Chapter 53 The Things We Still Want
Lauren’s POV
By the time we got home, Michael had barely spoken for forty minutes. I knew better than to push him. He had just hugged the woman who spent thirty-six years raising him and then watched her walk away to surrender herself to federal authorities. I couldn’t imagine what that felt like, a...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Gala
2. Chapter 2 "Thank you"
3. Chapter 3 Working for Michael Bennett
4. Chapter 4 A Night Away
5. Chapter 5 The Part I Couldn't Write Yet
6. Chapter 6 The Son He Didn’t Know
7. Chapter 7 The Marriage I Said Was a Bad Idea
8. Chapter 8 The Band Around His Ankle
9. Chapter 9 The Test That Broke Us
10. Chapter 10 When the Contract Stopped Mattering
11. Chapter 11 What Happens at the Mall
12. Chapter 12 The Wife They Didn't Want
13. Chapter 13 Mrs. Michael Bennett
14. Chapter 14 The Honeymoon We Never Had
15. Chapter 15 What Rachel Wanted Me to Believe
16. Chapter 16 The Baby She Said Was His
17. Chapter 17 Rachel Made One Mistake
18. Chapter 18 Test Him Again
19. Chapter 19 The Test They Suddenly Didn't Want
20. Chapter 20 No Lawyers This Time
21. Chapter 21 The First Lie That Broke
22. Chapter 22 Karma Keeps Receipts
23. Chapter 23 The Part That Was Actually Illegal
24. Chapter 24 What My Mother Never Told Me
25. Chapter 25 The Attention She Wanted
26. Chapter 26 She Knew Before the Hospital
27. Chapter 27 The Marriage That Was Never Required
28. Chapter 28 The Months After Everything Changed
29. Chapter 29 The Woman in the Baby Store
30. Chapter 30 Lunch With the Enemy
31. Chapter 31 What Diane Promised Her
32. Chapter 32 The Name He Inherited
33. Chapter 33 The Woman Who Died Having Him
34. Chapter 34 The Lies We Forgot to Chase
35. Chapter 35 The Family We Almost Lost
36. Chapter 36 Girls' Night With the Enemy
37. Chapter 37 The DNA Lie
38. Chapter 38 The Life We Still Wanted
39. Chapter 39 The House That Wasn't Ours Yet
40. Chapter 40 Stop the Divorce
41. Chapter 41 We're Still Married
42. Chapter 42 My Wife Came Home
43. Chapter 43 The Father Nobody Wanted to Name
44. Chapter 44 Just Dad
45. Chapter 45 Everything She Never Told Me
46. Chapter 46 No More Family Deals
47. Chapter 47 The Housewarming
48. Chapter 48 The Twelve Missing Minutes
49. Chapter 49 Our Little Dragon
50. Chapter 50 The People We're Keeping
51. Chapter 51 Rachel's Last Lie
52. Chapter 52 He Hurt You, I Didn't
53. Chapter 53 The Things We Still Want
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