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When the 99th Chance Was Gone
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My husband thought I would never leave him. He was wrong. Ethan Cole proposed to me ninety-nine times before I finally said yes on his hundredth try. So on our wedding night, I gave him ninety-nine make-up cards. Every time he broke a promise, chose someone else over me, or hurt me badly enough to need forgiveness, he could use one. As long as there was still a card left, I promised myself I would give our marriage one more chance. For three years, Ethan never needed them. Then Madeline Avery came back. His childhood best friend. The woman who always needed help. The woman who always needed protecting. And somehow, every time she needed something, I was the one expected to lose it. My time. My opportunities. My career. Ethan never saw it as choosing her over me. In his mind, I was stronger. I could handle disappointment. I could rebuild what I lost. I would always be fine. So he kept using the cards. One after another. By the time he reached number ninety-seven, I had stopped arguing. I stopped asking when he would come home. I stopped reminding him of the promises he had made me. Ethan thought I had finally learned to accept Madeline. He had no idea I was counting down. Two cards left. Two more chances. Then the woman who had forgiven him ninety-nine times would disappear from his life for good. And this time, no apology would bring me back.
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The divorce became final three months later.Ethan sent ninety-nine letters, each describing something he regretted. I opened none of them.[An apology could prove he finally saw the wound. It couldn’t order the wound to welcome the knife back.]Over the next year, I closed twelve international acquisitions and increased Adriatica Capital’s profit by forty-seven percent.In my free time, I went to every place that had once been pinned to the travel map. I watched a volcano in Iceland, learned to make wine in Tuscany, and greeted the new year from the Alps.When no one was there to take my picture, I handed the camera to a stranger. When no one was free to travel with me, I arrived alone anyway.My father’s legal adviser, Luca DeSantis, occasionally joined me. He never made decisions for me, and he didn’t assume that strength meant I never needed care.Whenever I said, “I can handle it,” he answered, “I know. You shouldn’t have to handle everything alone.”I wasn’t in a hurry to fall in
When the 99th Chance Was Gone Chapter 8
Ten days after returning to my family, I took my seat in the boardroom of Moretti Holdings.Five years earlier, I had walked away from my law degree at NYU, the board seat my father kept for me, and my place as the Moretti heir. I had carried one suitcase to Boston and lived under my mother’s last name while building North Shore from nothing beside Ethan.He thought I negotiated well because I was gifted. He didn’t know I had listened to men fight over ports and shipping routes at the family dinner table from the age of thirteen. By eighteen, I could make directors thirty years older than me reopen a contract.I had hidden every sharp edge so Ethan wouldn’t feel he had married a dangerous woman.[That hadn’t been love. It had been a betrayal of myself.]My father never asked why I had returned. He pushed an acquisition file across the table. “Adriatica Capital needs a chief executive.”I opened it. “Aren’t you worried I’ll run away for another man?”“Love whoever you want,” he said. “B
When the 99th Chance Was Gone Chapter 7
The Moretti name rarely appeared in the news, but no one between New York, Boston, and Sicily mistook it for an ordinary name.The family’s shadow stretched across docks, casinos, private security, and international shipping. No one could say exactly how much they controlled, and smart people didn’t ask.Ethan finally understood why I never discussed my family—and that I had given up far more than an inheritance to marry him.His friend Jonah pushed the investigator’s report back across the table. “You’re seriously going after her?”“I have to bring her home.”“Bring her home?” Jonah laughed without humor. “You still think she belongs to you.”Ethan said nothing.“Do you love Madeline?”“No.” The answer came instantly.Madeline’s mother had taken Ethan in when he was a teenager. His father was in prison, his mother had disappeared, and everyone at school treated him like trouble. Mrs. Avery was the only person who gave him a bedroom and a seat at the dinner table.Looking after Madelin
When the 99th Chance Was Gone Chapter 6
North Shore’s investment pitch crashed and burned the next morning.Madeline’s deck was riddled with unverified figures. The cost estimate was off by two zeros, and she had included a competitor’s hotel in North Shore’s portfolio. The investors walked out after ten minutes.Ethan threw the file onto the conference table. “Who approved this version?”No one spoke.Madeline stood with tears in her eyes. “I made it. Aless promised to help, but she only called data recovery. She didn’t fix anything for me.”Ethan almost asked how I could do that to her.Then he stopped.The presentation was Madeline’s job. Why had everyone assumed I would clean it up?For the first time, he looked at her as an employee. Her title, salary, and credit belonged to a creative director, but whenever she failed, she cried, claimed she wasn’t good enough, and waited for someone to rescue her.“Redo it,” he said. “I want a presentable version by tonight.”She blinked. “But I’m not in a good place right now.”“Then
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