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TN/FA 8

Author: Oluwayemisi
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-04 08:40:32

CHAPTER EIGHT: HOME

She took my hand somewhere between the studio and the car.

I didn't see it coming. One moment I was juggling two bags and my coat and trying to hold the door open with my shoulder, and then there was a

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    The story broke on a Tuesday.I know because Fletcher's phone started going off at six in the morning and didn't stop, and I was in the chair beside his hospital bed when it happened, the same chair I had been in for most of the past two days, and I watched him wake up to seventeen notifications with the focused calm of a man who had been expecting this specific Tuesday and had simply been waiting for it to arrive."It's out," he said, not to me particularly, more to the ceiling."I gathered," I said.He handed me his phone.The article was long.Someone had written it well, which I appreciated even in the state I was in, a journalist who understood that the way you laid out information mattered as much as the information itself. It started with the financial crimes, which were the most legible, the kind of wrongdoing that came with paper trails and numbers and the specific clarity of things that could be proven in court without requiring anyone to believe a story.Then the coercion.

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    The ambulance crew were professional about it.That was the most you could say. They were professional in the specific way of people who had seen enough to have stopped being surprised by most things and had developed a neutral efficiency that covered the full range of human situations without requiring them to comment on any of them.The one who took Fletcher's vitals looked at the shoulder, looked at the sand covering both of us from the knees down, looked at the general state of the beach behind us, and said: "How long ago.""Forty minutes," Fletcher said.The man wrote something on his clipboard without expression."Give or take," Fletcher added."You walked around on it for forty minutes," the man said."I was occupied," Fletcher said.The man looked at me briefly, returned to his clipboard, and said, "Right," in the tone of someone who had decided this was going in the report exactly as observed and he was not going to editorialize.I hid behind my hair for the ambulance ride.F

  • Babysitting The CEO's Daughter    TN/FA 63

    Nicole's POVThe medics arrived and Fletcher ignored them.Not rudely. He just kept his arm around me and looked at the man who came toward him with the kit and said, "Give me a minute," in the tone he used for things that were not actually requests, and the medic, to his credit, assessed the situation and took a small step back and waited."Sir, the shoulder really needs—""A minute," Fletcher said.The medic waited.I looked up at Fletcher's face. "You should let them—""Nicole.""You're bleeding through your jacket.""I know," he said. "I've been aware of the shoulder for the last twenty minutes. It's not going anywhere.""That's not how bleeding works," I said."It's not arterial," he said, with the calm of someone who had apparently assessed his own gunshot wound and filed it under manageable while continuing to conduct a beach confrontation. "I'd know if it was arterial.""How would you know—""Because I'd be on the ground," he said. "I'm not on the ground."I looked at him.He

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    He didn't go down.That was the first thing. The bullet hit him and he made that sound, low and sharp, and I watched his body absorb it and I watched him stay upright and keep moving and I stood behind the pier support with my heart in my mouth thinking: he should be on the ground, why is he not on the ground.He was not on the ground because he was Fletcher Jade and Fletcher Jade had apparently decided that the ground was not an option right now and his body had agreed to comply.His security had Daniel's remaining men contained in under

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