAPTER 38: NOT DONE
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The Substitute Bride's Twins: chasing his ex wife back CHAPTER 91: THE PROPOSAL
The yacht was Sebastian's.Not the King Group's — his personally, one of the assets that had been transferred into the children's trust and then quietly transferred back at Seraphina's instruction three weeks after the transfer, Katherine's message to Crawford consisting of four words: *Return the yacht. Hers.*Crawford had called Sebastian directly."CEO Monroe's legal team has requested the return of the yacht to your personal holdings," he had said, with the careful, slightly baffled neutrality of a man delivering information he doesn't have the full context for."Process it," Sebastian had said."May I ask why she—""Process it, Crawford," he had said.Crawford had processed it.The yacht was now in the marina at the city's eastern waterfront, where it had always been, and Sebastian had called the marina two weeks ago to arrange the evening, and the marina had arranged it the way people who worked with significant resources arranged things when given sufficient notice and a clear
The Substitute Bride's Twins: chasing his ex wife back CHAPTER 90: LET ME COURT YOU
Neither of them moved for a long time.The room held them in its quiet — the low light, the clinical equipment, the pale gold jar on the bedside table — and Seraphina sat in the chair with her hand three inches from his and the walls doing their thing and the city dark outside and neither of them doing anything to change what the room contained.Then he moved.Carefully. With the specific, deliberate management of a man whose back had opinions about every movement and who had decided to have this movement regardless.He pushed himself up.Not all the way — not sitting upright, which the position wouldn't allow — but enough. Enough to change the geometry of the room, to bring his face to a level where she could see it properly rather than from the corner of his eye.He looked at her.She looked at him.He was close.Not the accidental proximity of leaning over a counter toward a model train, not the managed, professional distance of a kitchen table. Close in the specific, intentional w
The Substitute Bride's Twins: chasing his ex wife back CHAPTER 89: THE OINTMENT
She made it herself.The formulation had existed in her notes for three years — a herbal ointment, specifically developed for burn recovery, combining compounds she had first worked with in the greenhouse and refined through five years of continued study and the specific, practical motivation of building something that worked rather than something that sold.She had never had a reason to use it before now.She prepared it on a Sunday morning while the twins were with Grace at the park and the penthouse was quiet in the specific, unhurried way it was quiet when it had been emptied of children.The kitchen became a lab — temporary, careful, the organized use of a domestic space for a precise purpose. She had ordered the raw materials through Verve's supply chain three days ago, the botanical extracts and the carrier compounds and the specific, pharmaceutical-grade additives that moved the formulation from a cosmetic product into something with genuine therapeutic application.She worked
The Substitute Bride's Twins: chasing his ex wife back CHAPTER 88: BLEEDING FINGERS
Seraphina found him at four in the morning.She had woken at three forty-five with the specific, alert quality of someone whose sleep has been interrupted by something they can't immediately identify — not a sound, not the twins, not any of the usual triggers — just the particular, internal sense of something requiring attention.She lay in the dark for a moment.Then she got up.She checked the twins first, because she always checked the twins first — Maya's room, the nightlight, the small composed face turned toward the wall in sleep. Liam's room, the gray light, the slight, characteristic restlessness of a child who processed his days actively even in sleep.Both fine.She stood in the corridor.The light was on in the kitchen.She walked toward it.She stopped in the kitchen doorway.Sebastian was at the table.The Highland Express was in front of him — not the complete, assembled version she had seen at two AM, but disassembled again, partially, the observation deck carriages tak
The Substitute Bride's Twins: chasing his ex wife back CHAPTER 87: THE MODEL TRAIN
Sebastian learned the rhythm of the penthouse in the first week.Not deliberately — he didn't set out to map it, didn't approach it as a project the way Liam approached things, with methodical intention and library books. It simply accumulated, the way knowledge of a space accumulates when you are in it consistently and paying attention, which he was always doing now.He knew that Grace arrived at seven forty-five and left at four thirty and that she made coffee exactly the way Seraphina took it without being asked and that she and Seraphina had developed, over three years, the specific, efficient shorthand of two people who have worked alongside each other long enough to communicate primarily in partial sentences and understood looks.He knew that Maya took twenty minutes longer than Liam to get ready in the mornings and that this was not because she was slower but because she was thorough, and that the extra twenty minutes produced a result — a child entirely ready, nothing forgotte
The Substitute Bride's Twins: chasing his ex wife back CHAPTER 86: SEPARATE BEDROOMS
Two weeks later, Sebastian came home.Not to the King estate.Seraphina had not discussed this with him in the hospital — had not presented it as a decision or a concession or anything that required negotiation. She had simply told him, on the morning of his discharge, that Grace had prepared the penthouse guest room and that the medical team's instructions required someone on the premises overnight for the first several weeks and that the penthouse was closer to the hospital than the estate and had a elevator that didn't require him to navigate stairs.She had said it in the voice she used for practical arrangements.He had said yes in the voice he used when he understood that the practical framing was the only framing available and that pushing past it was not the correct move.The wheelchair was Dr. Osei's requirement, not his preference, and he sat in it in the hospital discharge bay with the specific, contained expression of a man who had decided to accept what was required witho
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