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My Brother's Best Friend's Secret Baby Chapter 30
Rosalie's POV The number came up as Unknown on a Thursday evening. I almost let it go to voicemail. Over the years, I'd gotten into the habit of not answering unknown calls. Partly out of caution, the kind that comes from spending seven years making yourself difficult to find. Partly because unknown numbers were usually either wrong numbers or sales calls, and I didn't have the energy for either. I answered on the fourth ring because something made me. I couldn't have said what. It was an instinct that had nothing to do with logic. "Rosie." As I heard that voice, my world tilted. I sat down, not by choice. My legs made that decision for me, and suddenly I was in a kitchen chair with the phone pressed to my ear, every nerve in my body humming with something I couldn't name. It was my brother's voice. Seven years… It had been seven years since I'd heard it in real time. I’d only spoken to my dad once, briefly, maybe eighteen months after I'd left. A call from a payphone
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Aiden's POV I'd been staying at the Grandview for six weeks. Four thousand dollars a night for six weeks was insignificant from a practical standpoint, but symbolic in every other way. I didn't need to live in a presidential suite. I'd grown up in a two-room apartment with water-stained ceilings and a father who spent the rent money before the first of the month. I had money now because I'd earned it. Through hard work and the particular determination of someone who remembered exactly what it felt like not to have enough. But I'd never confused comfort with meaning. The apartment on Addison Street was a twenty-minute drive from Rosie's building. It had three bedrooms, a decent kitchen, and a building with a functioning elevator. That had mattered to me The elevator in Rosie's building had been broken since before I arrived, and she climbed four flights of stairs every day carrying everything she needed while raising a six-year-old child. I didn't tell her about th
My Brother's Best Friend's Secret Baby Chapter 28
Aiden's POV Marcus called on a Tuesday morning while I was signing a lease. I let it ring. He called again while I was carrying the first box from a delivery up to the third floor of the building on Addison Street. I ignored that one too. By the time the movers had finally brought up the rest of it, a bed frame, a decent couch, a kitchen table that would do the job, I had four missed calls and a text message that read: [I know you're still in that city. You've been there for six weeks. We have a defense contract review meeting in eleven days, and two clients are asking where you are. Call me back or I'm getting on a plane.] I called him. Marcus Chase had been my business partner for four years. We'd met during a period when I was transitioning my investments into more structured ventures. He possessed the practicality I lacked, and I had the military connections he needed. The arrangement worked so well that neither of us had ever felt the need to formalize it beyond a ha
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"Can I get the big set?" Lucy asked. She was holding a watercolor box with twenty-four colors. "You can get whatever you want," Aiden said. Lucy dropped the box into the small basket he was carrying for her and moved on to the next section. I was studying a display of round paintbrushes with no intention of buying any of them when I heard her ask the question. Her voice was clear and direct, the way she asked most things. "Captain Aiden," she said, "are you going to be my dad?" The store didn't actually go quiet. The background noise remained. Someone talking at the register. Music drifting from a small speaker near the entrance. The ordinary murmur of a business going about its day. But something in my immediate world froze. I didn't turn around. I stayed where I was in front of the paintbrush display, holding a size-six round brush without really seeing it, and waited. I heard Aiden make a small sound. Not an answer. A breath. Slow and deep. Then I hea
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Rosalie's POV The visits had settled into the rhythm of the week, like everything else. Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings were marked on the refrigerator calendar with the same blue pen I used for Lucy's dentist appointments, school picture day, and library book return dates. The first few outings had been to the park. Then Aiden suggested the children's museum one Saturday, and I agreed because Lucy had been asking to go for two months. I'd been putting it off because admission was seventeen dollars per person, and when money was that tight, even seventeen dollars felt like a luxury. So we went. Lucy spent forty-five minutes in the science section conducting an experiment involving water and tubes. She ended up slightly soaked and completely satisfied. Aiden paid for admission and lunch at the museum café without making a thing of it, and I let him. After the rent situation, I'd decided some battles cost more energy than they were worth. That was what I told m
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Rosalie's POVI was furious. I was sitting at my kitchen table holding a rent statement that said my account was paid in full, and I was experiencing a feeling I'd almost forgotten the texture of. That strange physical sensation of a weight lifting. A weight you'd been carrying for so long that you'd stopped noticing it was there. Four thousand eight hundred dollars. For six months, I wouldn't have to do end-of-month calculations. I wouldn't have to check my bank balance before buying ingredients for Lucy's lunches. I wouldn't have to choose between paying the dental copay and buying groceries. I wanted to throw the statement across the room. Instead, I sat perfectly still. "This doesn't change anything between us," I said. My voice was neutral. "I know," he said. "I'm not going to change how I feel about this situation because you paid my rent." "I understand." "I need you to really understand that. This isn't the beginning of something. You're not buying goodwill."
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