All Chapters of The wife I forgot to love: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

Helena read it at six forty five in the morning.She had not set an alarm. She had woken early the way she sometimes woke early when something was coming that she could not name. She had lain in the dark for ten minutes and then got up and made coffee and sat at the kitchen table and opened her phone.The notification was already there.Greystone Capital files fraud and harassment case against former executive Camila Calloway. The headline was factual. Not sensational. Not the kind of headline that had a particular angle built into it. Just the facts arranged in the order they had happened. She tapped through to the article.She read it slowly.The article was precise. It named Camila. It named Greystone Capital and David Osei and the nature of the filing. It referenced a cooperating witness without naming Victor Ames. It described a pattern of behaviour over an extended period targeting a private individual. It did not name Helena. She was referred to as a private individual connecte

Camila found the apartment on a Thursday.It was on the fourteenth floor of a building she had walked past a hundred times without looking at. She had not been looking for something particular. She had been looking for something that did not require her to make a decision about what she wanted because she did not yet know what she wanted. She knew what she did not want. She did not want anything that looked like what she was leaving. She did not want the same size. She did not want the same view. She did not want to stand in a kitchen and see the city from the same angle.The fourteenth floor apartment faced east.The agent showed her the main room first. It was smaller than she was used to. The kitchen was a galley. The bedroom had one window that looked at the building opposite and would not get direct sun until late afternoon. She stood in the centre of the main room and looked at the walls and the floor and the ceiling and the window and thought this is manageable. She said I will

He came on a Thursday as he always did now.Eleanor had started leaving the side gate unlatched on Thursday mornings. She had not told him she was doing this. He had simply arrived one Thursday to find it open and had come through to the garden and found her at the far end doing something with the beds and she had said the kettle is on without turning around and he had gone inside and made tea and brought it out.That had been six weeks ago.Now it was a Thursday again and the gate was unlatched and she was in the garden and the kettle had just boiled and he made the tea and brought it out and sat on the bench near the window boxes and she took the cup without looking up and said thank you and kept working.They had arrived at this without discussing it.He had not planned to make Thursdays a habit. The first Thursday had been an impulse. He had been driving past her street on his way back from somewhere and he had turned without deciding to and knocked on the blue door and she had op

Marcus came to the apartment on a Saturday morning.He had not been invited. He had texted at nine and said I am in the area and Damian had said come up and Marcus had come up and now he was in the kitchen with his jacket still on looking at the apartment that was entirely Damian's now and taking stock of it the way Marcus took stock of things. Quietly and without commentary.Damian made coffee. He handed Marcus a cup. Marcus took it and sat at the kitchen table and put his jacket on the back of the chair and looked at the window.He said it looks different without her things.Damian said yes. He said it looks more like mine.Marcus said is that good.Damian said yes. He said it is good. He said it is the right shape now.They drank coffee. The city was outside doing its Saturday things. Damian had been awake since six. He had read for an hour and then sat at his desk and looked at the photograph and then made breakfast and been in the middle of cleaning up when Marcus texted.Marcus

Helena's mother called on a Wednesday evening.Helena picked up on the third ring because she had been in the other room and heard the phone and recognised the ringtone she had assigned to her mother four years ago and had never changed. She came to the kitchen and picked up and said Mum and her mother said hello sweetheart and that was always how they started. Hello sweetheart. The same two words for thirty years.Her mother said how are you. Helena said I am good. She said I am really good actually. Her mother said I know. She said I can hear it. She said you sound different than you did six months ago. Helena said different how. Her mother said settled. She said you sound settled. She said like someone who has found the ground under their feet and is standing on it properly.Helena said yes. She said that is what it feels like.Her mother said I saw the review in the paper. The one about the film. She said your father would have read it six times. Helena said I know. Her mother sai