Billionaire, I Am Not Your Wife! novel Chapter 262

<What He Tells Himse!!

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The specific, building fury of a man who had spent his entire life arranging things correctly, managing every variable, controlling every outcome and who kept finding, again and again, that the world simply refused to cooperate with the version of events he had constructed. The car. The investigator who’d folded under pressure. The financial trail that should have been buried three layers deep and apparently wasn’t deep enough.

“Handle it,” I said. “That’s what I pay you for.”

“Logan, I need you to understand the seriousness

“I understand it fine,” I said, and hung up.

I sat for a long time after that, the whiskey forgotten in my hand.

At some point I picked up my phone and found, without quite deciding to look for it, a photograph of Nick. Recently Catherine had sent it weeks ago, Nick at the school gate, backpack lopsided, grinning at something off-camera.

I looked at it for a long moment. And for one disorienting second gone almost as quickly as it arrived.. I felt like a stranger looking at a photograph of someone else’s child. A boy I recognized but didn’t fully know anymore.

I did not know my own son anymore. A sone who kept secrets and had been talking to his mum behind my back, and staying in my house.

The thought sat there, raw and unbearable, for exactly as long as I allowed it to.

I finished the whiskey and I poured another.

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