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Chapter 25: The Full Picture
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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 59: Dean Proposes
Anastasia’s POV:Simone called me at seven in the morning on Thursday and I knew before I answered that something had happened because Simone did not call at seven in the morning unless something had happened.“He proposed,” she said.I sat up in bed.Lucas stirred beside me.“He proposed,” I said.“Last night,” she said. “After dinner. We were in the car outside my building and he just.” A pause. “He just did it. No restaurant. No speech. He said “Simone I love you and I have loved you since before I knew what to do with it and I would like to spend the rest of my life proving I deserve you and then he took out a ring.””“Simone,” I said.“It’s a very good ring,” she said.“What did you say?” I said.“What do you think I said?” she said.I looked at the ceiling.“You said yes,” I said.“Obviously I said yes!” she said, and her voice did the thing it did when she was feeling something large and had decided to let it happen. “Ana I said yes!”I got out of bed and went to the hallway so
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 58: What Marcus Finally Said
Anastasia’s POV:Elena came to Saturday dinner.She arrived with a bottle of wine she had clearly researched because it was good without being the kind of good that made a statement and she stood in the doorway of the house in a coat I had not seen before and looked at me the way she had been looking at me since the hotel room on Crane Street, part wariness and part something that was trying to be normal and was getting closer every time.“Come in,” I said.She came in.Noah took one look at her from the top of the stairs and said who is that and I said this is Elena and he said oh and went back to whatever he was doing which was the most Noah response available.Zoe came down the stairs carefully the way she always did, one step at a time, holding the rail, and stood at the bottom and looked at Elena with the full assessment of a three year old who had decided this was worth her attention.“I like your coat,” Zoe said.Elena looked down at her.“Thank you,” she said. “I like yours.”
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 57: The Night She Almost Left Again
Anastasia’s POV:It started over something small.It always did.Lucas had a dinner. A client dinner, the kind that ran long because the client was important and the deal was significant and nobody at the table was going to be the person who looked at their watch first. He had told me about it on Monday. I had put it in my calendar. I had arranged for Mrs. Hartley to stay late.What I had not done was remember that Monday was also the night I told Simone I would come to her gallery opening for a piece Isla had in a new show and that I had promised weeks ago and had not written down because I was certain I would remember.I did not remember.I remembered at six fifteen on Wednesday when Simone texted.“See you at seven.”I stared at my phone in the kitchen while Noah was eating and Zoe was telling me something about her day that I was not fully absorbing and the particular feeling of having done this specific thing before settled over me like weather.I called Mrs. Hartley.She could n
They Wanted Me Gone, So I Became Unforgettable Chapter 56: The Lunch That Changed Everything
Anastasia’s POV:Gerard Fontaine was already at the restaurant when we arrived.He was at a corner table, which I noted because corner tables were chosen by people who liked to see the room and control how they were approached, and he stood when he saw us which I also noted because it was the same thing Lucas did and Lucas had never met him until the airfield and yet there it was, the same instinct, the same gesture, inherited across thirty years of not knowing each other.Lucas saw it too.I felt him register it beside me.We sat down and Gerard ordered water for the table without asking and I watched Lucas watch him do it and I watched Lucas understand something in real time that he had not fully understood until this moment, that the things he had always thought were simply himself were partly something else, something older, and that something else was sitting across from him in a grey jacket ordering still water.“Thank you for coming,” Gerard said.“Thank you for the photograph,
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