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Chapter 108 — Daniel's Account
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You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 112 — Antenatal
The antenatal class was held in a church hall that smelled of floor polish and old hymn books, and Sebastian Hawthorne, CEO of a company worth considerably more than the hall, the church, and the surrounding street combined, sat on a plastic chair clutching a laminated information sheet like a man awaiting a verdict."You're gripping that very hard," Zara whispered."I'm absorbing the content.""It says, and I quote, Welcome to the first session.""It's a dense welcome."On the other side of her, Chloe was shaking silently with laughter into her scarf. She and Nathan had been invited along as designated birth partners in reserve, a title Chloe had embraced with enormous enthusiasm and Nathan had accepted with the weary resignation of someone who understood that arguing would take longer than complying.The instructor, a cheerful woman in a floral cardigan named Bernadette, clapped her hands and beamed at the circle of nervous couples. "Right, lovely people. Today we are going to talk
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 111 — Charles
"This one is yours to hear," Zara said, when Sebastian told her that Adrian had offered to explain his father's part in everything. "I'll be perfectly fine with Chloe and an enormous pot of tea. Go.""You're sure?""I'm sure. Your father's story belongs to you, and you shouldn't have to share your reaction to it with an audience, even a very loving and very pregnant one."He kissed her, and hesitated at the door for one extra second, and she waved him out with a fond roll of her eyes.The drive to Ashcombe was quiet. Nathan sat in the front passenger seat, reading something on his tablet with the studied indifference of a man giving his friend room to be silent. The autumn countryside rolled past, bare hedgerows and low pale fields, and Sebastian found that he was gripping the car door handle more tightly than he had realised.Adrian was waiting in the kitchen when they arrived, standing by the old hearth with his coat still on, looking out over the garden as though it were the first
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 110 — Leave
Thirty weeks in, Zara had reached the stage of pregnancy where people stopped asking how she was feeling and simply looked at her with expressions of cautious awe, as though she were a very large, very delicate vase carrying itself carefully across a crowded room.She hated it. She also, privately, found it a little bit funny."The thing is," she said, pacing slowly across Sebastian's office with one hand supporting the curve of her back, "the Ferrington renewal falls in week thirty five. I can't just hand it to someone else. They asked for me specifically.""Of course they did," Sebastian said, not looking up from the paper in front of him. "You built the account.""So I'm going to be there.""I assumed you would."She stopped pacing and stared at him. "You assumed I would.""You've worked on it for two years. It would be strange if you didn't." He finally looked up, and she noticed the faint, deliberate stillness of his face, the careful posture of a man consciously not reaching for
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 109 — The Allotment
The garden behind the new flat had finally begun to resemble something deliberate. Nathan had cleared the weeds over three successive weekends, sorted the sunken beds into neat rectangles, and now, on a cold bright Sunday in late autumn, he was kneeling in the dirt planting something with the focused tenderness of a man handling something breakable.Chloe watched from the kitchen window, a mug of tea warming her hands, for much longer than she would have admitted. He had a particular expression when he gardened, unguarded and quiet, almost boyish, one she never saw at Hawthorne Co. or anywhere near the sharper edges of his job.She pulled on a coat and carried a second mug out to him."What are we growing?" she asked, crouching beside him in the cold."Garlic. You plant it now, in autumn, and it sleeps through the winter and wakes up in spring." He sat back on his heels and took the tea. "My grandmother swore by it. She said garlic was the only honest vegetable, because it did all its
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 108 — Daniel's Account
Daniel asked to speak to them on a Monday morning, which Zara suspected was deliberate. Mondays at Hawthorne Co. were loud and distracting, and it was easier, she imagined, to say difficult things when the world around you was busy.He arrived at Sebastian's office with a thin folder under his arm and the careful posture of a man who had rehearsed this conversation more times than he cared to admit."I won't take long," he said, declining the chair Sebastian offered. "But I would like to tell you all of it properly, once, so that neither of you ever has to wonder again what was real."Zara, seated beside the window with a cushion wedged behind her back, nodded. "Go on.""Three years ago, I worked for an auditing firm in the city. Blackridge Holdings was one of our clients. I was assigned to review a set of dormant accounts, and in one of them I found payments I could not explain. Regular, modest sums, sent every quarter to a trust in the name of a woman who had apparently ceased to ex
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 107 — Bunting
Chloe had warned them about the bunting, but nobody had properly understood what that word meant until they walked into the penthouse that Saturday afternoon and found every available surface draped in yellow and white triangles."It's a duck theme," Chloe announced, arms spread wide like a magician revealing her finest trick. "Because of the jumper. Because of the legendary duck jumper.""There are ducks on the napkins," Sebastian said slowly."There are ducks on the napkins, the cupcakes, the cake, and the small wooden signs I've placed strategically near every doorway. I have also made a banner.""I can see the banner.""It says Welcome Little Elena in a font I spent two evenings choosing."Zara, standing in the doorway with one hand pressed to her lower back and the other covering her mouth, was laughing so hard she had to lean against the wall. "Chloe, this is completely ridiculous.""It's perfect. Say it's perfect.""It's perfect.""Thank you. Nathan, take a photo of her face ri
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 24 - She Crossed The Line
The crowd wasn’t on Zara’s side not even for a second. Hands held her down while Tessa stood free in front of her, breathing hard, eyes burning with something ugly. “Hold her properly,” Tessa snapped, fixing her dress like nothing had happened. “If she doesn’t know her place, I’ll remind her.” Z
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 5 — Under Pressure
The reception area felt quieter than it should have.Or maybe it was just Zara.She sat with her back straight, hands resting neatly in her lap, her fingers loosely intertwined, but the calm was a performance. Beneath it, her thoughts moved too fast, slipping over each other, refusing to settle int
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 4 — Dress for War
“Zara, if you miss this interview, I will personally disown you.”Zara groaned, dragging the blanket over her head as if that could block out Chloe Bennett’s voice and the reality that came with it.“Five minutes,” she mumbled.“You said that twenty minutes ago,” Chloe replied, already moving aroun
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 3 — The Man from the Queue
The door clicked shut behind Zara as she stepped into the flat, the familiar warmth wrapping around her in a way that should have felt comforting.It didn’t.Her mind was still back in that café.“Finally,” Chloe Bennett’s voice rang out from the living room. “I was starting to think you ran off an
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