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Chapter 62: Her Price
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2026-09-14 17:51:59
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ChristabelSophie spent the next three days buried in legal filings, working with Fournier's office to get the fraudulent claim dismissed, and I watched Sebastian retreat further into himself with each passing hour, the warmth from that hallway conversation replaced by something colder, more controlled, a version of him I hadn't seen since the very first days of our marriage."You're doing it again," I said, finding him in his office late one night, hunched over documents he'd already read a dozen times. "Shutting everyone out. Handling it alone.""I'm handling a legal crisis, Christabel. That requires focus.""It requires focus. It doesn't require pushing away everyone who's trying to help you through it." I crossed my arms, watching him carefully. "You haven't slept properly in three days. You barely eat unless Odette puts a plate directly in front of you. Jane asked me yesterday why Papa doesn't smile anymore."Something flickered across his face, guilt and exhaustion tangled toget
I Buried My Fiancé, Married His Brother Chapter 63: Grieving Her Twice
SebastianGabriel slept for fourteen hours straight once we got him home, and I sat outside his door for most of that first night, unable to fully trust that he was safe until I'd checked on him three, four, five times, some old instinct from childhood refusing to quiet down no matter how many times security confirmed the building was secure.Christabel found me there around two in the morning, sitting on the floor with my back against the wall, and she settled down beside me without a word, resting her head against my shoulder."You should sleep," she said eventually."I keep thinking about what Vivienne said. About Elena." My voice came out rougher than I meant it to. "A miscalculation. Three years of grief, of blaming you, of believing I'd failed to protect her, and it comes down to someone getting a dosage wrong while trying to frighten her into silence.""That doesn't make it less devastating. It makes it worse, if anything." Christabel's hand found mine in the dark hallway. "She
I Buried My Fiancé, Married His Brother Chapter 62: Her Price
ChristabelSophie had every available officer combing the riverside within twenty minutes, and still we stood in that lobby doing nothing useful, waiting, which felt like its own kind of torture after everything that had already happened this week."There has to be something we can do," I said, pacing a tight circle near the elevators. "Sitting here isn't helping anyone.""Running out into the streets blind isn't helping anyone either," Sebastian said, though I could hear how much the stillness was costing him too, his voice tight, his hands flexing at his sides like he needed somewhere to put the energy building up inside him.Beatrix arrived twenty minutes later, having heard the news from Sophie's team, and the sight of her face, pale and stricken, told me everything about how she'd received it."This is my fault," she said, before either of us could say anything. "If I hadn't spent three years protecting his secrets, if I'd told the truth the moment I suspected something was wrong
I Buried My Fiancé, Married His Brother Chapter 61
Sebastian"Jane," I said, already running for the car, terror clawing up my throat so fast I could barely form the word. "Christabel, call Odette, now."Christabel was already dialing, her hands shaking so badly she nearly dropped the phone twice before the call connected, and I heard Odette's voice through the speaker, confused, alarmed by the urgency in Christabel's tone."Jane's fine," Odette said quickly, once she understood the fear driving the call. "She's here with me, security's posted at every entrance, nothing's happened."Relief flooded through me so fast it nearly buckled my knees, but Christabel's face hadn't fully relaxed, some instinct still working behind her eyes."Odette," she said carefully. "Is Gabriel there? Is he safe?"A pause, too long, too heavy, and my stomach dropped through the floor entirely before Odette even answered."He said he needed air," Odette said slowly, alarm creeping into her own voice now. "About twenty minutes ago. He told security he was jus
I Buried My Fiancé, Married His Brother Chapter 60
ChristabelSebastian wanted to call the police immediately, and Sophie agreed, and I understood exactly why, and still I found myself arguing against waiting even the twenty minutes it would take for a proper response team to mobilize."She could be gone in twenty minutes," I said. "She's evaded us for fifteen years, Sebastian. If we wait for the police to organize a raid, we lose whatever window we actually have right now.""And if we walk in there without backup and something goes wrong, we lose a lot more than a window." Sebastian's jaw was tight, fear and urgency warring visibly across his face. "Christabel, this woman has already tried to hurt Jane once. I am not walking either of us into a building she's controlled for fifteen years without proper support.""Then we compromise. Sophie's team, positioned outside, ready to move in the moment we need them. We go in together, careful, and we don't do anything reckless. But we go now, before that light goes dark and she disappears ag
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SebastianThe courthouse looked exactly the way it had the first time, wood paneled and quiet, except this time every calm face in that room was performing for an audience we couldn't see, and every one of us knew it.Fournier played his part perfectly, reading from prepared notes that sounded, to anyone listening, like the genuine, devastating conclusion to weeks of legal review. Beatrix sat beside her lawyer, composed, convincing, exactly the picture of a woman about to receive everything she'd supposedly wanted. Christabel sat beside me, her hand gripping mine under the table, both of us wearing expressions of carefully rehearsed devastation."Given the evidence presented," Fournier read, his voice carrying the particular gravity of a judge delivering unwelcome news, "this court finds sufficient concern regarding the circumstances of the marriage's formation to warrant reversion of control to the family trust, pending further review."The words, false as they were, still landed wit
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