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Chapter 98 — Preparations
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2026-10-27 18:59:25
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You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 105 — False Alarm
The pain started that evening, sudden and sharp enough that Zara gasped audibly, one hand flying to grip the edge of the kitchen counter while the other pressed instinctively against her stomach."Zara?" Sebastian was across the room before she'd fully registered calling out, his hands finding her shoulders, his face already gone pale with alarm. "What's wrong?""I don't know. Pain. It just." She breathed carefully through another wave of it, considerably sharper than the usual aches she'd grown accustomed to. "It's probably nothing. Braxton Hicks, maybe.""You're twenty three weeks, Zara. That's considerably early for labour contractions.""I said probably nothing.""We're going to the hospital.""Sebastian, I really think.""We're going to the hospital," he repeated, already reaching for her coat, his voice carrying an edge of barely contained panic he wasn't bothering to fully hide this time, exactly the sort of honest fear she'd asked him, months ago, to stop burying beneath false
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 103 — A Name, At Last
Three weeks passed in relative quiet, the kind of ordinary, grateful quiet Zara had learned not to take for granted, before Adrian made contact again.This time, at least, he called properly, Nathan's phone lighting up with a number they'd all learned to recognise over the past months."I have something," Adrian said, without preamble, when Nathan put him on speaker in Sebastian's office, Zara seated carefully beside the desk, one hand resting on the curve of her stomach where Elena had taken to kicking with increasing enthusiasm most afternoons. "I'd rather not say it over the phone. Can you come to my offices this afternoon?""Your offices," Sebastian repeated, something wary entering his voice."Neutral ground was for the first conversation. This is simply information, not a negotiation. I'll have Nathan's security clear it beforehand, if that helps."They arrived two hours later, Blackridge Holdings occupying a tall, understated building near the river, nothing like the imposing c
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 104 — Hidden in Plain Sight
They returned to Ashcombe the following weekend, the house considerably further along in its renovation now, fresh paint drying in the upstairs rooms, the gardens no longer quite so overgrown, though the particular mystery sitting at its heart remained stubbornly unchanged."If she hid something here," Sebastian said, standing in the entrance hall with a floor plan spread across an old trestle table, "it would have been somewhere she had unsupervised access to. Somewhere a young assistant could reasonably be without raising suspicion.""The study," Zara said slowly, memory tugging at something just out of reach, the same strange pressure she'd felt once before at the storage facility, months ago now. "I keep thinking about the study.""You don't remember the study specifically.""No. But something about it feels important. The way you feel a word on the tip of your tongue, except it's a whole room instead."They searched the study first, Nathan methodically working through old filing
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 102 — Twenty Weeks
The anatomy scan had been scheduled for weeks, long before Adrian's letter had arrived and rearranged the shape of everything else, and Zara found herself grateful, walking into the clinic that Tuesday morning, for something to look forward to that had nothing at all to do with Edmund or Elena or networks of men still operating somewhere in the shadows of a family she was only now beginning to properly understand."Do you want to know?" the sonographer asked, gel already warming on the small wand. "Some parents prefer to wait."Zara looked at Sebastian, who looked back at her with an expression of such transparent, barely contained hope that she nearly laughed outright."We want to know," she said."Definitely want to know," Sebastian agreed, far too quickly for a man who'd spent the entire car ride insisting he had no particular preference either way.The screen flickered to life, and Zara watched, breath held, as the small, increasingly recognisable shape of her child came into focu
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 101 — Edmund
Chloe arrived at the penthouse within twenty minutes of Zara's call, still in her work clothes, hair escaping its clip, the particular urgency of someone who had dropped everything the moment she heard the tremor in her best friend's voice."Tell me everything," she said, settling onto the sofa beside Zara while Sebastian busied himself quietly in the kitchen, giving them space without fully leaving the room, a balance he'd learned to strike carefully over the past year.Zara told her, slowly at first, then faster as the words found their own momentum, Edmund and the car accident and her mother's quiet, desperate flight from a family powerful enough to make a murder look like bad luck on a familiar road.By the end of it, Chloe's eyes had gone bright with unshed tears. "She never told you. All those years, and she never once mentioned any of it.""I don't think she could. I think it would have meant explaining why we were running, and she'd decided, somewhere along the way, that I des
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 100 — Daylight
The private garden room Nathan had arranged sat at the quiet end of a members' club in Mayfair, glass walled and flooded with pale autumn sunlight, chosen specifically, Zara suspected, for the simple fact that nobody could approach it without being seen from at least three directions at once.Adrian was already seated when they arrived, a pot of tea untouched in front of him, and he rose slightly as they entered, something careful and almost formal in the gesture."Thank you for agreeing to this," he said, his eyes moving briefly to Zara's stomach before returning, respectfully, to her face. "You look well.""Let's skip the pleasantries," Sebastian said, settling into the chair beside Zara, close enough to touch but deliberately, visibly, not speaking over her."Fair enough." Adrian folded his hands on the table. "Where would you like to begin?""My mother," Zara said. "Start with my mother."Adrian was quiet for a moment, something old and carefully guarded crossing his face. "Elena
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 2 — The Queue
The café was already crowded when Zara Rahman stepped in, the warmth pressing gently against her skin as she closed the door behind her. The air carried the rich scent of coffee and quiet urgency, filled with people who moved like they had somewhere important to be. Zara barely noticed them. Her fo
You Shouldn’t Have Found Me Chapter 1 - Chaos Before Coffee
“Girl… guess what?”The door slammed shut with unnecessary energy, and the sound echoed through the small London flat like a warning bell. On the couch, buried under a thin blanket, Zara Rahman groaned and dragged the pillow tighter over her head, as if that alone could block out Chloe Bennett’s vo
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