AN AFFAIR WITH MY FIANCE'S FATHER
Some mistakes follow you home.
Brielle Hayes is twenty-two, beautiful, and completely done with love. After a heartbreak that wrecked her at nineteen, she traded romance for recklessness, late nights, wrong decisions, and men whose names she forgets by morning. It works for her, until it doesn't.
When Reid Callum walks back into her life after six years away, something she buried a long time ago starts pushing its way back to the surface. He's her best friend's older brother. Her first ever crush. And the worst possible person to feel anything for, especially now because Brielle is already tangled in a secret that could destroy everything.
A forbidden affair. A pregnancy nobody saw coming. A best friend who trusted her with everything. And a family that is about to combust in ways none of them are prepared for.
When the truth finally comes out, Brielle loses it all in a single night.
So she runs.
But what she finds at the end of that road will shake her more than anything she left behind. Secrets buried twenty years before she was even born, a mother she never knew, and the truth about where she really comes from.
Some mistakes follow you home.
Others were waiting there long before you arrived.
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Chapter: Checkmate Professor.I stood in that corridor for a full ten seconds just staring at the closed door.Then I started walking.Just the steady purposeful walk of a person who had just seen something that was going to be very useful to her and needed a moment to figure out exactly how useful.Professor Marcus Cole?I turned the corner and almost laughed out loud.This man. This same man who had grabbed my wrist and looked at me like I was something he had already categorized and dismissed. This same man who had sat behind that desk with his controlled voice and his empty threats and his carefully maintained professional distance and told me in no uncertain terms that nothing I could offer would ever be enough to change his mind.And Ophelia?I stopped at the water fountain at the end of the corridor, leaned against the wall beside it and let myself process that specific detail for a moment.I tried to think of one genuinely compelling reason why Ophelia specifically. I was not being vain about it, I was bei
Última atualização: 2026-05-14
Chapter: What the Fuck?!Two weeks.It felt both longer and shorter than that depending on which part of it I was thinking about.The funeral had been on a Thursday. The grey sky, too many flowers, a church so full that people were standing along the walls and spilling out into the car park. I had stood beside Zara the entire time with my shoulder pressed against hers and my hand in hers and said nothing because there was nothing to say that the silence wasn't already saying better. Reid had sat on her other side,with a tight jaw and his eyes dry. Dominic had come.He had sat three rows behind his children because Reid had made it very clear before the service that he was not sitting in the front row and Dominic had not argued. He had just sat three rows back in a dark suit and looked at the coffin of the woman he had left fifteen years ago and whatever was happening on his face I had not been able to read from where I was.After the burial the house had been full for days. Relatives, family friends, neighbor
Última atualização: 2026-05-13
Chapter: THE CRUELEST THINGWho let this man into this house?"The voice came from the front door and landed in the living room like something thrown hard.Everything stopped.Zara, who had just taken her first cautious step toward her father, froze on the bottom stair. Dominic, who had stood up when he heard the door, went completely still. And I stood in the middle of the living room holding my glass of water feeling suddenly and very acutely like a person standing in the middle of a road watching two cars come from opposite directions.Reid was in the doorway.He was just standing there with his keys still in his hand, his jaw set and his eyes fixed on his father with the particular stillness of someone who had been holding something for a very long time and had just walked into the room where he was finally allowed to put it down.Dominic opened his mouth."Don't even say a thing." Reid walked in and dropped his keys on the side table and the sound of them hitting the surface was somehow louder than it shoul
Última atualização: 2026-05-13
Chapter: Zara's Dad?The lecture hall was full and I was completely empty.Professor Langley's voice bounced off the walls of the economics lecture hall and dissolved somewhere before it reached me. I had my pen in my hand and my notebook open and my eyes pointed in the right direction and none of it meant anything because my brain had checked out approximately forty minutes ago and shown no signs of coming back.Zara hadn't come to class today.I knew she wouldn't.I kept seeing her face. The way she had looked on that bed with her shoulders shaking and her eyes so red they looked painful. I had sat with her until past midnight holding her together with nothing but my presence because presence was the only currency I had.I needed to get back to her.But I also needed to fix this grade situation and every day I didn't fix it was a day closer to a problem I couldn't fix at all.Professor Marcus Cole's course sat in the back of my mind like a stone I couldn't stop turning over. The grade was bad. Not bad a
Última atualização: 2026-05-12
Chapter: THE DAY FELL APART TWICEThe plan was simple.get to zara's by noon, cook the meal we had been talking about since thursday, eat too much, watch something neither of us would finish, and call it a sunday well spent.I had my bag on my shoulder and the car keys in my hand and I was approximately four minutes from being out the front door when aunt Carol looked up from the kitchen counter where she was sorting through mail and said, "you're going to zara's again?"“Yes, I am," I said.she made a sound that wasn't quite agreement and wasn't quite disagreement and went back to her mail. I should have just left. four more steps and I would have been at the door and the rest of the day would have gone exactly as planned.but I waited. "you were out late last night," she said."I stayed at Zara's.""and the night before?""Also Zara's."she set down the mail and looked at me properly now with that expression she had been wearing more and more lately. "brielle.""Yeah, aunt Carol?"she folded her hands on the count
Última atualização: 2026-05-11
Chapter: TINY LITTLE BRIFuck!"The word flew out of my mouth before I could stop it and Zara's head snapped up from her phone immediately."What?" Her eyes went wide. "What happened?"I turned my screen toward her without saying anything and watched her face go through three different expressions in about two seconds; confusion, recognition and then pure unfiltered delight."Oh my God." She snatched the phone out of my hand to see it better. "Is that…""Emma," I confirmed."And those are…""The same girls she left us for." I pulled my knees up onto the couch cushion. "Watch the next five seconds."She watched. Then…"Fucckk" She slapped my arm without looking away from the screen and I fell sideways laughing because her reaction was exactly what I knew it was going to be. "They slapped her! They actually…""Multiple times," I said. "Keep watching."She watched the rest of it with her mouth open and then lowered the phone slowly with the expression of someone who had just witnessed something deeply satisfying
Última atualização: 2026-05-11
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