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CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE: Monday
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I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FORTY TWO The File
Liam's POVMarcus arrives at the George V at four in the afternoon.He does not call ahead. He does not need to. Marcus has been my assistant for eleven years and there is a specific rhythm to the way he moves when he is bringing me something he does not want to send electronically, and I have known since that evening I gave him certain instructions that whenever the rhythm arrived, it would arrive without warning.I open the door.He is carrying a leather folder under his arm.Not a large folder. That is the first thing I notice. Whatever is inside it is not thick. Not the volume of paper you would expect from an eight month investigation carried out through three private contractors in two countries, and my first thought, walking back into the suite in front of him, is that the folder is small because there was less to find than we feared.My second thought, arriving a beat later, is that the folder is small because Marcus is very good at his job.He closes the door behind him.He do
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FORTY ONE What He Told Her
Emma's POVJulian calls me at seven forty-two.I am at the kitchen counter with a glass of wine I have not touched, and the children are in the living room with Adèle doing the wind-down that happens before bath, and I am staring at my phone the way you stare at something you have been trying not to stare at for two hours.It rings.I answer on the first ring."He came?" "Yes.""How long was he there?" "Less than twenty minutes.""That is shorter than I expected.""There was not very much to say. Are you home?""Yes.""Are the children up?""For another hour.""Can I come by after they are asleep?" I look at the wine.I look at the doorway to the living room where I can hear Ace explaining something to Adèle in his loud carrying voice and Grey saying no in the particular way Grey says no, which is not a refusal but a correction."You can.""Nine thirty?""Nine thirty is fine." "Emma.""Yes?" "He did not do what you thought he would do."I close my eyes."What did he do?" "I will
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FORTY: The Meeting
Liam's POVJulian Beaumont's office is small.That is the first thing I notice when I walk in, and it is not what I expected. I have spent the past two days constructing this man in my head as someone who occupies the kind of space I occupy, glass and steel and the quiet arrogance of a corner office on the top floor of a building he owns, and instead I am standing in a third-floor office on Rue de Miromesnil that smells faintly of old wood and coffee, with photographs of his family's factory on the walls and stacks of fabric samples on a table by the window.He does not stand up when I come in.That is the second thing I notice.Every man I have ever met in a professional context has stood when I entered a room. Julian Beaumont does not. He looks up from his desk, he acknowledges me with a small polite nod, and he gestures to the chair opposite him, and he waits.I sit."Mr. Beaumont.""Mr. Carson.""Thank you for seeing me.""You said it did not concern our businesses. I was curious w
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER THIRTY NINE: What Julian Said
Emma's POVI read the second message twice.Liam just called me.I sit down slowly in my chair. The office is still holding the shape of Talia's departure, the specific vacuum that certain people leave behind them when they walk out of rooms, and I look at Julian's message and I feel the specific quiet of a moment when two separate things are happening at the same time and both of them are aimed at me.I call him back.He picks up on the second ring."Emma.""When?""An hour ago. He called my office directly. My assistant recognised the name.""What did he say?""He asked if we could meet."I close my eyes."Julian.""Yes, I know.""What did you tell him?""I told him I would think about it. I did not want to say yes or no without talking to you first."Of course he did.Of course Julian Beaumont, the man who has known me for eleven days and who has already earned more of my trust than most people earn in years, called me before agreeing to anything. Of course he understood without bei
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT: The Addendum
Emma's POVBy Thursday afternoon the addendum is ready.Bertrand brings it into my office himself, which he does when something is not routine, and he closes the door behind him before he sits down.“You’ve read it?” he asks.“Twice.”“And?”I look at the document on my desk.Carson Holdings’ revised terms are not generous in a performative way. They are precise. They address every objection our board raised. They give Bellamy Inc leverage in three areas we did not expect to gain leverage. They concede a revenue split that would have been unthinkable six months ago.It is not desperation.It is intention.“He rewrote it himself,” I say.Bertrand nods. “Helena confirmed that.”I lean back in my chair.The office is quiet except for the low hum of the city through the windows and the faint sound of Noémie’s keyboard outside the door.“He is not trying to win,” I say slowly. “He is trying to show me he understands.”“Yes.”“That makes it more dangerous.”Bertrand’s mouth curves, not into
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN: The Rabbit
Emma's POVI almost do not go to the Luxembourg.That is the thing I will think about later, standing in my kitchen at six in the morning with the kettle boiling and the light coming through the windows in the thin grey way. I almost do not go because going means the possibility of seeing him, and seeing him means the possibility of Ace running toward him because Ace has never been briefed about the complicated emotional architecture of adults who have failed each other, and Ace has decided that the man with the short name is someone worth running toward.But Tuesday belongs to us.I told myself that two years ago when I built this routine, and I told myself that two weeks ago when Liam first appeared on the bench, and I am not going to stop telling myself now because a man I used to be married to has decided that my park is a place he can show up to with or without invitation.I dress the children.We go to the park. The north gate is quiet in the late morning, the way it always is,
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER ONE: The Dress, The Gala, and The Beginning of the End
I LEFT BROKEN AND FAT, I CAME BACK HIS BOSS WITH TRIPLET HEIRSEmma's POVHere is something nobody tells you about being the fat wife of a billionaire.The staff learn his coffee order on Day One. Then they learn yours somewhere around month nine, if you remind them enough times, and even then they
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIVE: Four Tests and A Kitchen Floor
Emma's POVI am at Cara's apartment. She has gone to stay with a friend of hers so that I can have some solo space. My mother arrives at two in the afternoon with an overnight bag, a casserole dish that smells like something that can fix most things, and the expression of a woman who has been wait
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FOUR: Clean Break
Liam's POVShe is gone by Thursday.Not just her things. Her.The apartment feels different without Emma in it and I cannot explain why in any way that would satisfy me if I try, so I do not try.I stand in the bedroom doorway and look at the cleared nightstand, the empty hooks behind the bathroom
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER TWO: Divorce And A Key
Emma's POVI do not sleep.I lie in that bed doing what I have quietly mastered over the past fourteen months... existing in complete stillness while approximately nine thousand things happen loudly inside my chest.At six forty three I get up because lying there waiting for the other shoe to drop
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