All Chapters of Sweetest Revenge : falling for my ex's father : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

62 Chapters

Chapter 21: The ex wife moves

Chapter 21 — The Ex-Wife’s Move(Zara POV)The call ends, but I don’t move.I keep holding the phone to my ear for a few seconds after the line goes dead, like my body hasn’t caught up to the fact that the conversation is over. When I finally lower it, I place it face down on the table and sit there staring at nothing in particular.Jane is watching me from the couch.“Who was that?” she asks, not casually, not sharply either, just steady in the way she gets when she knows something matters.I don’t answer right away.Not because I don’t trust her, but because I don’t know how to say the name without making it real in a way I’m not ready for yet. Saying it out loud feels like opening a door I cannot close again.“Zara,” she says again, softer this time.“I’ll tell you later,” I reply, and even to my own ears it sounds like a delay, not an answer.Jane studies me for a moment longer, then nods o

Chapter 22: She tells him

Chapter 22 : She Tells Him (Zara POV) By the time I get back to Jane’s apartment, I already know I am not going to be able to sit on this. I try anyway. I drop my bag by the door, take off my shoes, and walk into the living room like nothing has shifted. Jane is on the couch with her laptop, but the second she looks up at me, she closes it halfway. That look. She knows. “What happened?” she asks. “Nothing,” I say automatically, and even I can hear how unconvincing it sounds. Jane doesn’t argue. She just leans back and watches me for a few seconds, then gestures toward the chair opposite her. “Sit.” I don’t move. “Zara.” I exhale and sit. For a moment I consider editing it. Leaving parts out. Saying just enough to satisfy her without opening the whole thing up. But the truth is already sitting in my chest, heavy and loud, and I don’t have the energy to carry it alone. “His ex-wife called me,” I say. Jane goes very still. “Called you?” I nod. “Claire Hale

chapter 23: Zara's mother returns

Chapter 23: Zara’s Mother Returns(Zara POV)After the call with Dominic, I made a decision not to sit there and overthink everything he said. It was easier to let him handle whatever was happening with Claire than to keep turning it over in my head until it became something bigger than it already was. I had school, work, and enough to deal with without adding imagined problems to the list.So I kept moving.Classes in the morning. Work after. Evenings that somehow always ended with Dominic one way or another, either in person or on the phone. It settled into something that felt almost normal if I didn’t look at it too closely.Claire didn’t call again.Dominic didn’t bring her up.Jane noticed that too but didn’t say anything about it, which meant she was storing it somewhere for later.That morning we were both in the apartment, talking about nothing important. She was complaining about one of her l

Chapter 24: Keisha's New weapons

Chapter 24 : Keisha’s New Weapon(Jane POV — Third Person)Jane noticed the change the moment the door closed behind Zara’s mother.It wasn’t loud. Zara didn’t cry or pace or start talking too fast the way she sometimes did when something got under her skin. It was quieter than that. The kind of quiet that sat heavy in a room and made everything feel slightly off.Zara stood where she was for a few seconds, staring at nothing in particular. Then she walked back into the living room, sat down, and opened her laptop like she had somewhere to be. Her fingers stayed still on the keyboard.Jane watched her from the kitchen doorway, leaning her shoulder lightly against the wall. She didn’t say anything. She knew better. Zara had been through too much in too short a time. The bar, the house, Ryan, Keisha, Dominic, now this. Every time it felt like things were starting to settle, something new came in and shifted the ground again.

Chapter 25: Jane Goes Home

Chapter 25 :Jane Goes Home(Jane POV — Third Person)Jane did not like lying to Zara, and she was not particularly good at it either, but she did it anyway because the alternative felt worse. Standing by the door with her small bag hanging from her shoulder, she kept her tone light, almost casual, like this was nothing out of the ordinary. Zara was on the couch with her laptop, half-focused on whatever she was working on.“My dad wants me home this weekend,” Jane said, adjusting the strap of her bag like she needed something to do with her hands. “Some business partner thing… he wants me to meet them.”Zara looked up fully this time, brows pulling together just a little. “Business partner? Since when does he involve you in that?”Jane shrugged, already moving toward the door before the questions could settle too deep. “I don’t know… maybe he’s bored of doing everything alone. Or maybe he wants to show me off,” she added with a small

Chapter 26: what Jane carries home

Chapter 26 : What Jane Carries Home(Zara POV)Jane came back on Sunday evening in a way I noticed the moment she stepped into the apartment.It wasn’t something obvious. Jane doesn’t really do obvious. But I know her well enough to notice when she’s not fully here, when her mind is somewhere else even though her body is sitting right in front of me. She closed the door behind her and just stood there for a second longer than usual before she took off her shoes.I was on the couch with my laptop open, pretending to work. I wasn’t really working. I had been staring at the same paragraph for too long without finishing it.When she finally looked at me, I closed the laptop immediately.“You’re back,” I said.“Yeah,” she replied, like she had to remind herself.She dropped her bag near the door and walked straight past me into the kitchen. That alone told me something was off. Jane doesn’t avoid sitting with me

Chapter 28: Ryan at the door

Chapter 28: Ryan At The Door(Dominic POV)After the call from Claire, I didn’t look away from the phone for a long moment. There are times when your mind tries to reject what it has already understood clearly, but this is not one of those times. I know exactly what she is telling me. Ryan knows. And Claire would not call unless she was already sure he is on the move.Zara is still sitting at the table when I lower the phone. She is watching me in that quiet way she has when she is trying to read something she has not been given full access to yet. I can see the question forming in her expression before she even speaks.“It’s Ryan,” I say.She doesn’t react immediately. No fear, no shock, just a shift in stillness, like her body is waiting for confirmation before it decides what to do next.“He knows?” she asks.I nod once.“Yes.”Her voice tightens slightly, a flicker of panic crossing her face. “

Chapter 27: Everything he kept

.Chapter 27: Everything He Kept(Dominic POV)After the call from Zara, I didn’t move for a long time. I just stood there with the phone still in my hand even after the screen went dark, like if I kept holding it long enough the moment would rearrange itself into something easier. It didn’t. It stayed the same. Her voice had been steady but there was something underneath it I couldn’t ignore, that careful way she asked questions like she already knew the answers might hurt.I kept thinking about that. Not the question itself, but what it meant that she finally asked it.There are things you don’t rehearse for. You think you will, when you are younger, when life still feels like it has clean edges. You tell yourself if the past ever comes back you will face it properly, with clarity, with structure. But the truth is it never arrives that way. It comes in pieces, through people you didn’t expect, at times that don’t give you space to prep

Chapter 29: The morning after the storm

Chapter 29 : The Morning After The Storm(Zara POV)After leaving Dominic’s penthouse, I didn’t even realize how quiet the ride down the elevator felt until I was already outside the building. The air was colder than I expected for that time of night, or maybe it just felt that way because my thoughts were not staying still long enough for me to properly feel anything else. I kept replaying the way Dominic had gone quiet when Claire spoke, and the way everything suddenly felt like it had shifted into something I was no longer fully inside of, like I was standing at the edge of a story that was still moving without me.By the time I reached Jane’s place, I wasn’t even thinking in full sentences anymore. Jane opened the door before I properly knocked, like she had been waiting and listening for me specifically. She didn’t ask anything at first, just stepped aside and let me in. I remember standing there for a moment, not moving further in, like m

Chapter 30: Keisha Escalate

Chapter 30: Keisha Escalates (Zara POV) Two days after everything with Dominic and Ryan, life had started pretending to be normal again in the most annoying way possible. I still went to work. Still answered emails. Still checked fabric samples for the upcoming design brief like nothing in my personal life was currently on fire. Jane still left early in the mornings and came back in the evenings acting like she wasn’t watching me carefully every time I got quiet for too long. I kept telling myself I was fine. I was not fine. I was sitting in the events office going through a vendor list when one of the interns walked past my desk and said there was someone waiting at reception for me. I didn’t think much of it at first. I thought it was a delivery or maybe a client mistake. Then I walked out. And I saw her. Keisha. She was s

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