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Chapter 316
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Mason's POV I couldn't sleep. His voice kept returning... I did what I had to do to earn my place. No hesitation in his tone. No weight in his eyes that suggested regret. Just the flat, composed certainty of someone explaining a decision he'd never once questioned. I went back the next morning. "Why did you kill him," I said. "I thought he was your best friend." He looked at me as though the answer should have been obvious. "Like you betrayed Maya without a second thought and clinged to her bestfriend.... ohh I forgot, you divorced her secretly without her knowing...." I stared furiously at my Dad, his truth tasted bitter in my lips... "Look son, Edwin had evidence," he said. I shook my head. "Buy You could have left him alone," I said. "Warned him. Given him a chance to disappear, to stay silent voluntarily. Anything other than what you actually did." His expression hardened. "Don't talk to me about this morality bullshit, as if you had not done worst..." I looked up, a
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Alex's POV I drove straight to my father's house. Not for another circling conversation, not for another version of "some things should stay buried." I needed the truth, complete this time, and I had brought exactly what I needed to force it. I walked inside and held out my phone, the screenshot of Maya's message still open on the display. He looked at it. I watched something in his face settle.... not surprise... "Why have you been so afraid to talk," I said. He sat down slowly. "Because no amount of warning was ever going to stop you and Maya from digging into Edwin's death," he said. "I understood that weeks ago. I've simply been buying time, hoping I wouldn't have to be the one to finally tell you everything." He looked at the message again. "That text came from an organization," he said. "They are known as the Association." "The Association," I repeated. "A secret institution," he said. "Powerful enough to influence almost everything of significance that h
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Maya's POV I walked into the kitchen the next morning and stopped. She was standing beside the table. A large shopping bag sat beside her.... "What are you doing here," I said. She looked nervous. Didn't leave. "I bought something for the babies," she said. She reached into the bag and pulled out two tiny outfits... one blue, one pink, the small perfection of clothes made for people who didn't exist yet outside the space I was carrying them in. I stared at the outfits. Then I looked away. "You can't buy your way back into my life," I said. She lowered her eyes. "I know," she said. "I'm not trying to." The laugh that escaped me arrived bitter, sharper than I intended. "Then why do you keep coming," I said. She took a breath.... "Because I'm your mother, Maya," she said. "I know I don't deserve your forgiveness yet. But I'm not going to stop trying." I didn't answer. I picked up my coffee and walked away, leaving her standing there alone in the
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Maya's POV The exam-room door swung shut behind us and the hallway fluorescent lights felt almost too bright. My hand stayed locked around Alex’s, the doctor’s words still ringing in my ears.... healthy twins, boy and girl.... Every step made the heavy, round weight of my belly shift, the taut skin pulling tight across the underside. I walked with that familiar slight waddle, one palm already curved protectively beneath the swell as if I could hold both of them closer. Outside, the late-afternoon sun warmed my face. Alex opened the passenger door and helped me settle in, his fingers lingering on the curve of my hip. The seatbelt stretched across the highest point of my stomach; I felt a soft, deliberate kick right against the strap. “They’re celebrating,” I said, voice still shaky with leftover relief. He leaned in, pressed a quick kiss to my temple, then another lower, just above the neckline of my maternity dress where the fabric strained over my fuller breasts. “So
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Maya's POVI noticed the change almost immediately after Alex came back from his parents' house.Not anger exactly.... something quieter, the watchful tension that had settled into him over the past few days. He checked the locks twice before bed now. He'd added two more security personnel to the house rotation without asking me first, and another two to the office. Every time I stepped outside, his eyes moved across the street before mine did.He hadn't quite forgiven me, either.Not for anything dramatic... for the pizza. For the orange juice he'd spent hours making, only for me to reject it the moment it reached my hands. I felt the guilt of that more than I let myself admit, the sinking awareness that pregnancy hormones didn't erase the disappointment I'd clearly caused him, even if he never said it outright.This morning, he reminded me gently about my hospital appointment."Eleven o'clock," he said, already dressed, watching me stumble sluggishly out of bed.
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Mason's POV I sat across from him again the following morning. Sleep had offered nothing useful the night before.... "What was your relationship with Maya's father like," I said. He looked at me for a long moment before answering. "We were friends first," he said. "Before we became business partners. We did considerable business together, across many years." "That's not all," I said. I placed the photograph on the table between us. The one I'd found the previous night, the three men standing together outside a building neither of us had ever fully explained. "Then what about Alex's father too," I said. "Explain that." He looked at the photograph. Longer than the question required... "Those days are over," he said. I leaned forward. "Did you have something to do with Maya's father's death," I said. His expression hardened. "Be careful with your questions," he said I understood, sitting with the silence that followed, exactly what he hadn't said. Tha
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Maya’s POVThe air in Mason’s office thickened the second I turned back toward the door. Selina moved first quick, theatrical reaching out as if to grab my arm in some mockery of concern.“Maya, wait……”Her fingers brushed my sleeve.I reacted on instinct. A small, sharp push just enough to create
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Maya's POV I lifted my chin, Selina is there beside Mason, in a romantic posture. “How do you sleep at night, Selina, with all that evil sitting on your chest like a stone?”She laughed soft, delighted. “Easily. Because I finally stopped pretending to be the good girl who waits for her turn”I lo
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Maya’s POVThe coordination suite felt smaller with just the two of us in it. The harbor glittered beyond the glass like it was mocking us both, endless, indifferent, moving on without caring who drowned.Selina didn’t bother with the soft, apologetic mask anymore. The moment Lila’s footsteps faded
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Maya’s POV“She is two months pregnant.”“I can’t believe it,” Mason’s voice carried through the cracked boardroom door, low and reverent, the way he used to speak to me only in our earliest days before the miscarriages, before the silence grew between us like frost on glass. “Two months?”My fing
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