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Chapter 39 - The Past Wants A place In My Future
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Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 54 - Hawkesbury
Elara's POV"Read it to me again.""Elara, you've heard it four —""The last paragraph, Avery. Again."Static and paper on the other end of the world. Then Avery's voice, careful, level, reading a dead-tired man's handwriting for the fifth time down a phone line: "If it goes wrong, it goes wrong because I got close. Don't look for me where I parked — look at what's forty minutes past it. He booked nothing. Men like this don't fly out with cargo, they drive to water. E — the boats. It was always boats. — L.""Forty minutes past Parramatta," I said. "Toward water.""That's the Hawkesbury," Danvers said from across my kitchen table, already pulling the map around. Three days now she'd worked out of my kitchen, and the table had disappeared under charts of a coastline that had more hiding places than a coastline had any right to have. "River systems, private moorings, oyster leases, four hundred places to put a boat you don't want found. But." She tapped the map twice. "It cuts the search
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 53 - The Letter
Elara's POV"Madam, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I only turned around for —""Mrs. Adele." I took both her hands before the rest of the sentence could break her. "Look at me. Where are Noah and Emily?""Upstairs. Sleeping. The police lady is with them — they wouldn't sleep, and then they did, all at once, the way they do." Her hands were cold in mine, twenty-two hours after, still cold. "Madam, the garden — I only went in for the sunscreen, Claire wanted her yellow hat, and when I came back the gate —""You went in for sunscreen because it was hot and she is four and burns in twenty minutes. You did your job." I said it slowly, once, and watched it fail to land, and knew it would need saying a hundred more times before it did. "Now I need everything. From the beginning, in order."The house didn't feel like my house. Fourteen hours in the air and I'd walked through my own front door into a place with two federal officers in the kitchen, a technician doing something to the landline, and
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 52 - What You Can't Change About Camila
Ian's POV"Get out of the car, Camila."She hadn't moved in twenty minutes. The bridal car had brought her back to the house because no one else would take her — her own security had peeled off before the Haverton gates, the planner wasn't answering, Petra's phone went straight to a voicemail that no longer said Vale Group — and now she sat in the back seat in the dress, in the driveway, while the driver stood as far from the vehicle as the job allowed.I opened the door myself. She stared straight ahead through the windshield at nothing.She didn't move for twenty minutes. Just sat in the back seat in the dress, in the driveway, while the driver stood at the far end of the gravel with a cigarette.I opened the door myself. She stared straight ahead through the windshield."They're saying I confessed," she said. "The clips. They've cut it so it sounds like —""You did confess.""They edited —""Three hundred phones, Camila. There is no edit. There's just you." The last of the light ca
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 51 - Not Worth a Bullet
Elara's POV"She doesn't spook," the stable owner said, handing me the reins. "Crowds, flags, gunfire on film shoots. Nothing moves her unless you move her.""What's her name?""Justice." He said it without a trace of irony, checking the girth strap a final time. "The previous owner had a sense of humor."I didn't laugh, because the previous owner was Morticia. That lady had anything but a sense of humor.The bridle path ran exactly as the deed said it would — service road, then trees, thirty years of nobody, branches grown low enough that I rode the first kilometer bent over the mare's neck. Through the leaves the Haverton came up in pieces. White chairs. The drone hanging over the lawn like a patient insect. Three hundred guests and a string quartet playing something that had been played at my own wedding, ten years and one ocean ago.My phone had gone to Liam four times since dawn. Four rings each, then nothing. Ivy couldn't raise him. Marco said Thursday, a pushed fitting, a note,
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 50 - The Florist Nobody's Watching
Liam's POV"Spell it again.""H-A-L-V-E-R-S-E-N. First name Rurik, sometimes goes by Rick." Marco's voice came through the phone flat with the particular tiredness of a man who'd been pulling records for six hours because I'd asked him to and hadn't told him why. "Took me most of the night. Your third name doesn't exist on paper after 2019. Before that he's a maritime logistics consultant, whatever that means when a man has no office, no employees, and clients who pay him from shell accounts in three countries."I wrote the name on the back of a fabric invoice and looked at it. Rurik Halversen. The third name on a dead lawyer's list, sitting between Morticia Vale and a warning underlined hard enough to tear paper, and for two weeks it had been the loose thread everyone agreed to pull later. I'd decided not to wait for later. Later had a habit of arriving on its own schedule."Maritime logistics," I said. "Boats.""Boats." Marco let that sit for a second, because he'd read the same gal
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 49 - Wednesday
Elara's POV"You ride?"Morticia asked it the way other people asked about the weather, standing in the middle of my villa's sitting room in a black coat she hadn't taken off, looking at the photograph on the side table — the triplets on the beach at Manly, backs to the camera, faces hidden. I'd decided not to move it before she arrived. If we were doing this, we were doing it as people who knew what the other stood to lose."Since I was nine," I said. "Why.""Because my insider sent me the final venue layout this morning, and there's exactly one approach the security plan doesn't cover, and it's the bridle path along the east fence." She pulled a folded page from her coat and laid it flat on the table over the wedding plan I'd already built. Her version had lines mine didn't. "The Haverton used to be a hunt estate. The path is on the property deed but not on the event map, because nobody's used it in thirty years. Camila's security firm is working off the event map."I looked at t
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 5 - The Game Begins
Elara's POV I followed Ian out of the fashion show and kept my distance, slipping behind a marble pillar in the corridor. My pulse was steady, trained to hide itself; my breath slow. From my hiding place I could hear him—low, flat—answering a call.“You need to hurry up with Camila,” his mother’s
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 4 - The Rules of Love and War
Elara's POV “What are you thinking about, Mum?” Noah’s small voice pulled me from my thoughts.“Nothing much, dear,” I said softly, smiling at him. “I was just remembering the day I gave birth to my lovely triplets. I love you, my children.”“Mum,” Emily said, her eyes sparkling with mischief, “we
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 3 - The Night Everything Ended
Elara's POV My fingers trembled so hard I could barely unlock my phone. One deep breath. One last ounce of courage. Then I hit send — the recording, Ian’s confession, every single shred of betrayal he had thrown at me. I attached it all with a note that burned like poison on my tongue.> “Let’s se
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 2 - Shattered
Elara's POV The streetlight above me flickered, throwing broken shadows across the driveway as I stood there, gripping the divorce papers like they were the only thing keeping me from falling apart. My hands were shaking so badly the pages rustled in the night air. I don’t even remember the dri
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