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MUCH MUCH LATER

Autor: Soraya Quinn
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-08-29 18:58:04

MIREYA SARAI ORLOV

“I’m sorry, Ms. Orlov, but the valuation seems high for the current market.”

I looked up from the document. Creston’s lead negotiator wore a carefully neutral expression, the kind men wear right before they think they’ve found your weak spot.

“Does it?”

“The projections you’ve provided don’t account for—”

“Section four, page twelve.” I let that sit a second before I kept going. “Your own analysts wrote those projections three months ago. They haven’t changed. What’s changed i
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  • Too late, dear husband; Mrs Grant is done   MUCH MUCH LATER

    MIREYA SARAI ORLOV“I’m sorry, Ms. Orlov, but the valuation seems high for the current market.”I looked up from the document. Creston’s lead negotiator wore a carefully neutral expression, the kind men wear right before they think they’ve found your weak spot.“Does it?”“The projections you’ve provided don’t account for—”“Section four, page twelve.” I let that sit a second before I kept going. “Your own analysts wrote those projections three months ago. They haven’t changed. What’s changed is your confidence in them.”Nobody said anything for a moment. His team looked at each other like kids who’d just gotten caught with their hands in the candy jar, and one of them grabbed a folder and started flipping through it fast, red-faced, until he found the page I’d meant.“Now,” I said, already turning to the next document. “Let’s move on to the expansion terms.”It took another forty minutes to work through the rest, but by the time we got to signatures, most of the fight had gone out of

  • Too late, dear husband; Mrs Grant is done   THE ROAD BACK HOME

    MIREYA SARAI ORLOV“I think I’m ready to go home.”August looked at me for a long moment, the morning light catching the silver at his temples, and something in his face shifted — not sadness, something more careful than that.“Are you sure?”I thought about the question longer than I needed to, not because I doubted the answer but because I wanted to give him an honest one.“Yes. I need to see my family. I’ve been away from them too long. And I can’t keep letting other people run my business forever.”“You’re not saying you’re completely healed.”“No. I’m saying I’m ready to try living like a person again.”He nodded slowly. “Then it’s time.”-----The phone felt heavier than it should have in my hand.I sat on the edge of the bed staring at the screen, telling myself I’d been putting this call off because I wasn’t strong enough yet, when the truth was smaller and more embarrassing than that. I was just afraid of what my mother’s voice was going to do to me.I pressed the button befo

  • Too late, dear husband; Mrs Grant is done   LEARNING TO LIVE AGAIN

    MIREYA SARAI GRANTI woke to the steady sound of a monitor beside me, my throat was so raw that even swallowing felt like something I had to brace for. When I finally managed to open my eyes, all I could see was white — ceiling, curtains, the flat glow of medical lighting — and for a few seconds I had no idea where I was or how long I'd been there.I tried to move my hand and felt something pull at my arm. An IV, I realized once my eyes caught up and when I looked down at the rest of myself, I understood why sitting up felt impossible — my ribs were wrapped, my left wrist was braced, and there were bruises running the length of both arms in different stages of healing, some still an angry purple, others fading toward yellow.A nurse appeared beside the bed."You're awake." She smiled and I tried to answer but only managed a rasp."Don't force your voice," she stopped me. "Your throat was injured. You've been unconscious three weeks.""Where—" My voice cracked on the word. "Where am I

  • Too late, dear husband; Mrs Grant is done   THE WOMAN WHO IS DYING

    MIREYA SARAI GRANTSomething sharp was pressed against my throat, I didn't know what it was only that every shallow breath I took made it bite deeper into my skin, and some part of me understood that if I kept moving, I was probably going to die right there.So I stayed still and tried to breathe as gently as I could but that didn't help as the metal shifted— biting into my skin. Something warm started running toward my collarbone, and it took me longer than it should have to understand I was bleeding.I tried to reach up and push it off me but my shoulder exploded with pain before my hand even got there, bad enough that whatever sound came out of me barely made it past my throat.Above me the sky wasn't clear anymore, just smoke, and the trees that were split and black in an unnatural way and somewhere close by something kept crackling like it was burning. My ears were ringing so loud I couldn't tell how close any of it actually was.A woman lay a few feet away, her body was twiste

  • Too late, dear husband; Mrs Grant is done   THE LAST TIME I LOOKED BACK

    MIREYA SARAI GRANT I stared at my own signature until the letters blurred into something I didn’t recognize. The ink was still wet. I touched it without meaning to, and it smeared black under my thumb, spreading across the page like a bruise, like if I pressed hard enough I could smudge the whole thing out of existence. I couldn’t. Three years of signing things that built his future, and this was the first one that had ever undone mine instead. I twisted the wedding ring on my finger until my skin burned, tugging at it once, hard, before I made myself stop. Not yet. ----- Upstairs, I opened the closet and started pulling things out — dresses, suits, a sweater he’d given me two birthdays ago. Then my hand found something soft, tucked where I’d hidden it days ago without letting myself think about why. The ultrasound. The black-and-white image looked up at me — a small curved shape that had been a whole person, apparently, for seven months I never felt her move. “Approximately s

  • Too late, dear husband; Mrs Grant is done   HIS LAST BETRAYAL

    MIREYA SARAI GRANT I stood frozen beside the mailbox with the divorce papers trembling in my hands, the street still moving around me like nothing had happened — a car rumbling past, leaves shifting in the wind, a gate creaking somewhere down the block — and none of it reached me. All I could see were the words on the page. PETITION FOR DIVORCE. Mireya Grant and Malcolm Grant. My husband’s name. My name. He had sent me divorce papers. I read it again through the blur of tears, thinking about everything I’d given him, everything I’d sacrificed, the baby I’d lost less than a day ago that he hadn’t even believed was real. I couldn’t just stand there. I made myself walk toward the house, the papers pressed to my chest, my keys slipping twice through fingers that wouldn’t cooperate before the door finally gave. Inside, I didn’t stop moving until I’d dropped the papers on the coffee table and had my phone already in my hand. He picked up on the third ring. “Mireya, what now?” His voi

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