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SAY THAT AGAIN
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2026-11-06 23:58:38
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FOUR SHADES OF DREY SAY THAT AGAIN
Chapter 163My chest tightens before I press play.Dreyven has come around to my shoulder, and Dreylen has moved in on the other side, and Drayton has opened his eyes and is looking at the phone as though it might bite him.I turn the screen so that all four of us can see it, and I press the triangle.Her voice is rough, and it takes me a second to realise how long she must have been crying before they let her speak."My name is Aurelia," she says. "I'm making this statement of my own free will. Nobody has promised me anything and nobody has told me what to say."An officer off camera asks her to continue.She breathes in, and I watch her steady herself the way she did the day I found her sitting alone in my office, trying to hold a conversation together while her hands shook beneath the desk."Five years ago, the four Drey brothers did something to me that I couldn't forgive. I won't go into it here, because it isn't relevant to what I'm confessing, but it's why I agreed to work with
FOUR SHADES OF DREY FLAT AGAINST HER KNEES
CHAPTER 162DREYDENJulian slides the contract across the desk with the care of a man handing over a winning lottery ticket, and for a moment I let him believe that's exactly what it is."It's all there," he says, tapping the first page. "Ten per cent of the group, transferred on signature, with the verification clause removed, as we discussed.""We didn't discuss removing it.""Didn't we?" His smile doesn't move. "I'm sure it came up. Either way, it's a formality, because you've seen the reports and you've seen the address, so surely you know by now that I've been telling you the truth."I pick up the pen, and I can feel Dreyven shift behind me and Drayton's fingers whitening around the armrest.I read the first page slowly, the second page slower, and then I set the pen down without signing."Before I put my name on anything, I'd like to ask you a question.""Ask." He leans back, comfortable and pleased, as though he already owns the chair he's sitting in."When you collected the DN
FOUR SHADES OF DREY ESPECIALLY NOT MY FATHER
CHAPTER 161DREYVENThe receptionist looks at us for a moment longer than necessary.Her eyes move from Dreyden to Drayton, then settle on Elias. "Mr. Cross is expecting you," she says finally. "Please, follow me."Dreyden walks ahead. I stay beside Drayton, keeping an eye on the way he moves. He's been quiet since we left the car, and I know that particular silence. He's holding himself together through just stubbornness.His face is still pale. His right hand remains close to his stomach, and every few steps, his jaw tightens."You need to sit down if you feel dizzy," I murmur."I'm not dizzy.""You were dizzy ten minutes ago.""That was ten minutes ago." I look at him and he looks back. How can someone be this stubborn, I can't complain because he'd remind me if how I'd do same if I was in his situation."Ven, if you start treating me like a child, I'm going to make your life miserable.""You're already doing that.""Good." I shake my head, but the sound that comes out of me is a
FOUR SHADES OF DREY JULIAN CROSS IS EXPECTING US
CHAPTER 160DREYVENWhen I walk back into the garage, Drayton is laughing.Not loudly. Not the kind of laugh that makes his whole body move, but enough to make Elias smile as he pours tea into four chipped mugs.For a moment, I stand by the entrance and watch them.Drayton is still pale, and there's a tiredness around his eyes that wasn't there before the fight, but he's sitting upright now, listening to Elias talk about a customer who brought him a broken antique table and expected him to repair it for the price of a new one."Some people think restoring furniture means rubbing polish on wood," Elias says, shaking his head. "They don't understand that sometimes you have to take the whole thing apart before you can make it right again.""Sounds familiar," Drayton mutters.Elias gives him a curious look. "Does it?""Don't mind him," Dreylen says. "He's been in a terrible mood.""I nearly died," Drayton replies."And somehow you're still annoying.""That's because I'm talented." Elias l
FOUR SHADES OF DREY THE SCREEN REMINDS ME
Chapter 159"I was four months old when the Warrens got me." His voice has gone flat, careful, like a man crossing ice. "There's a gap.""We know," Dreyden says quietly.Elias stands up. He walks past us without a word, through a door at the back, and we hear his boots on stairs. Nobody speaks. Drayton stares at his bottle. Dreylen has both hands pressed together between his knees. Dreyden is looking at the pegboard like he's memorising it.When Elias comes back he's carrying a biscuit tin, dented, the paint worn to bare metal at the corners. He sets it on the bench and puts his hand flat on the lid."Mum gave me this the week before she died. She said there was a box under her bed. She said, Someone might come for you one day. Don't be angry with them." His thumb moves on the lid. "Then she said, Be angry with the nurse. I thought it was the morphine.""The nurse?" I say."That's all she'd tell me." He opens the tin.There's a folded adoption decree from a private agency called Call
FOUR SHADES OF DREY THEY SEARCHED FOR MONTHS
CHAPTER 158DREYVENMy phone buzzes in the cup holder for the ninth time since we left the car park.I don't have to look. The screen is lit up in the corner of my eye, one word in white letters. Aurelia. Then it goes dark, then lights again.I keep both hands on the wheel. The road is wet and the traffic is thick.I give it all my attention, the brake lights ahead, the lane markings, the wipers sweeping once, twice.The tenth call comes.I pick up the phone at a red light. My thumb finds her contact. The photo is one I took myself, months ago, in the garage. She's laughing at something Drayton said, with a smear of grease across her cheek where she'd wiped her face with a dirty hand. She looks about nineteen. She looks like someone who has never hurt anybody.I press Block this caller. The screen asks if I'm sure. I no press yes before I can think.The light turns green. Behind me a horn sounds. I put the phone face down and drive."You okay?" Dreylen asks from the back seat."Fine.
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