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Chapter 057
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2026-07-18 20:05:06
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I already knew the choice to make when I woke up that morning. I stared up at the ceiling of Jane's bedroom and a part of me wondered if I was doing this for the right reasons.Was it because I cared about Mary so much? Because I really wanted to grow my career and reach every goal I'd set for myself.Or if it was because I'd run into him again, if maybe because those blue eyes dredged up memories I'd simply dismissed as a bad dream.GChrist.My phone was already in my hand before I'd fully decided to pick it up."It's seven in the morning," Mary said, picking up on the second ring, her voice thick with sleep and amusement both. "This better be good news or an actual emergency.""It's good news." My heart was slamming so hard I could feel it in my throat, and I gripped the mug tighter until the ceramic stung. "I'll do it. I want to sign."She went quiet for a few second, long enough that I actually pulled the phone away from my ear to check the call hadn't dropped."Well." Her voice
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 059
Mary's townhouse smelled like eucalyptus and fresh coffee, and she was sitting up in her own bed, sheets a soft, absurdly expensive linen, a laptop balanced on her knees like bedrest was a mild inconvenience instead of a cardiac event."You're supposed to be resting.""I am resting." She didn't look up from the screen. "I'm resting extremely productively.""That's not how resting works, Mary.""It is when you're seventy-eight and bored out of your mind." She finally glanced at me over the top of her reading glasses, mouth curving. "Sit down. You're hovering. It's making me nervous, and my cardiologist says stress is bad for me now, so really, this is on you."I laughed despite myself and dropped into the chair beside her bed, the same one I'd practically lived in for three days after the ambulance. My back still ached from it. I didn't mind."How are you actually feeling?""Actually?" She set the laptop aside, some of the performance dropping out of her voice. "Tired. Old. Furious tha
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 058
The hospital chair had to be the least comfortable object ever designed by a human being, and I'd been sitting in it for three hours.Mary's hand was warm in mine, small in a way it hadn't looked at the restaurant, papery skin over knuckles that used to feel unbreakable to me when I was younger and stupid enough to think grown-ups didn't age."Stop hovering," she said, without opening her eyes. "You're making the machine nervous.""The machine doesn't have feelings, Mary.""Neither do I, apparently, according to my cardiologist." A faint, dry laugh, cut short by a wince. "Turns out I do. Who knew."My chest ached just listening to her joke about it. I squeezed her hand a little tighter and didn't say anything, because if I opened my mouth right then something honest might come out, and I wasn't ready for that yet.Alexander had left forty minutes ago, pacing before he even made it out the door, phone already pressed to his ear, some crisis at Hagreeves that apparently couldn't wait ev
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 057
"Thank you," Maeve said finally, and her voice came out steady, even warm, though her fingers had gone tight around the stem of her glass. "Seriously. It means a lot that you'd even offer. But I can't."My chest caved in on itself, quiet and total, a wall giving way behind my ribs."I built my name away from this family and mine on purpose." She wrapped both hands around her water glass, knuckles pale against the condensation, thumb pressing hard enough into the glass that it left a faint print behind when she finally let go. "Signing with Hagreeves undoes three years of work in one signature. I hope that makes sense."My grandmother studied her for a long moment, then huffed out a small laugh and shook her head, like she'd expected this and lost a bet with herself anyway."Fair enough. Had to try." A faint smile, the kind that never quite reached her eyes. "You'd have jumped at a worse offer if it came from literally anyone else on earth. That tells me everything I need to know about
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 056
My grandmother's invitations always came the same way — one line, typed by her assistant, no room for negotiation. (Lunch. Thursday. Noon. Don't be late.) I walked into the restaurant seven minutes early, jacket still buttoned, already running the quarterly numbers through my head for whatever she'd want before the appetizers arrived.I heard her laugh before I saw her.My stomach dropped straight through the floor before my brain had caught up to why. My hands went cold around nothing at all.She was at the corner table by the window, sunlight warm across her cheekbone, head tipped back, one hand pressed flat to her own collarbone like she was trying to hold the laugh in and failing completely. Her hair had grown out past her shoulders, dark against the white tablecloth, and her other hand rested on my grandmother's wrist, fingers loose, easy.My throat went dry. I stood in the doorway and couldn't make my legs move the last ten feet, couldn't get a full breath past the tightness s
Her Rebirth, His Regret Chapter 055
ALEXANDER The whiskey had gone warm in my glass, untouched for the last ten minutes, and I still hadn't managed to stop seeing her.Not the way she'd looked walking out of the bakery, shoulders squared, chin up like nothing had touched her at all. The second before that. The half-second where her eyes had found mine over Dorothy's bowed head and I'd forgotten, completely, how to do anything but look back."—which is why I'm telling you, the boat idea is stupid, Romy, we are not doing a boat—""It's not stupid, it's classic. Bachelor party on the water, everyone gets a little seasick, everyone bonds over it—""Nobody bonds over vomiting off the side of a yacht."I let the argument wash past me the way I had been for the better part of twenty minutes, Liam and Romy volleying logistics back and forth across the low table between us like the fate of the evening depended on it. Liam's wedding was seven days out. He deserved better than a friend who couldn't stay in his own head long enoug
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 004
The printer in the copy room spat out the resignation letter in under a minute. I stood there and watched the page slide out and I picked it up while the ink was still warm and looked at it for a moment.Soon I would be completely free of Alexander Hagreeves.I took it straight to HR. The woman beh
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"Resign?" Liam burst out laughing, loud and sudden, like I had just said something genuinely absurd. "You must be joking.""Maeve, cut it out." Romy chimed in from the window, shaking his head. "We all know you can't stand to be more than three meters away from Alexander."Alexander stopped typing
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 002
I looked around the room still having a hard time believing what I was seeing. Yellow curtains. Beige carpet. The hairline crack running diagonally across the ceiling above the wardrobe. My room, the one I had slept in before I was married, before any of it happened. I sat on the edge of the bed w
Her Rebirth, His Regret CHAPTER 001
I froze. Through the crack in the hospital room door, I saw my sister's hand pressed tightly against my husband's chest. "Alexander, how much longer are you going to make me wait? I've already waited three years for you." Dorothy's voice was low and strained. "I thought you said you loved me."
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