Alle Kapitel von Too Late Mr Blackwood : Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 38

Vanessa: Pov.The meeting room was bright and carefully arranged.I sat with my hands folded on the table while Victoria’s assistant reviewed the updated guest list for the engagement party. Every name had weight. Every detail was intentional. I nodded at the right moments, smiled when expected, and gave short answers that sounded warm enough to pass.From the outside, I looked exactly like the woman they wanted me to be.Inside, I was counting how close I had moved to the center of everything.The Blackwood world had always been about access. Access to rooms. Access to decisions. Access to power that most people only watched from a distance. Sitting here, listening to plans being made under my name, I could feel how much nearer I was to that power than I had been a year ago. The difference was no longer abstract. It was practical. Visible. Useful. Influence did not arrive all at once. It collected in small permissions, small approvals, small seats at the right tables. I had learned t

Ava: Pov. One year changed more than I expected. The apartment was louder now. Toys lived permanently under the couch and beside the television. Tiny shoes lined the wall near the door. Lily could run from the living room to the kitchen without falling. Lucas followed close behind, slower but determined, always trying to catch up to his sister. Their voices filled the mornings in ways that still surprised me every time I stopped long enough to notice. I stood at the counter cutting fruit while they played near the couch. Short bursts of laughter mixed with small arguments over the same toy. There was a time when mornings felt heavy and uncertain. When every hour was about survival and holding things together with both hands. Now they felt full. Busy. Alive. The difference sat quietly in the room like something I had earned. My phone buzzed with a client message confirming an event for the following weekend. I replied quickly, then checked the rest of the schedule. Bookings sat

Vanessa: Pov.The room was quiet enough to hear the city under the windows.I sat on the edge of the couch while Nathaniel closed the door behind him. He looked careful, the same way he always did when we met like this. Hidden. Controlled. As if one wrong detail could collapse everything.“You’re late,” I said.“I had to be careful.” He set his phone face down on the table. “Damien asked where I was.”“And?”“Client issue.”I nodded once. Clean answers were useful. They always had been. In Damien’s world, suspicion grew from small inconsistencies before it ever reached the truth. That was why every meeting like this had to look ordinary from the outside and remain airtight on the inside.For a moment neither of us spoke. My hand drifted to my stomach before I forced it back down to my lap. The pregnancy was still early, but it already changed the shape of every decision. Secrets this heavy did not stay manageable forever. They pressed against ordinary moments until even silence felt

Ava: pov.I stood by the window with my arms crossed and watched them in the living room.Lucas was laughing.Real laughing.The sound went straight into my chest and stayed there. My little boy, the same one who used to hide behind my legs whenever any man came too close, was sitting on the floor showing Damien a drawing from school. Damien was down on one knee, holding the paper carefully like it mattered.“This is me and Mommy at the park,” Lucas said, pointing with his small finger. “And that’s Lily. She was scared of the big slide so I held her hand.”Damien’s mouth moved into a small smile. “You draw really well, buddy.”Lily sat on the couch behind them. She held her favorite doll tight against her chest. She still would not go near him. Every time Damien turned his head in her direction, she looked away and pressed her face into the pillow.Good.At least one of them still remembered.I hated how natural he looked with Lucas. Like he had always been here. Like the last five ye