All Chapters of OBSESSED WITH MY EX-WIFE : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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Chapter 61 — CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

LYDIA'S POVI picked my phone off the floor. The screen was cracked but still working. I tried to type a message to Ethan with my shaking hands."Ms. Claire is gone. Nina took her."He called before I could put the phone down."Where are you?""At my office." I sobbed."Stay there. I am coming.""No, let's meet at the detective's office. Now.""That's better." He hung up.I grabbed my bag and walked out. Maya called after me. I didn't look back.********The detective was at his desk. He looked up when we walked in. Ethan was already there. He was sweating."Ms. Shaw," the detective said. "What is going on?"I showed him the message. He read it, placed the phone on his desk, and leaned back in his chair."You did not go to the police station," I said. "You said you would assign someone. But no one came. Now she is gone.""I will handle this. First, we need to go to the principal."******Mrs. Bell was at her desk. She stood when we walked in."Ms. Shaw? Did you hear the news?""Ms. Cl

Chapter 62 — “Finally”

LYDIA'S POVMy phone rang at 2:47 am.I was not asleep. I had been staring at the ceiling since midnight with Noah's photograph — the one cut in half — sitting in my memory like a splinter I could not reach. I grabbed the phone before the second ring.It was an unknown number. I almost didn't answer."Hello?"There was silence, then breathing. Then a voice so low I pressed the phone hard against my ear just to catch it."Ms. Shaw?"I sat up. "Ms. Claire?"She sobbed. Then — "I got out. I don't know how long I have. I found a phone in a drawer and I just—""Where are you? Are you hurt?""I don't know where I am exactly. There's a laundromat across the street. The sign says Bright Clean. I tiptoed my way out when she left and the men fell asleep.""Stay there. Do not move. Lock yourself in the bathroom if you have to. I am coming."I was already out of bed before she hung up. I called Ethan. He picked up immediately, like he had not been sleeping either."Ms. Claire is alive. She escape

Chapter 63 — BREATH OF FRESH AIR

LYDIA'S POVI had not moved from my chair in two hours.My laptop was open. The cursor was blinking on a document I had not touched. The Hartwell file was on the left side of my desk, exactly where Maya had put it that morning, and I had not opened it. The coffee she brought at nine was cold on the right side. I had my head leaned back and my eyes on the ceiling, doing nothing.Just sitting, breathing, and being a woman in a quiet office with no fear for the first time since this whole drama started.The door swung open.Maya walked in, took one look at me, looked at the cold coffee, looked at the untouched file, and put her bag on the chair across from my desk."Get up," she said."I am working." I sat up."You have been staring at the ceiling for two hours. I have a camera angle from my desk that catches your reflection in the window." She picked up my bag from the floor and set it on the desk in front of me. "Get up. We are going to breakfast.""Maya, it is eleven thirty.""Brunch t

Chapter 64 — MYSTERIOUS ADMIRER

DAVID'S POVMy phone rang at 5:47 am. I rubbed my eyes and grabbed it before it rang again. It was Harris."Mr. Cole." His voice snapped my eyes open."Yes." I sat up. The room was still dark."The medical examination came back this morning. I wanted you to hear it directly from me before anything else." He paused. "Nina Lawson is not pregnant. The doctor confirmed it. There is no evidence of a current pregnancy or a recent one."I went silent."Mr. Cole?""I'm here. I… I don't know what to say.""I am sorry. I know this is—""Thank you, Harris." I hung up.I sat on the edge of the bed with the phone in my hand and the room still dark around me. "What?" I thought about the document she dropped in front of my entire team. The way she said it — "I came back with your baby." The way she smiled when she said it. All of it was a lie.I pressed both hands over my face and sat there until the room started to lighten at the edges.*******I was dressed and downstairs by seven.The garage was

Chapter 65 — Unraveling THE TRUTH

DAVID'S POVI sat in my car outside Harris's building for ten minutes with Lydia's pendant in my hand and my mind running in circles.She left the pendant. This was hers. That means she wrote the letter.She was playing with my mind. It was always her way of telling me something. "How did I not understand this earlier?"I pulled out my phone and called Maya. She picked up immediately."Is Lydia still at the office?" I asked.There was a pause. "She left about forty minutes ago. She is done for the day.""Okay, thanks."I hung up and started the car.******Her building was twenty minutes away.I pressed the intercom and waited. Her voice came through the speaker."Who is it?""David."There was a long silence. Long enough that I thought she was going to send me away through the speaker without opening the door. Then the buzzer sounded.She was waiting in the doorway when the elevator opened — home clothes, her hair loose, her arms crossed. The expression of a woman who had already dec

Chapter 66 — Cracks

LYDIA'S POVHe kissed me.I stood in my hallway after the door closed and pressed the back of my hand against my mouth and stood there for a moment. I couldn't stop myself from thinking about the unannounced kiss in my own doorway and how my hands had pushed him away but my feet did not move, like they had forgotten which direction away was.I walked to the kitchen. Sat down. Picked up my phone.I typed to Maya."I almost told David everything. I slipped up and said Ethan was at his place, and he heard it."Three dots appeared immediately.Then — "shit."I stared at the screen."Also, he kissed me."She was typing. Then — "LYDIA, what?"I put the phone face down on the table and placed my head on my counter. Then I picked the phone back up and called her.She answered immediately."Talk," she said."There is nothing to talk about." I dragged my fingertips across my forehead."You just told me your ex-husband kissed you and you almost confessed to a fake marriage, and you are telling m

Chapter 67 — “Let Me Go”

LYDIA'S POV"Don't give him anything," Ethan held my hands. "Don't confirm it. Don't deny it. Don't give him a single reason."My head hurt from the stress that came with David knowing about Ethan and me."He knows the date, Ethan.""He suspects the date. There is a difference. Knowing and suspecting are not the same thing, and David Cole does not have access to those documents without a court order.""He is resourceful.""So are we." His voice was firm. "Lydia. We are this close to the finish line on Hartwell. Two weeks. Do not let him destabilize you right now. Not when we are this close."I looked at the street ahead."Okay," I said."Okay," he said back. We got into the car and drove off.******The Hartwell final phase review was called for Thursday morning.The whole team from both sides assembled in David's conference room. It was the last major milestone before delivery and sign-off. I had been building toward this for months — the legal framework, the regulatory filings, the

Chapter 68 — What You Seek

DAVID'S POV"Sign the form, David." That was everything she said.I looked at her. Neither of us moved.She walked out, and the door clicked shut behind her. I sat down in my chair and put my head in my hands.The transfer form was still on my desk.I stared at it through my fingers. All it needed was one signature, and Lydia Shaw would walk out of this building, and I had no legitimate reason to call her back.I pressed the intercom on my desk."Marcus, I need you at my desk, like now."He appeared in under a minute, closed the door behind him, looked at the form on the desk, and looked at my face."Is there a way," I said. "Any professional reason. Any clause. Anything I can use to keep her with us?"Marcus looked at me for a long moment."David—""I am not ready to sign that form." My voice shook."I know.""Then help me find a reason not to."Marcus walked to the chair across from my desk and sat down. He leaned forward with his elbows on his knees and looked at me the way he look

CHAPTER 69 — THE INVITATION

LYDIA'S POVThe elevator doors opened.And the entire floor erupted.Confetti, streamers. A banner stretched across the main lobby that read WELCOME HOME, LYDIA. Patricia stood at the front with her arms wide and her reading glasses hanging from a chain around her neck. Maya was beside her holding a cake. The entire staff was there. Paralegals, associates, even the mailroom guy.I stood in the elevator with my bag on my shoulder and my mouth open."Surprise!" they shouted in unison.I stepped out with my hands over my mouth, water filled up my eyes. The doors closed behind me. Patricia walked toward me and pulled me into a hug."You did it," she said. "You finished the Hartwell project. You brought it home. You made this firm unstoppable.""I had help," I said."I know." She looked at Maya. "She is getting a raise."Maya smiled and held the cake higher.Patricia turned to the room. "Ladies and gentlemen, Lydia Shaw. She walked into the lion's den at Cole and Associates. She faced down

Chapter 70 — My breaking point.

LYDIA'S POVI sat on my kitchen counter at seven in the morning with my coffee going cold and my mother's number already dialing.She picked up immediately, like she had been awake for hours and was just waiting for someone to call."Baby." She called out."Morning Mama.""You sound like you did not sleep.""I slept." I pulled my knees to my chest. "A little."She paused and didn't say a word after that."I had dinner with Ethan last night mum," I said."I know, Sandra told me when I called.""Sandra told you?""Sandra tells me everything. That is why I like her." A pause. "How was it?"I looked at the window. The city was still gray outside, a bit cloudy."It was a normal date," I said. "He was gentle" I wrapped both hands around my cold cup. "He said he was going to wait.""And what did you say?""Nothing mum, I didn't know what to say."My mother was quiet for a moment. Then — "What do you want Lydia?"I closed my eyes and took a deep breath."I don't know.""Oh yes you do."I pres

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