Chapter 7

Nathan bent down to the little boy, smiling, touching his face–a perfect miniature of his own.

Cooper chattered excitedly about preschool while Claire looked on with a gentle smile. The picture–perfect Greenwich family.

When Cooper reached up for a hug. Nathan stepped back smoothly.

“Cooper, we’ve discussed this,”

The little boy’s lower lip trembled. “Why can all my friends at Greenwich Academy hug their daddies but I can’t? I don’t even drink milk anymore!”

Nathan gave Claire a cold look

She quickly stepped in, her voice soft. “Daddy has to go back to work, sweetheart. Don’t fuss.”

“Why does Daddy always work at night?”

Claire hesitated, then whispered to Nathan: “Can’t you stay? Just this once?”

His face darkened.

“If she comes to the office again, you leave the building immediately. If you appear in front of her again – -accidentally or not you know the consequences.”

He checked his Patek Philippe, pulled on his Brunello coat, and strode out.

Minutes later, when the living room cleared, I fled.

I drove blindly through the snow, my Cayenne cutting through the gathering storm

Ten years ago, on another snowy day.

cuddled in Mom’s lap in our Mercedes when we saw him- a thin figure shivering in the snow, selling gloves from a

skidded, knocking

but Nathan just shook his head,

hands.

too poor to wear them himself.

my window, smiling. “How much for

mine. “Eight for

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take one of each. You choose.”

me pink and black pairs.

I smiled. “They’re for

1

we drove away, I looked back.

lonely boy stood straight as an arrow in the snow, watching

saw his potential, backed his

years.

means Claire got pregnant a year after our wedding.

six months after Nathan first

died

wheel, sobbing like a child.

life

wealthy, popular everyone’s favorite Upper East Side princess. Divorced parents who remained friends- Mom the CEO, Dad the Columbia professor both showering me with love.

worshipped me. Every look,

my PCOS would make conception difficult, Nathan just joked that meant he’d have me all to

himself.

more

But all along-

drowning in grief over

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