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The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal Chapter 169
GwenThe gun went off.Emris ran like his life depended on it, arms pumping, face screwed up with the pure, total effort of a child, and I was on my feet screaming his name before I'd even realised I'd stood up. He came third. Third out of twelve, and the way he punched the air at the finish line you'd have thought he'd taken gold at the actual Olympics.My heart brimmed with so much pride for him.He came sprinting straight to me afterward, out of breath, cheeks red."Did you see? Did you see?""I saw you baby. You were incredible." I caught him against my hip and let him squeeze the air out of me. "Third place, baby.""Third is nearly first," he informed me seriously."It absolutely is."Over his shoulder, he was already scanning the fence line again.My heart clenched painfully at the look of hope in his eyes, followed by disappointment. My phone hadn't buzzed once.I encouraged him and he smiled that knowing smile that you could see in adults. EMris was a little too grown for hi
The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal Chapter 168
GwenAlex stayed the entire night.He didn't ask if he could. He just moved through my house with the quiet ease of someone who'd apparently decided, somewhere in that conversation, that leaving wasn't an option he was willing to consider, checking the lock on the back door twice, making tea neither of us drank, sitting close enough on the couch that I could feel the warmth of him without either of us saying anything about it."I'm going to look into him properly," he said, sometime past midnight, his voice low so it wouldn't carry up to Emris's room. "Elias. Whatever name he's actually using. I have contacts who can pull financial records, employment history, anything that might connect him back to whoever's paying him. I won't stop until I have a name that isn't just a letter.""Thank you," I said, and meant it, though something small and exhausted in me couldn't quite let go of a harder question.Could I even trust that promise?I hated myself a little for thinking about it. Alex
The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal Chapter 167
AlexMy phone rang while I was halfway through a stack of paperwork I hadn't looked at properly in an hour, my mind still tangled up in everything from the gala, from Raymond, from the porch and Elias standing on it like he owned the ground beneath his feet.I picked it up without checking the screen, my voice coming out flat and distracted. "Yeah?"Silence for a second. Then her voice."Alex?"I sat up so fast my chair nearly went over."Gwen." Her name came out of me half surprise, half something warmer I didn't have time to examine. She hadn't called me first in months, not since things between us had gone quiet and careful and full of things neither of us said out loud. "Hey – hey, is everything okay?"Then I heard it. The wet catch in her breath. The way she was trying to steady her voice and failing, just barely, just enough that I heard the crack underneath it.Every good feeling in me dropped straight into panic."Gwen, what happened? Talk to me.""I'm fine," she said, which
The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal Chapter 166
GwenThe next few days were more peaceful than I could bargain. The rumors cleared and my ownership was proven with a few visits to the court.I had no one else but Elias to thank for it. I would have thanked Alex as well, but ever since our last conversation, the last thing I wanted to do is see him.I do not know if it was denial or simply guilt. But then, guilt for what? Elias had packed only a few things from his room the last time he came here and he was finally taking everything out. His room had always been under lock and key and I had never found my way inside it except it was absolutely necessary. I decided to make everything easier for him and fill the boot before his arrival. I still had a spare key for the room.I let myself in, opening the door a little, the apartment was dim and half-emptied, most of his furniture already gone, boxes stacked against the walls in various states of taped-shut and forgotten-about. It smelled like him still, that clean cedar and citrus sc
The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal Chapter 165
GwenThe house was quiet by the time I finally climbed the stairs, the kind of quiet that presses against your ears after a night too loud to process. I carried Emris to his room. I didn't bother with my dress. I peeled it off somewhere between the bathroom and the bed, left it pooled on the floor like something I was shedding rather than undressing from, and pulled on the first soft thing my hands found in the drawer.I checked on Emris immediately after. He was curled on his side, one arm flung over his stuffed fox, breathing slow and even in the dim glow of his nightlight. I stood in his doorway longer than I needed to, just watching the rise and fall of his small chest, letting it anchor me the way it always did. Whatever else had come apart tonight, this hadn't. This was still mine, still safe, still untouched by my personal chaos.I pressed a kiss to his forehead so light it wouldn't wake him, and made myself walk away.My own bed felt too big when I finally lay down in it, the
The Surgeon’s Revenge Deal Chapter 164
AlexThe laugh that came out of her wasn't really a laugh. It was something thinner than that, something with edges, and it filled the car in a way that made my hands tighten on the wheel."Wow." She said it to the windshield, not to me, shaking her head slowly. "Wow, okay. So I've been deceiving myself this whole time. That's– " Another humorless huff of breath. "That's actually funny, when you think about it. Five years rebuilding a name, a face, a whole life, and the one person sitting three feet away from me every single day already knew it was a costume.""Gwen–""Don't." She said it without heat, which somehow landed harder than if she'd shouted. "Just don't."I glanced at her, then back at the road, guilt sitting heavy and useless in my chest. "I found out recently," I said carefully. "I swear to you, not from the start.""It doesn't matter.""It matters to me.""It doesn't matter, Alex." Her voice cracked on my name, just slightly, and she turned her face toward the window s
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