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Chapter 20

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Evelyn

Finally, the day that I would make a public show out of Charlie and his company.

"You are doing that thing again," Julian said from across the breakfast table.

I looked up. "What thing."

"The thing where you stare at nothing and your jaw goes tight," he replied, reaching across and pushing my coffee cup closer to me, "drink that and breathe, we have been preparing for this for months, there is nothing left to worry about."

"I am not worried," I told him.

He looked at me with the particul
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  • The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match    Chapter 31

    CharlieI saw the way they were looking at me, they had heard everything, every single word.I walked through the office doors at eight sharp and knew within thirty seconds that something had shifted overnight. The receptionist smiled two seconds too late. The two analysts near the water cooler stopped talking the moment I rounded the corner. Davies found something urgent to look at on his phone the moment our eyes met across the floor.I kept walking.My secretary was already at her desk when I reached my office and she looked up with the specific brightness of someone who had been rehearsing normally all morning."Good morning Mr. Thorne, your nine o'clock has confirmed and…""Has anyone said anything," I asked her directly.She blinked. "Sir?""To you, about me, about last night, has anyone in this building said anything to you."She held my gaze for exactly one second too long. "Not to me directly sir, no."I walked into my office and closed the door.I sat at my desk and stared a

  • The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match    Chapter 30

    EvelynI waited for his call but nothing came, usually he would get mad and we would solve it but I did not know what had happened now.Amanda appeared in my study doorway carrying a tray, setting it on the edge of my desk with the quiet efficiency she always brought to everything."Ma'am, you have not eaten since morning," she told me gently, lifting the cover off the plate.I looked at it. "What is this?""Grilled salmon with roasted vegetables, your favorite ma…""Take it away," I told her, turning back to my screen.Amanda hesitated. "Ma'am you really should…""Amanda," I replied, and she picked up the tray and left without another word.I stared at my screen and told myself to focus.Leo appeared in the doorway ten minutes later, his football was tucked under one arm, his expression carried the specific disappointment of a child whose afternoon had not gone according to plan."Mama, where did uncle Julian go," he asked, "I have been looking everywhere for him, we were supposed to

  • The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match    Chapter 29

    CharlieSerena had gotten into trouble again. I could sense it from the number calling my phone. This time I was sure she went directly for the fish and got hooked by it.My phone kept ringing as I sat in my car staring at the car park wall outside my office building. I picked it up without checking the screen."Am I speaking with Mr. Charles Thorne?" the voice on the other end asked."Speaking," I replied."Mr. Thorne, this is Officer Daniels from the fourth precinct, we have your wife here at the station, she was brought in approximately forty minutes ago and she has listed you as her emergency contact."I said nothing for a full three seconds."Mr. Thorne, are you there?""I am here," I replied, "I will be there shortly."I ended the call and sat there gripping the phone in my hand."Why can she not stay out of trouble?" I muttered to the steering wheel, "why, why can she not for one single day just stay out of it, what the hell has she done now."I started the engine and pulled o

  • The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match    Chapter 28

    EvelynJulian had refused to say anything to me after last night, I very well understood his anger but he was still quiet until now, it was just absurd.I had woken up expecting him to be at the breakfast table the way he always was, coffee in hand, something dry and clever waiting on his lips, but his seat was empty and his coffee cup was clean and dry in the cabinet. The house had that particular quality of quiet that meant he had left early enough to avoid the possibility of running into me.I sat at the table alone and looked at his empty chair.Fine, I thought, let him be dramatic about it.Amanda appeared in the doorway with Leo on her hip, already dressed and clutching his SpiderMan toy. "Good morning ma'am, shall I get Leo's breakfast started?""Please," I replied, reaching up to kiss Leo's cheek as Amanda carried him past."Morning mama," Leo murmured sleepily, dropping his head on Amanda's shoulder.I watched them disappear into the kitchen and turned back to my coffee and t

  • The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match    Chapter 27

    CharlieSilence had always been better but I could not lie that I still felt like absolute trash for letting anything out because of a stupid promise.Serena was already in the kitchen when I came downstairs, dressed and composed in the careful way she dressed when she was trying to appear unbothered, and she looked up the moment I walked in."Good morning," she offered.I pulled a mug from the cabinet, poured my coffee and stood at the counter with my back half turned to her, drinking it in silence."Charlie," she tried again, softer this time.I drank my coffee, without a word.She moved toward the table and sat down, watching me with the particular patience of a woman who had decided that this morning was going to be the morning I cracked. I finished the last of my coffee, set the mug in the sink, picked up my briefcase from the chair by the door and walked out."Char…" she started.The door closed.I was at the office before seven thirty, which was early enough that the building w

  • The Wrong Vow, My Perfect Match    Chapter 26

    EvelynWe had plans to go back to Oakhaven but somehow I still wanted to see the distraught faces of Charlie and Serena, it made it all so fun to look at.Leo was on the sitting room floor with his crayons and a fresh sheet of paper when Julian walked in, with hands in his pockets, wearing the expression of a man who had been rehearsing an opening line for longer than he was going to admit."Can we talk?" he said."Sure," I replied, reaching across to hand Leo the red crayon he had been stretching toward."About going back to Oakhaven…" Julian began, settling onto the arm of the sofa, "we have been here longer than we originally planned and the team back home needs us.""Mama look," Leo thrust his paper toward my face with both hands, "I drew the bad dragon and he is on fire."I took the paper and studied it with complete seriousness. "Who set him on fire?""Me and SpiderMan," Leo replied without hesitation."Obviously," I told him, handing it back, then glanced up at Julian, "later J

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