MARRIED TO THE DEVIL BILLIONAIRE FOR REVENGE のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 231 - チャプター 233

The foundation had rented the large community hall two blocks from the main building. It was the same hall where we had held our first public fundraiser more than twenty years ago. Back then the room had felt too big for the small crowd that showed up. Tonight it felt almost too small.Dominic and I arrived together just after six. He wore a simple dark jacket and no tie. I had chosen a soft blue dress that Isabella had helped me pick out weeks earlier. We walked in holding hands without discussing it. Neither of us wanted to let go.The room was already full. People stood in small groups near the long tables of food. Others sat in the rows of chairs that had been set up facing a small stage at the front. I recognized faces immediately. Elena stood near the entrance talking with two staff members from the second location. A woman named Maria who had come through our doors fifteen years ago was laughing with her daughter near the dessert table. Several researchers Dominic had worked wi

Dominic had always loved the garden, but now it became something else entirely.With no meetings to rush to and no deadlines pressing at the edges of his days, he began spending hours out there every morning. He moved slowly between the beds, sometimes with tools and sometimes with nothing but his hands. He talked to the plants the way some people talk to animals, low and steady, as if they might answer if he was patient enough.I watched him from the kitchen window at first. Then from the back porch with a book I rarely opened. Then from the old wooden bench at the edge of the garden itself.The change did not happen all at once. It came in small, steady additions. A new row of lavender along the fence. A second trellis for the climbing roses he had been nursing for years. More vegetable beds than we could possibly eat from, though he kept planting anyway. He added a small stone path that wound between the tomatoes and the beans, and he placed a simple bench at the far end so he coul