《My husband's three guests》全部章節：第 1 章 - 第 5 章

The last time Xavier Cole had looked at her like that, she still wore his ring on a chain around her neck, hidden under her shirt so her father wouldn’t ask questions.That was five years and a lifetime ago. And yet here he sat, in a bar that smelled like spilled beer and old cigarettes, staring at her like no time had passed at all.Claire’s pulse hammered somewhere in her throat. Beside him, Theo Winters leaned back against the booth with one arm slung along the top, laughing at something that hadn’t reached his eyes, and on his other side sat Damian Cross, quiet as always, watching the room the way he used to watch a chessboard before he made a move that ended the game. Even sitting still, all three of them filled the room like they owned every exit.Xavier. Theo. Damian.Three names she had spent five years training herself not to think. Three faces that used to be as familiar to her as her own, back before the year everything came apart, before the accusations and the silence and

By the second week, Claire stopped being surprised when she walked into a room and found one of them already in it.Xavier came for breakfast meetings twice, sitting at her own kitchen table discussing acquisition terms with Adrian like it was the most natural thing in the world, when five years ago the idea of him in her kitchen at all would have meant something entirely different.Theo showed up at the gym she’d started going to purely to have somewhere that was hers, an hour of the day nobody else claimed, until he was suddenly on the treadmill beside hers three mornings running, insisting it was a coincidence with a grin that told her it wasn’t.Damian didn’t bother pretending. He simply had his driver waiting outside whatever charity function or gallery opening Adrian sent her to alone, offering rides she never asked for and never quite managed to refuse.Adrian noticed none of it. He was too busy congratulating himself on landing the Calloway Group, too pleased with how easily h