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THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 70: What he tells her
DEXTER’S POVIvy’s door had been closed for twenty minutes before I started talking.I needed to know she was actually asleep and not sitting on the other side of it with her ear pressed to the wall, which was not beyond her. I had known my sister her whole life. I knew exactly what she was capable of when she felt like something important was happening in the apartment without her.But the light under her door had gone off. The sounds from her room had gone quiet. And Daisy was sitting beside me on the couch in the particular stillness of someone who had said okay and meant it and was waiting without making the waiting feel like pressure.She was good at that.I sat with my elbows on my knees and looked at the coffee table and tried to find the right place to start.There was no right place. I knew that from the previous conversations, the version I had told on the couch weeks ago, the pieces I had given her in the kitchen, the fragments she had assembled from Ivy and from what she
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 69: After the party
DAISY’S POV The last guest left at midnight.Not dramatically, the party wined down the way good parties wined down, gradually and warmly, people collecting coats and saying goodnight and promising things they may or may not follow up on. By eleven forty five it was just the three of us and a room that looked like a party had happened in it.We cleaned up.That was the thing, nobody suggested it, nobody assigned roles, we just moved into the apartment the way we had learned to move through it together. Dexter collected glasses. I wiped down the counter. Ivy stacked things by the sink with the quiet efficiency of someone who cleaned when they needed to do something with their hands.Nobody spoke much.Not in the way of an awkward silence, in the way of people who had been through something together and were in the particular quiet that came after something that had required a lot of them. The music was off. The party energy had gone with the last guest and what remained was the apartm
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 68: Enough
IVY’S POV I saw Lily’s face when she came back from the balcony.She moved through the party the way she always moved through rooms, warm, easy, the particular grace of someone who had practised being comfortable in social spaces until it had become second nature. She stopped at the kitchen counter. She picked up her glass. She said something to the person beside her that made them smile.And around the corners of her mouth, in the specific place where people held things they were not showing, there was a small satisfied thing.I knew that expression.I had been watching her face all evening and I knew her expressions now the way you know the expressions of someone you had been studying for two months because you loved two people she was targeting. The warm surface was intact. But underneath it, sitting in the edges of her mouth, the expression of a move that had landed.Something had happened on that balcony.I did not know exactly what. I had not heard the argument between Daisy
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 67: He heard Everything
DEXTER’S POVWhen I was Arguing with Daisy at the balcony I turned around and Lily was standing at the balcony door.She was not coming out. She was standing in the frame of it, one hand on the glass, the party behind her, looking at me with an expression that took me a second to fully read because the top layer of it was so convincing. Concern. Warmth. The particular softness of someone who had overheard something painful and was feeling it on your behalf.I read the top layer.Then I read what was underneath it.Underneath the concern, underneath the warmth, underneath every practiced element of the expression she had put on, was something else entirely. Something that had nothing to do with sympathy. Something that sat in the corners of her eyes and the very edges of her mouth like a person who had just confirmed the thing they had come to confirm.She had heard everything.The argument in the doorway. Daisy’s voice saying I am tired of a relationship that moves two steps forward
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 66: The Argument
DAISY’S POV We were not in the middle of the party anymore. The balcony door was behind me and the party was ahead of me and Dexter was in the doorway between those two things and I was looking at his face doing the controlled thing and I felt the specific tiredness of someone who had been navigating carefully for two weeks and had run out of careful tactics. “Yes,” I said. “It was Casper. I called him because I needed five minutes of something that was not this room and he is the person I call when I need that.” He looked at me. “Okay,” he said. “Don’t do that,” I said. “Do what?” “Say okay in that voice.” “What voice?” “The voice that means it is not okay and you are managing it.” He was quiet for a moment. The party continued behind him, music and conversation and fifteen people who were having a Friday evening that did not contain any of this. I was aware of the room. I was also past caring about the room. “I am not allowed to have a reaction,” he said. Qui
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 65: The Balcony call
DAISY’S POV I had needed five minutes.That was the honest accounting of why I had stepped onto the balcony, not to escape the party, not to avoid Lily, not because anything had broken. I had needed five minutes of something that was not the careful management of a room full of people and one woman who had spent eight months engineering her way back into our lives.I had called Casper.Not because I owed him a call or because the situation required his input. Because Casper King was the specific kind of safe that came from someone who had seen you clearly, made a decision about you with full information, and asked nothing difficult back. Our last conversation had ended at a coffee shop table with him squeezing my hand once and saying go figure out your version of this one and since then we had exchanged a handful of messages, warm, easy, the texture of a friendship that had found its right form.He answered on the second ring.“Daisy.”“Hi,” I said. “I’m at a party and I need five m
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 4: He kissed me.
DAISY ❀Ivy knocked twice before she walked in, which was her version of privacy.I was on the bed with the television going and a bowl of popcorn I had barely touched, half watching a reality show I couldn’t follow because my mind kept drifting to places I didn’t want it to go. She leaned against
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 3: He made you coffee?
DAISY ❀I knew someone might hear me.That was the thing about grief, it didn’t wait for convenient moments. It came when the lights were off and the apartment was quiet and there was nothing left to distract you from the size of the absence. I had held it together through the drive, through tea
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 2: The inconvenience
DEXTER ♡I never agreed to this.That is the part Ivy conveniently leaves out whenever she makes decisions for the both of us, that I live here too, that my name is also on this lease, and that having someone occupy my space without my consent is not something I particularly enjoy. But Ivy has nev
THE RAKE WHO CHASED ONLY ME Chapter 1: Some things never change
DAISY ♡Losing my parents I never expected it to happen like that. A car crash. Quick and final and completely without warning. It has been two weeks now but every morning I wake up and there is a full second just one second where I forget. Then it comes back. And it hits the same way it hit the
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