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The Father’s Shadow
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2026-11-11 18:20:58
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He's Still in Love with Me... But I'm Married. What Do I Do? The Traitor in the Room
The air inside Suite 204 turned instantly to ice.Chief Inspector Marcus Vance stopped dead in his tracks right beside the door, his slate-gray eyes wide with utter shock as he stared at his own chief deputy."Miller?" Vance breathed out, his voice shaking with a dangerous mixture of disbelief and pure rage. "You? I hand-picked you for this department ten years ago in Saint Louis!"Deputy Miller didn't flinch. He sat comfortably in the high-backed velvet armchair, his polished silver pistol rested casually across his knee, pointed straight at Inspector Vance’s chest. A cold, smug smirk sat on his face."Ten years ago, Marcus, you were making forty dollars a month fighting county sheriffs," Miller said, his tone casual and dripping with smooth arrogance. "Harrison Hart pays ten times that just to keep his legal team informed of your weekly schedules. You really thought a federal badge was going to stop a multi-million-dollar land buyout?"Thomas Vale cowered behind the mahogany desk, c
He's Still in Love with Me... But I'm Married. What Do I Do? Smoke in the Kitchen
The thick, yellow gas hit my throat like a handful of burning sand.I coughed violently, doubling over as tears stung my eyes, blinding me almost instantly. The sharp, acrid smell filled the small kitchen, wiping out the rich aroma of fresh coffee in a single, terrifying breath."El! Get down!" Cassian roared.He grabbed my shoulders and shoved me hard under the heavy oak dining table just as a heavy blast from a short-barreled shotgun shattered the pine doorframe above our heads. Splinters of wood sprayed across the room like shrapnel."Julian!" I gasped out, my hands searching wildly through the choking cloud under the table.I felt Julian’s wool coat. He was already down on the floor beside me, his teeth gritted tight against the agony in his ribs, his arm wrapped around my waist to pull me tight against his side. Even while drowning in tear gas and bleeding through his fresh bandages, his first instinct was to cover my body with his own."Hold your breath, El," Julian rasped into
He's Still in Love with Me... But I'm Married. What Do I Do? The Ghost in the Deed
The room went so quiet you could hear the oil sizzling on the cast-iron stove.My hand froze in Julian’s grip. My heart stopped beating entirely, dropping straight into a cold, dark pit in the bottom of my stomach."What did you just say?" I whispered, my voice barely making a sound in the heavy room.Chief Inspector Marcus Vance didn't look away from the thick parchment paper in his trembling hand. He held it closer to the oil lamp on the kitchen table, his thumb tracing the wet red wax seal at the top."The Supreme Court in Washington signed an emergency order two days ago," Vance said, his voice flat and heavy. "It’s a stay of execution on your petition for widow status, Elowen. The county declared your first husband, Thomas Vale, legally dead six years ago after his boat went down in the river gorge. But the court says he never signed the death registry.""Thomas is dead," Cassian said, stepping away from the window so fast his tin coffee cup clattered loudly against the wooden ta
He's Still in Love with Me... But I'm Married. What Do I Do? The Sparks in the Dark
The orange glow from the sputtering fuse on Sheriff Thad's dynamite stick danced off the wet concrete walls, casting long, ugly shadows across the chamber."Step away from the box, girl," Silas Vance said, his double-barreled shotgun leveled dead center at my forehead. His clothes were torn, soaked with river silt and melting snow, but his eyes were wide and bloodshot with a manic, cornered desperation. "Step away real slow, or I blow you straight into the spillway."I didn't move an inch. My fingers stayed wedged beneath the thin silver wire inside the brass clockwork mechanism. The heavy mechanical gears kept on ticking–tick, tick, tick–each rhythmic click sounding like a hammer hitting an anvil inside my skull.The red needle on the dial was hovering right past the five-minute mark."Silas, look at what you're doing," Cassian said, stepping slowly into the open space between the doorway and the powder crates. His hands were raised empty at shoulder height, his bronze revolver tucke
He's Still in Love with Me... But I'm Married. What Do I Do? The Leap over the Canyon
"Duck your head!" Julian roared over the screaming wind.He didn't pull the brake lever back. He did the exact opposite. He shoved the iron handle forward with all his strength, sending sparks flying off the runners as our sled accelerated straight toward the massive fallen pine tree blocking the wooden chute.I buried my face deep into the wool of Julian's coat, tightening my arms around his ribs until my knuckles went white. My heart stopped beating entirely.Just ten feet before impact, Julian hauled up hard on the front timber crossbar.The front of the wooden sled launched off a thick wedge of packed ice at the mouth of the broken trough. We flew straight into the freezing air, soaring right over the massive trunk of the pine tree. Sharp evergreen needles whipped across my face, stinging like tiny knives as we cleared the thick branches by mere inches.For two agonizing seconds, we were completely airborne over the dark, yawning canyon below.Then, with a deafening CRACK, the iro
He's Still in Love with Me... But I'm Married. What Do I Do? The Countdown in the Snow
The small paper strip fluttered in Julian’s trembling fingers, the cold mountain wind trying its best to rip it away."The valley dam?" I whispered, my voice caught in the back of my throat. My mind raced down the mountain, straight to the small wooden houses, the local diner, and the families sleeping soundly in their beds right now. "If that dam breaks, the whole town will be underwater in ten minutes.""It’s not just a threat," Chief Inspector Vance said, his face dark and grim as he grabbed the paper from Julian and held it up to his lantern. "Look at the time code at the bottom. Harrison’s men set the charges on a mechanical timer before they rode up the freight lift. They didn't care if Harrison got the ledgers back or not. If he failed, the water takes care of everything.""How much time do we have?" Cassian demanded, stepping right up into Vance’s space, his bronze revolver lowered but his body coiled tight like a steel spring."Forty-five minutes," Vance answered, checking hi
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