Lahat ng Kabanata ng After Divorce: Ex-wife Never Turns Back: Kabanata 651 - Kabanata 660

Damian’s POVThe office lights burn hotter when I am exhausted, like they sense weakness and choose to magnify it. I sit in the executive conference room surrounded by binders of risk assessments, legal drafts from prosecutors, and Soma’s relentless debrief notes. The table is crowded with documents

Maya’s POVParis looks like a dream in the morning, which feels a little rude when my chest already hurts. Light slides down the stone buildings in soft ribbons, the cafés under our windows clatter awake, and our five bedroom townhouse sits on a quiet street that feels curated for glossy magazines.

Emily’s POVI always know when I am nervous because I start rearranging the kitchen as if the fate of the universe depends on the position of my spices. Tonight the universe has apparently narrowed itself into a single point, right here in our apartment, right here in the middle of my chest, beating

Damian’s POVEmily’s words hang in the air between us, soft and heavy, still trembling with emotion. The candles flicker on the coffee table, casting gentle shadows across her face. She looks beautiful even when she is frustrated, even when she is hurting, and the fact that I am the reason for that

Charles’ POVThe conference room feels like a pressure chamber. Prosecutors on one side of the table, corporate attorneys on the other, and me sitting in the middle like a hinge trying not to snap. They speak in clipped, neutral tones, using phrases like exposure risk and asset contamination and med