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Autor: Tamara Knox
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-04-22 11:49:46

*MAXWELL*

Dad eventually called. I was still at the office, the Wolves' financial records spread across my second monitor, reading things I had no direct reason to be reading except that I couldn't stop.

I answered on the second ring.

"You've seen it," he said.

"Yes."

"And?"

I leaned back in my chair. "She moved faster than anyone expected."

A pause. With my father, pauses were never empty. They were the part where he decided how much to give you.

"No." His voice was even. "Faster than you exp
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  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   103

    DURRELLI step slightly closer and lower my voice. "Meaning your father just spent four hours in an interview room being careful about every single word he said. Okafor spent that same time managing the legal exposure. And the first thing you did when you walked out was hand Reeves exactly the kind of reaction she was looking for." I hold his gaze. "She's not investigating a shipping dispute, Maxwell. She's investigating an organization. And you just made her job slightly more interesting."Something moves behind his eyes. Anger first, then something colder. "I made one comment.""You asked about the whistleblower before asking if your father was alright."Maxwell goes silent. Charles looks between us, and Victor says nothing, still watching the middle distance.Maxwell straightens. "I'll call you tomorrow," he says to Victor. Then he walks toward his own car without looking at me again.I watch him go. The way he moves, the set of his shoulders, and the slightly-too-controlled pace

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    DURRELLSuddenly, the lines start connecting. Slowly and dangerously."No," I answer carefully."But you knew him.""Yes.""Did he ever express concerns about business dealings?""No."Theodore never came to me. Whatever he discovered, he handled himself. And now he's dead.The silence stretches again, then Reeves nods once and closes her notebook. She stands, which means the interview is over.I stand too."We may need to speak again," she says."I'm not difficult to reach."She opens the door. The corridor reappears. Victor is standing with Okafor and Charles near the elevator bank. Maxwell is beside them, asking something with his hands slightly raised, the posture of a man making a case nobody requested.I step out of the side room. Reeves follows.Maxwell sees her and immediately straightens. Then he sees me and something flickers behind his eyes. Calculation.Before Victor can answer whatever Maxwell was asking, Maxwell looks directly at me and says, "What did they want?""Quest

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   101

    DURRELLI think about Harold Bennett's words in the ballroom. I think about Victor's face afterward. I think about the fraction of a second where something cracked behind Victor's eyes before he shut it down.I think about all of it and I say nothing, because we're standing in a federal building hallway and now is not the time. The time for it will definitely come. Soon enough.The corridor is quiet except for distant keyboard sounds and a phone ringing somewhere twice before going unanswered. Charles gets coffee from a machine near the stairwell for both of us.Four hours after Okafor went back in, the conference room door opens, and Victor walks out first.He looks exactly the same as when he walked in. That's either impressive or unsettling depending on how well you know him. His jacket is buttoned, and his expression is composed. He scans the corridor briefly, finds Charles and me, and walks toward us without rushing.Behind him, Agent Reeves emerges. Then Chen and Morris, both of

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   100

    DURRELLThe morning light has shifted slightly now, growing warmer through the open curtains. Down the hall I hear the first faint sounds of the twins waking up. Small feet on hardwood, and a muffled thud that's probably a stuffed animal hitting the floor.Ariana hears it too, and something in her face softens immediately in the involuntary way it always does when it comes to them. Like her entire nervous system has a separate setting reserved specifically for those two."I should get changed," she murmurs."Probably."But neither of us moves immediately. She squeezes my hand once. "What exactly did they ask Victor?""Everything connected to the port accounts. The freeze you initiated two years ago. The subcontractor activity." I keep my voice measured. "Victor handled it the way Victor handles everything. Cleanly.""Did they ask about you?"I look at her. “Yes.” Needing to know whether she knows, I ask, "Why would they ask about me?""Because you ran the internal investigation."She

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   99

    DURRELLShe's lying on top of the covers when I get home, still in her gown from last night, shoes gone but everything else still on. The curtains are open and the early morning light falls across her in pale strips.I cross the room and sit on the edge of the bed. She doesn't open her eyes, but her hand squeezes mine when I take hers in mine. Like she knew I was coming before I even sat down.I hold on, and for a while neither of us speaks. The house is completely quiet. The twins are still asleep down the hall and the morning hasn't properly started yet. It feels like the world is holding its breath.Then she asks quietly, "How's Victor?""Okafor got him out before dawn. He's home."She exhales. "Good.""Yeah."Another silence. I watch her face. She looks exhausted in the specific way that has nothing to do with sleep. The kind that comes from carrying information you haven't figured out how to put down yet."Aria.""I know," she says, before I can ask anything."You don't know what

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    ARIANA"Very well. Not nothing."There it is.She gestures vaguely toward the house. "The Bindy family will continue after I'm gone."My stomach tightens. "Eleanor…""You are Matthew Bindy's granddaughter." Her gaze sharpens. "You carry Bindy blood whether you acknowledge it or not."I don't respond because honestly, I don't know how.She continues. "There is a place for you here if you want it."The room suddenly feels much quieter."What kind of place?""A legitimate one." She pauses. "Your inheritance."I blink. "My what?""You heard me."I definitely heard her but I just wish I hadn't.Eleanor studies my expression. "The matter has already been discussed."Of course it has. Apparently, everyone in Blackbridge enjoys discussing my future before informing me."If you wish it, your share will be formally transferred."The words sound surreal. Inheritance, family, blood. Everything I've never had. Everything I never expected. And somehow none of it feels real. Maybe not yet. Maybe not

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   8

    SELENEI stared at the hotel room door after it closed.He left.Maxwell actually left me here, crying, to follow her back to the car.I sank onto the bed, pressing my hands to my face. The robe he'd bought me felt too soft, too expensive, too much like a consolation prize.My phone sat on the nigh

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-03-18

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    “Involved how?”Victor turned back to me.“Theodore requested a private review of a joint logistics agreement three days before he was shot.”My pulse stumbled.“A joint agreement between whom?”“Chase Construction and one of our automotive subsidiaries.”I stared at him.“You’re saying his shootin

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-03-22

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    ARIANAVictor Cox’s office did not try to impress anyone.It didn’t need to.The building itself was glass and quiet steel, rising above Lakebridge like it owned the skyline. The receptionist didn’t smile when I gave my name. She just nodded, as if she had been expecting me long before I walked in.

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    *Maxwell*When I stepped off the elevator onto the private floor, I saw them immediately.Two men in dark suits flanked the door to a corner room. Durrell's men. I'd seen enough of them lately to recognize them.Durrell himself stood outside the room, speaking into his phone, watching me approach l

    last updateÚltima actualización : 2026-04-05
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