Semua Bab Five Years As A DoorMat Wife: Her Time To Shine: Bab 31 - Bab 34

Chapter 32She was mid-thirties, Silver estimated. Very composed, very well-dressed, with the particular posture of someone who had been told this was a networking event and had dressed accordingly. She was standing close to Seris in the way of someone who had been told this was also possibly more than a networking event and was managing the ambiguity.Silver recognized the energy. She had been in that position once.The three of them stood in the elevator.Silver pressed herself into the corner in the way of someone who was absolutely fine and simply preferred corners.Seris had seen her. Of course he had — the elevator was not large. He had seen her in the half-second before the doors closed and his expression had done something brief and complicated that he had then arranged back into professional neutral.He pressed the button for the twentieth floor.The elevator began to move."Floor seventeen?" the woman said, read

Chapter 34"My parents—" she started."Are fine," Seris said. He sat beside her. His voice was very steady. "I called. They're in Bali. They're absolutely fine. There was a miscommunication. I'm sorry, Nadine."Nadine stared at him. "They're—""Fine. I promise."The color began coming back slowly."I fainted," she said."You did. It's completely understandable.""In a corridor.""Yes."She processed this. Then she looked past Seris to where Kate was standing with the expression she'd been maintaining, which was still impressive, and still clear, and still open."You told me—" Nadine started."I'm so sorry," Kate said. "The information I had was clearly wrong. I can only apologize."Nadine looked at her for a moment.Then she looked at Seris.Then, with the specific look of a woman who had fainted in a corridor and was reassembling her dignity and her understandi