All Chapters of Mira Reckoning: Love, Lies and Inheritance: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Adrian’s POVI turned around fast.Mira had just stepped out of the bathroom, wrapped in a towel, her hair damp against her shoulders, her eyes going wide the moment she saw me standing in the middle of her room like I owned the place, which technically I did, but that was beside the point entirely.“I’m sorry,” I said immediately, already moving backward toward the door, “I didn’t know you were in there. Get dressed, I’ll wait outside. Just call me when you’re ready.”I stepped out, pulled the door shut behind me, and stood in the corridor.I pressed my back flat against the wall and stared straight ahead at nothing, and focused very deliberately on breathing at a normal pace like a normal person who had not just walked in on his wife stepping out of the bathroom in a towel.The image was not leaving my head.I rubbed the back of my neck and looked at the ceiling, and told myself firmly that it was three seconds, i

Julie’s POVThomas sat beside me and took my hand gently in his, and I kept my expression soft and my eyes slightly glassy, not full tears, just enough to make him feel the weight of it without overdoing it.“I found out late myself,” he said, his voice calm and genuine, “By the time I knew it was already done, there was nothing I could do to stop it even if I wanted to.”“You could have called me,” I said quietly, “just to let me know, I’m her sister's dad, I deserved to hear it from someone who actually cared enough to pick up the phone.”Thomas squeezed my hand and opened his mouth to say something else when Aurora’s voice came from across the room, smooth and final.“Julie, that’s enough,” she said, not looking up from her wine, “you’ve made your point, go and rest, you look tired.”I looked at my mother.She looked back at me with that expression that said the conversation was over, whether I agreed or not.I stood up slowly, kissed Thomas on the cheek, gave him one last look tha

Mira’s POVI was up earlier than usual. I didn’t even need the alarm; my eyes just opened, and my body was already ready to move before my brain had fully caught up, which was new. I couldn’t remember the last time I had woken up actually wanting to start the day rather than lying there negotiating with myself about getting out of bed.I got up, showered, stood in front of my wardrobe longer than I normally would, and picked carefully, a fitted pair of trousers and a clean blouse that sat well on my shoulders, I checked myself in the mirror more times than was probably necessary but I couldn’t help it, today felt like the beginning of something and I wanted to look like someone who knew that.My phone rang just as I was reaching for my bag, and I picked it up to realise it was Ann. I felt my face break into a real smile before I even picked up, “Ann!” I squeal. “Mira!” Her voice came through bright and loud the way it always was, like she had been saving up energy specifically for t

Camille’s POVI had been walking back and forth across the room for the past thirty minutes, and I knew it looked exactly like what it was, frustration with nowhere to go, but I couldn’t stop because stopping meant sitting with everything that was sitting with me, and I wasn’t ready to do that yet.One week!I had been in this house for over a week now, and Adrian had looked in my direction exactly enough times to confirm he knew I existed and nothing beyond that. No conversation that lasted more than two sentences, no moment where I caught him looking, no warmth, nothing that even resembled interest. Every time I was in the same room as him, he found somewhere else to be within minutes, and when he couldn’t leave, he simply looked through me like I was furniture. The door opened, and Jessica walked in holding a glass of juice. She took one look at me pacing, and her expression shifted into something between concern and the particular kind of patience that was starting to feel patron

Mira’s POVI got home just before two in the afternoon.The house was and I’m sure Adrian hadn’t returned from work yet and I was grateful for that, I needed the quiet, I had been holding myself together since that conference room and the drive home had barely been enough to decompress properly.I pushed the front door open and walked in and made it exactly three steps before I felt two set of eyes on me.I looked up to sss Jessica and Camille, they were on the couch together, both of them looking at me with barely contain rage. I looked back at them for exactly one second then I kept walking.I went upstairs, dropped my bag on the bed and sat on the edge of it and just breathed for a moment, letting the day settle around me now that I was finally somewhere nobody was assessing me or arguing about whether I deserved to be in the room.The meeting kept replaying in my head.The shareholder’s voice asking what exactly qualified me, and under it all, there was a quiet nagging question