Clara POV

CLARAThe text came in at eight on a Thursday morning.Elliot: Are you free for coffee?She looked at it. Elliot texted for logistics, not for social things. If he wanted to see someone he had his assistant call their assistant and things got arranged. A direct text at eight in the morning asking if she was free meant something was going on.She typed back: Give me an hour.✦ ✦ ✦He was already there when she arrived. In civilian clothes, which she noticed immediately because Elliot in civilian clothes meant he hadn't come from the office and wasn't going to the office and was therefore not in performance mode. He looked like a person instead of a CEO, which was rarer than it should have been.She got a coffee and sat across from him."What happened?" she said."Nothing bad." He looked at his cup. "I just needed to talk to someone who knew me before all of this.""Before all of what?""Before I knew what I was actually like," he said. He said it without self-pity, just as a fact. Cl

Kieran POV

He stood sideways in the bathroom mirror at seven in the morning and just looked at it. the kind of feeling that needed managing. He does this about once a week now, same as checking the weather brief, informational. He'd stopped being shocked by his own reflection somewhere around week twenty-four. What replaced the shock was something he couldn't name it .Just the recognition that his body was doing something enormous and he was still in it, still standing, still getting dressed and opening laptops and doing calls and carrying all of it forward. Thirty weeks. Two small people who had been working through their own scheduling disagreements with his spine all night. He turned away from the mirror and went to make tea. ✦ ✦ ✦ Elliot had been giving him space for two weeks. He'd asked for it. That part was always the first thing he reminded himself. This was his choice. Clean distance, exactly as requested, Elliot holding to it without trying to chip at the edges. No messages excep

Maya POV

MAYAKieran called her at four that afternoon and said he'd eaten properly today.He said it the way he said most things just the fact, no performance around it. He'd had breakfast, actual breakfast, and lunch, and he was going to eat dinner. He said it because he knew she'd been worrying and he was the kind of person who took note of that even when he pretended not to.She got off the phone and stood in her kitchen for a minute.Then she opened the fridge and started cooking. Not heating something up, not assembling things out of packets. Actually cooking, from scratch, with a pan on the hob and a knife on the board and something that needed watching. She needed something to do with her hands. She'd been needing something to do with her hands for about three days.It had been a long few months.✦ ✦ ✦Dr. Chen's text came in at six.Kieran's hormone levels this morning are the best they've been since week eight. Thought you'd want to know.Maya stood at the stove and read it. Read

Elliot POV

The third week of the separation was the most productive three weeks he'd had in two years.He'd restructured two departments, finished the omega employment framework he'd been working on at three in the morning for the past month, cleared a backlog of board correspondence that had been sitting in his assistant's tray since September, and had approximately six hundred thoughts about Kieran Hunt that he had successfully not acted on.He was doing very well.He watered the plant on Tuesday morning. He'd been doing it himself since the separation started, three weeks ago now. Ryan had offered on day two and Elliot had said no without explaining why. Ryan hadn't asked again, because Ryan was Ryan and understood that some things didn't need an explanation, they just needed to be left alone.It didn't make sense to anyone but him and he knew it didn't make sense to anyone but him and he was going to keep doing it anyway.✦ ✦ ✦He knew the appointment schedule.Not in a way that required a

All Chapters of The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard : Chapter 101 - Chapter 104

Clara POV

Kieran POV

Maya POV

Elliot POV