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Chapter 97: Dinner for Enemies
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2026-01-03 09:00:51Julia stared at the invitation as if it might ignite on its own. The embossed Hughes crest glinted under the kitchen light, stark and cold. “He wants dinner,” she whispered, pulse tapping wildly against her throat. The room felt too small, too bright. Brandon stood across from her, hands braced on the counter, jaw carved in hard lines. “Then we’re going,” he said. “All of us.” The certainty in his voice was meant to steady her — but it shook her instead.
Evelyn entered the room slowly, still pale from the night in the hospital, but there was a set to her shoulders that warned Julia the invitation had woken a dormant fire. “If Richard Hughes wants a performance, I’ll give him one,” she announced. Brandon winced. “It’s not a performance.” Evelyn raised an eyebrow. “For him, everything is.” Julia squeezed the lette
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Julia reads the word annulment three times before it becomes real.The paper trembles faintly in her hands, though her face stays still. Corporate risk statutes. Reputational exposure. Financial liability. Her name appears not as a wife, not as a person, but as a variable to be eliminated.She sits on the edge of the bed, morning light cutting across the room in pale stripes. Brandon stands a few feet away, saying nothing, watching the way her shoulders slowly draw inward as if bracing against a wind only she can feel.“They quantified me,” she says finally, voice flat. “Like I’m a bad investment.”“Julia—”
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Silence lives between them like a third presence, heavy and deliberate.Julia sits on the edge of the bed, robe tied too tightly, fingers worrying the fabric as if it might unravel on its own. Brandon stands by the window, city lights flickering across his face, phone dark in his hand for the first time in hours. No calls. No lawyers. Just the quiet aftermath of choice.“I keep waiting for the next hit,” he says without turning. “The email that blows everything apart.”Julia swallows. “Me too.”The silence returns, thicker now. It isn’t anger that fills it—worse, more fragile. Fear. The kind that waits, patient and sharp, promising consequences.“They’ll come for you
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