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Chapter 45: Simone And Dean
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2026-08-01 19:21:22
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Anastasia’s POV:Noah came to me with a question on a night when the house was quiet and Lucas was in his study and Zoe was already asleep and he appeared in the studio doorway in his pajamas with the expression he wore when something had been sitting in him for a while and had decided it was time to come out.“Mama,” he said.“Yes,” I said.He came in and sat in the chair in the corner, the one that was not for working, and he looked at his hands for a moment.“Can I ask you something?” he said.“Yes,” I said.“Did you and Daddy used to be unhappy?” he said.I put my pencil down.I looked at my son who was five years old and had apparently been carrying this question for long enough to have found the right words for it and had chosen tonight and this room to ask it.“Why are you asking?” I said.“Grandma Victoria said something,” he said. “She was talking to Diane and she did not know I could hear and she said she was glad you stayed and I asked her what she meant and she said it was
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Anastasia’s POV:Rosa resigned.She came into my office and closed the door behind her, which she never did, and she sat down across from my desk and looked at me with the expression of someone who had made a decision and was not going back on it and also understood what it was going to cost the person across from her.“I’m leaving,” she said.I put my pencil down.“When?” I said.“End of the month,” she said. “I know that’s not much notice and I have already started the transition documentation and I will work as long as you need me after the official date to hand over properly.”I looked at her.“Where are you going?” I said.“I’m starting my own firm,” she said. “Small. Just me and one other person to start. Residential work. Nothing that competes with what we do here.”I sat with that.Rosa. Who had moved my three o’clock without being asked the day Noah started school. Who had translated client feeling into actual specification without being told how. Who had told the Morrison cl
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Anastasia’s POV:Noah lost his first tooth at the kitchen table.He was eating an apple and he looked at it and then at us and said I think something happened and held up the tooth in his palm with the expression of someone who had not been expecting this particular development and was still processing whether it was good news or bad.Lucas looked at it.“That’s your first tooth,” he said.“I know it’s my tooth,” Noah said. “I lost it.”“That’s what happens,” Lucas said. “They come out and new ones grow.”Noah looked at the tooth.“Better ones?” he said.“Bigger,” Lucas said.“Are bigger better?” he said.“In teeth yes,” Lucas said.Noah accepted this and put the tooth carefully on the counter and went back to his apple and I sat at the kitchen island and felt something I had not expected to feel about a tooth.Not sadness exactly.The particular feeling of time doing what time did, moving without asking, and the things that marked it arriving before you were ready.Zoe appeared and l
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Anastasia’s POV:Dean called at two in the morning.Lucas answered before I registered the phone ringing and I heard his voice say yes and okay and we are coming and then he was already out of bed and I sat up and he looked at me and said she’s in labor and I was dressed before he finished the sentence.Mrs. Hartley had given us a key for exactly this situation and we left the house with the children asleep and the lights off and I sat in the car and texted Simone because I needed to and she responded three minutes later with a voice note that was mostly breathing and one sentence that said I’m not scared I’m ready and I played it twice and held my phone.The hospital was quiet the way hospitals were quiet at that hour, the particular hush of a building that was never fully asleep but had turned down its daytime urgency.Dean was in the corridor outside the delivery suite.He looked at us when we came in and his face was doing several things at once, the open unmanaged face he had wor
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