Get Down On Your Knees And Beg, Ex-Husband のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 31 - チャプター 39

**Nia's Point of View**"I knew you'd show up."Khiron's voice carried that hint of satisfaction, like he'd won some kind of bet with himself. He walked closer, hands still in his pockets, a small smile playing at the corners of his mouth.I didn't know what to say to that. Part of me wanted to argue, to tell him he'd been presumptuous, that I'd almost gotten on that train and he would have been wrong."I was already on my way to the train station," I told him instead, keeping my voice steady. "I had second thoughts.""I'm glad you did," he replied, stopping a few feet away from me. Close enough to talk comfortably but far enough to give me space. "Very glad."The blue light from the tank overhead shifted as a large ray glided past, casting moving shadows across his face."So," he continued after a moment, his eyes searching mine. "Have you given it enough thought now? Do you know what you want to do?"I looked away from him, my gaze drifting to the massive tank surrounding us. A sma

Nia's Point of View**We'd been driving for about twenty minutes when I realized something."One more thing," I spoke up, breaking the comfortable silence that had settled between us.Khiron glanced over at me briefly before returning his attention to the road. "What's that?""You should call me Nia from now on."His eyebrows raised slightly. "Nia? Not Niamh?""Niamh is my full name. It's what's on official documents and what strangers call me." I shifted in my seat to face him more directly. "But Nia is what people who are actually close to me use. Friends. Family. People who matter.""And you want me to call you that?""Well, we're supposed to be engaged," I pointed out. "It would be weird if my fiancé called me by my full formal name all the time, wouldn't it? Like we barely know each other."A small smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. "Fair point. Nia it is, then."The way he said it, testing out the shorter name, made something warm settle in my chest. It sounded different

**Nia's Point of View**"No."The word came out firm but it sounded like I wasn't sure either.But I was. If I'd known her, if I'd seen her somewhere before, I would have recognized her the moment she walked through that door. Her face wasn't the kind you forgot.Diana's eyebrows raised slightly, something flickering in her expression that I couldn't quite identify."Oh really?" she murmured, still studying me with that unsettling intensity. "How strange. I could have sworn..."She trailed off, letting the sentence hang between us like a threat.Then her lips curved into that smile again, the one that looked more like a predator baring its teeth than any genuine expression of warmth."My mistake then," she finished, her tone light but somehow not convincing at all.I didn't believe her. Not for a second. There was something deliberate about the way she'd said it, like she was testing me or playing some kind of game I didn't understand yet.But I kept my mouth shut. Arguing or defendin

**Nia's Point of View**Khiron stood there for a moment, both of us staring at that massive bed like it was some kind of trap we'd walked into.Finally, he cleared his throat and moved toward the closet."There are probably plenty of thick duvets in here," he announced, pulling open the door and rummaging through the shelves. "I'll take a few and sleep on the floor. You can have the bed.""Are you sure?" I asked, feeling guilty despite the relief flooding through me. "I mean, it's your room. I can take the floor.""Absolutely not." He pulled out several heavy blankets and what looked like an extra pillow. "You're the guest. Besides, I've slept in worse places. The floor here is actually pretty comfortable."He set the blankets down near the window, already planning out his sleeping arrangement."I'm going to step out for a smoke," he continued, heading toward the door. "Take your time to wash up, change, whatever you need. The staff should bring your things up soon.""Okay." I watched

**Nia's Point of View**My mind raced through possible explanations, each one worse than the last. We'd forgotten about those damn blankets. In all the chaos with Diana and the rabbit and nearly cracking my skull open, we'd completely forgotten that we'd left obvious evidence of our plan to sleep separately.I could see Khiron's jaw working, his brain clearly running through the same desperate calculations mine was.Then his face cleared, like he'd just landed on something."Oh, those?" he responded, his voice shifting to something casual, almost amused. "Nia gets cold easily at night. Really cold. She mentioned it on the drive over."I blinked at him, trying not to let my surprise show."She did?" Vivienne asked, looking at me for confirmation."I... yes," I jumped in quickly, following his lead even though I had no idea where he was going with this. "I do. Get cold, I mean. Very cold."Khiron nodded, warming to his story. "So I pulled out the extra blankets thinking we might need th