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Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret CHAPTER 43 PART 2
I thanked him and he moved on and I spent the next three hours burying myself in patient files and surgical prep notes because the hospital was the only place in my life where I could be someone other than Liam Collins's wife.At four thirty, Liam walked through the hospital entrance carrying a paper bag from the Italian restaurant on Fifth Street and a smile so warm it could have melted glass. He found me in the staff lounge and set the food on the table in front of me while two of my colleagues watched from the other side of the room."You have been working too hard, Jia." He unpacked the containers and arranged them neatly like a man who had been preparing meals for his wife his entire life instead of a man who had never once cooked anything for me in three years of marriage. "I brought you chicken parmesan and that salad you like with the roasted beets.""That is so thoughtful of you, Mr. Collins," one of the nurses said with a smile that made me want to scream."She deserves it."
Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret CHAPTER 43 PART 1
Jia's POVRachel's office smelled like fresh coffee and expensive leather and the kind of quiet confidence that only comes from a woman who has spent fifteen years taking men apart inside courtrooms and walking out with her heels clicking louder than their lawyers' objections."Your husband's sudden transformation into a caring partner does not change the legal foundation of your case," Rachel said, flipping through the folder she had prepared for our meeting. "I have seen this behavior a hundred times, Jia. A spouse becomes unusually kind after receiving divorce paperwork because they are not trying to save the marriage. They are trying to build a defense.""He has been acting like a completely different person in front of everyone." I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my temples because the headache that Liam had planted behind my eyes three days ago had still not gone away. "He brings me food at the hospital. He compliments me in front of the staff. He tells his family that he is
Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret CHAPTER 42 PART 2
"He will try. But my lawyer has already built the case around his behavior, not ours." She paused and bit her lower lip in that way she always did when she was about to ask me something she was not sure she wanted the answer to. "Are you starting to regret promising to wait for me?""I have never regretted choosing you, Jia." I let go of her hand and cupped her face between my palms so she could see every word I was about to say written directly in my eyes. "Not for one second. What I regret is watching you suffer while I have to stand back and pretend I am not dying inside every time Liam touches you or threatens you or looks at you like you are something he owns.""It will not be much longer." She turned her face into my palm and pressed her lips against the center of it. "One more week. Maybe two. And then I am free.""And then I am telling the family." I ran my thumb across her cheekbone. "No more hiding. No more pretending. No more watching you across a dinner table and acting li
Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret CHAPTER 42 PART 1
Marcus's POVThe financial records arrived on my desk at eight fifteen on Wednesday morning in a brown envelope thick enough to stop a bullet. I closed my office door, locked it, and spread every single page across the surface of my desk until the mahogany disappeared under a sea of numbers and dates and company names that were supposed to tell me whether my own brother had been stealing from our family.At first glance, most of it looked like normal business. Vendor payments, consulting fees, travel reimbursements, operational costs connected to the three acquisitions Liam had been pushing for months. The kind of paperwork that would bore a normal person to tears and put an accountant to sleep.But I was not looking at the surface. I was looking at the bones underneath it.I pulled out the original submissions that Liam had presented to the board six months ago and placed them side by side with the latest documents. Then I started comparing line by line, figure by figure, date by dat
Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret CHAPTER 41 PART 3
I hung up and sat in the dark for a long time with the phone resting on my knee and the weight of what I had just learned pressing down on my shoulders like a building collapsing one floor at a time. I did not want to believe that Liam was stealing from the company because believing it meant that my own brother had been lying to my face for months while I trusted him with the keys to an empire our family had spent three generations building.But I was not going to ignore the evidence just because the truth was ugly.Before I could process anything further, the door to my study opened without a knock and Liam walked in wearing a casual sweater and holding a glass of scotch like a man who had come for a friendly conversation with his older brother."Working late again?" He sat down in the chair across from my desk and crossed his ankle over his knee. "You have been spending a lot of time reviewing financial documents lately, Marcus. Should I be worried?""I review anything that involves
Brother-in-Law, I’m Your Dirty Secret CHAPTER 41 PART 2
The next day I saw Jia briefly at the mansion during a family lunch. She was sitting at the far end of the table with her napkin folded neatly in her lap and her posture straight and calm while Liam sat beside her performing his devoted husband routine for anyone who cared to watch. He passed her the bread basket. He asked whether she wanted more water. He touched her shoulder lightly when he stood up to refill his glass.Every touch made my blood boil but I kept my face perfectly still because losing control in front of the family would hand Liam exactly the ammunition he was looking for.Jia looked at me once across the table. A quick glance that lasted less than two seconds but carried enough meaning to fill a hundred conversations. I am okay. I am still here. I am still yours.I gave her the same silent answer with my eyes before turning my attention back to the food on my plate that I had no appetite for.That evening I was sitting in my study going through the quarterly projectio
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