Remarried After I Secretly Divorced the CEO novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: What Max Wants

At midnight I found Max in his kitchen, eating cereal out of a mixing bowl.

He wore a gray T-shirt with a hole in the collar and had the expression of a man caught stealing from himself.

"Don't tell the chairman," he said.

"I'd have to explain what I was doing awake."

"What were you doing awake?"

"Counting plaques."

He pushed a second bowl across the island.

I sat on the stool beside him in my borrowed robe.

For a while we ate in a silence that had no corners in it.

"I'm sorry about the line," I said finally. "The date, the church. I know what it costs you if I walk."

"You don't owe me a church."

"I owe you eight weeks."

"You owe me four of them, and you've paid more than that." He tipped his bowl and drank the milk. "You got my tower stopped, and then you got it saved. I'd call that overpaid."

"I got your tower stopped by being a person Victoria hated."

"It's an accomplishment. I've never managed it."

"You were her friend."

"For about a week, at Stanford. She came to see Kieran and I was the one who answered the door." He shrugged. "She looked at me the way you look at a coat you've decided not to buy."

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