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Chapter 22 - The Unveiling
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2025-10-08 06:32:59
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‘Hey’ Derek called out.Tessa’s back remained turned to him.She had been standing in front of the window for so long that Derek had started to wonder if she even realized he was still in the room. The fading evening light spilled across her figure, outlining the slight tremble in her shoulders as she stared blankly outside.“Do you want to maybe sit down and have something to drink?” Derek asked softly.He was met again with silence.The only response he got was a small shake of her head signalling disinterest. Derek exhaled quietly and moved closer until he stood beside her. Not too close, but just enough for her to know she wasn’t alone.For a moment, he debated pulling her into his arms. Every instinct inside him screamed to do it. She looked fragile standing there, like one wrong word would make her completely fall apart.But Derek knew Tessa.Sometimes she needed comfort.Sometimes she needed space.And sometimes she needed someone willing to stand beside her in silence until sh
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The suite felt enormous without her in it.Raymond had walked through every corner twice, not because he expected to find her in the bathroom or out on the balcony, but because moving was the only alternative to standing still, and standing still meant thinking, and thinking right now was something his mind was doing with a cruelty he hadn't anticipated.He had ruined it.He had taken the best morning he'd had in years, maybe longer, maybe the best morning he could remember, full stop and he had opened his mouth and handed her a reason to walk out. He'd known it before the words were even finished leaving him. He'd watched her face change in real time, watched the warmth drain out of it and something careful and closed move in to replace it, and he'd felt completely, utterly powerless to stop it because the truth was immovable and the situation was what it was and there was no version of this conversation that ended cleanly.But he should have told her sooner.That was the thing that
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There's no point in you coming, Derek." Tessa wiped her face with the back of her hand and looked up at the sky above , a bit grey, just like her current emotions."I promise you, I'm going to be fine. I just needed someone to rant to for a second. That's all.""I know you're going to be fine." His voice was unhurried and carried so much comforting certainty." You'll always be fine, Tessa. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. But that doesn't mean you have to keep doing everything alone.""I'm not alone. I'm in a very populated park surrounded by strangers.""That's not what I mean and you know it."She did know it. She just wasn't ready to acknowledge that he was right, because acknowledging it would mean acknowledging everything else… why she'd called him specifically, why hearing his voice had cracked something open in her that Raymond's touch hadn't been able to reach. She wasn't ready to look directly at any of that yet. It felt too much like standing at the edge of
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Raymond knew he had to do something. He wanted badly to stop speaking and pull her into a tight embrace especially after seeing the broken look on her face. But he knew better than to stop now. For all it’s worth, she would think of him as the devil - a title he so deserves… but he needed her to know the reason behind the act and he silently prayed that she understood.* The silence that followed his words was the loudest thing Tessa had ever heard.She sat with it for exactly ten seconds… she had counted, without meaning to and then something in her chest that had been pulled taut since the moment he said promise me finally snapped, the way old elastic does when you've stretched it one time too many.She pulled her hand from his and stood up almost immediatelyRaymond reached for her in that instant, but she turned and the look on her face stopped him. It was something colder than anger"I should have known," she said.Her voice was steady. She hated how steady it was, hated that s
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The shrill loud ring of Raymond’s phone cut the lingering tension between them both and Raymond cursed silently before striding over to the bedside and took the call.Tessa heaved a huge sigh, her heart beating a bit fast. She didn’t want to think of what it could be that Raymond had to tell her. Was everything he had put up for the past weeks a show? Was he about to say something that would shatter her completely?It took the call for Tessa to agree that she was not ready for any emotional turmoil. She could hear him still talking in low tones but could only make out the words… dinner, meeting, investors’ so she figured it had to be work. Without giving it another thought, she left the room and stepped into the bathroom for a shower.The water ran through, and cooled her head instantly. She watched as it trickled down her body down to the floor and her eyes misted up. She let the tears flow freely. The water aiding by splashing directly on her face.Her back was turned to the door an
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Tessa extracted herself from Raymond's loose grip and pushed back the covers, locating the robe that had been draped over the armchair at some point the night before and wrapping it around herself as he crossed the suite to get the door."Good morning," the young man said professionally. "Your breakfast order, sir."When the door clicked shut again, she was facing Raymond with her arms folded inside the robe. "You ordered breakfast?""I ordered breakfast," he agreed."And before you say anything, I remembered how you like your coffee."She opened her mouth and closed it back."Two sugars," he said, watching her. "No milk. A crime, but it's yours."She stared at him for a moment longer than she intended to, then moved toward the cart because it was easier than standing there feeling things about the fact that Raymond Anderson had, apparently, held her coffee order in his memory for however many years of distance had passed between them.They ate in silence.It was Tessa who broke the qu
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Raymond turned slowly to stare at her as she entered the room and smirked slowly when his eyes went to the knife she held out. He could see her trembling hands and all he wanted was to stand up and melt into her arms, but no, he would take his time, else he would scare her away.“Hi,” he said when
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Tessa sat on the cold metal bench outside the café, fingers pressed to her temples, trying to breathe normally. But her heart was still punching against her ribs from what she’d seen on Derek’s phone… from what he’d admitted.The tracker. The photo from weeks ago. Him being… there. It was all a lot
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Tessa froze.For a second, just one suspended breathless second, she forgot how to breathe. The noise of the small venue behind her voices, laughter, music, the shuffle of feet all started to dim. All she could see… were his eyes.Warm and familiar. She once thought that she had been able to bury t
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