Chapter 153 Do You Ever Relax?

The bedroom door clicked softly behind Marcus, leaving Amelia alone with the remains of a lunch she had barely touched and a story she could not seem to put down.

For several minutes, she simply sat there.

The soup Bruce had sent upstairs was still warm, although steam no longer curled from the bo...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 The Lunch Invitation

2. Chapter 2 The Offer

3. Chapter 3 What's Left Unsaid

4. Chapter 4 The Night Before

5. Chapter 5 A Matter of Order

6. Chapter 6 Soup, Salad, and a Suit

7. Chapter 7 The Art of Poise

8. Chapter 8 Hors d’oeuvres are like… foreplay for dinner

9. Chapter 9 Consider It an Intervention

10. Chapter 10 Wine, Warnings and What-Ifs

11. Chapter 11 The Weight of Morning

12. Chapter 12 See you at lunch, babe?

13. Chapter 13 You think I can’t handle a slider?

14. Chapter 14 I Know Exactly What She Means

15. Chapter 15 Short-Circuit

16. Chapter 16 I'll Be Everything

17. Chapter 17 Getting Dangerous? It's Already There

18. Chapter 18 Then Don't

19. Chapter 19 She's Not Okay

20. Chapter 20 We've Got You

21. Chapter 21 Not With Me

22. Chapter 22 You Look Good In Blue

23. Chapter 23 As I'll Ever Be

24. Chapter 24 Stay In The Car

25. Chapter 25 You're Good At That

26. Chapter 26 He's A Goner

27. Chapter 27 To Girls' Night

28. Chapter 28 I Need You

29. Chapter 29 Not Today

30. Chapter 30 Where The Hell Have You Been?

31. Chapter 31 I'd Give You a Whole Damn Football Team

32. Chapter 32 Careful Amelia

33. Chapter 33 The Floor Below

34. Chapter 34 Red Flag Much?

35. Chapter 35 Already A Liability

36. Chapter 36 Shadows

37. Chapter 37 How Soon?

38. Chapter 38 Chapter 38

39. Chapter 39 Chapter 39

40. Chapter 40 I Don't Say Things I Don't Mean

41. Chapter 41 Let Go For Me

42. Chapter 42 Six years Ago

43. Chapter 43 Every Damn Second

44. Chapter 44 She's Here to See Carl

45. Chapter 45 You've Got Something That Belongs to Me

46. Chapter 46 Sorry About That, Angel

47. Chapter 47 Paperwork Catching Up to Reality

48. Chapter 48 You're Distracting My Date

49. Chapter 49 I Was Invited

50. Chapter 50 I Want Pancakes...

51. Chapter 51 What's The Most Dangerous Thing You've Done at 2AM?

52. Chapter 52 Already Done

53. Chapter 53 Let Her Come Over

54. Chapter 54 Miss Me?

55. Chapter 55 Hide and Seek

56. Chapter 56 Yes, That Hearst

57. Chapter 57 My New Default Setting

58. Chapter 58 She's Not My Ex

59. Chapter 59 He'll Want It Back

60. Chapter 60 We Don't Demand

61. Chapter 61 Carls POV

62. Chapter 62 Nadia's Plan?

63. Chapter 63 Lovely day

64. Chapter 64 One call away

65. Chapter 65 And it begins

66. Chapter 66 So, You Want To Do This Here?

67. Chapter 67 Honey, the scarf's doing overtime and losing

68. Chapter 68 We Need Details

69. Chapter 69 Not By a Long Shot

70. Chapter 70 You say what?

71. Chapter 71 Gangs all here

72. Chapter 72 When the Laughing Stopped

73. Chapter 73 Once You're Back

74. Chapter 74 Two Wings, Two Nurseries, Two Mothers

75. Chapter 75 We're Really in a Lifetime Movie Now, Huh?

76. Chapter 76 You're Staying Too

77. Chapter 77 When The Gavel Drops

78. Chapter 78 You're A Sick Man Hearst

79. Chapter 79 You've Officially Been Served

80. Chapter 80 She's Not Safe

81. Chapter 81 Just tell me when

82. Chapter 82 Chicken Preferences and Sock Etiquette

83. Chapter 83 You’re my kind of man

84. Chapter 84 What is this—Ocean’s Four?

85. Chapter 85 I Just Want to Go Home

86. Chapter 86 I Think... You Should Go Outside, Sweetheart

87. Chapter 87 You Planned All of This?

88. Chapter 88 A Couple Chickens to Seal The Deal

89. Chapter 89 Everything Spiraling

90. Chapter 90 The Edge of Something Ugly

91. Chapter 91 The People of the State of New York vs. Carl Pierce

92. Chapter 92 I Owe You Both

93. Chapter 93 You're Such a Romantic

94. Chapter 94 Call Lighting, Double the Twinkle

95. Chapter 95 If They Want War, Then They Got One

96. Chapter 96 I've Been Digging

97. Chapter 97 This Can't End Well For You

98. Chapter 98 Totally Screwed? Maybe

99. Chapter 99 Checkmate

100. Chapter 100 Ashley threw The First Punch

101. Chapter 101 Claiming What's Mine Part 1

102. Chapter 102 Claiming What's Mine Part 2

103. Chapter 103 Rather Large Accident

104. Chapter 104 You Did All That This Morning?

105. Chapter 105 Steal Me for Lunch Sweetheart

106. Chapter 106 You are On Your Final Warning

107. Chapter 107 Yeah, well, it Only Takes One

108. Chapter 108 The Vision Unfolds

109. Chapter 109 Another Waffle

110. Chapter 110 We're In The Kitchen

111. Chapter 111 Dress Mission Day

112. Chapter 112 He's Going To Pass Out

113. Chapter 113 Perfect Night

114. Chapter 114 You Wanted to Talk?

115. Chapter 115 This Feels Right

116. Chapter 116 There's More?

117. Chapter 117 One Big Combo Order

118. Chapter 118 Tonight's On Me

119. Chapter 119 Because You Called It...

120. Chapter 120 What Are You Doing?

121. Chapter 121 Back to Business

122. Chapter 122 Have You Accepted Jesus Christ as You Lord and Savior?

123. Chapter 123 Don't Speak Unless Asked

124. Chapter 124 You've Already Decided

125. Chapter 125 Magic Without the Frostbite

126. Chapter 126 The Others Will Understand

127. Chapter 127 Strawberry Kisses

128. Chapter 128 Tick, Tick, Tick

129. Chapter 129 Tequila Sunsets and Empires Completed

130. Chapter 130 We Look Out For Each Other

131. Chapter 131 It's Not Just A Virus

132. Chapter 132 Sworn to Secrecy

133. Chapter 133 Let's Hope The First One Works

134. Chapter 134 Beautiful, That's How Big

135. Chapter 135 Precious Cargo

136. Chapter 136 I Dream About Sleeping

137. Chapter 137 Ornaments, maybe?

138. Chapter 138 Thoughtful Gifts

139. Chapter 139 That Was Intense

140. Chapter 140 I'm Still Seeing Glitter Spots

141. Chapter 141 Welcome Home, Both of You

142. Chapter 142 Take Your Time

143. Chapter 143 Christmas Eve Continues

144. Chapter 144 Christmas Morning

145. Chapter 145 Christmas Morning Part 2

146. Chapter 146 Unscripted

147. Chapter 147 You Changed My Hot Chocolate

148. Chapter 148 You're on Thin Ice