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Sixty-three
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2026-09-05 21:43:37
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They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Seventy -six
Camila's povNeither of us slept again that night, adrenaline and fear keeping both of us wide awake long after the security team had secured both women and called in local law enforcement to formally take them into custody. Cora slept fitfully in our bed between us, waking twice with vague, confused questions about the game that had apparently ended so abruptly, and both times George and I managed calm, reassuring answers that seemed to satisfy her enough to drift back to sleep.The local sheriff arrived just after dawn, a weathered older man who took one look at the two women in custody and George's careful, detailed account of the night's events, and immediately understood this wasn't a simple trespassing matter. Formal statements took most of the morning, the women themselves refusing to speak beyond confirming their names, their lawyer arriving with suspicious speed given how remote the property was from any major city."They're professionals," the sheriff confirmed, once the wom
They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Seventy -five
Darian's povThe knock on my door came seconds after I heard George's raised voice down the hall, and I was already pulling on clothes by the time one of the security team reached me, his expression grim enough that I didn't need him to explain twice."Movement near the tree line," he said. "Two individuals. We need everyone accounted for, now, especially the child."Cora. My chest went tight with a fear sharper than anything I'd felt during the entire custody fight, and I was moving down the hallway before I'd fully registered deciding to move, following the security coordinator toward her room, where George had already arrived, gently shaking her awake with a calm he clearly didn't feel."Hey, sweetheart," he said softly, scooping her into his arms as she blinked awake, confused and sleepy. "We're going to play a quick game, okay? Just for a few minutes.""A game," Cora mumbled, still half-asleep, trusting enough in George's calm voice not to question it further.Camila appeared bes
They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Seventy-four
George's povThe days that followed settled into something close to what I'd hoped this trip could actually be, careful vigilance running quietly underneath the surface, but Cora's happiness at the center of everything kept pulling all of us back toward genuine warmth, genuine ease, despite the security team's discreet presence around the property's edges. She spent hours building increasingly elaborate sandcastles, insisting each one needed a moat, a tower, and what she called "a dragon door," a small opening she was convinced a friendly dragon might use to visit.By Saturday evening, the tension had eased enough that Camila and I finally let ourselves fully relax, sitting on the deck after Cora had gone to bed, the security coordinator confirming another quiet night with no unusual activity detected anywhere along the perimeter. Darian had gone to bed early himself, exhausted from two nights of restless, watchful sleep, leaving Camila and me alone with the ocean and the stars and a
They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Seventy- three
Camila's povGeorge told me everything the next morning, sitting me down at the kitchen table before Cora woke up, laying out Darian's warning and the mysterious source who'd apparently been feeding him information for weeks. I listened with a slowly building mixture of fear and frustration, the frustration aimed squarely at Darian for keeping something this significant hidden for so long."Weeks," I said, once George had finished. "He's known about this source for weeks and never once mentioned it.""I know," George said. "I said the same thing to him last night. But Camila, everything this person's told him has been accurate. The warnings about Selena's testimony. The information about the trust. Now this. Whoever they are, they've been genuinely trying to help us, even if Darian's judgment about disclosure was questionable."I wanted to be angrier than I was, but underneath the frustration sat a deeper unease, the knowledge that Alessia had apparently escalated from legal maneuveri
They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Seventy -two
Darian's povMy mother summoned me to the house two days after the ruling, her voice over the phone carrying none of the fury I'd expected, replaced instead by something colder and more controlled that worried me considerably more than open anger would have. I drove over that evening bracing myself for whatever careful, calculated performance she'd prepared.She was in the study again, always the study, "You've made your position clear," she said, without any preamble, the moment I sat down. "Testifying against me. Handing over evidence. I hope whatever you've gained from Camila's gratitude was worth the cost.""This was never about gaining anything," I said. "It was about finally doing right by my daughter, something I should have done years ago.""Your daughter," she repeated, something bitter threading through the words. "A daughter who barely knows you, being raised by a woman who despises this family and a man who stole what should have been yours.""George didn't steal anything,
They Buried Me a Bride. I Returned a CEO Seventy - one
George's povWe celebrated that night with something small and quiet, just the three of us, plus Ruth, who'd become as much family as staff over the last several months. Cora didn't fully understand the legal weight of what had happened, but she understood the mood in the house, the lightness that had settled over everyone, and she rode that energy through an entire evening of games and her favorite dinner and a bedtime story that ran twice as long as usual because none of us wanted the day to end.Once she was finally asleep, Camila and I sat in the kitchen with a bottle of wine we'd been saving for exactly this kind of occasion, though neither of us had let ourselves believe, until today, that we'd actually get to open it under these circumstances."I keep waiting to feel like it's actually real," Camila said, turning her glass slowly between her fingers. "Like at any minute someone's going to call and tell me there's been some mistake, some appeal, some new complication.""There m
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