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His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 232
Chapter 232ADRIA"I understand," I said."Ten minutes," he said. "Maybe less, depending on how they've got him scheduled today. And I need you to understand something else, before I make this call." His voice had gone lower, more careful. "Whatever you hear — if his voice sounds different, if he seems confused, if something about the conversation doesn't track the way it should — I need you to stay calm. On the phone, and after. Because if you fall apart on this line, they'll know exactly what kind of leverage they're sitting on, and it'll make the next ten days considerably harder for both of us."I nodded. My throat had gone too tight to trust with actual words.He pressed the call button.The line rang once. Twice. I could hear it through the speaker, tinny and distant, and I felt my whole body go very still, every part of me leaning toward the sound the way a plant leans toward light it isn't sure is actually there."
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 231
Chapter 231ADRIAThe house was quiet when we pulled in — no lights on in the front rooms, which meant Valentina was either still at the search or had finished and retreated somewhere upstairs, and I felt a small, ungenerous relief at the thought of not having to arrange my face for her yet.Darren didn't get out of the car right away.I sat there beside him, the engine ticking as it cooled, the two of us saying nothing, and I felt the exhaustion of the last hour settle into me all at once — not the manageable kind, not the kind I could push through with the specific discipline I'd built my whole adult life around, but something heavier. Something that had been accumulating for weeks and had apparently decided, watching Kieran go white on a street corner, watching his hands start to shake, watching Darren pin him to the pavement while a crowd of strangers cheered for it, that today was the day it finally caught up with me.I thought about
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 230
Chapter 230DARRENI heard the words leave my mouth before I'd fully decided to say them, some old, careless reflex reaching for the joke because the joke was safer than sitting inside what I'd actually just understood about her. "This fire. I get why he fell for it."I watched it happen in real time.I watched the heat drain out of her face — not slowly, not gradually, but almost instantly, like a switch thrown somewhere behind her eyes, the fury folding in on itself and retreating into something smaller, quieter, apologetic in a way that made my own stomach turn the moment I registered what I was actually seeing."I'm sorry," she said. Her voice had changed completely. Gone was the conviction, the volume, the specific unmanaged heat that had filled the car thirty seconds earlier. What replaced it was soft. Careful. The version of her I'd first met in that sitting room, folding herself down into something that took up less space, apologized for
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 229
Chapter 229DARRENShe turned on me before we'd even cleared the second block."You did that on purpose."Her voice came out low, controlled in the specific way that told me the control wasn't going to last much longer. I glanced over. Her hands were fists in her lap, knuckles pale, and her jaw had the same set to it I'd watched Damien's take on in board meetings, right before he said something that ended someone's career."Did what," I said. Light. I already knew it was the wrong tone before I'd finished saying it."You provoked him," she said. "Deliberately. I watched you do it. You said something about his face and you knew — you *knew* — it would land somewhere it shouldn't have, and you said it anyway, because you wanted to see what would happen.""I didn't know it would do that," I said, and even as I said it I understood how thin it sounded, how much thinner than the truth I still hadn't fully admitted to myself. "I w
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 228
Chapter 228ADRIAI felt sick with it. Genuinely, physically sick, my stomach twisting around the specific powerlessness of watching a good man's reputation get dismantled in real time and understanding, with total clarity, that I could not fix it without breaking something larger — my family's cover, the operation, whatever fragile architecture still stood between us and total exposure.I opened my messages instead.I found Kieran's contact — still saved under his own name, no code, no alias, the one honest thread I'd let exist in a phone otherwise full of careful fictions — and I typed before I could talk myself into something more measured, more strategic.*I'm so sorry. What happened out there wasn't your fault. None of what they're saying is true and I hate that I can't fix it right now. I will find a way. Please know that.*I read it over once. It wasn't enough. Nothing I could type into a phone was going to be
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 227
Chapter 227ADRIAThe car was quiet in the specific way that meant neither of us was going to be the one to break it first.Darren drove. I sat with my phone in my lap, my hands still faintly unsteady from the last twenty minutes, and watched the notifications begin to arrive before we'd even cleared the block — first a trickle, then a flood, the particular acceleration of a story catching wind and deciding to become something bigger than the sum of what had actually happened.I opened the first article without meaning to. My thumb moved before my judgment caught up to it, the same compulsive reflex I imagined kept people picking at wounds they knew better than to touch.*KIERAN ASHFORD ATTACKS DAMIEN CASTELLAN'S COUSIN IN STREET ALTERCATION.*I read the headline twice before the words fully landed.The article itself was worse than the headline promised. Someone had already assembled a timeline — the grocery store, the pres
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