Marry Ex's Billionaire Uncle After Divorce (Aurora and Jasper) novel Chapter 90

Chapter 61: I Can Handle It Alone–2

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“Okay, stop that,” I said. “You’re making me cry and that is extremely uncool for someone in my position.”

Leo let out a short, surprised laugh. It was the best sound I’d heard all week.

Martha came back with news that the results wouldn’t be ready until noon. Jasper announced he had a company to run and couldn’t spend the whole day sitting in a hospital corridor. Sienna agreed immediately, said she had prior commitments, and the two of them left together.

Neither of them looked in my direction on the way out.

I’d taken the full day off. I watched them go and felt nothing except a faint, practical irritation – I’d promised Phineas dinner and now I was going to miss it again.

I told Leo I’d be back in an hour and headed out.

The shopping street near the hospital had a row of boutiques I’d walked past a dozen times without stopping. I went into the men’s shop on the corner and found what I was looking for almost immediately – a pair of cufflinks in deep navy blue, simple and well–made, the kind of thing that didn’t announce itself.

I bought them without checking the price. I was standing at the register, card in hand, when I realized this was the first time I’d ever bought a gift for a man because I actually wanted to.

With Jasper, it had been habit. I’d booked his tailors, brought back things from business trips – Tom Ford, Brioni, whatever I thought suited him. I’d never needed to be asked. I’d just done it, the way I did everything in that marriage, quietly and without acknowledgment.

He’d never once bought me anything.

I stood at the register and thought about that, and then I laughed. Out loud, by myself, in a men’s boutique. The cashier looked at me.

“Sorry,” I said. “Just remembered something.”

I took the small velvet box and walked back to the hospital.

Martha met me at the door of the room. Her face was flushed, her hands clasped together.

“The results came in,” she said. “Jasper already knows.”

I looked past her at Leo. His face told me everything before she said the next part.

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Chapter 61. I Can Handle It Alone 2

“It’s a match,” Martha said. “Sienna’s a match.”

Leo’s expression was flat. Not relieved. Not hopeful. Just braced.

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Martha was already talking – when could Sienna come in, how soon could they schedule the procedure, who did she need to call – and then she stopped, because apparently Sienna had already responded to Jasper’s call.

“She says she’s busy,” Martha said. Her voice had gone tight. “She says her schedule is full. And she says-” Martha’s mouth pressed into a thin line. “She says she’ll only discuss it with Aurora directly.”

The room was very quiet.

Leo looked at me. I looked at the wall.

Of course she did.

Martha turned to me. “Whatever happened between you two, you need to fix it. Go to her. Apologize if you have to. She just needs to feel respected, that’s all – if you smooth things over, she’ll agree. I know she will.”

I didn’t say anything.

“Aurora.” Her voice rose. “This is your brother’s life.”

“I know what it is,” I said.

“Then go today. Go now. Don’t wait-”

“Weekend,” I said.

“What?”

“I’ll go on the weekend.” I looked at her steadily. “If I show up at her door today, she’ll know exactly how desperate we are. She’ll use it. She’ll push for more, and she’ll keep pushing because she’ll know she can. If I wait until the weekend, at least she has to wonder whether

I’m rattled.”

“Aurora, this is not the time to play games-”

“I’m not playing games. I’m thinking.” I kept my voice level. “Leo’s life is exactly why I can’t walk in there looking like I’ll agree to anything. That’s the worst position I could be in.”

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