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I Buried My Fiancé And Married His Brother Chapter 74
SebastianTradition said I wasn't supposed to see her tonight, and tradition could go straight to hell, because I found myself standing outside her door at eleven in the evening anyway, unable to sleep, unable to sit still, unable to do anything except need to see her face before the last night of our engagement slipped away entirely."You're breaking the rules," Christabel said, opening the door before I'd even knocked, like she'd been waiting for exactly this."I never agreed to the rules. Marie invented them and told me they were law.""Marie invents a lot of things and presents them as law. It's part of her charm." She pulled me inside, and I noticed immediately that something in her posture had shifted, a tightness around her eyes that hadn't been there a few hours earlier when I'd walked her home from the girls' evening."What's wrong.""Nothing. I'm fine.""Christabel."She sighed, crossing to the small desk near the window, and picked up an envelope I hadn't noticed before, pl
I Buried My Fiancé And Married His Brother Chapter 73
Christabel"Absolutely not," Marie said, holding up a dress with an expression of profound betrayal. "This has sleeves shaped like actual trumpets. Who hurt you enough to buy this.""It was a gift. From my aunt. I have to at least try it on out of respect.""Respect for your aunt does not require you to look like you're about to perform a fanfare at any moment."We were three bottles of wine and one entire cheese board into what Marie had insisted on calling my "unofficial bachelorette redo," since apparently the version we hadn't gotten to have before my first almost-wedding deserved a proper do-over now that there was actually something worth celebrating.Beatrix sat in the corner of my dressing room, looking simultaneously out of place and genuinely delighted, a glass of wine she'd been nursing slowly for the better part of an hour, watching the chaos of dresses and shoes and half finished hairstyles with an expression I'd never seen on her before, something almost wistful."I neve
I Buried My Fiancé And Married His Brother Chapter 72
SebastianI'd been putting off the conversation for weeks, finding reasons, always reasonable ones, to delay it a little longer, but Jane's easy, uncomplicated question in the garden had settled something in me that I couldn't keep avoiding."Christabel," I said, finding her in the kitchen that evening once Jane had gone down for her nap. "I think it's time. To tell her about Elena. Properly, I mean, not the fragments she's picked up from overheard conversations and half explanations."Christabel set down the dish towel she'd been holding, studying my face carefully. "Are you ready for that?""I don't know if I'll ever feel fully ready. But she deserves to know her mother as a real person, not just an absence she's grown up around without understanding. And she's old enough now to hold at least some version of the truth, even if we simplify the hardest parts.""Do you want me there, or do you think this should be just the two of you?"I considered it for a moment. "Both, I think. I wa
I Buried My Fiancé And Married His Brother Chapter 71
Christabel The detective called on a Tuesday morning, and something in his tone told me before he'd even finished his sentence that this call would require more from me than the usual updates we'd been receiving over the past few weeks. "Vivienne accepted a plea deal," he said. "Manslaughter charges related to Elena's death, along with the fraud and kidnapping counts. In exchange, she's avoiding trial, which means no lengthy court process, no media circus dragging your family through months of testimony. But the judge wants victim impact statements before sentencing, and given everything you experienced directly with her, I think your voice would carry real weight." "You want me to face her again." "I want you to have the opportunity to, if you choose to take it. Nobody's requiring it of you." His voice softened slightly. "Some people find real closure in it. Others find it retraumatizing. Only you know which this would be for you." I sat with the question for two days before I ma
I Buried My Fiancé And Married His Brother Chapter 70
SebastianGabriel adjusted his tie for the fourth time in as many minutes, and I finally reached over and fixed it myself, the way I used to when we were kids and he'd inevitably show up to some family function looking like he'd dressed in the dark."You look fine," I said. "Stop fidgeting.""Easy for you to say. You're not the one about to stand in front of a judge and admit to years of theft in front of a courtroom full of strangers.""No, but I'm the one who spent three years grieving a version of you that turned out to be built on a lie, and I'm still here, still showing up, so I think that earns me the right to tell you to stop fidgeting with your tie."Gabriel huffed out something that was almost a laugh, nervous and thin, but real. "Fair enough."Christabel sat on his other side, having insisted on coming despite Gabriel's initial protests that she didn't owe him anything close to this kind of support. Beatrix sat behind us, composed but visibly tense, her hands folded tightly
I Buried My Fiancé And Married His Brother Chapter 69
Christabel"No," Jane said, with the absolute, unshakeable authority of someone who had clearly given this a great deal of thought. "You can't wear white again. You already did white. It's my turn to pick.""It's not actually your wedding, sweetheart.""But I'm the flower girl. That's basically the same as being in charge."Marie, sprawled across my bed surrounded by three different bridal magazines, snorted so hard she nearly choked on her tea. "She's not wrong, you know. Flower girls hold enormous unofficial power. It's basically a union position at this point.""You're not helping.""I'm helping Jane. There's a difference." Marie held up a magazine toward Jane with the solemnity of someone presenting state secrets. "What colors are we thinking, boss?"Jane studied the page with the intense concentration she usually reserved for cartoons and cookie negotiations, then jabbed a finger decisively at a deep, rich green."That one. Like the garden. Papa likes the garden.""The garden whe
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