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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
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I didn’t realize when the moment stopped feeling fragile and started feeling permanent. It didn’t arrive all at once.There was no sudden shift, no dramatic turning point, just a quiet certainty settling into me, layer by layer, until nothing inside me expected it to disappear anymore.I drew in a slow breath, not to steady myself, not to prepare just because I could.“I think I get it now,” I said softly.Grayson didn’t rush to respond. He didn’t interrupt or fill the space. He simply looked at me, steady and patient, like he already understood that whatever I was about to say mattered.I turned slightly so I could see him fully. There was no searching in my gaze anymore, no uncertainty, just clarity.“It was never about figuring everything out,” I continued. “I kept thinking I needed to understand it first, define it, make sense of it before I could stay. But that wasn’t it.” I paused, letting the thought settle into words that finally felt honest. “It was about whether I’d stay once
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Leo didn’t pull back after that. If anything, he leaned in just a fraction more, like something invisible between them had finally dissolved and left no reason to keep even the smallest distance.“Don't make it sound like it’s easy,” Leo said, his voice low but steady.Grayson’s brow lifted slightly, not defensive, just curious. “I didn’t.”Leo exhaled through his nose, the corner of his mouth twitching faintly. “Good. Because I don’t want this to be something that just happens. Like it’s out of our hands.”Grayson studied him for a moment, then shook his head. “It doesn’t just happen.”Leo turned his head a little more toward him. “Then what is it?”Grayson didn’t rush the answer. “It’s something you keep choosing, even when nothing is forcing you to. Especially then.”Leo let that sit with him, the words settling deeper than he expected. “So we don’t just get here and stop thinking about it.”“No,” Grayson said quietly. “We just stop questioning whether it’s real.”Leo nodded slow
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Maria Santos took her bow. I clapped until my hands hurt and watched this seventeen year old girl from Queens stand in the light After the performance she found us in the gathering outside the theatre. “Leo,” she said. She had stopped saying Mr Carter three weeks ago. “Did you see? I wasn’t nervous.” “I saw,” I said. “You were extraordinary.” “I kept thinking about what you told me,” she said. “That the most powerful thing you can do on a stage is simply be honest.” She paused. “It worked.” “It always works,” I said. She hugged me briefly and moved away into the crowd and my mother appeared at my elbow watching her go. “She’s going to be something,” my mother said. “She already is,” I said. My mother looked at me sideways. “Like someone else I know.” We stayed until the building emptied. Then the four of us … me, Grayson, my mother, Max … stood in the empty theatre in the quiet after everyone had gone. “Look at it now,” he said. Nobody added anything to that because noth
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It’s been six months since we moved into our apartment. The arts centre was full every day. Not just Maria Santos. Seventeen young people from across Queens come through those doors weekly. Acting classes. Music sessions. Writing workshops. The library Eleanor had built was growing with every passing month. I knew because my mother sent updates. On a Tuesday morning in November I sat at the kitchen counter of our Brooklyn apartment with coffee and the script for Carol’s second film and watched Grayson make breakfast. Actually properly. Eggs that weren’t burned. Toast that was timed correctly. Orange juice because Dr Osei had suggested it and Grayson had added it to the morning routine without complaint. “You can actually cook now,” I said. “I could always cook,” he said. “You could not,” I said. “I had potential,” he said seriously. “You had ambition,” I said. “Potential came later.” He set a plate in front of me. “Eat.” I ate. It was genuinely good. “Don’t
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Moving day finally arrived, but it came with heavy rain. Max showed up at eight with Sophie and an umbrella he immediately lost somewhere between the cab and the building entrance and spent the rest of the morning pretending it wasn't bothering him. “I had an umbrella,” he said to no one in particular while carrying a box up the stairs. “You lost it immediately,” Sophie said. “It was taken,” he said. “By who?” she said. “The city,” he said. “The city takes things.” Grayson looked at me. “Does he do this often?” “Constantly,” I said. We carried boxes up four flights of stairs because the elevator was being serviced which Eleanor described as poor planning when she arrived at ten with lunch. By 4pm we were arranging. My mother arrived at five with dessert. She walked through the apartment slowly. Room by room. She stopped at the kitchen windowsill. At her photograph. She stood there for a moment looking at it. I watched her from the doorway. She reached out and straight
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Sunday breakfast at Max’s was interesting. Which was exactly what we needed the morning after the most special day of our lives. It was for this too. Eggs and toast and Max talking too much and Sophie quietly refilling everyone’s coffee without being asked. Eleanor came. She arrived twelve minutes after us with pastries and strong opinions about the eggs Max was making and within four minutes had taken over the stove completely while Max stood beside her looking. “You didn’t have to …” he started. “The heat was too high,” she said. “I like them that way,” he said. “Nobody likes them that way,” she said. My mother arrived at ten and sat beside me and accepted coffee from Sophie and looked around the table at everyone gathered in Max’s small kitchen on a Sunday morning and said nothing for a moment. “Mom,” I said quietly. “I’m counting,” she said. “Counting what?” I said. “Good things,” she said simply. “It doesn’t take long when there are this many.” I looked around the
Satisfying the billionaire (mxm) CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT
GRAYSON’S POVLeaving Leo's side to go to where my mom, the bane of my existence stood, I couldn't help but grow angrier with each of them, and when her eyes laid on me coming towards her, I had to bite my tongue.After everything she's said about Leo, I should just throw her out right now, he had
Satisfying the billionaire (mxm) CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN
PART 2LEO’S POVW-Wait, Grayson... what if someone comes?"I groan out again as Grayson moves out of me, then slams his hips hard against me, thrusting his thick, monstrous manhood back into me, deeper than I've ever felt it before, making my eyes roll and my legs shake."You just have to be quiet
Satisfying the billionaire (mxm) CHAPTER FIFTY SIX
I was at the hospital the next day, at exactly 2 PM for visiting hours to see Grayson.My head was a mess, I couldn't sleep in our bed knowing that Grayson wasn't with me, and he was here, in the hospital, recovering from something I didn't really understand.I spent the entire night, morning, and
Satisfying the billionaire (mxm) CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE
I tap my foot against the floor, for what seems like the millionth time in the past few minutes.Grayson has been here for almost an hour, and because I'm not family, they won't tell me anything other than that he's alive.A loud bang jolts me in my seat, and I see them before I hear them, Grayson'
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