All Chapters of He Chose My Sister, So I Married His Enemy: Chapter 371 - Chapter 374

The stairs were bright where the hall light fell up them, and darker at the top, and I carried the lamp in both arms like something that might wake. Damien came behind me with the overnight bag. Our phones were on the shelf downstairs, with the keys and a pile of takeaway menus, and neither of us had mentioned them since.The bedroom door was open. The bed stood against the far wall, and the curtains were drawn, and it all looked a little too tidy, as if someone had arranged it for a photograph. I put the lamp on the chest of drawers beside the window, and Damien set the bag down on the bed, found the socket, and plugged it in. Then he switched off the overhead light, and the room turned from a stranger into something softer.It was our own bed, but it looked different against that wall, lower somehow, and wider. The curtains still carried a crease from being folded in their box, a pale line running down each one. The lamp lit one side of Damien's face and left the other in shadow, an

By ten on Monday the morning sun was coming through the east window and laid a long pale strip across the table. I had the revised training pack spread along the whole length of it, the participant exercises in a row on the left and the coordinator's notes in a second row beneath, so that each sheet sat under the one it belonged to. It was the first full working day I had spent in that room, and I had stopped noticing it by about nine o'clock.The trouble was in the third pair. The exercise now began with a coordinator ringing a woman who had stopped coming, but the notes beneath it still told coordinators to send the standard message first. It was Ruth's old line, the cheerful one, and it was exactly the thing the session had taught them to stop sending. I stepped back along the table to be sure, and then I leaned across and pulled the notes sheet toward me and crossed out the opening paragraph.I reached for the next sheet without losing my place, because nothing in the pack had mov