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To Be Alone

Author: JacqueAuthor
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-12 20:40:32

MONIQUE

I walked beside Officer Perez, my steps measured, deliberate. My head was held high, though inside, everything was in shambles. Ryan had walked out with his lawyer, and they had left. That meant the police weren’t keeping him at the station overnight as Officer Perez had told me earlier. This meant something had changed.

I could still feel Mrs. Bennett’s stare drilling into my back, sharp and accusing, but I didn’t care. Let her think whatever she wanted. My hands were clenched at my sides, fingers tight like fists, fighting to keep myself from fidgeting.

I knew that now, things had shifted. Ryan must have said something. I didn’t know what it was, but maybe it had made the police officer question my statement. Or perhaps he and his mother had thrown enough doubts in my direction to rattle my account. Or maybe it was his counsel who had managed to get him out of the police station without further questioning.

We approached the interview room we had used earlier. The familiar d
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  • DIVORCED MORNING AND REMARRIED TO HIS BROTHER BY NIGHT   The Settlement

    MONIQUEMrs. Bennett finally left, but thankfully, Ryan didn’t come back into the bedroom.I was fortunate enough not to see him the next day either. The day after that, I woke up to the same silence that had started to feel like a trap. It felt like the calm before the storm. My days were just days now...empty, unplanned, and composed of fear and worry. Every hour was dictated by the Bennetts, with Ryan as their leader. I didn’t know what was coming until it happened. That morning, the door opened without warning... Ryan walked in.I don’t know why, but just the sight of him made my stomach twist and my breath catch. It was becoming an instinct now... Pure fear and hatred. automatic.He stood there, expression unreadable, his voice clipped and cold.“Take a shower and get changed. Wear something appropriate and meet me downstairs.”He looked at his watch.“We have fifteen minutes. Hurry up.”And just like that, without adding another word, he turned and left.I did exactly as he said.

  • DIVORCED MORNING AND REMARRIED TO HIS BROTHER BY NIGHT   Limits

    MONIQUESuddenly, Knock. Knock.We both freeze. Our eyes dart toward the door.“Ryan? Monique?”It’s Mrs. Bennett, Ryan's mother.I wait for Ryan to respond, but he doesn’t. Mrs. Bennett goes on, her voice worried. “Ryan? Monique? Are you okay in there?”Ryan sighs, takes a deep breath, and then starts walking toward the door while I’m still crouched there on the floor. He opens it, and the two of them exchange a few words in low tones I can’t make out. The next minute, Mrs. Bennett steps into the room.I raise my head to look at her. She looks back at me, first at my face, then at the shattered phone on the floor, and something in her eyes shifts. She turns toward Ryan and says firmly, “Leave us.”Just like that. Ryan gives me one last warning look before walking out and closing the door behind him.For a few moments, Mrs. Bennett just stands there, silent, her gaze moving from the broken pieces on the floor to me. Finally, she sighs. “What happened here, Monique?”But I can’t fin

  • DIVORCED MORNING AND REMARRIED TO HIS BROTHER BY NIGHT   Lie

    MONIQUEWhat is happening?"What is this?" Ryan asks, raising the phone between us.I swallow hard, forcing down the panic that’s threatening to rise. I don’t respond to Ryan's questions.Ryan places the phone on my lap as we sit next to each other. Our thighs nearly touch. Not quite, but enough to make my skin crawl. I shift slightly away from him.I pick it up, place it right back on his thigh. “It looks like a phone to me.”“Yes,” he says quietly, his lips curving into something that isn’t a smile. “You’re right. It is a phone. But the question is.....who does it belong to?”I shrug. “I don’t know. Is it yours?”He lets out a laugh, mocking, hollow, wrong.“What happened,” he begins slowly, “is that when you ran away from me to the bathroom last night… the sheets were tangled and everything was a mess. As I was getting out of bed, I leaned on the pillow and felt something strange. I pulled it away and.....”He pauses.“There it was. The phone... This phone. Just lying there, on th

  • DIVORCED MORNING AND REMARRIED TO HIS BROTHER BY NIGHT   Found It

    MONIQUEI wake up slowly, my body aching from sleeping on the cold bathroom floor, still trembling from the tension and humiliation of last night. The robe is still warm around me, but it feels like a thin, fragile shield against everything I know is coming. My hands and legs shake as I force myself to stand, moving toward the mirror. I look at my reflection and then, like a knife twisting, I remember Ryan’s hands, his mouth, the way he seemed to riddle me with himself..... I can’t take it.I strip down immediately, stepping into the shower. The water is hot, scalding even, and I let it run over me again and again, washing, scrubbing, over and over until I can convince myself every trace of him is gone. I shampoo, rinse, shampoo again, rinse again. I can no longer hear his sounds, but the feeling of being dirty lingers, crawling under my skin, impossible to shake.I quietly open the bathroom door. The last thing I want is to see him....his stupid face, that triumphant smirk. But the

  • DIVORCED MORNING AND REMARRIED TO HIS BROTHER BY NIGHT   Please Stop

    MONIQUEFor a second, I think he’s going to kiss me. For a second, I think he’s going to let me go.But… the former wins.His mouth comes down on mine....but I’m quicker, because I was already expecting it. I turn my head to the side, and his kiss lands on my cheek instead. He laughs. His laugh is strange, manic, hollow.Then his lips move down, towards my neck… my shoulders… and lower. I try fighting him. Oh, I try fighting him. I’m screaming, telling him to get off me.“Get off me, Ryan! I don’t want this.....stop! Stop!”That’s all I can say, his name and the word stop over and over, like maybe if I repeat it enough, he’ll actually hear me. But he doesn’t.I try to kick. I try to move my hands. But he’s heavy, too heavy, and all I can do is thrash my legs weakly beneath him. Then he uses his free hand to grab at my dress, and I hear the sound of something tearing. The things on the nightstand crash to the floor, rolling away, glass clinking against the tiles.Now I’m lying beneath

  • DIVORCED MORNING AND REMARRIED TO HIS BROTHER BY NIGHT   Say It

    MONIQUEI don’t know how long I sat there, holding that phone, clutching it like it was the only lifeline I had left. Then I thought I heard footsteps outside the door. Panic jolted through me. I quickly shoved the phone beneath my pillow, hiding it just in time.No one came in.I lay there, still, heart pounding, the phone pressed under me, and I kept wondering....was he really out there? Was Marcus truly at the gate? Would he really have come in if I had said yes?The questions swirled around in my head until they started to fade into a haze of exhaustion. I thought of my aunt, of Friday, of the papers Ryan wanted me to sign. We’d just have to wait and see if he kept his word.Somewhere in the middle of those thoughts, I must have drifted sleep.Because....... suddenly I felt hands slide around my waist. Strong, heavy, possessive hands that made every part of me tense. A slow pressure. A shift of weight behind me. Before I could even open my eyes, I felt a cold body pressed against

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