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.

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

skidded, knocking

Nathan just shook his head, silently gathering

hands.

gloves, but too poor to

“How

eyes meeting mine. “Eight for ladies,

Chapter 7

of each. You

me pink and black pairs.

I smiled.

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we drove away, I

stood straight as an arrow in

reunited at Harvard. Mom saw his potential, backed his education, sent us both to

been married five years. Cooper looks about

Claire got pregnant a year after

after Nathan first

weeks after Mom died at Sloan

wheel, sobbing

life

wealthy, popular everyone’s favorite Upper East Side princess. Divorced parents who remained friends- Mom the CEO, Dad

Every

difficult, Nathan just joked that meant he’d have me all to

himself.

I meant more to him than life itself.

But all along-

drowning in

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