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Chapter 47 - A Rushed Date Meant A Rushed Bride
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Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 60 - Hidden Things Don't Stay Small
Elara's POV"The imaging confirms it."Dr. Calloway turned her tablet the way she had four days ago, except this time the pale swollen shape on the screen belonged to me, and I made myself look at it the way I'd made myself look at everything else that week — straight on, no flinching, the flinching done later, alone, if at all."Same vessel family as your father's, though yours sits differently — closer to the areas responsible for memory consolidation. That's not a certainty of harm. It's a location that makes harm more likely than his does." She said it plainly, the way she'd promised. "The Melbourne specialist agrees. Surgical risk is manageable. Memory risk is real. I'd put it at meaningful odds — not a coin flip, but not something I'll pretend away either.""Numbers," I said."He'll want to give you those himself, in person, when he flies up Thursday. I won't hand you someone else's number secondhand." She closed the tablet. "What I can tell you today: it needs to happen soon, s
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 59 - The Heiress Presumed Dead
Elara's POV"It's already out."Ivy said it the second I picked up, no preamble, which told me how bad it was before she'd said a single detail. "Sydney Morning Herald has it. Financial Review's picking it up within the hour. Missing SM Group heiress presumed dead is Dave Sullivan's biological daughter — that's the headline, word for word, someone at the hospital sold the boardroom collapse and the DNA both.""Both.""Both. And they've connected it to the wedding footage from New York, and to the gala five years ago, and someone's dug up the old obituary — yours, from five years back, they ran your photo next to Sullivan's collapse footage like a magic trick." Ivy's voice, usually a wall, had a crack of genuine alarm in it. "This isn't a story anymore, Elara. This is the story. There are three vans outside SM Group New York and I'm told two outside the Sydney office and I don't know what's outside your house because I'm afraid to ask."I looked out my own front window. Four vans. A fi
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 58 - Protection She Thinks
Elara's POVThe envelope was already on the dining table when I got there, sitting inside a clear evidence sleeve.Danvers had gloves on, and Ian was standing close enough to it that I understood he'd been the one to physically intercept it from the courier before anyone official arrived."You touched it," I said."I photographed the courier's van and the driver's ID before I let him leave. Then I called Danvers before I opened anything." He said it steadily, already braced for the correction. "It's addressed to you. Personally. Handwritten. I wanted eyes on it the second it existed, not an hour from now when it's been sitting in a mail room."Danvers didn't look up from the sleeve. "He did it clean, for what it's worth. Chain of custody's intact." She turned the envelope in the light. No return address, my name in careful block capitals, postmarked two suburbs over from a mail centre that served half the western city. "We'll get nothing off a public posting box. Let's see what's insi
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 57 - Book The Scan
Elara's POV"Sit down, Ms. Rhodes.""I heard you the first time."The doctor — Calloway, her badge said, careful eyes, a voice trained not to give anything away before the sentence was ready — didn't push it twice. She just waited until I sat, because some part of me had already understood that whatever came next needed a chair under it, and had sat down out of self-preservation rather than obedience."The aneurysm is larger than the original imaging suggested. Six years old, at minimum, possibly older — these don't announce themselves until they choose to." She turned her tablet so I could see the scan without pretending I'd understand it. A pale shape, a small swollen knot on a branch of grey lines. "Today's collapse wasn't the aneurysm rupturing. It was a warning shot — a minor bleed, contained, which is the only reason your father is currently awake and telling my nurse she has excellent bone structure."Something in my chest that had been braced for the worst word let go by exact
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 56 - Hillary Handley
Elara's POV"You look terrible," Sullivan said."You collapsed in your own boardroom and I flew here from a crime scene. Between us we've had quite a morning." I pulled the chair to his bedside and sat, and his hand found mine on the blanket before I'd finished sitting, which told me more about the last twenty minutes than any chart could. "The nurse said you were holding the doctors hostage.""Negotiating." His color was wrong — grey under the tan, the tan itself thinner than it had been on a screen last week. Wires ran from him to three machines that each had opinions. "There's a scan this afternoon. There's a specialist flying up from Melbourne tonight. There's a word they keep almost saying and then not saying, and I've decided I'll hear it after I've said mine, because mine's been waiting six months and theirs can wait four hours.""Sullivan —""Dave." He said it and then looked almost embarrassed, an expression I'd seen on his face maybe twice in five years. "Or not. Or whatever
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 55 - The Search
Elara's POV"Mooring nine."Danvers said it from the bottom of my stairs at six in the morning, phone still in her hand.I came down fully dressed, and behind me Ian appeared in the hallway with both phones like he'd never gone to bed at all."A cruiser, forty-foot, registered to a shelf company in Brisbane eleven weeks old. Thermal picked up one adult male on board at four a.m. One." Danvers held my eyes while the number landed. "We go in thirty minutes. You can be at the staging point. You cannot be on the water. That's the deal.""Take it," Ian said quietly behind me, before I could bargain. "Elara. Take the deal."The staging point was a boat ramp with a public toilet block and a view of grey water folding itself over and over. I stood at the bonnet of Danvers' car with a radio I wasn't allowed to speak into and watched two inflatables cross the river in the flat dawn light like they had nowhere urgent to be, which is how professionals cross water. Ian stood on the other side of
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
Ex Husband, Prepare To Burn Chapter 1 - The Anniversary Gift
Elara's POV Where the fuck is he? I muttered to myself as I searched the Grand Hall for Ian, my diamond stilettos clicking sharply against the marble floor. Tonight was supposed to be special—our third anniversary and my twenty-fifth birthday. Ian had promised to make it a night I’d never forget
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