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100 Days With My Nemesis ~100~ BLOOD TIES
NORA His expression changes. Just enough for the old calculating sharpness to return beneath the exhaustion. "Answer me." Celine's lips part. Mars shifts weakly against me, trying to lift his head. Pain flashes across his face, and I press one hand gently to his shoulder. "Stay down." He ignores me. “I saw you," he says. Celine's face loses all colour. "Where?" I ask. Mars' gaze remains fixed on her. "At the hospital." Her fingers clutch the fabric over her knees. “I don't know what you mean." "Yes, you do." His voice is still weak, but it has hardened. "You wore a cream coat and sunglasses." Celine looks towards the door. My stomach knots. "When was this?" I ask. Mars answers without looking at me. “When we paid Josh a visit." Celine closes her eyes. "The sign above the corridor said Oncology,” he continues. Celine says nothing. Mars' face drains further. "You went into the cancer department." "It wasn't—" "What kind?" His voice cracks. Celine presses both
100 Days With My Nemesis ~099~ THE MOTHER HE NEEDED
NORA It's Celine. My arms tighten around Mars instinctively. He remains asleep against my chest, his cheek pressed beneath my collarbone. I stare at the closed door.He said he didn't want to see her today. That should be the end of it."No," I say.Silence follows. Then Celine whispers through the door, "I only want to know if he's all right."I look down at him. His lashes rest peacefully against his cheeks."He's sleeping," I answer."Please, Nora."There is no demand in her voice now. I close my eyes. I should send her away. But what if… there’s more we don’t know."Come in," I say. "Quietly."The handle turns slowly. Celine slips through the narrow opening and closes the door behind her.Her face is swollen from crying. The knot at the back of her head has nearly fallen apart, and her coat is gone. She looks smaller without it.Her gaze lands on Mars. For several seconds, she does nothing but stare."What happened to him?" she whispers."You happened."Her eyes close brie
100 Days With My Nemesis ~098~ RELAPSE
NORA Mars' fingers stop clutching my dress. Even the tremors seem to vanish all at once."Mars?"He doesn't answer. Celine takes a desperate step towards us before one of the guards catches her arm."He showed me photographs," she continues. "Every year. He wanted me to understand that they were watching you."I look down at Mars. His eyes are open, but he is no longer looking at me. His gaze is fixed somewhere over my shoulder. Empty."He told me you would die if I approached," Celine sobs. "He said the people who had you would make it slow."Mars' lips part. No sound comes out. I place one hand against his cheek. His skin is cold and damp."Kitten, look at me."His eyes move towards mine, but they don't focus properly. Something about his expression makes my heart lurch. He looks frightened."Did he tell her not to come?" he asks.His voice is so soft I almost don't hear it. Celine breaks down behind me."Yes," she cries. "Yes, sweetheart. He did."Mars flinches at the endea
100 Days With My Nemesis ~097~ GOOSEBUMPS
MARCELLUS Celine purses her lips, a tear rolling down her cheek. Her lower lip wobbles as she clutches the fabric of her dress."They told me you were dead."A laugh tears out of me. It sounds wrong."They told you your husband died. Then they told you your child died. And you simply believed them?" I hiss, an ugly emotion crawling up my throat."No!"Celine surges forward, then stops herself when the guards move."I saw a body."My mouth goes dry.Nora whispers, "What?"Celine presses one hand to her chest."They showed me a baby wrapped in the blanket I had chosen for you. I was sedated. I could barely see. But the child had the same dark hair."My stomach churns. Bile threatens to push up my throat."They gave me ashes afterward," she adds.I stare at her in horror."You buried someone else's child.""Yes.""And then?"Her face goes blank. There it is. The part she does not want to say."Then what, Celine?""My family forced my marriage to Theodore."Nora inhales sharply.
100 Days With My Nemesis ~096~ THE LOVE OF A FATHER
MARCELLUS Celine arrives just after noon. I know because the security monitor beside the sitting-room door lights up, showing a black car moving slowly through the gates. Nora sits beside me on the couch, her thigh pressed against mine. One of her hands rests over my wrist."You can still change your mind," she says, and I shake my head.Her fingers tighten slightly. I stare at the screen as the car stops near the entrance. A driver steps out first. Then Celine.She is wearing a pale blue dress beneath a long coat. Her hair is pulled into a low knot, but the wind has loosened several strands around her face. She looks frightened.She should be. The front door opens a minute later. Celine steps into the sitting room and freezes.Her eyes land on me first. Then the brace around my leg. Her face crumples."Marcellus."I grip the arm of the couch. "Sit."She does. The chair across from us is several feet away. Two security guards stand outside the room. Celine places her purse ca
100 Days With My Nemesis ~095~ HAZARDOUS
MARCELLUS "I'll send you my address," I say and she sniffles.This is unbearably awkward."Oh God. Thank you. Marcellus, thank you—"I reach over and hang up. The room goes quiet. Nora is staring at me."What?" I mutter.She gives me the look. The one that says she has already found me guilty and is only waiting to hear how badly I intend to embarrass myself during sentencing."You knew," she says.I lean back against the pillows. "Celine is not my mother.""She literally just announced it while crying hard enough to flood the city."I look towards the dark window. "I don't need a mother."Nora's anger softens, which somehow makes me feel worse. I look down at my hands."I needed one when I was six," I say. "And seven. And eight. I needed one every time they dragged me downstairs. I needed one beneath those stairs when I was trying not to cry loudly enough for them to hear me."My throat tightens. "I don't need one now."Nora draws closer."You're enough for me," I add.Her
100 Days With My Nemesis ~005~ TRICK OR TREATS
NORA I finally collapse onto my bed, the familiar scent of my childhood room doing nothing to calm the storm in my head. Two Tylenol and a glass of water later, and my skull is still spinning like a broken carousel. I refuse to think about the fact that I might or might not be legally marr
100 Days With My Nemesis ~004~ FACE-OFF
NORA I stare at him, my pulse roaring in my ears. I feel sick to my stomach. But I curl my fists, refusing to show it. "Start from the beginning. Tell me everything," I spit, my voice unsteady. "We're married, Nora," he says flatly. "That's all you need to know." A wild laugh bubbles out of
100 Days With My Nemesis ~003~ MY PERSONAL APOCALYPSE
NORA My skull is hosting a full-on rave with bass, strobe lights, and the works. I groan and crack one eye open, only to get assaulted by aggressive sunlight and the mother of all hangovers. This is not the Evermont ballroom. This is... a hotel suite? Oh God. Where the hell am I? Ugh, my
100 Days With My Nemesis ~002~ AN IMPROMPTU DATE
NORA His scent hits me first. How is that possible? It's been three years. Yet, I still recognize it.Woodsy scent, mixed with that perfect amber. A scent so expensive and masculine that I spent entirely too much time pretending I didn't notice back then.My heart starts racing as he takes
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