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Chapter 27
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2026-07-21 08:43:31
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Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby Chapter 28
Chapter 28ARIAJulian sat back down, his elbows on his knees, his voice careful. "It would look like insecurity. It would look like the lead musician of the orchestra had a problem with a company representative over something personal, and in the industry, that kind of story travels fast and it does not travel kindly." A pause. "It would be framed as you feeling small compared to her."The specific cruelty of it settled over me like weather.She had positioned herself perfectly. She had professional standing I could not challenge, family protection I could not go around, and a narrative ready to deploy the moment I tried to remove her. If I pushed, I looked threatened. If I stayed quiet, she stayed close."So she stays," I said."For the duration of the investor agreement," he said. "Yes."I nodded once and said nothing further.Julian reached for my hand. I let him take it."Aria. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I thou
Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby Chapter 27
Chapter 27ARIAI waited until Eli was asleep, because Eli was one aspect of my life that I wasn't going to let anything else disrupt.That was always how I did it, anything big, that might lead to an argument, I did it when he was not around, at school, with a friend or asleep because that was always when I had my serious conversations with Julian, in the quiet after bedtime. I had learned that about myself somewhere in the past five years, living with Julian and building a name for myself from scratch. I did not do well with confrontation in open spaces. I needed walls around it, and the knowledge that no one else was listening.Julian was at the small desk going through his emails when I came and sat on the edge of the bed across from him."I need to ask you something," I said.He looked up. He had been waiting for this, I could tell from the way he closed the laptop without being asked, giving me his full attention without making a production of it. That was Julian. Always prepar
Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby Chapter 26
Chapter 26 ARIA I was coming out of the small grocery store two streets from the hotel with Eli's hand in mine and a paper bag of fruit balanced against my hip when I saw her standing by the entrance. Ava. She was not dressed for coincidence. She was standing too still, too deliberately positioned near the door, the kind of waiting that told you a person had been waiting specifically for you and not for anything else. "Aria Vale," she said, and her voice had none of the warmth I had seen in the park that day with Julian. "Or should I say Aria. I don't actually know what to call you." "Excuse me?" I said, my grip on Eli's hand tightening slightly without my deciding to do it. "I think we should talk," she said, stepping closer. "Woman to woman." Eli looked up at her, then at me, his small face doing the thing it did when he sensed adults behaving strangely around him. "Mum, who's this?" "Nobody, sweetheart," I said. "Go stand by the window for a second, okay? Look at the puppi
Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby Chapter 25
Chapter 25 JULIAN POV Something had shifted in her and I did not know what. She had been quiet since the day I ran into Ava in the park, quiet in a specific way that I had learned to recognize over five years, the kind of quiet that meant she was holding something and deciding whether to hand it to me or keep carrying it herself. I gave her the space I usually gave her. That had always worked before. Aria needed time to arrange her own thoughts before she could speak them, and pushing only made the process longer, not shorter. But three more days passed and the quiet did not lift. I found her in the dressing room after the Thursday performance, sitting in front of the mirror with her violin still in her lap, not changing yet, staring at her own reflection like she was trying to find an answer in it. "Hey," I said, closing the door behind me. "You played beautifully tonight." "Thank you," she said, but it came out distant. I sat in the chair beside her. "Aria. Talk to me." Sh
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Chapter 24 ARIA I told myself it was nothing for three days. It was a reasonable thing to tell myself. Julian had a life before me, a full life, with relationships and history that had nothing to do with the woman he found half-conscious and nameless in a hospital bed. It would have been strange if he didn't. I had no claim on the years before I existed to him as anyone at all. But the stone stayed where it was, and on the fourth day, while Julian was at a meeting with the venue about the final performance logistics and Eli was occupied with his tablet under the stage manager's supervision, I found myself in our hotel room going through a box of his things. I was not looking for anything specific. I told myself that too. The box had come with us from city to city for the length of the tour, a small archive box of business files and old photographs Julian kept for sentimental reasons, things he sometimes pulled out to show Eli, university photos, early agency photos, the small art
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Chapter 23 JULIAN I had Eli's hand in mine and a bag of his favourite crackers from the kiosk in the other when I heard my name called from across the path. "Julian? Julian Hale?" I turned. A woman was walking toward us quickly, her face breaking into the kind of surprised smile reserved for people you have not seen in years and did not expect to see again. Ava. It took me a second to place her fully, the years had changed her hair, her style, but the face underneath all of it was the same. We had dated for almost a year, a long time ago, before any of this, before Elena, before any of what my life had become. "I don't believe it," she said, stopping in front of us, eyes moving from me to Eli and back. "It's actually you." "Ava." I said her name carefully, the surprise genuine. "It's been a long time." "Years," she agreed, laughing a little. "You look exactly the same. Older, but the same." Her eyes dropped to Eli. "And who is this?" "This is Eli," I said. "A friend's son."
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