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

knocking over

Nathan just shook his head, silently

hands.

poor to

window, smiling. “How much for the

eyes meeting mine. “Eight for ladies,

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one of each.

handed me pink

the black ones,” I

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drove away, I looked back.

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

his education,

been married five years.

got pregnant a year after

after Nathan

Mom died at Sloan

gripped the steering wheel, sobbing like a child.

my life was charmed.

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

marriage, Nathan worshipped me. Every look, every gesture screamed

my PCOS would make conception difficult, Nathan just joked that

himself.

me believe I meant more

But all along-

in grief over Mom.

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