Lahat ng Kabanata ng His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 65

Chapter 62: Playing Him Like A FiddleADRIAIt was the kind of look that had too much history in it for me to fully read—eighteen years of whatever complicated architecture existed between them, all of it compressed into four seconds of held eye contact. Then Kieran nodded, once. And took a step back.Damien's grip on my shoulder tightened fractionally."We're going upstairs," he said. To me, not to Kieran, though his eyes were still on his friend for another beat before they moved."Okay," I said softly.He guided me out of the dining room.---His office, when we reached it, was empty of assistants. He'd either sent them out or they'd had the instinct to be elsewhere. The door closed behind us with the quiet certainty of a room that was about to become a different kind of space.I stood in the middle of the room and folded my hands in front of me and looked at the floor.This was a calculation. Every element of what I did in the next few minutes was a calculation—posture, eye contac

Chapter 64: Jealousy?DAMIENNot through any single dramatic act. Through accumulation. Through the thousand small choices that added up to a portrait of a husband who was always slightly disappointed, always slightly impatient, always a half-degree colder than the situation warranted. Through Adina, and Amber, and every dinner where I'd checked my phone more than I'd looked at my wife. Through the soup incident, which I still could not think about without something cold moving through my chest.I had made her afraid and now she was standing in my office pre-apologizing for walking into someone in a dining room, and I asked her if she liked him, and her eyes filled up.*I like my husband.*The words had done something to me that I wasn't prepared for.Not because they were particularly profound. Not because they changed anything empirically about the situation I was in—the complicated, compromised, deteriorating situation I had built with my own hands over eighteen months. But because