Chapter 90 The Edge of Something Ugly
Upper West Side — Monday Morning
Nadia woke to sunlight cutting through half-closed blinds, a thin gold blade across unfamiliar sheets.
Carl’s rented apartment still smelled like his cologne—too sharp, too expensive for what it tried to hide.
She sat up slowly, pulling the comforter around herself...
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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 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 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
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