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I Stopped Waiting For You Chapter 10
It was raining the day Marcus came to see him."Julian, I worked things out with the Sinclairs. I'm buying into the Rivermont project. I cashed out your share and put it on this card." He set a bank card down on the table. "It's the last thing I can do for you. We were friends once, after all."Julian looked at the card. "Did Camille send you?""No. I came on my own.""Thanks."Marcus stood, walked to the door, then turned back."She's getting married next month, on Founders' Day. If you want to go, I can give you the address. There's something else I never told you. That woman your father kept on the side, all those years ago — she was Camille's mother. So the two of you were never just some business arrangement. It was a debt from the last generation, all along."Then he left.Julian sat alone in his office, rain beating against the window. He thought back to Founders' Day, three years ago — the day he'd brought me home and left me waiting in the car for forty minutes. The bu
I Stopped Waiting For You Chapter 9
Once the Whitmore Group fell into crisis, Julian started chasing investors everywhere, meeting a different one every day, saying the same things over and over. Most turned him down. Some said it to his face — if you couldn't even honor an engagement, why would I trust you with my money? Others said behind his back that anyone who helped the Whitmores after they'd crossed the Sinclairs was signing their own death warrant.He worked himself to exhaustion every night, and when he came home, the lamp would still be on — the one I'd picked out. He'd lie on the couch, staring at it. Sometimes he wondered what I was doing, whether I was eating properly, whether the man I was with treated me well.One day, Arthur Whitmore called him into the study and slid a document across the desk."Sign it."He looked down. A stock transfer agreement."Sign your shares over to me. I'll carry the company from here. Get out. I don't want to see you anymore.""Dad—""You call me Dad? Where was that wh
I Stopped Waiting For You Chapter 8
The flower shop kept doing better, and Owen kept helping out. One evening, he stood outside downstairs and told me he liked me.I hesitated for a long time — not because he wasn't good enough."Owen, there's something you should know first. My past isn't simple. I spent three years in Ashford waiting on someone, and I only came here after there was nothing left to wait for.""I already knew that."I looked up at him. He smiled."I'm not asking whether you can accept me. I'm asking — are you willing to stay with me and help make this place a home?"That night, I said yes. Not because I was moved. Because being with him made everything feel light.One morning, I opened the shop to find a bunch of lilies at the door. No card, no name. Lilies were my favorite flower, and I'd only ever told one person that. I picked them up, looked them over, and threw them in the trash.The next day, another bunch showed up. I threw those out too.The third day, another bunch. I carried them out t
I Stopped Waiting For You Chapter 7
After Julian got back to Ashford, he asked Camille to meet him."I want to call off the engagement. Name your terms."Camille set down her cup and studied him for a long moment. "So you've finally decided. For her?""That's not your concern.""Fine. I want the Rivermont project, the one under your name.""It's yours.""And the villa in Westgate.""That too.""You're not even going to negotiate?""Whatever you want, I'll give it to you. But I have one condition — you stay away from her from now on."Camille laughed out loud. "Julian, she doesn't even want you anymore, and you're still shielding her?""That's not your concern."He stood to leave."You think calling off the engagement will bring her back? She's with that coffee shop owner every single day now. You think you're sacrificing yourself for her? She doesn't even know. She doesn't care."He stood there, his back to her."Don't touch her.""Why would I touch her? The way things are now hurts you a lot more than I
I Stopped Waiting For You Chapter 6
Six months later, I'd opened a flower shop in Fairview. Next door was a coffee shop owned by a man named Owen Reed.It was afternoon when Julian found me. I was crouched outside the shop trimming thorns off roses when a pair of leather shoes stopped in front of me. I looked up. He'd lost a lot of weight, standing there in the sun, his shadow stretching long across the pavement."Buying flowers?""I'm here to take you home."I shook my head and kept trimming thorns. "I don't have a home anymore. If you're not buying, please don't block the entrance.""I'll buy you a new one."I set down the shears and stood to face him."Julian, I don't want a house. I want someone who won't make me wait."He opened his mouth, but nothing came out."Go home. I'm doing just fine here."I gathered up the trimmed roses and went inside. He stayed out front and didn't leave.That night, when I closed up and pulled down the shutter, he was still sitting on the steps outside. The next morning, when
I Stopped Waiting For You Chapter 5
Julian went to my office, and the receptionist told him I'd quit a week earlier. He asked when exactly, and she said it had been the previous Wednesday — I'd left in a hurry, and even the handover had been done remotely.He stood in the lobby and started calling everyone he could think of. Nobody knew where I'd gone.He went to find Nina Cole. She opened the door but didn't let him in."What are you here for?""Has she contacted you?""She has. But I'm not telling you anything.""Just tell me where she is. I'll go find her."Something changed in the way Nina looked at him."Julian, do you have any idea what these past three years have been like for her? Every holiday, you said you had to be with your family, so she spent them alone. When her mother died, she signed the hospital paperwork alone, handled the funeral alone, and carried the urn to the cemetery alone. Where were you, any of those times?"He opened his mouth, but nothing came out."The day she moved out, I went to
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