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Chapter 232: She’s on my mind, Part 1.

Alexander

The Boston floor plan had been open in front of me for twenty minutes… Maybe thirty, maybe an hour. It didn’t matter.

My eyes scanned the figurestimated times, construction schedules, city permits, office layouts, opening phases, and rele because I don’t usually

I’m a man of focus

things I can’t capi

Boston was get progress.

The expans contracts

my car

one f

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istics… but my mind wasn’t there. It was far away. And that irritated me,

anticipation. I don’t sit down at a desk to waste time thinking about er, that afternoon, in my office, my mind was betraying me.

ew weeks, Clara and I would travel there to personally review the

r an ambitious idea; it was a reality taking shape. Concrete, steel, signed And yet… What slipped in amidst all that was Vanessa. Not Vanessa crying in in the parking lot, not Vanessa furious with Ethan. No. The other Vanessa, the one who came into my room, unable to sleep. The one who looked at me like a oke shamelessly of desire, the one who touched me with unexpected confidence.

air and turned slowly, looking at the city through the window.

rmured.

guilty, I didn’t… We were both clear, there were no promises, no lies, no sentimentality sing each other to extinguish something that burned. And yet, my body remembered.

s remembers what the mind tries to suppress. The way she looked at me, the way she e audacity, the need.

ened; it wasn’t love, it wasn’t serious interest, it wasn’t anything confusing. But there was simpler and more dangerous… Desire.

the desk with my fingers, impatient with myself,

d up a document, oper

e in

or opened a

1. With

vas a knock at the door

ted. Not in the vulgar way a man looks at

ssed with that natural elegance that can’t be bought Senious

e shoulder. Her stride confident. And I felt the same as always mposed when she was near.

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“Clara.”

She gave me a professional smile.

interrupting?

ated the seat across from me.

se.”

e sat down with measured grace ossed her legs, and placed the folder on the desk.

I’ve come to review the Bost

I nodded.

“Would you like coffee?

She shook her head

“Nothing, thank yo

I sat acrossf always tha

assertive

every s

She

D

e team of architects moved up the dates.”

as she spoke, observing her without intruding. With Clara, there was never cross if I wanted to keep her close. With other women, I could be dominate the space; with Clara, I couldn’t. With Clara, one had to earn perhaps that’s why I could never truly let go of her.

echnical meetings. I responded as needed. But even there, with her in front of capable… I understood once again the stark difference between one woman

Vanessa stirred drive. One made me think about the future. The other about a more about me than I liked to admit.

explaining, she handed me the folder.

he asked suddenly.

sk?

little… distracted

htly

jing whether I was telling the truth Then she stood up

ve a lot going on these next few days.

Boston office, we can breathe easier

N

T ship

and

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Now that you mention it, after the opening, I’d like to talk to you about something important.”

Her face changed slightly, as did her tone.

That was strange… How ironie.

I just nodded as I watched her… She was always so proper, so oblivious to the chaos she caused.

I walked her to the door.

“See you tomorrow.”

“Goodbye.”

She left… And the f

I stood still, ther

I wasn’t going strategies if

Clara wa almos

B

eft behind lingered with me for too long.

new it. I could lie to myself some days, fantasize others, devise absurd he truth remained the same.

d to be, with Ethan. I’m more realistic than Vanessa, and all my options are cling to that “almost” to maintain what little faith I have left.

many resources I had, couldn’t buy someone else’s choice.

I thought of Vanessa again. She would open the door, she would answer, she simple things.

And the day was ending. I should have gone home, I should have continued with have acted like a reasonable man. Instead, I grabbed my keys.

t has always seemed honest to me the lights don’t promise purity. They only reveal desire, weariness.

anessa’s building unannounced, not thinking much during the drive. That was also unusual for at upstairs, knocked on her door, heard footsteps.

clicked, and there she was in a light nightgown tied around her waist, her hair loose, her face free eup. She looked younger li

yes widened when sh

t are you doing h

n’t answer, I

bed ins

More real.

to chat.

d closed the door behind us with my hand

prise and instant understanding

n and warm

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“Alexander

1 gently

I to

ound, authoritatively, until her back was to me.

er neck the fabric of her robe was barely a symbolic barrier.

her legs a few inches, feeling her tense.

y from behind, her back against my chest, my mouth close to her ear. And for the first silence inside my head. Not Boston, not Clara, not Ethan, not strategies. Just the

ced her hands on my forearms, not to push me away, but to hold on.

me…” she whispered.

my face in her neck for just a second.

talk too much.”

her smile, and I understood something uncomfortable but true: sometimes even men like me don’t for complications, they look for a break. And Vanessa, for now, served exactly that purpose. And she. e allowed it…

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