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Chapter 26: The Shift
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2026-04-12 08:54:16
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Too late, I am no longer your wife CHAPTER 68 The Meeting I Was Never Told About
Miriam's account was in my lawyer's notebook, written as she spoke and signed after she had checked it.I had asked that nobody act on it until we had checked the dates.By nine the next morning, my lawyer had the calendar invitations from the two weeks Miriam could remember spread across the meeting table.“There is one we need to look at,” she said.She turned a printout towards me.Crestfield draft: Internal review of data terms.Ninety minutes. Small meeting room.I read the names beneath the subject.The finance lead. I checked the list again.“Where am I?”My lawyer pointed to the bottom of the page.“You aren't on it.”I opened my inbox and searched the subject; nothing. I searched the sender, then checked the deleted folder and the folder where messages with attachments from unfamiliar addresses sometimes went.Still nothing.I went back a month before the meeting and searched again. Then I checked the month after.“I wasn't copied on any of it.”“Not in the records we've foun
Too late, I am no longer your wife CHAPTER 67 What She Was Afraid to Say
I moved the cold tea off the desk.Miriam still held her bag strap; she had been sitting there for several minutes, but she still hadn't let go.“It was a Tuesday,” she started, “I don't know which.”“Where were you?” I asked her“I was walking back from the ward,” she said“Was it your office phone?” I asked She nodded “Did you recognise the number?” I asked“No, it came through the main line.”“Did the person give you a name?”“No.”I waited.“They asked if I knew where the clean copy of Clause 14 was kept,” she said. “Not the one with notes in the margins.”“And you told them?”“The legal drive, I said it should be there.”“Did they ask you to send it?”“No, they just said thanks.”I picked up my pen. “Did they ask who could access it?”Miriam looked at me. “Not that I remember.” she said“Did they ask whether it had been shared with anyone outside the foundation?”“No.”“Did they ask anything about the patient-information section?”She shook her head, then stopped.“I don't know
Too late, I am no longer your wife Chapter 66 Someone Inside
My lawyer spread three sheets across the table.The first listed everyone authorised to handle the clean copy of the Clause. The second listed people who might have come across it through their work. The third showed the people whose access we could confirm from the available records.I pulled the pages closer.“Seven names here, Four here and only five with dates.”“The folder history shows when the file was saved or moved,” my lawyer said. “It doesn't show everyone who opened it.”“So the other names might still have seen it.”“They might have. We can't confirm that.”“And the five with dates?”“We know the file was accessed on those dates. We don't know what was done with it afterward.”I picked up my pen.“Let's start with the people we can speak to.”My lawyer looked at me. “We need to be careful how we approach them.”“We're asking what they handled and when. We're not accusing anyone.”“Then keep the questions there.”The first staff member came in shortly after ten, he looked
Too late, I am no longer your wife CHAPTER 65 The Story Behind the Story
On Monday morning, the lawyer cleared her table and laid four documents in a row.“Larkfield’s second email,” she said, touching the first. “It reached their lawyer on Tuesday and came to me on Wednesday. The journalist’s list of questions from the day before the article. A post a parent forwarded on Friday. And Mr Calloway’s message.”She straightened the last page.“I don't know what the Fund was told, but I want to compare its response with the others.”She took a sheet of paper and divided it into three columns. “Before you ask who wrote what,” she said, “let's fill in the first two columns.”We started with what we could check. The proposal was in our files, the agreement had never been signed, and the hospital had received a request for programme information and kept a record of it. I wrote down each fact, its date, and the page where we could find it.By the time we finished, the second column was so detailed, while the third column was shorter.Children had been enrolled in r
Too late, I am no longer your wife CHAPTER 64 The Offer I Couldn’t Accept
The Brantley Fund's proposal arrived that morning in an envelope with its name printed across the top.I set aside the papers from Adrian's visit and opened it.There were eleven pages and a short cover note from Mr Calloway, the fund's director. He had signed it himself.The money would cover the second site, new equipment, additional staff, and the training we needed before opening. It was enough to turn the expansion from something we kept promising into something we could finally make happen.I read the figures twice.Then I went back to the conditions.Most of them were reasonable. The fund wanted progress reports, a clear budget, and proof that the money was being spent as agreed. I had no problem with any of that.Section nine was different.It was called Programme Assurance. Under it, the fund could appoint an assessor to review our work and receive supporting data as it might reasonably require. The fund could also share the assessor’s findings with its affiliates and adviser
Too late, I am no longer your wife CHAPTER 63: The Price of Silence
By ten that morning, I had stopped checking my phone for Adrian's name.I had tried reaching him countless times, telling myself there was probably a reasonable explanation for his silence, and there might have been, but the way he had left me the last time we spoke kept coming back to me. Something had been wrong, and he had known I noticed. He had left without giving me a proper explanation, and then he had become unreachable.Now Miriam was standing at my door.“Adrian is here,” she said.I looked up so quickly that my pen rolled off the desk.“Here?”“He's downstairs; he asked to see you.”“Did he say where he's been?”“No. I asked if everything was all right, but he didn't answer me.”“Send him up,” I saidMiriam hesitated. “Tina, he looks..." She stopped.“Look how?” I asked“Like he hasn't slept, and he kept looking behind him while he was talking to me.”For a moment, neither of us spoke, then Miriam left.I remained beside my desk, listening to the sounds outside my office.I
Too late, I am no longer your wife Chapter 4: Three Years Later
Charles PovWhen Charles woke up that morning, he felt the house was unusually quiet. He called for his wife, "Tina?" but there was no response, and irritation was already creeping into his voice. He walked downstairs; the dining table was set as usual, and a single envelope was placed neatly besid
Too late, I am no longer your wife Chapter 3: The Last Performance
For the next couple of days I carried on with my life; some days the grief was loud and violent, and other days I was able to hide it behind a smile. I learned quickly how to move on with myself.When Charles returned home three days after Sam’s funeral, I greeted him at the door like nothing had c
Too late, I am no longer your wife Chapter Two: The Beautiful Lie
Someone had closed Sam’s eyes; his lashes were still damp when the nurse covered his small body with the white sheet.I sat beside Sam’s empty bed long after the doctors left. No tears came; it was as if my body had forgotten how to cry.My phone vibrated in my hand; it was CharlesI stared at his
Too late, I am no longer your wife Chapter One: The Gilded Cage
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