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Chapter Eleven

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Celeste's Pov

Dante chose a restaurant in midtown. Public enough to be safe. Private enough for a conversation no one else would hear.

I told Nico I was meeting Maya for lunch. Told Eli I needed space to think. Neither of them believed me but neither pushed.

I arrived fifteen minutes early. Sat with my back to the wall. Ordered water and waited.

Dante walked in exactly on time. Tall. Well-dressed. The kind of presence that made waitstaff nervous and other diners look twice.

He sat across from
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  • Claimed By The Voss Twins    CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

    Nico's Pov Six months after Castellano's offer, we made a public announcement.Not about the marriage specifically. But about the restructured empire. About dual leadership. About Sofia as the joint heir.The media took it and ran with it.Within days, journalists were calling. Asking questions about the "unconventional Voss family." Wanting interviews. Wanting to understand how two brothers could share power equally. How a child could have two legal fathers."We're becoming a spectacle," Eli said after the hundredth call."We're becoming visible," I corrected. "There's a difference.""Is there? Because it feels like our privacy just became public property."He was right. But the alternative was hiding. Pretending to be something we weren't. And we'd spent enough time doing that.I gave an interview to a major publication. Explained the arrangement without sensationalizing it. Talked about Sofia. About the legal precedent we'd set. About why unconventional families deserved recogniti

  • Claimed By The Voss Twins    CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

    Celeste's Pov James Castellano approached me at a coffee shop near campus.I was studying. He just sat down across from me like we'd planned it."You're Celeste Voss," he said. Not a question."I am. And you're the man trying to destabilize my family.""I'm trying to understand it. There's a difference.""Is there?""Yes. Understanding requires genuine curiosity. Destabilization requires malice. I'm not malicious. Just observant."I closed my book. Gave him my full attention."What do you want?""To talk. To understand how this works. Three people. One family. Legally married but emotionally complicated. I'm fascinated by the mechanics.""The mechanics are private.""Everything is private until someone decides it's not. I'm offering you a chance to control the narrative before someone else does.""Why would you do that?""Because I'm not Viktor. I don't want to destroy you. I want to understand you. And maybe offer a different perspective.""Which is?""That what you've built is rema

  • Claimed By The Voss Twins    CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

    Eli's Pov The first crack appeared when Sofia was eight months old.Not dramatic. Just small. A disagreement about something insignificant that revealed something significant underneath.Celeste wanted to hire a nanny so she could attend classes full-time. Nico wanted her home more. I thought both of them were right and neither of them were listening to each other."She's our daughter," Nico said. "She needs her mother present.""She has two fathers present. She has you. She has Eli. She doesn't need me here constantly.""We're not the same as a mother.""Why not? You're capable of doing everything I do. You're competent. You love her. Why does it have to be me specifically?""Because you carried her. Because she knows your smell. Your voice. Because you're her mother.""And you're her father. But you're working. You're absent. But somehow that's acceptable when you do it.""That's different. That's providing for the family.""So am I. I'm providing for her future. For her mother's m

  • Claimed By The Voss Twins    CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

    Nico's Pov Three months with Sofia changed everything and nothing simultaneously.She didn't care that there were two of us. Didn't understand the complexity of the arrangement. Just wanted to be fed. Changed. Held. Comforted.In a way, she was teaching us something important: simplicity beneath complexity. Strip away all the strategy and performance and legal frameworks. What remained was just people taking care of someone who needed them.Eli was natural with her. Comfortable. He'd hold her for hours without checking his watch. Without calculating what else he should be doing.I struggled with that. I wanted to optimize the process. Create schedules. Establish efficiency."You can't optimize a baby," Celeste told me. "She's not a business problem to solve. She's just a person who needs attention.""I know that.""Do you? Because you're treating her like a project with deliverables.""I'm trying to be involved. To do my part.""Then do your part without trying to control it. Hold he

  • Claimed By The Voss Twins    CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

    Celeste's Pov Two years after the arrangement broke, I was pregnant.Not planned. Not discussed beforehand. Just something that happened because we stopped using protection and started trusting that whatever came would be manageable.Nico wanted to know whose it was. I told him it didn't matter. He disagreed."Of course it matters. Legally. Practically. For the child.""The child will have two fathers. That's what matters.""You can't tell which one—""I don't know. And I don't care. Both of you contributed to this. Both of you are responsible. Both of you will be involved."Eli was more philosophical about it. "Does it change how you feel about the pregnancy?""No. Does it change how you feel about me?""No.""Then it doesn't matter."We were both right and both wrong. It mattered and didn't matter simultaneously. The child would be biologically one of theirs but practically both of theirs. Just like our marriage was legally one thing and practically another.We were learning to exi

  • Claimed By The Voss Twins    CHAPTER TWENTY

    Eli's Pov A year after breaking the arrangement, the empire stabilized.Not intact. Changed fundamentally. But stable. Functional. Operating under our partnership instead of our father's ghost.Viktor's legal challenges went nowhere. The board accepted the dual leadership. Employees adapted. Some left. New ones came. The machinery adjusted.Nico and I developed a rhythm. Not effortless. But workable. We disagreed regularly. Resolved it through the framework we'd built. Respected each other's authority in our designated areas.It wasn't the warm brotherhood I'd imagined. But it was real. And real was better than performance.Celeste existed in the margins of both of us. Married to Nico legally. Close to me practically. Never choosing. Never having to. We developed an understanding that worked for all three of us.One evening, she asked: "Are you happy?"We were in my studio. The place where I existed when being invisible got too heavy. Now it was just the place where I worked. Where I

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