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Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs chapter 68
The decision did not arrive in a single dramatic hour. It settled over the next two days like sediment finding its final level.Cathrene went to work. She answered emails. She sat through a strategy meeting in which she spoke clearly and precisely while the private noise of the week continued underneath every sentence. On the surface she remained intact. Underneath, she was sorting what could still be salvaged from the people who had raised her alongside resentment, and what had to be released for good.By Thursday evening she knew.She asked Benjamin to come over after Amara was asleep. He arrived without questions, kissed her temple, and waited until she was ready to speak. They sat at the small table with the balcony door open to the cooler night air. For a while neither of them rushed the silence.“I’ve been thinking about sides,” Cathrene said eventually. “All my life there were sides I was expected to manage. My family’s side. Gregory’s family’s side. The marriage’s side. Even
Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs chapter 67
Knowing was one thing. Absorbing it was another.For the rest of the evening after Benjamin left, Cathrene moved through her apartment like a woman walking across thin ice. She washed the cups. She folded a throw blanket that did not need folding. She stood in front of the open refrigerator for a full minute without seeing anything inside it. The facts were simple and already known: Marianne had gone to Benjamin’s workplace. She had used Cathrene’s childlessness as a warning. She had tried to pry him away with the same verdict the family had always kept in reserve.What refused to settle was the intimacy of the betrayal.They had not only judged her. They had followed her into the new life she was building and attempted to dismantle it from the inside.She slept poorly. In the shallow intervals of rest, fragments of the old marriage returned — medical waiting rooms, Vivian Thornton’s careful silences, Gregory’s turned back in the guest room — only now they arrived braided with Mar
Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs chapter 66
Benjamin told her the next evening.He did not bury it under small talk or wait for a more convenient hour. He came to her apartment after Amara was with her grandmother, stood in the kitchen while Cathrene poured water neither of them would drink, and said simply, “Your step-sister Marianne came to the site yesterday.”Cathrene’s hand stilled on the glass. “What did she want?”“To warn me off.”He watched the knowledge land in her face — first disbelief, then the grim recognition that of course they would escalate, of course they would not stop at confronting her alone. She set the glass down carefully.“What did she say?”Benjamin did not soften it. “That you were complicated. That the divorce was barely finished. That your marriage failed because you could not give Gregory a child. That I should leave before I inherited a second failure that was never mine.”The silence that followed was sharp enough to hurt. Cathrene turned away toward the window, arms folded tightly across her mi
Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs chapter 65
Benjamin first noticed the woman because she did not belong to the ordinary traffic of the restoration site.He was reviewing measurements near the exposed stairwell of the old commercial building when a well-dressed figure paused at the open entrance, speaking briefly to one of the workers. A moment later the worker pointed in his direction. The woman thanked him with practiced warmth and crossed the dusty floor with careful steps, as if the place itself were an insult to her shoes.Marianne Senghor.He recognized her only from a photograph Cathrene had once shown him with a dry explanation — *my elder step-sister; we are not close*. In person she carried the same polished severity.“Mr. Ward,” she said. “I hope I’m not interrupting important work.”“You are,” Benjamin answered mildly. “But I assume you came anyway.”Marianne’s smile tightened. “I came because someone should speak to you before this situation with Cathrene goes any further. May I have a moment?”He considered refusin
Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs chapter 64
The second confrontation did not wait for a formal invitation.Two days after the sitting-room ambush, Marianne and Celeste arrived at Cathrene’s apartment unannounced. She opened the door to find them standing in the hallway like a verdict, polished and tightly coiled. For a moment she considered closing the door again. Instead she stepped aside and let them in.They did not sit.Marianne’s gaze moved over the apartment with quick, dismissive assessment — the modest furniture, the single plant, the absence of anything that looked like old Thornton money. Celeste’s attention stopped on Cathrene’s left hand. The ring was simple, but it was enough.“So it’s true,” Celeste said. “You’re engaged.”Cathrene closed the door. “I am.”“To the widower,” Marianne added. “The one with the child.”“His name is Benjamin.”Celeste let out a short, incredulous breath. “Of course you defend him. You’ve always been gifted at rearranging facts until they look like principles.”Cathrene remained standin
Daddy by deception - My ex husband's fake heirs chapter 63
The Senghor house always smelled of polish and controlled expectation.Cathrene arrived at four o’clock precisely, as she had said she would. A housekeeper showed her into the formal sitting room where her stepmother Adele was already waiting with Marianne and Celeste. No one rose when she entered. The omission was deliberate. She took the remaining chair and kept her hands folded in her lap, the engagement ring turned slightly inward so that the stone did not catch the light.Adele regarded her for a long moment over the rim of a porcelain cup.“You look well,” she said. It did not sound like a compliment.“I am well enough.”“That seems to be the problem.” Adele set the cup down. “We have been hearing things, Cathrene. Unsettling things. That your marriage to Gregory is ending. That you moved out. That you have already been seen in public with another man. A man with a child.”Marianne leaned forward. “You didn’t think this was something the family deserved to hear from you directly
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