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Chapter 44
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Right after the blast, there was a heavy thud on the recording, like a body hitting the floor,followed by the sound of quick, frantic footsteps moving away.The tape went completely silent. The little red light blinked one last time, and the screen wenttotally black. The battery was dead."No," I breathed, my voice cracking as hot tears finally spilled over my eyelashes, burning myswollen left eye. "No, no, no.""Jae," Sophie whispered, her hand touching my arm. "Jae, I’m so sorry. I didn't know. I swear Ididn't know she did that.""She shot him," I said, clutching the dead recorder against my chest. My body was shaking with a deep, agonizing sorrow. "It wasn't a robbery, Sophie. It wasn't even about the business merger.My dad died trying to protect me from the very beginning, entirely blind to the fact that his ownwife was the one holding the gun.""What are we going to do now?" Sophie asked, looking around the train car as it started to slowdown for our stop. "If Archer's law
Dirty Stepbrother Chapter 71
The gunshot was so loud through the little speaker that I jumped, almost dropping therecorder onto the glass-covered rug.Right after the blast, there was the heavy thud of a body hitting the floor, followed bythe sound of quick, frantic footsteps moving away.The tape went completely silent, just the empty hiss of static running until the little redlight blinked one last time and the screen went totally black. The battery was dead."No," I breathed, my voice cracking as hot tears finally spilled over my eyelashes, burning my swollen left eye. "No, no, no."I clutched the dead recorder against my chest, my body shaking with a deep, agonizingsorrow.It wasn't a robbery. It wasn't even about the business merger. My dad had died trying toprotect me from the very beginning, entirely blind to the fact that his own wife was theone holding the gun.Suddenly, a sharp crunch echoed from the lawn outside.Heavy leather boots were stepping on the gravel driveway, moving closer and closer t
Dirty Stepbrother Chapter 70
The subway train was loud. The metal wheels squeaked and rattled against the tracks asit sped toward the rich part of town.I sat in the corner of the hard plastic bench, keeping my face turned toward the darkwindow so the other passengers wouldn't stare at my swollen, purple eye.The train was mostly empty, just a few tired people holding paper coffee cups.Every time the train jolted, the pounding behind my forehead grew sharper. I pulled myphone out of my hoodie pocket, and the screen lit up my face in the dark corner of the car. I read my mother's message one more time. Look inside the lining of your old hockey duffel bag in the sunroom.I hated how easily she could still mess with my head. I wanted to believe it was justanother one of her sick games to make me lose my focus before the court trial.But a cold, heavy feeling stayed tight in my stomach. Three years ago, before everythingwent wrong, my father had been a quiet man. He always kept his head down, ran Bar Solace, an
Dirty Stepbrother Chapter 69
The neon green light from my phone screen faded, leaving the corner of the hospital room dark again. I stood by the metal hook, my fingers frozen against the cold glass of the device.My breath felt trapped in my throat, a sick, heavy knot twisting deep in my stomach.Look inside the lining of your old hockey duffel bag in the sunroom.Even from a holding cell down at the county precinct, my mother was still pulling the strings.She had timed the message perfectly.She waited until the adrenaline from the arrest had washed away, until we were sitting in thesterile quiet of this hospital room, thinking we had finally won, before dropping another bombdirectly into my lap."Jae?" Marcus Vance asked, his silver eyebrows pulling together as he watched me stare at thescreen."Who is that text from?"Sebastian’s head turned quickly on the pillow. His dark eyes locked onto my face, his chesttensing behind the hospital gown as he noticed how pale I had gone. He reached for his phoneon the
Dirty Stepbrother Chapter 68
The nurse hurried out of the room, closing the heavy wooden door behind her with a soft, finalthud. The quiet came back instantly, but it felt different now.The massive black letters on the front page of the newspaper seemed to burn right through the paper, staring up at us from the rolling table.Sebastian didn't look at the article. He didn't have to. He just stared at the cracked screen of his phone, his large thumb frozen over the keyboard as the distant, muffled sound of camera flashes and shouting from the main entrance downstairs leaked through the frosted glass windows.The door clicked open again, faster this time. Marcus Vance walked back into the room, his dark blue corporate suit still looking pristine, but his silver eyebrows were pulled together in a tight, hard line.He didn't have his briefcase this time. He just held a thin manila folder with a county court seal stamped on the front."The grand jury has officially locked in the first set of charges," Vance said, wal
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The interrogation lasted for three hours, and by the time Marcus Vance finally closed his legalpad, my throat felt coated in ash.Two detectives had stood on the other side of the yellow curtain, listening through the gap as I walked Vance through every single detail of thenight. I told him about the splintered wood on the sunroom frame, the heavy weight of Archer’s hand on my collarbone, the smell of the gunpowder, and the flat, dead look in my mother’s eyes when she pulled the trigger.Vance didn't show any emotion. He just nodded, his expensive fountain pen scratching acrossthe paper, capturing the legal reality of my broken family."The county prosecutor will use this to block Archer’s bail hearing at noon," Vance said,snapping his leather briefcase shut. The brass locks clicked loudly in the quiet room. "Betweenthe embezzlement routing numbers Sebastian leaked and your physical injuries, they haveenough to hold him under maximum security. Your mother won't even be considere
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I couldn't sleep all night.I lay on that mattress with the ceiling staring back at me, replaying every word Sebastian said.I must have checked my phone a hundred times. No texts from him. No damn explanation.By the time the sun came up, I had made two decisions.One: I was going to school. First
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"I will take you home. You're badly injured."I pushed myself up from the pavement I'd been sitting on. Everywhere in my body hurt… my ribs, my elbow, my fucking soul… and I hated that Sebastian seemed to have noticed all of it."What were you doing out here?" I asked. "Following me?""I was leavin
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Sebastian didn't reply.I checked my phone about 10 more times before falling asleep but there was nothing. Just that fucking read receipt glaring at me.I slept off.By morning, I'd decided it didn't matter.So what if my stepbrother saw my bare chest? It wasn't like I had anything impressive up t
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"You think I'm stupid?"The words came first, and then his hand landed harshly on my cheek and my back hit the freezer door before my brain caught up… Manager Cole's fingers tight in my collar."I didn't touch the register." My voice came out steady and firm. "I promise you, I wouldn't take your mo
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