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Chapter 147: What Marcus Found
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Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter 148: Her Mother Tries Again
The call came while Daxton was in the shower and Rowan was busy building a tower out of hotel pillows. I almost ignored it until I saw who was calling.My mother.I stepped out into the hallway to answer it, some old habit of keeping these conversations separate from the rest of my life still intact even now."Hello.""I heard," she said, no greeting at all. "About the wedding. I heard about the wedding, Serenity, from someone at your father's club, before you ever thought to tell me yourself."I closed my eyes, feeling the old, tired shape of this exact disappointment settle back into my chest."I wasn't trying to hide it from you," I said. "I just didn't think you needed to be told by me specifically. We've talked once in five years. I didn't think a wedding invitation was something either of us had earned yet.""I understand," she said, and something in her voice sounded different than it had on that first call, less careful, more raw. "I do understand that, actually. I just keep h
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter 147: What Marcus Found
Marcus showed up at the hotel two days later with the overnight package Dana had sent, plus a second folder of his own, thicker than I expected, his expression carrying the particular, focused energy I recognized from the night he'd once handed me a highlighted statute across a diner table years ago.“I spent yesterday checking everything again,” he said, spreading both folders across our small table. “Dana’s original report is still solid. The lighting doesn’t match, the window reflection is different, and there are signs the images were edited.....her work was convincing five years ago, and it still holds up today.”"But," Daxton said, catching something in Marcus's tone."But I found something new," Marcus said. "Or rather, old, that nobody ever connected properly before now."He pulled a single page from his own folder and slid it across the table.“The hotel room that never existed,” he said. “Five years ago, you proved it was fake by calling the hotel’s front desk but nobody inv
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter 146: She Stops Waiting
I woke up married, and the strangest part wasn't how different it felt. It was how much the same everything else still was. Rowan's cartoons still played too loud in the next room, the coffee still took the hotel pot four minutes to finish. The city outside still held every single person I needed to settle a score with.I sat at the small table with my coffee and thought about Cordelia for the first time since the wedding, really thought about her, not as a fear sitting in my chest but as a problem with an actual shape I could finally see clearly.Daxton came out of the shower, toweling his hair, and found me staring at the wall."You've got that look," he said. "The one you had right before you went after that landlord.""I'm done waiting on Marcus to slowly build a case," I said. "I'm done waiting on Jason's conscience to decide whether he wants to be honest. I built this whole life with my own hands, Daxton. I think it's time I built the end of this one too."He sat down across fro
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Cordelia found out from her lawyer, not from Jason, which told her immediately how far behind she'd already fallen.Theodore Marsh called her study phone a little after nine, his voice carrying none of its usual unhurried calm."There's something you need to know before the acknowledgment paperwork goes any further," he said."Go on.""Serenity Grayson married Daxton Smith yesterday afternoon. Courthouse ceremony, fully legal. The boy's name has already been changed. Rowan Smith, as of this morning, with Daxton listed as his legal father on a completed adoption filing."Cordelia set down the pen she'd been holding, very slowly, the way she set down anything that required her to think before she moved again."How is that possible," she said. "That quickly.""People move quickly when they know they're being chased," Theodore said. "I'd guess someone warned them the acknowledgment was coming."Cordelia's mind went immediately to Sloane, the sharp, unanswered edge of their last phone call
Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge Chapter 144: How Fast
Marcus called back within the hour, and this time his voice had a different kind of urgency in it, the kind that meant he'd already started moving before we'd even finished explaining ourselves."A courthouse marriage can happen in a few days in this state," he said. "Faster if you know who to ask. I know who to ask.""How fast is faster," Daxton said."Tomorrow," Marcus said. "If you want it tomorrow."I looked at Daxton across the small table, Rowan now awake and eating cereal in the next room, completely unaware that his whole world was about to shift shape before lunchtime."Tomorrow," I said.We spent the rest of that day moving faster than I'd moved in years. Marcus handled the license, pulling strings I didn't ask too many questions about. I called Dana the second I hung up with him, and she started crying before I'd even finished the sentence."Tomorrow," she said. "You're really doing it tomorrow.""If you can come," I said. "I know it's short notice.""I don't care if it's a
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The email was still open on Daxton's laptop when I woke up, the room gray with early light, Rowan still asleep in the next bed."You didn't sleep," I said."Couldn't." He turned the screen toward me. "Read it again. Tell me I'm not imagining how bad this actually is."I read it standing over his shoulder, Sloane's message sitting there in plain, careful words. *Jason's family is preparing paperwork that would formally secure Rowan's legal status with the Cranes.*"It's as bad as you think," I said.We called Marcus before breakfast, before Rowan was even dressed, the two of us hunched over the phone at the small table like it might run away from us if we looked away."I need you to understand what this document actually does," Marcus said, once I'd read him the message. "An acknowledgment of paternity doesn't take Rowan from you. It doesn't change custody but it puts Jason's name on the record, permanently, tied to Rowan in a way that will matter every single time something legal come
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