The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 329

Too Busy Being Happy 

ALISTAIR POV: 

The morning light came through the big and huge windows of the hotel suite, soft and golden, and I stood there with a cup of coffee in my hand and a feeling in my chest that I had almost forgotten existed. 

Happiness. 

Real happiness. 

Vesper was back. 

I turned away from the window and looked at the bed. She was still asleep, her dark hair spread across the pillow, her lips slightly parted, one bare shoulder exposed above the white sheet. She looked the same as she had all those years ago, younger, somehow, even though we both knew time had passed. The same delicate curve of her jaw. The same soft rise and fall of her breathing. The same way of taking up space in a room without seeming to try. 

I had loved her for so long that I couldn’t remember what my life felt like before her. 

Not that we had ever been together. Not really. Back then, I was no one. A college kid with ambition and nothing else. No money, no connections, no way to give her the life she deserved. I watched her leave, watched her choose someone else, someone richer, someone who could offer her things I couldn’t even dream of, and I told myself that someday, things would be different. 

Now they were. 

The company was mine. The money was mine. The power was mine. And Vesper was back, divorced and alone and looking at me the way she used to look at me, back when we were young enough to believe that love was enough. 

I took a sip of my coffee and smiled. 

My phone buzzed on the nightstand. 

I glanced at the screen. Mary’s name lit up the display, accompanied by the photo I had set years ago, a picture from our wedding day, her in white, me in a suit that didn’t quite fit. She was smiling in that photo. Laughing at something I had said. She looked beautiful, I supposed. She had always looked beautiful, in a quiet, unassuming way. 

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