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CHAPTER 95
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2026-08-08 22:56:26
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FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 100
JASON’S POVI found myself, once Claudia had been settled into a secure guest room under careful supervision, sitting with Ella in a quiet debate that carried considerably more complexity than I’d initially anticipated.“I don’t fully trust her,” I said, keeping my voice low despite our private setting, mindful of how thin these walls might prove given everything else currently threatening us. “I understand her fear seems genuine, but Ella, this is a woman who slept with your husband, who mocked you before you ever arrived at this estate. Her history doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in her reliability.”“I know her history better than anyone,” Ella said, her own expression carrying complicated tension as she worked through the same difficult calculation. “I’m not suggesting we trust her blindly. But Jason, her fear seemed genuine in a way I don’t think she could easily fabricate. And if she actually does possess information about Cross’s operation, however she came to learn it, we c
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 99
ELLA’S POVJason told me about Sherwood’s death that evening, his voice carrying careful gentleness despite the difficult nature of the news, and I found myself processing a complicated tangle of emotions I hadn’t fully anticipated feeling.“I don’t know what to feel,” I admitted, sitting with him in the quiet privacy of our shared quarters, one hand resting protectively against my stomach as I worked through the tangled implications. “I spent four years married to that man. He hurt me, humiliated me, threatened our children directly. I should feel relief, or perhaps justice, knowing he’s finally faced consequences for everything he’s done.”“But you don’t,” Jason said gently, understanding evident in his tone.“I feel frightened,” I admitted. “Not grief for him specifically, but genuine fear at what his death actually represents. Cross killed his own collaborator, someone who’d actively helped him, the moment that collaborator became inconvenient rather than useful. What does that ac
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 98
JASON’S POVI convened an emergency security review within the hour, fury at the containment failure burning hot beneath my careful, controlled exterior as I demanded a full accounting of exactly how Sherwood had managed to escape custody despite what should have been comprehensive security measures.“I want to understand precisely how this happened,” I said, addressing the assembled security personnel with a hardness that left no room for careful diplomatic softening. “Sherwood Hawkson was a documented threat, already proven willing to collaborate with an enemy actively targeting my family. How did he manage to overpower guards during what should have been a routine, carefully monitored transfer?”The security captain responsible for the transfer detail, a normally composed man named Ferris, shifted uncomfortably under my direct scrutiny. “Alpha, the transfer protocol was followed exactly as specified. Sherwood exploited a moment when both assigned guards were simultaneously distract
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 97
ELLA’S POVDr. Marsh cleared me for careful, limited mobility nearly two weeks after that devastating night at the hunting lodge, the fourth baby’s condition having continued its cautious, steady improvement throughout those anxious days of recovery, and Jason suggested, once that clearance arrived, something I hadn’t fully anticipated given everything else currently demanding our attention.“I want to actually finish what we started,” he said, settling carefully onto the edge of my bed, his expression carrying a quiet, deliberate warmth. “Not another formal ceremony, not something built around political optics or public statement. Just us, privately, completing the moment Cross’s men stole from us before we ever got the chance to actually celebrate it properly.”“You want to renew our vows,” I said slowly, understanding the shape of what he was proposing.“I want us to have a genuine memory of this marriage that isn’t overshadowed entirely by armed men storming the hall,” he said, hi
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 96
JASON’S POVI found myself, in the quiet hours after Ella’s exhausted sleep finally claimed her, sitting with Aldric’s confirmation that her financial breakthrough had indeed connected directly to Cross’s broader network, and processing an admiration considerably more complex than I’d initially anticipated feeling.I had known, in some general way, that Ella possessed genuine business acumen. She’d built an entire successful venture alone, in the human world, with no resources beyond her own determination and skill. But watching her work through that complicated financial documentation with such focused, methodical precision, identifying patterns our own trained analysts had struggled to fully untangle, revealed a depth of capability I hadn’t fully allowed myself to appreciate until confronted with it directly.It unsettled me somewhat, if I was honest with myself, sitting alone in the quiet aftermath of her breakthrough. Not because I doubted her capability, but because I understood,
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 95
ELLA’S POVI found Jason the following morning looking considerably more exhausted than I’d seen him even during the darkest hours of my own recovery, papers spread across a portable desk someone had arranged near my hospital bed at his insistence, his focus divided uncomfortably between my continued care and whatever fresh crisis had apparently consumed the previous night.“What’s happening?” I asked, watching him rub his eyes with obvious, accumulated fatigue.“Cross has moved against Silvermoon’s stock,” he said, apparently deciding, after our earlier conversation about complete honesty, that continued careful management of difficult information served neither of us well. “A coordinated sell-off, sophisticated enough that our analysts are struggling to trace it back to him directly, though the timing makes his involvement almost certain.”“Show me,” I said immediately, pushing myself more upright despite Dr. Marsh’s continued recommendation for strict rest.“Ella, you need to focus
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