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I Came Back To Ruin You Julian's Second Victory
Chapter 67: Julian's Second VictoryJulian's POVThe judge took four minutes.I know because I timed it against the clock above her bench, the way I used to time silences in sessions to see who would crack first. Pike read the affidavit into the record in his priest's voice. *I am the protected party in this matter. I do not fear contact with my husband.* The prosecutor objected to the poisoning inquiry, and the judge waved her off without looking up. Felix's lawyer, a woman in a navy suit with a face like a locked door, argued that the signature was obtained under diminished capacity."The petitioner's own words are in front of me, Counsel," the judge said. "She says she isn't afraid. I'm inclined to believe a woman about whether she's afraid."Motion granted. Supervised contact, a third party present, to be reviewed in thirty days.I kept my hands folded and my face grave. I'd practiced the face in the bathroom mirror that morning, the one for a man who has been through something an
I Came Back To Ruin You The Daughter He Raised
Chapter 66: The Daughter He RaisedFelix's POVI picked the place because she would know it.Aldridge Park, the old rose garden behind the glass conservatory, where a nine-year-old girl once fell off a stone wall and broke her wrist and refused to cry until I'd set it myself with a magazine and a scarf. Nico had traced the burner through three towers and a pawnshop. I sent one text to the number he gave me, from a phone Markus had bought that morning.*Rose garden. The bench by the sundial. One hour. Come alone or I send Markus to the door.*She didn't answer. She came.I watched her cross the gravel from the far gate in a hooded gray coat that wasn't hers, too big in the shoulders, hands jammed in the pockets. Three weeks ago she had worn cream cashmere to my table and asked how my day had been. Now she walked like someone being led somewhere, and she stopped six feet from the bench and looked at the ground."Hi, Daddy.""Sit down, Lila."She sat at the far end. I kept the recorder i
I Came Back To Ruin You Dr. Vaughan, I Presume
Chapter 65: Dr. Vaughan, I PresumeTessa's POVI decided to treat him like a negotiation.It was the only way I knew to sit across from a stranger who knew more about me than I did. You don't start with feelings. You start with what's on the table, who's in the room, and who's pretending not to be afraid.He'd brought tea to the sunroom, a tray with two cups, and he set it down on the low table without being asked. I took the chair with its back to the wall and the window on my left. He took the one opposite, then moved it two inches to the side so the light wasn't in my eyes. He did it without comment and hoped I wouldn't notice.I noticed. I put it in the file.---Markus first, because he was the easiest to read.He stood by the door and didn't lean on it. His weight sat on both feet. His eyes went to the window every eight or nine seconds, then the corridor, then back to Felix, never to me. That was the part that interested me. A man guarding a house watches the house. A man guard
I Came Back To Ruin You The Stranger's Chair
Chapter 64: The Stranger's ChairFelix's POV "Julian isn't coming today," I told her.It was the truest thing I could say that wasn't also the cruelest. She nodded, slowly, the way she nodded at contractors who'd given her a number she planned to beat. Then she asked if she could have her tea, and I said yes, and I stood up from that chair like a man getting off a ship.I made it as far as the hallway. I shut her door to an inch and stood with my back against the wall.Markus was already there. So was the younger guard, Reyes, who took one look at my face and found something fascinating on the ceiling."Give us the corridor," I said.Reyes went. Markus stayed."Listen carefully," I said. "Everyone in this house hears this from me, and they hear it today. Nobody tells her we were together. Not Francesca, not the housekeepers, not the men on the gate. If she asks what I am to her, I'm her doctor. If she asks why she's in my bed, she's in a guest room, and it's a medical precaution.""S
I Came Back To Ruin You The Man Who Held My Hand
Chapter 63: The Man Who Held My Hand Tessa's POVThe man in the chair was asleep, and I had never seen him before in my life.I lay very still and took inventory, the way you do in a hotel room when you wake up in the wrong city. Ceiling: high, cream, not mine. Sheets: heavy, a gray I would never have chosen. A blanket pulled up to my chin that somebody had tucked in on one side only. And in the armchair beside the bed, a tall man with white at his temples and his chin on his chest, one sleeve rolled to the elbow.Gray light under the curtains. No sound from the house.My left wrist had something on it, a smooth black band with a button on the side. I didn't know what it was. I pressed the button.Nothing visible happened. I pressed it again, longer, and said, "Who are you?"My voice came out low and steady. That surprised me.He woke the way soldiers do, all at once and without moving. His eyes opened on me and stayed there. They were hazel, dark, and so tired they looked bruised."
I Came Back To Ruin You The Wife In His Voice
Chapter 62: The Wife in His VoiceLila's POVThe guest house had a pool house's soul and a pool house's smell: chlorine in the walls, damp towels that nobody had moved in two summers. Julian's father had put it in Julian's name as a wedding present and then forgotten it existed. So had the repo men. So had the court.That made it perfect. It also made me a woman living in somebody's leftover.Maya had asked me to leave on Tuesday. She did it nicely, with a casserole she'd made for the road, which was somehow worse. *My cousin keeps asking questions at work, Lila. I can't have them looking at me.* She didn't say *you scare me.* She didn't have to. I'd seen her watching my face while I read the text on the flip phone, and I'd seen her decide I wasn't the girl she'd known since college anymore.I wasn't. I'd stopped being her somewhere around the second night on that couch.The text that came after, the one I'd left unanswered for two days, said only: *Patience. Julian is not your concer
I Came Back To Ruin You PEEPING
CHAPTER THREEJulian’s words still hurt me deeply, so I hadn't told him about my terminal illness yet. Although he begged me to forgive him all through the night, he woke me up with breakfast in bed, a pancake with “I'm sorry” written with jam on it. Finally, I told him that it was fine and pushed
I Came Back To Ruin You PAST
CHAPTER TWOJulian stepped out, turned around, and wrapped Lila in a hug one last time before making his way towards the stairs, to our bedroom. Fortunately, they didn't see me as I was hidden by the dark. Confusion flooded my thoughts. What could possibly make Julian come out at 1 a.m. in the nigh
I Came Back To Ruin You VISITOR
CHAPTER ONE I have brain cancer and three weeks to live. I still recall the sound of the bells ringing in my ears when the doctor announced it to me. It made little sense. Just six months ago, I went for tests as the symptoms of migraine, memory loss, partial blindness, and bleeding through the no
I Came Back To Ruin You EXPOSED
CHAPTER SEVENRecord: Oh fuck, you are so tight, baby!Then, right after Julian’s voice, were slaps as if he were pounding into something. I looked at my cracked screen, unable to fathom what I was listening to.Later that night, the banana bread forgotten, I lay on the bed, awaiting his arrival.H
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