All Chapters of HE PAID ME TO FORGET MY SON…NOW I WORK FOR HIM: Chapter 41 - Chapter 42

🌹TESSA🌹 The water was cold when I splashed it on my face, colder than I expected, and it woke me up faster than the alarm had. I stood there for a second with my hands dripping over the sink, staring at my own reflection, at the puffiness still sitting under my eyes from crying half the night before. He didn't remember any of it. I reached for the towel and pressed it against my face and held it there a second longer than I needed to. Whatever I thought I was going to feel when I finally let myself think about that clearly, standing here alone in the bathroom with the tap still running, this wasn't quite it. There was relief in it, real relief, the kind that actually loosened something in my chest instead of just talking about loosening it. No tension waiting for me at the office in three hours. No careful distance between us while he tried to work out what to do with a woman who'd kissed him back. No risk of him deciding overnight that I'd taken something from him while he wasn'