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Chapter 107
He paused then Let that sit for a moment.Then he continued, his tone quieter but no less firm, the way a man speaks when he wants his words to be remembered rather than merely heard."But I want you to understand that what you just said was disrespectful, and it was unnecessary, and if you only knew the extent to which Mr. Ben pleaded with me to be here tonight, if you understood what it actually took for him to reach me, what he had to say and how many times he had to say it before I agreed to come, then you would not be standing at this door asking me if I missed my way — you would be stepping aside and saying thank you."He did not raise his voice.He did not point a finger.He did not perform the anger that any reasonable person would have felt, but simply let the truth of what he had said hang in the air between them like a statement that required no further decoration to make its point."Mind the way you speak to me," he added quietly, and then said nothing more.James stood th
Chapter 106
So at that moment in time, without wasting another second and without allowing the skepticism written all over James's face to go unanswered or unchallenged, Otis drew himself up quietly and looked directly at the man standing before him, and when he spoke, his voice carried the kind of measured calm that belonged not to someone who had nothing to prove but to someone who had long since stopped feeling the need to prove anything to anyone, and yet who still understood, with deep and practiced patience, that there were moments when a few carefully chosen words could accomplish what an argument never could."It seems you are Mr. James," Otis said, his tone even, almost conversational, as though they were meeting under entirely ordinary circumstances rather than at the door of a house where a sick child was waiting and a grown man was standing guard with his doubts like a locked gate, "and you are definitely Mr. Ben's friend, so let me just go straight to the point without wasting any mo
Chapter 105
He had already turned his attention elsewhere, already moved on to the next thing, already dismissed her threats as though they were no more significant than background noise, and that indifference, that absolute refusal to be shaken, was somehow more cutting than any insult he could have thrown back at her.Megan opened her mouth to say something else, something sharper, something that would force him to acknowledge her, to look at her, to feel something, anything, but before she could get the words out, Otis was already walking away."I'm going now," she called after him, her voice rising slightly with desperation she hated herself for revealing, "and you should know that you're going to get a letter of divorce very, very soon."But Otis didn't listen, he didn't stop either He simply kept walking, his stride steady and unhurried, as though she had not spoken at all, as though the entire conversation had already ended in his mind and there was no reason to extend it further, and wit
Chapter 104
At that moment in time, without wasting another second, without allowing the weight of Megan's words to settle into the space between them or permitting the threat she had just made to linger unchallenged in the air, Otis responded with the kind of calm that could only belong to someone who had either stopped caring entirely or had never been worried in the first place, and when he spoke, his voice was so even, so unbothered, so stripped of defensiveness or anger or fear, that it almost sounded like he was discussing the weather rather than the dissolution of his own marriage."Well," he said, looking at Megan with an expression that gave nothing away, "I'll be waiting for the time in which the divorce is going to come in. Yes, I'll be waiting. But for now, since I'm certain that the divorce is not going to come any moment soon, since I'm certain that the divorce is not even going to arrive as quickly as you seem to think it will, that simply means I actually have nothing to worry abou
Chapter 103
Then, without wasting another second and without allowing the silence to stretch long enough for anyone to fill it with more questions or more tension, Penelope spoke again, her voice soft but clear, and there was a faint smile on her lips now, not mocking, not cruel, but satisfied in a way that made Megan's jealousy flare even hotter."I will be expecting your call," Penelope said, her words directed at Otis but her eyes already beginning to drift elsewhere, as though the exchange had concluded to her satisfaction and there was no reason to linger in the awkwardness that now filled the space around them.Then she turned.She looked at Megan.She looked at Melissa.She held their gazes for just a moment, long enough for them to understand that she had seen everything, felt everything, understood everything, and then, with that same faint smile still playing at the corners of her mouth, she shook her head ever so slightly, a gesture that could have meant anything or nothing but somehow
Chapter 102
In the meantime, upon hearing Otis say that he was going to give Penelope a call, upon hearing those simple words spoken so calmly and so directly without any hesitation or shame, Megan felt something inside her snap in a way she had not anticipated, something that had been sitting quietly beneath her confusion and doubt all evening but had now, with those few words, broken loose and flooded through her with a force she could barely contain, because this was no longer abstract tension or vague suspicion or even private frustration, this was jealousy, raw and undeniable and impossible to dress up as anything else, and it burned through her chest with a heat that made her hands tighten into fists at her sides even as she tried desperately to keep her face from betraying the full extent of what she felt.Melissa, standing beside her, was not faring much better, though her reaction took a different shape entirely, less jealousy and more pure shock, the kind of shock that comes when reality
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