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Chapter 65: What Lucas Found In The Garden
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2026-08-09 23:24:03
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They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 65: What Lucas Found In The Garden
Anastasia’s POV:Lucas found it on a Saturday afternoon in March while he was doing the thing he did in the garden now, which was to go out there with no plan and come back two hours later with dirt on his hands and a specific opinion about something that needed doing that he had apparently been thinking about the entire time.I was in the studio when he came back in.He appeared in the doorway and I looked up and he had the dirt on his hands and the expression of someone who had found something they were not expecting to find.“Come and look at something,” he said.“I’m working,” I said.“It will only take two minutes,” he said.“You always say two minutes,” I said.“I mean it this time,” he said.I put my pencil down.The garden in March was doing the thing gardens did at the end of winter, half dead and half beginning, and I followed Lucas to the far end near the old stone wall and he crouched down beside a section of ground and pointed.I looked.Underneath the wall, in a gap betw
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 64: Three Years And A Tuesday
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They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 63: The Wedding
Anastasia’s POV:Simone was the most beautiful person in the room.She would have said that was an obvious thing to say about a bride but it was true in a way that went beyond the dress, which was ivory and simple and exactly right, and beyond the way Diane had done her hair, which was pinned loosely with a few pieces falling the way they always fell because Simone’s hair did what it wanted and today even her hair had decided to cooperate.It was something in her face.She looked like herself. The fullest version of herself. The version that existed when she had stopped performing not caring and just let the thing she actually felt take up all the space it needed.I stood beside her at the entrance to the barn and she looked at me and I looked at her and neither of us said anything for a moment because there was nothing to say that the moment was not already saying.Then she said “is my lipstick okay” and I said yes and she said “check properly” and I checked properly and said yes aga
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 62: The Night Before The Wedding
Anastasia’s POV:Simone called the night before her wedding.I was already in bed and Lucas was already asleep beside me in the way he slept, completely, like a man who had made peace with unconsciousness, and I grabbed my phone before it could ring a second time and went to the hallway.“I can’t sleep,” she said.“I know,” I said.“I’ve been lying there for two hours,” she said. “Dean is asleep. He fell asleep in eleven minutes. Eleven.”“He always does that,” I said.“It’s deeply irritating,” she said.“I know,” I said.“How does a person sleep the night before their wedding?” she said.“Apparently Dean does it in eleven minutes,” I said.She made a sound.I sat on the top stair the way I had been sitting on the top stair for important phone calls for two years now and pulled my knees up and leaned against the wall.“Are you scared?” I said.“No,” she said. “That’s the strange part. I’m not scared at all. I’m just awake.”“Maybe you don’t need to be scared to be awake,” I said.“Wha
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 61: Noah’s Question
Anastasia’s POV:Noah asked me where babies came from.Not in the way children sometimes asked, casually, as part of a longer conversation about something else. He asked it the way he asked everything, directly, standing in the kitchen doorway with his shoes on the wrong feet and his backpack half open, like it was a reasonable question that deserved a reasonable answer before school.“Where do babies come from?” he said.I put the coffee down.“Who have you been talking to?” I said.“Jacob at school,” he said. “He said they come from the hospital.”“Jacob is partially right,” I said.“Where do they actually come from?” he said.“Mamas and daddies make them together,” I said, which was both true and sufficient for a four year old on a Wednesday morning.He considered this.“How?” he said.“Your shoes are on the wrong feet,” I said.He looked down at his feet.“They feel fine,” he said.“Noah,” I said.He sat down on the kitchen floor and switched his shoes and stood back up.“How do m
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 60: The Thing About Victoria
Anastasia’s POV:Victoria called which was unusual because Victoria did never calls first. She called on Thursday evenings when she had finished whatever she was doing and had decided that communication was now appropriate.“I need you to come,” she said.“Is something wrong?” I said.“Nothing is wrong,” she said, in the tone that meant something was at least adjacent to wrong. “I need your opinion on something and I don’t want to discuss it over the phone.”“Victoria,” I said. “I have a client meeting at two.”“I’m aware of the time Anastasia,” she said. “Come at one.”She hung up.I texted Rosa.“If I’m not back by 1:50, call me.”Rosa texted back.“Should I be concerned?”“My mother-in-law,” I texted.Three dots.“I’ll call at 1:55,” she said.I drove to the northern house at twelve forty and Diane let me in with the expression she wore when Victoria had been doing something for several hours and Diane had opinions about it that she was professionally obligated not to share.Victor
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 4: The Art of Pretending
Anastasia’s POV:Simone called at exactly eight forty three the next morning while I was standing in my kitchen in my pajamas staring at the coffee machine like it had personally offended me.“Tell me everything,” she said before I finished saying hello. “And I mean everything. Dean told me Lucas c
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 3: The Room Where Everything Changed
Anastasia’s POV:I wore the burgundy dress.Simone had picked it out three weeks ago during one of our Saturday shopping trips that were less about buying things and more about reclaiming the version of me that used to have opinions about what she put on her body. It was fitted without being aggres
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 2: Eight Months of Becoming
Anastasia’s POV:“You have paint on your face.”I looked up from the mood board spread across my desk and found Celeste Dupont standing in my office doorway in a cream blazer and reading glasses pushed up on her head, looking at me the way she looked at everything, like she had already figured it o
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 1: The Wrong Morning to Come Home Early
Anastasia’s POV:“If you tell her about this meeting I will make sure you never work in this city again. Do you understand me?”I stood completely still in the entrance of my own home with my keys still in my hand and my heart doing something complicated inside my chest.That was my husband’s voice
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