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Legacy Problems

Penulis: Ms. Chiamaka
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-08-08 20:16:06

As soon as I got home, I got an idea on how to get myself out of this mess. I knew this was all Dad’s idea. He always treated me like an egg. I mean, I understand I was the only one left at home. My siblings were all grown and moved out by now.

And so, Dad turned all his attention to me. It was a little suffocating to be honest, and if I needed to get out of this, I knew exactly who to talk to.

As soon as I got home, I called my mother, and although she was a little reluctant at first, she eventually gave in to meeting with me.

About an hour later, the car dropped me off at the back entrance of a luxury hotel tucked behind rows of palm trees and tall glass panels. It wasn’t flashy on the outside, but everyone inside knew exactly what it meant. Privacy, wealth, and protection. The kind of thing mostly exclusive to the privileged. My mother never did anything without a reason, so I knew this location wasn’t random.

I stepped through the quiet lounge and spotted her instantly. She stoo
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  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Crossroads

    SavannahI thought leaving would feel like relief. That once Clint disappeared and the city settled into a new routine, I’d wake up lighter. Like something poisonous had finally drained out of my system. Instead, the opposite happened. Every quiet moment felt heavier, as if the absence itself had weight.I kept replaying everything in my head, not in a dramatic way, but in fragments. Clint stood between me and the board when they were ready to strip me of my position. He was there when the cartel had my head underwater. He did all of that, but he also lied, over and over, and somehow still protecting me while doing it. None of it fit neatly into good or evil. It just… existed in a messy and uncomfortable way that was impossible to ignore.Walking away would have been the clean choice. The obvious one. The kind of decision people praise from a distance because it sounds strong and moral. But strength wasn’t the same as simplicity, and morality had stopped being a choice a long time ago

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Call

    ClintStill, I waited longer than I should have. I’d made up my mind to call Malorwe and sort things out, if not for myself, at least for Savannah. Yet, the phone sat silent on the table in front of me. The safe house was eerily quiet, but somehow it made the voices louder than it deserved to be. I’d already checked the perimeter twice. I’d already cleaned the wound on my side again, even though it didn’t need it. This wasn’t about being careful anymore. It was about delay.I knew once I made the call, there would be no space left to pretend. And so I finally picked up the phone and dialed Malorowe. As always, there was no hesitation when I called. It was almost as if she was waiting for my call and answered immediately it rang.“Clint,” Melordy said, her voice smooth, almost pleasant. But I could still hear the faint surprise on her voice. “I was wondering how long it would take.”I leaned back against the counter and stared at the cracked ceiling. “You always said patience wasn’t yo

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Safe House

    ClintMy body protested with each movement I made as I arrived at the safehouse location. The crash had left its signature everywhere. But the pain was familiar. It was noise I knew how to tune out.Inside, the air smelled stale. I locked the door, slid the deadbolt into place, then stood there longer than necessary, listening to nothing really. There were no footsteps, engines idling too long outside or lively chatter. Not that I expected any. Still, the silence didn’t calm me. And so I moved room to room, checking corners, opening cabinets, lifting loose floorboards looking for anything useful. The place was untouched with no signs of a breach. That alone unsettled me. Melordy was efficient. If she hadn’t found this place yet, it meant one of two things, either she didn’t know about it, or she was letting me think she didn’t.Regardless, I dropped my bag on the kitchen counter and finally let myself sit. The chair creaked under my weight and my ribs flared in protest. I gritted my t

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Aftermath

    ClintThe pain crept in before I could fully register what had happened. It started off slowly, like it was testing the water. It felt like a dull ringing in my ears, and a heavy pressure behind my eyes. I tried to breathe but all I could feel was the sharp pain in my ribs that told me something was cracked or bruised deep inside. When I opened my eyes, the sky was split by headlights and spinning hazard lights. The world tilted sideways and for a moment, I thought I was still dreaming, still driving and lost in the same looping thoughts about Savannah, about Melordy and my daughter. But just then a shadow moved across the windshield, and my instinct snapped me awake faster than any pain ever could.Some figures were now approaching the car and somehow I could tell, these were not bystanders or good Samaritans. They moved too wrongly, deliberate, and spaced out to be. One of them raised an arm, and the dull glint of metal caught the light.That’s when I knew for sure that it wasn’t a

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   On the Run

    ClintThe highway stretched endlessly ahead of me. I kept my hands tight around the steering wheel, my knuckles pale, and my heartbeat unsettled in a way I hadn’t felt in years. Savannah’s voice kept replaying in my mind, shaky and urgent. It was obvious she was scared, scared enough to betray Melordy but terrified enough to warn me.“She knows, Clint. All of it. You need to go.” She had said. I had heard the tremor under her words. And I knew she was right.I wasn’t surprised that Melordy had finally pieced everything together. She’d always been sharper than the rest of them, always watching, always thinking. Rafe’s death had been messy, and I’d been sloppy letting myself get tangled that deep. I should’ve known it would catch up eventually. So I packed what I could in less than an hour, cleared the office, wiped what needed wiping, and put the city behind me before sunrise. It wasn’t panic that made me leave. It was calculation. If Melordy was on the move, I needed as much distance

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Hunt Begins

    MelordyThe morning light felt too bright as I walked into the building. I had spent the entire night sorting through files, messages, and fragments of conversations that no longer felt like coincidences. Every piece pointed to the same man… Clint. I had suspected him before, but now the weight of proof sat heavy in my chest, a quiet confirmation I wished wasn’t real. As I stepped into the hallway, I could feel the shift in the air, as if everyone already knew something was coming.I kept walking, steady but tense, replaying Savannah’s expression from the night before. She tried to hide it, but guilt always had a way of leaking through the smallest cracks. I imagined she had told him about our conversation by now. Honestly with everything that went down, I don’t know why she was still trying to defend him. But anyways, Clint must have known I was closer than anyone had ever been to exposing him. And a man like him would never sit still while his world unraveled. As I approached the o

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