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FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 47
It was Eloise, predictably, who first raised the question none of us had quite voiced aloud."Have you three considered another child?" she asked one Sunday afternoon, watching Hope, now six and increasingly theatrical, perform an elaborate puppet show for an audience of stuffed animals arranged with great ceremony across the living room floor.I nearly choked on my tea. "Eloise.""I'm simply asking," she said, entirely unrepentant, her eyes twinkling with the particular mischief she'd developed over the years since her divorce, a lightness that suited her considerably better than the careful composure she'd once worn like armor. "I'm not getting any younger, and grandchildren are remarkably good company.""We haven't really discussed it," I admitted, which was mostly true, though the question had occasionally drifted through my own private thoughts more often than I'd consciously acknowledged.I brought it up that evening, somewhat tentatively, both twins settling into the conversati
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 46
By the time Hope turned five, our unconventional family had settled into a rhythm so thoroughly ordinary that I sometimes forgot, for days at a stretch, that we'd ever been anything other than completely normal.It was the school that finally reminded me.The call came on an otherwise unremarkable Thursday afternoon, the school's front office requesting that one of us come in immediately regarding an incident during recess. I left work in a rush, my stomach twisting with the particular dread reserved specifically for unexpected calls about your child, arriving to find Hope sitting outside the principal's office with her arms crossed, her expression a perfect, fierce echo of every courtroom face I'd ever practiced in a mirror."What happened?" I asked, kneeling in front of her, checking quickly for any visible injury."Tommy said I have two daddies because my mommy couldn't decide which one to marry," Hope announced, her small chin lifted defiantly. "So I told him that's not true, and
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 45
Two years after Hope's birth, I found myself standing at the edge of a decision I genuinely hadn't anticipated needing to make.The firm's senior partner, a quietly formidable woman named Diane Whitfield who'd mentored me since my earliest days as a junior associate, called me into her office on an unremarkable Tuesday with an offer that made my pulse spike for entirely different reasons than the chaos that had once defined every unexpected meeting in this building."We're restructuring the partnership," she said without preamble, her sharp eyes assessing me over the rim of her glasses. "I'm retiring within the year. The board wants to discuss you as my successor for senior partner."I sat very still, absorbing the weight of what she was actually offering. "Me. Senior partner.""You've earned it, Mia. Five years of managing director excellence, a hostile takeover survived with your reputation intact, and frankly, you've handled more genuine chaos in this building than anyone else curr
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 44
Hope's first birthday arrived with a speed that genuinely startled me, the exhausted, blurry early months somehow giving way to a year of small, accumulated milestones I'd absorbed so gradually I hadn't fully registered how much had changed until I found myself planning an actual birthday party for an actual toddler.She'd inherited, much to both twins' mutual delight and exasperation, a perfect blend of their personalities. Kade's quiet, focused determination showed in the way she'd approach any new toy with methodical, careful curiosity, turning it over from every angle before committing to actually playing with it. Killian's restless, fearless energy showed in her complete disregard for personal safety, an alarming tendency to attempt climbing anything taller than herself the moment nobody was looking directly at her."She gets the climbing thing from you," I told Killian for what felt like the hundredth time, retrieving Hope from the bookshelf she'd somehow scaled three rungs up b
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 43
Nothing, it turned out, fully prepared any of us for the actual chaos of bringing a newborn home.The first week passed in a sleep-deprived blur, the three of us stumbling through a routine that bore no resemblance to the careful, organized system we'd discussed in theory during the calm months of pregnancy preparation. Hope, it quickly became apparent, had her own opinions about sleep schedules, feeding times, and the general concept of nighttime existing as a period of rest rather than constant, demanding wakefulness."I genuinely don't understand how something this small can be this loud," Killian muttered at three in the morning on our fourth night home, pacing the nursery with Hope screaming against his shoulder, his usually composed hair sticking up at angles that suggested he'd given up entirely on appearances somewhere around midnight."She has excellent lungs," I said from the doorway, exhausted but unable to suppress a small, tired laugh at the sight of him. "I've heard that
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 40
The reception unfolded beneath a canopy of string lights Eloise had insisted on, despite both twins assuring her, multiple times, that the garden's natural beauty needed no additional decoration."Every celebration needs string lights," she'd said firmly, the one design opinion she refused to compromise on, and standing beneath them now, the warm golden glow scattered across the small gathering of people who actually mattered, I understood exactly why she'd held her ground.I sat at the head table, my swollen feet finally elevated on a cushioned stool Killian had practically wrestled away from a confused caterer, watching the small crowd mingle with an ease that felt, after everything, like its own small miracle.Cole found me first, sliding into the seat beside me with a plate piled embarrassingly high with appetizers."Okay," he said, mouth half full, "I need to formally revise my earlier skepticism. That ceremony actually made me cry, and I have genuinely cried at very few things i
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 11
"I do," they said in unison.The sync was creepy. It was that twin thing they did that usually made me want to hide under my duvet, but today I just raised an eyebrow and pointed to the paper."Only one date per weekend," I reminded them."Figure it out. Preferably somewhere that doesn't involve my
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 10
When Monday rolled in again, I was ready. I had my gameplan solid in my head, and I would face the twins with confidence.I wore my best blazer, a navy blue thing that brought out the subtle curves on my waist and made me feel taller. I wore it only when I had impossible negotiations, it made me fe
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 9
“You can date both of us, then you can make the choice”.Kade’s voice had echoed in my head all weekend. Maybe in a bid to soothe me, they had paused on bothering me constantly and hovering everywhere I was. I had peace, nobody was blowing my phone with calls or texts over the weekend.But I knew i
FORGOTTEN IDENTITY Chapter 8
The rest of the day was spent with my brain oscillating between fuming and crying. They were both so stupid, so stubborn. I regretted even going to the dinner with Killian. Maybe if I had completely ignored him I’d still have my semi- normal life. Although, a deep, hidden, secret part of me wanted
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