Chapter 191: Twenty-Five Years Planned

Twenty-five years feels significant in a way that twenty didn't.Twenty years felt like a milestone. It felt like proof that we'd survived something and built something from the survival. But twenty-five years feels like a statement. It feels like we're no longer proving anything to anyone. We're just living a life that we've chosen so many times that the choosing has become invisible.I bring it up to Dominic on a Saturday morning in the garden.He's pruning the roses. He does this every weekend now. He tends them the way he tends everything that matters. With attention. With consistency. With the understanding that things grow when you show up for them."What do you want to do for our twenty-five year anniversary?" I ask.He sets down the pruning shears and he looks at me."I don't know yet," he says. "What do you want to do?""Something bigger than twenty," I tell him. "Something that marks the fact that we've arrived at a different place. We're not just surviving anymore. We're ac

Chapter 192: Alexander at University

The envelope arrives on a Thursday in March.It's from the University of Michigan. It's thick, which is the universal sign of acceptance. Alexander comes home from school and he sets it on the kitchen counter and he just stares at it for a long time before he opens it.I watch him from across the kitchen where I'm making tea.He's nervous. After years of knowing exactly what he wanted to do with his life, he's suddenly facing the reality that it might actually happen. He might actually get to study psychology. He might actually get to become the healer he set out to become years ago when he decided that understanding trauma and recovery was his calling.He opens the envelope slowly.He reads the letter silently. His expression doesn't change. His hands don't shake. He just reads the words that say he's been accepted to the program. That he's been accepted to study psychology with a focus on trauma and recovery. That the university wants him.When he finishes reading, he sets the lette

Chapter 193: The Therapy Reunion

The phone call comes on a Tuesday afternoon.It's Dr. Voss. Her voice is warm but different somehow. There's something in her tone that suggests this isn't a clinical call. This is personal."I'm retiring," she says without preamble. "At the end of the year. And I'm having a retirement party. I want you and Dominic to come. I want you to speak about what therapy did for you."I set down what I'm doing."You're retiring?" I ask."I've been doing this for forty years," she says. "I think it's time. I think it's time to let the next generation of therapists do the work.""What do you want us to talk about?" I ask."The truth," she says. "What our work together actually meant. How it changed you. What you're doing now because of what we did in that office."We say yes immediately. Of course we say yes. Dr. Voss is the person who guided us through the hardest work of our lives. The person who taught us how to communicate. The person who held space for our transformation.Dominic is quiet w

All Chapters of MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE: Chapter 191 - Chapter 193

Chapter 191: Twenty-Five Years Planned

Chapter 192: Alexander at University

Chapter 193: The Therapy Reunion