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Because Liz knew that if it was her decision, she would choose his happiness over hers any day

Chapter 31

BRADY

Brady stared out across the sea of people The ballroo his naive his acceptance speech He had won the nomination to run for the House of Representatives in his party He had won

All of the tiiven up had been worth it The people in his district had voted, and here he was preparing to step up to the podium to accept the nomination It was surreal to finally have within ar toward all this ti out of the race had helped the situation He had been a h still Brady had beaten him by only a thousand votes He wished he kne iven him compared to the amount of effort he had put in himself

In the end, it didn’t matter He was still here, exactly where he wanted to be

"Congratulations!" Heather cried, rushing toward hiiant smile plastered on her face It was the first real smile he had seen from her in a while She had been even more stressed than he was these last couple weeks

She wrapped her ar, the way she used to when they had been running in smaller races She didn’t even touch him anymore; she was too worried about appearances

Brady patted her on the back and Heather released hi a bit flustered

"I knew you could do it," she said, straightening diploreatest feat to date, she still couldn’t be herself Sometimes he missed the old Heather

"Thanks," Brady said, for once not knohat else to say

"How does it feel?" she asked Her delight ritten all over her body Most other peoplearound the roos--like the way she gripped her hands together, the set of her shoulders, and her easy breaths They had been in this business together too long already

"It feels da that to the press," Heather said cheekily

"Would I ever?" he asked, raising an eyebrow

Heather leaned in closer and checked toaround therossed in their own excitement to pay him too much attention It was a bit ironic

"Fuck, Brady We actually did it We beat the odds We beat Yates and Hardy Despite youa field day, we still ht with emotion "We can win"

And there it was It always came back to Liz All of the dates that Heather had put on his arht, but it didn’t matter Because to Heather, he had slipped up, he had fucked Liz, and he had carried on an illicit relationship behind Heather’s back Even though he wasn’t dating someone else, or married, or had kids…it still always came back to that

Brady wondered whether Heather even noticed how irritated that made him

"Yes, I believe we can win," he said curtly "Excuse e"

"Of course," she said "Congratulations again Alex said for you to take two days off, and then ere going to sit down and plot strategy I know that we already have the skeleton in place, but now that we have the nomination, he wants it all finalized"

"Sounds perfect Friday it is," Brady said Heather turned to leave, but Brady stopped her "And hey, Heather…"

"Yes?"

"Thanks for all of your hard work"

"Wouldn’t have done it for anyone else," she said sincerely before departing

Brady sighed and walked away fro to find a lad that he had a new number that wasn’t tapped…yet He understood that people wanted to get dirt on hi