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Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 13.1: Luxuries
Cecilia Emeric’s words keep drifting back into my mind. “Move in with me if you must.” In that huffy, irritated tone of voice.I still start shaking with anger every time I think about it, even though it’s been two days since it happened.I kicked Emeric out of the cabin after he stormed inside behind me. And then I avoided him and his friends for the rest of the trip. Back home now, I’m wandering my apartment aimlessly and replaying the whole thing in my mind for probably the millionth time. Next thing I know, I’m in the kitchen, pouring myself a big glass of cabernet. I pause, though, when the glass is about half full. Because I’ve just realized that I don’t actually want to drink it. I dump the glass out in the sink. And then the rest of the bottle, too. I really don’t need to get drunk again and make another ill-advised phone call to my mother. And I don’t need to develop another bad habit to replace Emeric, either.I need to find a way to deal with this whole thing properly a
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 13.2: Restraint
CeciliaThe top floor is Emeric's separate office area, with everything you need for a living apartment. This sprawling, beautiful office has been like a second home to me for the better part of a decade. It does feel different now. Now that I’ve been gone a few weeks.It feels foreign. It feels like I shouldn’t be here.“Anna, get us two coffees.” Emeric clicks an ink pen closed and tosses it down onto a mess of paperwork on his desk.“Right away, sir.” Anna turns on her heel and hurries out of the office.“Have a seat.” Emeric gestures to the client chair opposite him.I don’t want to sit, though. I shake my head slowly and remain where I am.His dark eyes narrow just a little.“Blocked my number?” He gives me a hard, blank look, reclining in his big leather chair. I just shrug. His question was rhetorical. He knows I blocked him. Emeric outright glares at me now. “Listen, what day are you moving in?” he says. “Call my driver if you have a lot of stuff to bring over. You have hi
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 14: It's Over
Cecilia He just wants to control me. I can see now what’s happening. Emeric’s probably not even aware of it himself, but I know him. I have studied him for years and can read him like a book.Emeric is a control freak, and I used to let him control me. Now, he hates that he can no longer do whatever he wants with me.…and he wants to break me back into submission. I take another deep breath before I answer. “Setting aside the facts that your sister would never approve of me living with you, and that you don’t even seem to like the idea of living with me—can we just talk about us for a minute first, Emeric?” Emeric half groans, half growls. He looks down at his watch. “You want to keep talking? Fine. You have ten minutes.” What I really want is to leave this place immediately. But I guess I have more work to do, to find a way to get through to Emeric and appease him enough that he won’t retaliate against my current employer.Holding eye contact with him is intense and exhausting.
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 15.1 : Not Everyone Can Do What Cecilia Does
AnnaI always knew there was something going on between the two of them, but this?!What the hell is this game they’re playing? Clearly, there’s more to Mr. Garvalle’s relationship with Cecilia than his gossipy sister has told me. Clearly Serena didn’t have all the facts, herself. The tension between my boss and his former secretary is impossible to ignore as I move through the scene awkwardly, doing my best to act professional and not like I’m internally screaming at the revelation unfolding right in front of me. I watch Cecilia leave the office and turn my back to her. I don’t want to catch her eye again.Mr. Garvalle is frowning at a file, but it doesn’t really look like he’s actually reading. “Mr. Garvalle?” I ask timidly. “Your driver is still waiting at—” “Driver?” He looks up at me, distracted. “Oh. Just tell him to go.” “Alright.” “Where did Cecilia used to send my clothes to be cleaned?” Nervous, I offer the boss a polite smile. I don’t think he’ll like it when I tell
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 15.2 : All He Wants
EmericThings were good the way they were. And I don’t even know where it all went wrong. Cecilia just spiraled out of control and decided to cut me off out of nowhere. She just up and left me with no notice. Left without teaching anyone how to do what she did, how to run things around here. It wasn’t right, the way she just abandoned me. And usually, when something’s not right, I make it right.I’m going to get my girl back. At this point, it’s just a question of how long she’ll hold out. I am getting tired of waiting, though. I didn’t do anything to deserve this in the first place, and it really has gone on quite long enough.I was surprised to hear her say she thought about me marrying her. That came out of nowhere, and it took all my restraint to keep from reminding her who I am and how absurd she sounded.I hardly knew how to respond when she said that. But I’ve decided I will not let her use that, or anything else, to try to scare me away. If Cecilia thinks she is in control
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 16.1: Wicked Fantasy
CeciliaI really thought Emeric would leave me alone this time. But his people just keep coming after me.“It’s Anna from AtCap,” the front desk receptionist says. “She says it’s urgent.” I thank my colleague politely and stare at the blinking green light on the desk phone. Line one is on hold. I want to talk to Anna about as much as I want to talk to Emeric. I already ignored her calls and texts over the past few days while I was taking some time off. Now she’s calling my office as well? That I can’t ignore.I press the button to pick the line. “Anna?” “Miss Thornhill,” she answers quietly, “I’m so sorry to bother you, but I need to ask you a few things.”I’m surprised at the hesitance in her voice. But then I think about her being on her own with Emeric for the past few weeks. It must be taking a toll on her. Not everyone is equipped to deal with his intensity.Maybe only those blinded by hopeless love for him.“Fine,” I tell Anna. “If I answer your questions, will you stop call
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 16.2: Not A Date
Cecilia“Isn’t that enough?” he asked the last time we spoke, with disgust in his voice.He thought I wanted too much from him. And yet he took everything I had to give. My services as a personal assistant, personal chef, dry cleaner, caterer. My loyalty and devotion. My body.I even moved to be closer to him when I first started working at AtCap, and it’s expensive to live in this part of the city. It crossed my mind that I could move now to somewhere more affordable, but I’ve grown pretty attached to my modest but beautiful little apartment and the gorgeous downtown skyline view I’ve got from my bedroom window. Anna’s call started me thinking about all the things I’ve poured money into for Emeric’s sake. The laundry, the food, the gas I spend going to and from his place all the time. I have to admit, I’d be in much better financial shape if I hadn’t done all that. It’s almost funny that Serena thinks I’m a gold digger. She has no idea how much money I’ve spent on services for Emer
Last Updated : 2024-07-22Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 17.1: Pushed Too Far
Cecilia“I’m just calling Miss Thornhill,” Anna pleads.The fearful warble in her voice almost makes me feel sorry for her. But then I hear Emeric’s voice again and I remember I’m supposed to have already wrenched myself free from all this. “You know that I told you—” my ex-boss starts shouting. I’m so tired of that voice. That anger. And I don’t have to listen to it anymore. I hang up. I tell one of our paralegals that I need help screening my calls.“Put clients through, but anyone else, tell them I’m not here and take a message. Especially anyone from AtCap.” I suspect my paralegal had already heard the rumours about me. He knew that I had got a new mobile phone, that only he and our boss Roy knew the number.The young man nods. “Of course. I’ll talk to the front desk.” I don’t have any more meetings today and I’m not expecting any calls. So I tell the paralegal to close my office door behind him, and then I unplug my desk phone and power down my cell.Anna has only herself
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CeciliaMrs. Garvalle looks shocked for a moment. She probably didn't expect Emeric to say that.But after a brief hesitation, she smiles and says, “Of course not. I would love for you to move in with Emeric, Cecilia. I’ll feel much better knowing my son has you there to take care of him.”Emeric’s dark eyes slide from his mother to me, his lips curled in a satisfied smile.What a touching scene of love between a mother and her son. Too bad I can't enjoy it one bit. “I’m afraid I must rudely decline the both of you,” I say politely. “I’m busy with my new job and my own life. Mr. Garvalle will have to find someone else to be his live-in caretaker.”
Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 18.2: Cat and Mouse
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Ex Mate's Regret: Love Rehab for Her One-Sided Mate Chapter 18.1: No Second Choice
Cecilia“I’ll tell him I can’t reach you,” Roy is just as cunning as any businessman, putting the whole thing on me.“If you really want to dodge Garvalle,” Roy says after a pause," Maybe you should leave town for a while.”It might not be a long-term solution, but some time out of the city doesn’t sound like a bad idea. What more can Emeric or Anna actually do, after all, if they can’t reach me? An early morning phone call from my paralegal provides one answer to that question. He informs me that Anna showed up at the firm looking for me, storming into the office with several others from AtCap. Security had been called. Anna was still on the property, though. They still haven't left even now. Still waiting for me.“Don’t come in today, Cecilia,” Danny warns needlessly. I thought about what Anna said yesterday, about her boyfriend being sacked from Emeric. I guess that's why she came to see me. But I'm not on speaking terms with her anymore. If something happens, she should go t
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Cecilia“I’m just calling Miss Thornhill,” Anna pleads.The fearful warble in her voice almost makes me feel sorry for her. But then I hear Emeric’s voice again and I remember I’m supposed to have already wrenched myself free from all this. “You know that I told you—” my ex-boss starts shouting. I’m so tired of that voice. That anger. And I don’t have to listen to it anymore. I hang up. I tell one of our paralegals that I need help screening my calls.“Put clients through, but anyone else, tell them I’m not here and take a message. Especially anyone from AtCap.” I suspect my paralegal had already heard the rumours about me. He knew that I had got a new mobile phone, that only he and our boss Roy knew the number.The young man nods. “Of course. I’ll talk to the front desk.” I don’t have any more meetings today and I’m not expecting any calls. So I tell the paralegal to close my office door behind him, and then I unplug my desk phone and power down my cell.Anna has only herself
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Cecilia“Isn’t that enough?” he asked the last time we spoke, with disgust in his voice.He thought I wanted too much from him. And yet he took everything I had to give. My services as a personal assistant, personal chef, dry cleaner, caterer. My loyalty and devotion. My body.I even moved to be closer to him when I first started working at AtCap, and it’s expensive to live in this part of the city. It crossed my mind that I could move now to somewhere more affordable, but I’ve grown pretty attached to my modest but beautiful little apartment and the gorgeous downtown skyline view I’ve got from my bedroom window. Anna’s call started me thinking about all the things I’ve poured money into for Emeric’s sake. The laundry, the food, the gas I spend going to and from his place all the time. I have to admit, I’d be in much better financial shape if I hadn’t done all that. It’s almost funny that Serena thinks I’m a gold digger. She has no idea how much money I’ve spent on services for Emer
