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Chapter Eighteen: The Sunday He Stayed
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2026-05-19 17:17:34
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HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 54: The Safe House
~Ethan's POV~Damien called me from the car on the way back from Murray Hill."Marcus says Richard has gone dark. He does not know where. He is coming for the family, Ethan. I do not know if that means Amelia, or Noah, or the baby, or all three. But I am not willing to sit in Manhattan and find out."I did not argue with him.I had been building the answer to this call for two weeks. A property my firm had used for board retreats before the pandemic, off market, an hour and a half up the Hudson, private drive, no neighbors within a mile, private security firm on retainer for exactly this purpose. I had not told Amelia about it, because Amelia would not have accepted its existence in the abstract, and I had needed the option ready when the sentence came.The sentence had come.I hung up on Damien and I walked into the study where she was working, and I closed the door behind me."Amelia."She looked up from her laptop."We are leaving the city tonight. Not forever. A week. Ten days. Lo
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 53: Marcus Vale
~Damien's POV~Serena said the name in the second half of the sentence.Marcus Vale.I did not react in the room. I made my face do the small unmoved thing I had learned to do at boardroom tables when a colleague had just handed me a piece of information I did not want anyone else present to see me register. But I saw Amelia's eyes come up to me across the coffee table, and I saw Nathan's phone stop moving in his hand, and I understood, in the space of one heartbeat, that the piece of the picture we had been missing for nine years had just clicked into place.Marcus Vale had not been Richard's employee.Marcus Vale had been Richard's partner.I stood up."Nathan. My car. Now. I am going to Murray Hill.""Damien...""No. He recruited her. He fed her the fake DNA report. He put her into my ex-wife's marriage for nine years. He walked out of the boardroom I fired him from and spent the next decade turning a woman he had never met into a weapon against me, and he sat across from me last w
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 52: Serena's Truth
I closed the folder."Bring her to me."Damien did not ask which her. He picked up his phone.Serena arrived at my apartment inside two hours, brought under police escort at Nathan's arrangement, because the tender offer investigation had already generated enough legal cover for us to require her presence. She walked into my living room in a coat too thin for the weather, sat down in the chair I pointed at, and did not meet my eyes.Ethan stood behind me. Damien stood by the window. Nathan sat one seat over with his phone recording.I slid the Project Carter folder across the coffee table.Face up. Open. Her photograph on the top page. Her name typed cleanly at the bottom. The word ASSET printed above her head in a hand seventeen years older than she was.Serena went very still."You know what this is," I said. "You do not have to read it. You already know."She did not answer."Serena. Look at me. Not at Ethan. Not at Damien. Me. You have thirty seconds before this becomes a courtroo
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 51: Project Carter
Amelia's POVDamien brought the folder to my house at four in the afternoon.He did not knock. Ethan opened the door before he could, because we had all been waiting for him since he had called from the vault two hours earlier, and none of us had pretended otherwise. He walked in with the folder in one hand and my name in capital letters on the red tab facing outward, and he set it on my kitchen table without a word, because there was nothing he could have said in that moment that would have made the file smaller than it was.I sat down.I opened it.The first thing I read was a two page summary written in Richard Blackwood's angular hand, dated seventeen years ago, describing me. Not in the way a rival describes a rival. In the way a naturalist describes a species he has just discovered. My habits. My speech patterns. The way I held a coffee cup. The three restaurants I had been observed eating at during the second trimester of my pregnancy. The two coats I had been wearing that autu
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 50: The Original Plan
Damien's POVI did not answer Noah, because there was nothing honest I could say to a seventeen year old boy who had just correctly identified that the world had been arranging itself against his mother before he had drawn his first breath.I took the laptop from Ethan.I opened the photograph again. I studied it. I studied the angle. I studied the depth of field. I studied the coat Amelia had been wearing, which I remembered because I had given it to her the winter before, and I studied the streetlight above her head, which I remembered because I had been the one to walk past it every morning for the last decade of my useless life.The photograph had been taken from an office building across the street from the Sinclair house. From an upper floor. From a window that had, on that night, been occupied.Somebody had been sitting in a rented office in the fall of the year Noah had been conceived, at eleven at night, waiting for a woman to walk out of my family's front door, holding a pro
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 49: Everything They Know
~Ethan's POV~Amelia did not speak for a long moment after I said it.She reached across the table, gently, and turned the laptop back toward me, and then she sat down in the chair beside me, and she said, in the specific voice she used when she needed the world to move at her speed instead of its own, "Show me what they took. All of it. Do not filter."I opened the folder tree.I clicked through every subfolder, and the four of us sat in the quiet horror of watching six days of downloads scroll past.They had taken the folder marked Noah, 2018 to 2025. Every school report. Every doctor's appointment. Every photograph Amelia had taken of him blowing out a birthday candle since he was ten years old.They had taken the folder marked Wedding. Every image from the day Amelia and I had gotten married, private, unpublished, the ones she had never shown a single member of the press.They had taken the folder marked Marriage, prior. The one I had never opened in the seven years we had been ma
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Three: A Guest Who Became a Queen
It had barely been an hour. Vanessa was already on the sofa, one hand resting on her stomach, completely at ease, like she had been sitting in that spot for years. And that was when I heard her voice carry in from the sitting room, warm and unhurried, the tone of someone who had already decided thi
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Two: He Came Home With Her
I am still at the table when morning comes.I did not plan to stay. At some point in the night I told myself I would get up, clear the plates, blow out what was left of the candles, go upstairs and take the blue dress off and lie down like a person with some dignity. I told myself that somewhere ar
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter One: The Birthday He Forgot
The candles are still burning.Two little flames sitting in the center of the dining table. I have been watching them for a while now. Not because they are beautiful, but because watching them gives me something to do other than check the door.The food went cold an hour ago. The wine I opened at s
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Five: The Baby He Wanted Gone
Sophia arrived within the hour of me calling her, walked through the curtain still in her work clothes, sat down beside me and took my hand and did not say I told you so even though she had every right to.Damien did not come back.Not that afternoon. Not that evening. Sophia was the one who stayed
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