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Chapter 10: I Do Feel A Little Grateful
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Thread of Devotion Chapter 133:
Amirah, ordered a car. She got in before she could talk herself out of it.She found the house on the second attempt, the driver dropping her at the curb and pulling away before she'd fully committed to whether this was a good idea.The door was open, not wide, just enough to let the evening air in, and she could hear him before she saw him, moving around a kitchen with the sound of someone attempting dinner and losing ground.She knocked once. Stepped in when he called out.Matthew was at the stove in a t-shirt she'd never have pictured him in, sleeves pushed up, a dish towel over one shoulder, and something in a pan that had clearly been going wrong for several minutes before she arrived."Amirah." He looked genuinely startled. "How did you—""HR has an address on file. I asked nicely." She glanced at the pan. "Is that supposed to be that color?""No." He turned the heat down, defeated. "It was supposed to be pasta sauce twenty minutes ago."From somewhere down the hall, a voice cal
Thread of Devotion Chapter 132: Tell Me Everything
The swing had been hers since she was seven.Joseph had put it up the summer she came to live with him, a simple thing, two ropes and a plank of wood between two old oak trees at the back of the garden, nothing special, but she'd claimed it immediately and it had been hers ever since. When she was thinking, she went to the swing. When she was hurting, she went to the swing. When the world got too loud and she needed somewhere to be small for a while, she went to the swing.He found her there as the evening came in.She wasn't swinging, just sitting, feet on the ground, hands around the ropes, her face turned toward the garden the way she looked at things when she wasn't really seeing them.Joseph sat on the garden bench nearby. He didn't speak right away. He'd known her long enough to understand that some silences needed to be sat in before they could be spoken through.After a while he said, "I heard you won."She said nothing.The garden held its evening quiet, birds somewhere, the
Thread of Devotion Chapter 131: Dancing Octopus
Mei's apartment looked like a toy store had exploded in the middle of a Category 5 hurricane.The suitcase was wide open on the bed, looking less like luggage and more like a cry for help. It had been open for three hours, and so far the only thing Mei had successfully packed was a sense of escalating dread. There were dresses folded with aggressive optimism, two identical sweaters she'd forgotten she owned, and a mountain of stuffed animals that seemed to be multiplying every time she looked away.In the center of the disaster, Mei sat cross-legged on the carpet, hair clipped up with a single exhausted claw clip that looked one inconvenience away from giving up entirely. She held a stuffed rabbit in one hand and a plush bear in the other like she was negotiating international peace treaties."This one is for Liyana baby," she announced seriously. "And this one is for Riyana baby."Evan leaned against the doorway, watching the chaos with the calm resignation of a man who'd loved Mei l
Thread of Devotion Chapter 130: Verdict
Trial 6 The jury came back at 2:14.Zoya sat at the prosecution table, hands flat over her closed file. Her face gave nothing away.When the foreman stood, she didn't look at the defense table. She kept her eyes on him."On the matter of environmental negligence," the foreman said, "the jury finds the defendant, Mansoor Corporation, liable."The room shifted. People moved in their seats."With respect to damages—the jury awards full compensatory damages to the plaintiff class as specified in exhibit eighty-one. The jury further recommends mandatory environmental remediation of the eastern watershed and affected community zones, subject to independent environmental review and enforceable compliance clauses."In the back row, someone put a hand over their mouth.The foreman read the rest: the operational penalties and the corporate compliance review within ninety days. Then he sat down, and the judge took over with sentencing parameters.Zoya stopped listening.It wasn't because she fe
Thread of Devotion Chapter 129: Family Thing
Amirah sat on her bed that night, laptop closed, the Meridian files finally out of reach for a few hours, and found herself thinking about Matthew instead of anything that had happened in that meeting.*Family thing.*She'd turned the phrase over so many times in the last two days it had started to lose its shape. A parent, maybe. A sibling. Something ordinary and forgivable that simply hadn't occurred to him to mention, because why would he, three months wasn't very long, and she wasn't entitled to explanations just because she'd started keeping track of when he was late.She picked up her phone.Told herself it was work related. The Friday filing deadline, technically, gave her a reason.She called him.It rang twice."Hello?"Amirah blinked.It wasn't Matthew.A girl's voice came through the speaker instead, confident, a little dry, the specific tone of a kid who'd decided answering the phone properly was beneath making a whole production of it."Oh." Amirah sat up straighter. "Hi.
Thread of Devotion Chapter 128: Echoes of Home
Zoya got home at twelve forty after a day of back-to-back meetings.The house was dark except for the lamp she always left burning in the front room. She let herself in quietly, out of habit more than necessity, and set her bag on the counter.She went upstairs first.Riyana was asleep on her side, one hand curled against her cheek, the little star nightlight throwing soft shapes across the ceiling. Zoya stood in the doorway for a moment, the way she always did, counting the rise and fall of her breathing until it steadied something in her own chest.She didn't wake her.She pulled the door most of the way closed and went back downstairs.Her phone buzzed once on the counter.*Amirah: Tell Riyana her aunt is already looking forward to spoiling her. Tell her she has a whole family here that already loves her. And when you're ready, I'd love to tell her that myself.*Zoya read it twice. She didn't answer right away. She set the phone face down and pressed her palm flat against the count
Thread of Devotion Chapter 36: Bedroom Now
Zoya finally turned, her glare locked and loaded. But the retort died in her throat. He looked exhausted. There were shadows under his eyes that hadn’t been there before, and his frame looked leaner under his suit. But the way he was looking at the dinner—and then at her—was so raw it made her ch
Last Updated : 2026-03-31Thread of Devotion Chapter 33: Don’t Disappear
Joseph answered on the second ring. He didn’t say hello. In their world, a greeting was a wasted breath, especially between two men bound by the same ghost.“Omar.”Omar’s voice was steady, but it wasn’t calm. It was the kind of stillness that happens right before a storm levels a ci
Last Updated : 2026-03-30Thread of Devotion Chapter 14
Raiyan didn't get back into the car right away.He stood by the open door, staring at the building entrance like staring harder could undo time. Like Zoya might reappear, coat swinging, eyes softened, say his name the way she used to—with room in it.She didn't.The glass doors closed. The lobby li
Last Updated : 2026-03-20Thread of Devotion Chapter 12
Mei locked the door again like it would fix everything.Chain. Bolt. Handle checked twice.Zoya watched her do it and hated the part of her that wanted to believe it. Like metal and wood could negotiate with men who didn't respect "no."Kenji stood near the window, peeking through the curtain like
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