Chapter Eleven

My hands were still shaking when I pulled into the driveway, and the front door opened before I even reached it.Nathaniel stood there, still in yesterday's clothes, his hair a mess like he'd been running his hands through it for hours,he didn't wait for me to get inside."Where the hell have you been?" His voice cracked through the morning air. "Twenty calls, Elena. Twenty.""I was busy.""Busy." He said the word like it tasted wrong in his mouth. "Doing what? With who?"I walked past him into the foyer, my bag pressed tight against my side, the folder inside it suddenly feeling like something he could see through the leather if he looked hard enough. "Does it matter?""Of course it matters." He shut the door behind us harder than he needed to. "You disappear all night, you don't answer your phone, and I'm supposed to just sit here and not wonder if you're with him again?""With Marcus, you mean.""Are you?""No." I turned to face him. "I wasn't with Marcus.""Then where?"I thought

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Chapter Twelve

The guest house had its own kitchen, small but stocked, and that first morning I stood in front of the fridge for a while before making a plate of eggs and sitting down at the little table by the window to eat alone.From there I could see a slice of the main house,not all of it, just the kitchen window and part of the back terrace,enough to watch my old life keep going without me in it.By midmorning, Elora was out on that terrace in one of my old robes, the pale blue one nobody had bothered to pack for me.She had a coffee in her hand, my favorite mug, the one with the small chip near the handle that I had never thrown away and she was laughing at something on her phone like she didn't have a care in the world.I set my fork down.It wasn't about the robe or even the mug. It was how naturally she walked through those rooms, as if the two years I spent making that house a home had meant nothing.I finished the eggs without tasting them and rinsed the plate in the sink. When I looked

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Chapter Thirteen

I found them both on the terrace the next morning, Nathaniel with his coffee, Elora curled into the chair beside him with her knees pulled up like she was cold, though the sun was already warm enough to burn off the dew from the grass.I walked straight across the yard with the note still folded in my hand, and I didn't slow down until I was standing right in front of them."We need to talk," I said.Nathaniel looked up, his face already braced for something. "About what?"I held the note out, not to him, but to her. "About this."Elora glanced at it, then at me, her expression carefully blank. "What is that?""You know what it is. You left it on my pillow.""I don't know what you're talking about.""Don't." My voice came out harder than I meant it to, but I didn't take it back. "You were in the guest house,you went into my room and you left this for me to find, and I want to know why you think that's something you're allowed to do."Nathaniel set his coffee down slowly. "Elena, what

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Chapter Fourteen

I didn't turn the lights on that evening.I sat on the small couch in the guest house with my knees pulled up to my chest, still in the same clothes from that morning on the terrace, and I watched the room go from gray to blue to black without moving to stop it. There was something almost peaceful about sitting in the dark,nbody could see my face there and nbody could ask me to explain it.I heard the car before I saw the headlights sweep across the wall, and my whole body tensed, bracing for Nathaniel, for another conversation I didn't have the energy to survive.But the knock that followed was different,it was softer and familiar in a way that loosened something in my chest before I'd even opened the door.Marcus stood there in the porch light, his arm still in the sling, the bruise along his jaw fading to a dull yellow-green instead of the deep purple it had been at the hospital.He didn't say hello,he just looked at me, at the dark room behind me, at whatever was written on my f

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Too Late To Love Me, Billionaire : Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 14

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen