The Ex-Wife He Can't Get Over

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trees and the house lights started

was

hallway, casual as ever.

ed ups

Lucas said quietly.

self the luxury of brushing my hair methodically at the dressing table-not beca

, the door ope

I caught his reflection in the mirror. He scanned

e of the bed, resting

im downstairs. I'd have poured his tea, laid out clean t

I did non

yed q

ired-but not in a way that made me feel sorry for him. Just in a way

t up and headed i

een minutes passed. Then the so

abbed a towel and dried his

e it today," he said, voi

him through

looking at me w

ike he was checking

dily through the mir

t a di

n fr

nds and stared at me like he w

ng," he said

oward him. "Do I lo

"Didn't you just say a few days ago that you wante

he connection?"

ly about? You're tired of being a rich

from the dr

e grateful," I said,

es with you in a heartbeat? You live in comfort, everything's taken care of, and

CEO's wife who has to ask her husband's secretary just to get on the phone with him. Or who has to explain he

me like I'd

ll have? You think you'll be happy? You think the world's going to r

aid, my voice steady. "

the closet. I grabbed a suit

nything else, he stepped in fr

didn't say anything right away. He just stood th

r of u

ence st

spoke-his voice low

t it?" he said. "You're mad b

hands still resti

admit it. You've always hated that she and I had som

"I didn't take anything

answer r

in his expre

t with sadness or frustration, but something raw, unfiltered. It was like watching a mask fall away. The

now was someone I

move, he surged for

kiss-it was

s mouth was rough, urgent, full of something he didn't want to say out loud. It was aggressive, like he wa

eath caught somewhere in

ered, eyes still locked

right now, I'm about to do som

he grabbed my face and

h pressed to mine with rough insistence, the kind that ignored resistan

d up my neck, fast an

t I didn't pull away

mped. For a second, the room

before I could think clearly. I wasn't sure what startled me more: th