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The Documents

Author: Blairsen
last update publish date: 2026-06-17 15:07:24

Three days of work.

Long days that started at seven in the morning and ended when the light outside the Cole Global London office windows had been dark for hours and nobody had noticed because the documents on the table were more consuming than anything happening outside.

They ordered food in. They drank too much coffee.

They moved through the original financial records with the particular focused silence of people who understood that what they were building had to be perfect or it was nothin
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    She was already on the kitchen counter when he woke up.It was a habit he'd pretended to object to for three weeks before giving up entirely — the sitting on the counter thing, her legs dangling, her sketchbook open across her knees, coffee going slightly cold beside her because she always forgot to drink it while she was working.He stood in the corridor for a moment, watching her, the morning light doing what morning light did through their windows at this hour.She caught him looking."Stop," she said, not looking up from the sketch."No," he said.She picked up the dishcloth from the counter beside her and threw it at him without looking. He caught it one-handed."You're not even a little sorry," she said."Not even slightly," he agreed, walking fully into the kitchen, pouring his coffee, coming to stand beside her at the counter she was sitting on, which put them at almost the same height for once.She showed him the sketch without him asking. The view from their window — the cit

  • Cursed To Love You   Being Watched Being Happy

    Odette looked at both of them for exactly one second, then picked up her book and her wine glass and walked to her bedroom without a word."Thank you," Isla called after her."I didn't do anything," Odette said, and closed the door.They sat down on Odette's secondhand sofa, which was nothing like their furniture at home — worn in the right places, slightly too soft, a throw blanket draped over the arm that had clearly been there long enough to become permanent.Zachary looked slightly displaced in it, the way a man who owned buildings looked sitting on something that cost two hundred dollars and had been loved into a particular comfortable shape. But something about the displacement made him easier, less like Zachary Cole and more like just Zachary."Reid helped me understand something," he said."Okay.""It's not actually about the guest list.""I know it's not," she said. "I knew that when I walked out. I just didn't know the other thing yet.""It's about being watched," he said. "

  • Cursed To Love You   The Small Version

    Zachary didn't go after her.It was a deliberate choice, something Dr. Reeves had been working on with him for weeks now — not every conflict needed immediate resolution, some needed space first, before either person said something they couldn't take back.He sat down at the kitchen table instead and stared at the guest list for a long time.Then he called Reid."Come over," he said. "I need to talk through something."Reid showed up twenty minutes later, finding Zachary out on the balcony, the city stretched out below them in the early evening light."What happened," Reid said, sitting down across from him."Isla wants two hundred people at the wedding. I want twenty.""That's not really what's wrong, is it," Reid said. "You don't usually get like this over numbers."Zachary was quiet for a moment."It's not about the number," he admitted. "It's about being watched. By that many people. On a day that's supposed to be ours, completely ours, no audience, no performance."Reid considere

  • Cursed To Love You    Two Months

    Two months until the wedding.The countdown had changed shape entirely, and everyone noticed it without anyone saying it directly. Six months ago the clock running in the background of every conversation had been Zachary's illness, the quiet dread underneath everything. Now it was a wedding date circled on a calendar, something joyful instead of frightening, and the difference showed in how people talked, how they laughed, how the whole apartment felt lighter.Odette's planning folder had multiplied into three folders."Three," Isla said, looking at them spread across the kitchen table. "How does a wedding need three folders.""Venue, vendors, and contingencies," Odette said, not looking up from her laptop. "You'll thank me when something goes wrong and I already have a backup plan ready.""Something's going to go wrong?""Something always goes wrong. I'm just prepared for it."Nobody objected to Odette's self-appointed role as wedding coordinator, mostly because she was terrifyingl

  • Cursed To Love You   Results

    The next morning, Caden was making coffee badly on purpose."You're doing that wrong," Odette said, watching him fumble with the machine in Zachary's kitchen, both of them still a little shy around each other in the particular way new couples are the morning after admitting something out loud."I know exactly how to make coffee," he said, pressing buttons that didn't need pressing."Then why does it look like you're defusing a bomb?""Maybe I just like watching you laugh at me."She did laugh, leaning against the counter, and he grinned like he'd accomplished something important.Zachary and Isla came in a few minutes later, Isla still in pajamas, Zachary already dressed for the day."Is he actually making coffee or is this performance art," Zachary asked."Performance art," Odette confirmed.Caden's phone rang.He glanced at the screen. His father's doctor.He answered it right there, in front of everyone, no hesitation about stepping into another room the way he might have a month a

  • Cursed To Love You   Saying It Right

    Caden didn't say it back immediately."Don't say it because I said it first," Odette said quickly, already half-regretting the vulnerability, already bracing for him to deflect with a joke the way he deflected everything."I'm not," he said. "I'm trying to say it right. Give me a second."He actually took the second.He stood there in the middle of the kitchen, the music still playing low from the counter, working through what he wanted to say instead of reaching for the easiest, most charming version of it."Okay," Odette said, watching him. "This is taking a while.""I know.""You're really thinking about this.""I told you, I'm trying to get it right." He ran a hand through his hair. "This is the first time in my entire life I haven't just said the thing people want to hear. Give me a minute to figure out the actual thing."She crossed her arms, but she was smiling now, the panic from before settling into something more amused."Take your minute."He started talking."The day we me

  • Cursed To Love You   The Meeting

    They met at a small coffee shop in Brooklyn that served the kind of coffee that didn’t pretend to be anything other than what it was.Connor was already there when Isla arrived. He was sitting at a corner table, back to the wall, the way people sit when they’re used to needing to see what’s coming.

  • Cursed To Love You   The Jealousy

    News traveled in the building the way it always did. Not through official channels. Through Diana mentioning something to a colleague. Through that colleague mentioning it to someone else. Through the particular way people whispered when they thought no one was listening.By the time Connor actuall

  • Cursed To Love You   The Consequence

    Zachary went back to his office at 11 p.m.Reid was there waiting. He was sitting in the dark with only the city lights coming through the windows, which meant he’d been waiting for a while.“Diana told me someone was in the building,” Reid said. “Where did you go?”“To Isla’s apartment.”Reid stoo

  • Cursed To Love You   The Lunch That Changes Everything

    Odette arrived at the small restaurant with her coat still on, sliding into the booth across from Isla before she’d even set down her bag. “Tell me,” she said. Isla was arranging her napkin. Straightening her silverware. The small rituals of someone buying time. “Tell you what?” “About the dinn

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