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Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 100
ANNA'S POV The weeks that followed settled into a rhythm neither of us had experienced since the earliest, most naive days of our engagement, before either of us understood what the marriage would actually demand of us. We finished the nursery properly, the pale yellow walls Jonathan had teased me about now dry and complete, a white crib assembled after two frustrating hours and one minor argument over instructions neither of us had bothered reading carefully enough the first time through. We laughed about that argument for days afterward, replaying it at dinner, at Doctor Ellis's careful prompting during one particularly light session, both of us marveling at how strange it felt to bicker over something as small and ordinary as crib hardware after a year spent fighting for our marriage's actual survival. It felt, more than almost anything else that month, like proof that we'd genuinely arrived somewhere new. Doctor Patel's appointments grew steadily more reassuring, the baby healt
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 99
JONATHAN'S POV We cooked dinner together that evening, something we hadn't done in longer than either of us wanted to admit, Anna chopping vegetables at the counter while I handled the stove, both of us moving around the kitchen with an ease that felt, after everything, almost startling in its simplicity. The radio played something low and unimportant from the counter, and for a while neither of us said much of anything at all, simply working alongside each other in the particular comfortable silence that only comes after two people have survived something enormous together. I found myself watching her more than the pan in front of me, struck by how ordinary the moment felt, how quietly remarkable it was that ordinary had become something we finally had room for again. "Do you realize," Anna said, "this might be the first entirely ordinary evening we've had together in months. No board crisis. No anonymous messages. No family emergency waiting on the other end of a phone call." "I
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 98
ANNA'S POV I chose the small café near the museum where I used to work, neutral ground, close enough to my old life that I felt steady walking into it, far enough from either of our current lives that neither of us could treat it as home turf. I remembered afternoons spent in this same window seat years earlier, grading provenance research over coffee, back before any of this, the affair, Lucas, the entire tangled year, had ever entered my life at all. It felt right, somehow, choosing a place that belonged to a version of myself neither my father nor my marriage had ever fully touched. My father was already there when I arrived, no suitcase this time, no carefully pressed blazer designed to project success at a glance. He looked, sitting there in a simple sweater with two cups of tea already ordered, smaller somehow than I remembered him, and I understood, walking toward the table, that some part of that was deliberate, a man trying to look like exactly what he actually was rather
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 97
JONATHAN'S POV My mother opened the door before I'd even reached it, and the look on her face told me she already knew everything, the loan, the proxy, the years of silence that had nearly cost this family the company outright. "He told me last night," she said quietly, stepping aside to let me in. "After you left. I think he needed to say it out loud to someone before he had to face you again today." I searched her face for anger, for the particular betrayal I imagined she must be carrying, and found instead something quieter, more complicated, a woman who had spent thirty years married to a man she was only now beginning to understand fully. "Are you all right," I asked. "I don't know yet," she admitted. "I think I will be. We're going to need our own version of the conversation you're about to have with him, eventually. Not today." I found my father in the same study where he'd first confessed, though the decanter sat untouched this time, and something in that small detail tol
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 96
JONATHAN'S POVThe boardroom felt different walking in that morning than it had nine days earlier, the same faces arranged around the same table, but something in the air had shifted, a current of uncertainty that hadn't been there the last time I'd taken this seat expecting to lose everything.I thought, sitting down, of every version of this morning I'd rehearsed over the past nine days, the speeches I'd prepared in the shower, the arguments I'd practiced in the car on the way here, and found, now that the moment had actually arrived, that none of them mattered nearly as much as simply sitting still and letting the numbers speak for themselves.Harold caught my eye as I sat down, a small nod rather than the grim shake of his head from before, though I understood, watching his expression, that he wasn't yet certain enough of the outcome to offer more than that.Whitmore arrived last, exactly on time, settling into his seat with a composure that looked, this morning, slightly more eff
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 95
JONATHAN'S POV Whitmore's office occupied the top floor of a glass tower that had always struck me as trying slightly too hard, every surface polished to a shine designed to remind visitors exactly how much money had been spent making them feel small before a single word was exchanged. I walked in anyway, unimpressed, carrying with me everything Anna and Grace and Priya's article had already handed to the rest of the world. I had expected, walking in, to feel something closer to nerves, the old instinct to prepare carefully for a negotiation the way I'd prepared for every important meeting of my career. Instead I felt strangely calm, the particular steadiness that comes from finally having nothing left to hide, no secret Whitmore could threaten to expose that hadn't already found its way into the light on its own terms. He didn't stand when I entered, simply gestured toward the chair across from his desk, his composure fully intact despite the story that had spent the entire previo
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JONATHAN'S POV We kept kissing as we made our way into a room in the VIP section. A place I made reserved personally for myself whenever I need to dig into something warm. I grabbed her ass violently and she moaned unbuttoning my shirt.She finally made her way with the buttons and pulled my shir
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"I see that you like her." My dad commented on the drive back home. "She is beautiful." I shrugged, going through my phone. I was letting Lucas know to hold down the VIP slot at the club tonight. "Well, hopefully, this alliance brings more money to the family." My dad smiled at my mom. I was sil
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JONATHAN'S POVMy lips curved in a smile as I glanced at the pretty young lady before me. Hell, those hips were great. I wanted to tell her so, but I knew better than that. Women tend to take compliments into their heads. With a courtesy nod, I shrugged past her and walked into the house. I sat
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"Anna, are you okay?" My mom asked carefully."Are you trying to force me to get married to someone?" I asked pained by their words. "Yes!" They both chorused.God, the shamelessness of my parents. "Mom, Dad, I just returned from school yesterday. Heck, I am supposed to be having some respite her
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