All Chapters of Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Aurora’s POVThe gift box was so small it disappeared inside my fist, and I kept squeezing it like it might vanish if I let go.Three nights. I'd stayed up three nights finishing it, my fingers raw from the thread, and now the ribbon was already going soft from my sweat."Ma'am, are you on the list?"The girl at the door had a tablet and a smile that didn't reach anything."Aurora Blackwood," I said. "It's my husband's event."She scrolled. Her thumb went up, then down, then up again."I'm sorry, I don't see Blackwood.""Try Bennett." My voice came out steadier than I felt. "Aurora Bennett."Her thumb stopped. "Oh. Here you are." She stepped aside like she was doing me a favor. "Enjoy the evening."Bennett. Not Blackwood. On the guest list for my own anniversary.I told myself it was a mistake, an assistant rushing through names, nothing.I've told myself a lot of things this year.Inside, the ballroom glittered so hard it hurt. Champagne towers, white orchids, a string quartet sawing

The rain hit me the second the hotel doors opened, and I was glad, because it meant no one could tell which parts of my face were tears.I didn't take the valet. I ran for the parking garage with the folder under my arm and the little gift box still crushed in my other hand, and my heels slid on the wet concrete and I didn't care if I fell.I got in the car. Slammed the door. Locked it, like locking a door could keep any of it out.Then I fell apart.It came out of me in these ugly, ripping sounds, sounds I didn't know I could make, and I pressed the gift box to my mouth to muffle them because even now, even alone, I was ashamed of being loud.The rain drummed on the roof. The garage lights buzzed. My phone lit up on the passenger seat, buzzing and buzzing, and I finally grabbed it just to make it stop.I looked down at the gift box in my other hand before I answered. The ribbon had come undone. Three nights of my life, a cufflink I'd engraved myself with the date we met, and I never