Vivian's POVMy father settled into his armchair and looked at me with the flat, unreadable expression he had perfected over the years. The same expression he'd worn when he told me he was moving Sandra into our home. The same expression he'd worn in the hospital when I begged him to help pay for my mother's treatment, and he'd told me, without a flicker of shame, that Helen was no longer his concern."So," he said. "What brings you here?"I had spent the drive rehearsing what I would say. I had imagined walking in with my head high, delivering the news like a verdict, watching his face change. But standing here, in this room, with him looking at me like I was a stranger who had wandered in off the street, all my careful words crumbled."I came to see Sandra," I said.His eyebrows lifted, just slightly. "Sandra?""Yes. Where is she?"He leaned back in his chair and reached for the glass on the side table… whiskey, the ice long since melted. He took a slow sip, watching me over the rim

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Vivian's POVThe days that followed blurred together like pages turned too fast.Mr. Halloway's office called twice, then three times, then every morning at nine sharp. There were affidavits to sign, bank records to dig up, statements to draft and redraft and sign again. I spent hours hunched over the dining table with a pen in my hand, my mother's name printed on every page, my father's name printed below it, and Sandra's name beneath that like a stain that wouldn't lift. Ethan's lawyers handled the heavy lifting, but they needed me for the details… dates, amounts, the exact month my mother had been diagnosed, and when my father stopped caring about us.I answered every question. I remembered every date. I had been keeping score for years, even when I hadn't known I was.And through all of it, Ethan was there.Just present, in that quiet, deliberate way of his… a cup of coffee appearing at my elbow when I'd been working too long, a folder slid across the table before I even asked for

Last Updated : 2026-09-25

Vivian's POVThe trip was three days.Three days in a hotel suite in a city I'd never been to, three days of meetings and dinners and small talk with men whose names I forgot the moment I shook their hands. I had packed a single suitcase… two dresses, a blazer, heels I could stand in for hours.The first two days went exactly as I expected.Meetings in glass-walled conference rooms overlooking the skyline. Coffee that went cold before anyone drank it. Numbers on screens, contracts slid across polished tables, hands shaken. I sat at Ethan's right side and watched him work, and I understood, finally, why men lowered their voices when they said his name.He didn't raise his. He never did. But when he spoke, the room stopped.The suite we were staying in had two bedrooms, separated by a shared living space with floor-to-ceiling windows and a marble kitchenette neither of us touched. We said goodnight at the doors of our respective rooms and closed them behind us, and I lay awake in my be

Last Updated : 2026-09-26

Vivian's POVI stood frozen.His mouth was still on mine, warm and certain, and every nerve in my body had lit up like a struck match. My hands hung useless at my sides. My mind was a white static hum. Somewhere in the back of my head a voice was telling me to pull away, to step back, to say something sharp and put the walls back up where they belonged.I didn't listen to it.My hands came up instead, one curling into the fabric of his shirt, the other finding the back of his neck, and I kissed him back. I kissed him like I had been holding my breath for months and had finally, finally let it out. He made a low sound against my mouth and his arm came around my waist and pulled me in until there was no space left between us.The music thumped faintly through the walls. I forgot all of it.When he finally broke the kiss, we were both breathing hard. His forehead rested against mine for a moment, his thumb still tracing a slow line along my jaw."Give me a few minutes," he said, his voi

Last Updated : 2026-09-26

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