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His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 180
Chapter 180ADRIANDamien Castellan was in the sitting room.I had seen photographs, footage, the various visual records that Elijah had assembled over the course of the operation. I had a comprehensive picture of the man assembled from secondhand sources.In person he was different in the way that people were always different in person. Taller than the footage suggested. A quality of contained energy that cameras flattened. He was sitting in a chair near the window and he looked like a man who had had a significant morning and had not fully finished processing it—tight around the jaw, the eyes doing the cold assessment thing that Adria had described and that was visible even from the doorway.He looked at me."You're Adriana's brother," he said."Adrian yes," I said."Sit down," he said.I sat.Marcus stationed himself near the door, which was Marcus's way, and I registered it and filed it and focused on the man across from me."What happened at the hotel this morning was arranged,"
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 179
Chapter 179ADRIANI was on my third coffee when Adria called.This was not unusual. The call came at ten forty-seven."Tell me," I said.She told me.I listened through all of it—the door opening, Damien's face, what he had said, the slap, the truth about the necklace.When she finished I was quiet for a moment."You told him," I said."Yes," she said."And Damien saw none of this," I said."Damien was already gone," she said.I set my coffee down."Amber arranged it," I said. "The spoofed text. The timing.""Elijah is pulling the footage," she said. "He says he has something. An hour.""I know," I said. "He's been sending me updates."A pause."Adrian," she said."Yes.""I need you to do something," she said. "Something I can't do myself right now.""Tell me," I said."I need you to go to Damien," she said.The kitchen was very quiet."You want me to go to Damien," I said."Before he sits in that house and builds the wrong picture further," she said. "Before Amber makes contact to r
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Chapter 178ADRIAKieran was quiet."And you?" he said."I need to make some calls," I said."About Greaves?""About everything," I said. "The timeline has changed. Amber has moved into active interference and Greaves has lawyers and Isla Vance has been asking questions and I've been—" I stopped. "I've been managing things sequentially when the situation requires parallel action."He looked at me.The word-on-the-tip-of-the-tongue thing. Closer than I had ever seen it."Adriana," he said."Yes.""Who are you?" he said. Not aggressively. Not accusingly. With the specific, genuine quality of someone who had been asking a question for months in different forms and was asking it now in the clearest version.I looked at him.Kieran Ashford. Fifteen years of blank memory. A necklace that was his that had started everything. "Who are you?" he said.The sentence was the same one he had said in my sitting room, in front of my family who were pretending to be cousins. The same words. But the
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 177
Chapter 177ADRIAThe door closed.I stood in the hotel room with the sound of it still in the air and my hand still slightly raised from the slap I had not planned to give and had given anyway.Kieran was very still near the desk.The room was the specific quiet of a space that had recently contained something significant and was now containing the aftermath.I put my hand down."He's gone," Kieran said. Unnecessarily."I know," I said.I went to the window.The street below was doing its ordinary morning things. Cars, pedestrians, the city moving through its schedule without reference to what had just happened in room 412 of the Meridian Hotel. I watched it for a moment because watching ordinary things was useful when extraordinary things had just occurred and you needed a moment before you decided what to do next.My hand was still warm from the impact.I had slapped Damien Castellan.I had spent eighteen months not raising my voice, not pushing back, not allowing any of the things
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Chapter 176DAMIENNot hard enough to move me—I was considerably larger than her—but precise. The kind of slap that was not an impulse. The kind that had a point to make and made it.She had hit me.Her face, after, was furious in a way I had not seen from her before. Not the managed hurt of the hospital. Not the careful controlled expression of a woman who had learned to show nothing. Actual, unmanaged fury, the kind that appeared when something had finally broken through the architecture."How dare you," she said.Her voice was shaking. Not with fear. With something that was on the other side of fear."How dare you imply that," she said. "How dare you—after everything—after I sat in that chair for a day and called nine one one when you were bleeding and stayed in the hospital—you stand here and say that to me."The room was very quiet.Kieran had not moved. He was near the desk with the expression of a man who had decided this moment did not require him and who was going to honor th
His Tamed Wife, The Wild Heiress Chapter 175
Chapter 175DAMIENThe Meridian Hotel was in the financial district.Not one of the grand old hotels that announced themselves with awnings and uniformed doormen. The newer kind—clean, expensive, the architecture of somewhere that prioritized discretion over spectacle. The kind of place where people had meetings they didn't want observed and where the staff had developed a professional amnesia about guests and their visitors.Yusuf pulled up to the entrance."Wait here," I said."Mr. Castellan—""I won't be long," I said. "Kieran's inside. It's a conversation."Yusuf looked at me with the expression he had developed recently—the one that contained something he was choosing not to say."I'll keep the engine running," he said.I went inside.The lobby was what the exterior had promised. Clean, quiet, the particular hush of a space that took discretion seriously. The reception desk was staffed by a woman who confirmed, when I gave my name, that yes, a card key had been left for me. Room
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