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Chapter 111

GwenI lasted maybe four minutes on the cot after Alex left.The wrap around my ankle was secure, the worst of the pain dulled to a deep throb, and the quiet of the first-aid cabin had started to feel more confining than helpful. Outside I could still hear the fair children calling to each other, the low murmur of parents, the occasional burst of laughter. Sitting still had never been one of my strengths. Especially not when Emris was out there without me.I stood carefully, testing my weight. Manageable. Stubbornness did the rest.I stepped back out into the sunlight.It took only a moment to locate the disturbance. A small cluster had formed near the craft tables, two adults squared off with someone I recognized immediately by posture alone. Alex. Emris stood slightly off to the side, close to the table, his small frame drawn in the way it got when he was trying to disappear without fully leaving.I was already moving toward them, uneven but determined, when the woman’s profile came

Chapter 112

GwenThe expression on the face of the bastard who stood just a short distance away from me, proud dark head slightly angled to one side, deep-set eyes watching me closely, wastotally disgusting, causing hives to spread across my skin.He looked like he was pleasantly surprised. I wanted him to choke on his drink and get out of my face. I never expected that I would see him so soon.He stayed put.Raymond looked down at me the way he always used to, like he still had the right to take up space in my life. His eyes moved over my face, then briefly to Emris, then back again. That same calm, measured look. The one that used to make me second-guess myself before I even spoke.My hands wanted to shove him. Hard. Straight in the chest. Hard enough to make him stumble and feel, for once, what it was like to be the one thrown off balance. The urge sat hot and ready in my arms. I could almost feel the impact.I didn’t do it.A small gap opened to his left as a group of people passed with bal

Chapter 113

AlexThe operating room was quiet in the way only surgery could be.Bright lights. Haunting beeps from the monitors. The soft hiss of the ventilator. Everything else stayed outside the doors.I stood at the table in my gown and gloves, looking down at the small body in front of me. A six-year-old boy. Open-heart repair. A ventricular septal defect that had been making his little heart work too hard for too long. The kind of case that left no room for distraction.This was one of the few times my own heart stayed quiet.I called these hours sacred.No noise from the past. No half-formed plans. No restless thoughts about a woman with hazel eyes and a son who looked at the world like he was always prepared for the next hard thing. In here, none of that existed. Only work. Only the blood and flesh under my careful hands.“Pressure is stable,” my assistant said softly. Dr. Lena Morris. She stood across from me, calm and focused. No unnecessary talk. No forced laughter. No lingering looks t

Chapter 114

GwenThe house was quiet but not in a bad way. It was well deserved, a nice evening concluding a productive day.Elias had left early that morning for a three-day business trip. The usual low sounds of him moving around were missing. For once the silence belonged only to me and Emris.I spent most of the day catching up on things I usually put off. Laundry. A long overdue clean of the kitchen drawers. Sitting on the back steps with a cup of tea while the afternoon light stretched across the grass. No unexpected faces from the past. No raised voices at a fair. No sudden reminders of the life I had worked so hard to leave behind. Just ordinary, peaceful hours.By evening the house smelled faintly of the pasta I had made for dinner. Emris had eaten well, chattered about school, then disappeared into his room with his usual pile of books and toy cars. I stayed in mine, reading under the soft lamp light, legs stretched out, the window cracked open to let in the cool night air.A small knoc

Chapter 115

AlexFor the first time since I had started this shattering conversation, I abandoned the cool, controlled mood that had held me still, relaxed, at the opposite side of the room and let her in on some of the things that troubled me. I had no idea how she did it, getting me to vomit all of my life’s troubles to her. Minutes later, I left Claire’s house with her words still sitting heavy in my chest.The night air was cool against my face as I walked to the car. For a long time I just sat behind the wheel with the engine off, staring at nothing. She was right. I had been stuck. Years of carrying the same guilt, the same unfinished conversations, the same quiet hope that somehow the past could be rewritten if I just held onto it tightly enough.It was time to move on.Or at least try.The truth was more complicated than simple guilt. Yes, I carried the weight of what I had done, and what I had failed to do. But it wasn’t only that. I still wanted to see her. I wanted to stand in front

Chapter 116

I sat there on the edge of the bed, half-dressed, staring at the door after it slammed shut behind her.For a long moment I couldn’t move.The alcohol still sat heavy in my blood, but the shock had cut through most of it. My heart was beating too hard. My hands felt useless. The room still smelled like her perfume and cheap hotel soap, and the silence after her exit felt louder than the argument had been.I could finally believe what had just happened.She had known exactly who I was from the start. The bold approach at the bar. The easy conversation. The sudden invitation upstairs. None of it had been chance. She had walked up to me with a plan, and I had been too distracted, too drunk, and too desperate to escape my own thoughts to notice the trap until it was already closing.I dragged a hand down my face and forced myself to breathe.Then the memory surfaced, clear and ugly.Years ago. A club downtown. Loud music. Too many people packed into a dark space that smelled of sweat and

Chapter 117

AlexI set the glass down on the nearest table without finishing it.A missing child at a beach party full of adults and loud music was the kind of situation that could turn bad fast. I pulled out my phone, stepped a few paces away from the main crowd, and made a quiet call to the local non-emergency line. I gave the description she had already shouted, five years old, dark curly hair, and the location. Then I hung up and started walking.I had no real plan. I knew if I joined her desperate search, she might not appreciate it. And, it was better to check other areas that she possibly hadn’t.I moved away from the music and the clusters of people, past the last string of lanterns, toward the darker stretch of dunes and the low building that looked like a private changing area or staff quarters. The noise faded behind me. The air smelled of salt and night-damp sand. My shoes sank slightly with each step.Inside the building it was dim and almost silent. A short hallway. A set of stairs

Chapter 118

Seraphina I was still shaking when I buckled Emris into his seat.Not from fear anymore. From anger.The sheer nerve of that man. Standing there in his stupidly nice clothes, barely covering his handsome chest hair, looking at me like I was some careless idiot who had dragged her child into danger for fun. As if he had any right. As if five years of raising Emris alone, of late nights and hard choices and keeping us both afloat, meant nothing the moment he decided to open his mouth.I had been grateful at first. Truly. When I looked up and saw Emris holding his hand, relief had hit me so hard my knees almost gave out. For one clean second I had even felt something close to warmth toward Alexander Thorne.Then he opened his mouth and just changed my mood entirely.Mother of the year.Those words still burned.I started the car with more force than necessary and pulled out of the parking area, jaw locked. The beach lights faded behind us. Emris was quiet in the back seat, unusually so

Chapter 119

AlexI left the office before the door had fully settled behind me.The corridor outside was quiet, all polished glass and soft carpet, the kind of expensive silence that usually settled my thoughts. It did nothing for me now. My jaw was locked so tightly it ached. I kept walking until I reached the private elevator bank, stabbed the call button harder than necessary, and only then let the words come out under my breath.“Greedy bastard.”Fifty percent.Not of the new venture. Not of a single subsidiary. Fifty percent of the entire conglomerate, every hospital, every research arm, every holding that carried my name, in exchange for capital I could have raised elsewhere with enough time and enough patience. He had smiled when he said it, as if the number were reasonable. As if handing over half of everything I had built was simply the cost of doing business with him.It wasn’t investment. It was a takeover dressed in polite language.I stepped into the elevator when it arrived and watc

Chapter 120

Gwen I turned without a word.My hand shot out toward the elevator panel, fingers already reaching for the call button, hoping the doors might still open again if I was fast enough. The polished metal was cool under my skin. I pressed once, hard. Nothing. The car had already started moving.Before I could step away, he closed the distance behind me.His body came in close, blocking the space between me and the open lobby. The heat of him pressed against my back. Not fully pinning me, but enough that the wall of the elevator bank was suddenly the only direction left. My shoulders brushed the cool surface. The folder stayed clamped tight under my arm. I was immediately irritated and God knows I could have him beaten to a pulp.I gritted my teeth.“Back off, Raymond.”He chuckled low, the sound soft and almost amused, like he had expected the pushback and found it entertaining.“You remind me of someone,” he said. His voice was right behind my ear. “So much it almost hurts. Same fire. S

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