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What He's Already Built
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2026-08-04 17:49:06
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I Was His Secret Wife, Now I'm His Nightmare I’d Rather Marry a Parking Meter
Roman was still staring at Marcus's text when a third message came in, from a number he hadn't seen in six years.'Dinner. Tonight. Eight o'clock. Radiant Club. Come alone. Daniel Lockwood.'Audrey read it over his arm. "He knows," she said."He wants me to know he knows." Roman deleted nothing and answered nothing. He just put the phone face down on the railing, like it might bite. "I'm going.""Of course you are.""Don't say it like that.""Like what?""Like you're already picking out my funeral suit.""Black," she said. "Obviously."The Radiant Club hadn't changed. It still had dark wood, brass lamps and waiters who moved smoothly like ghosts. Roman had been dragged here at twelve to learn which fork to use and which men to be afraid of.Daniel Lockwood was already seated in the private dining room, cutting a steak into very small pieces. Sixty-three, silver hair, and the same jaw Roman saw in the mirror every morning. Roman hated that more than he hated the man.There was a woman
I Was His Secret Wife, Now I'm His Nightmare I’d Rather Lose Badly Than Lose You
The sheets on his side of the bed were cold.Audrey knew it before she opened her eyes. She reached across the mattress and found nothing but a dent in the pillow and the faint smell of him, cedar and soap and something expensive."Roman?"No answer. The fire had burned down to orange nothing. Grey light leaked through the curtains, and somewhere outside a board creaked.She sat up, holding the sheet to her chest, and her eyes landed on his black dress shirt thrown over the armchair. She pulled it on. It hung to her thighs and the sleeves swallowed her hands. She did not care.She found him on the porch.He was barefoot, in last night's trousers and nothing else, leaning on the railing with his back to her. A coffee cup sat by his elbow. He hadn't touched it. She could tell because there was no steam.His tie was around his neck again. Loose. Hanging open like he'd tried to strangle himself with it and given up.Audrey stopped in the doorway. In all the time she'd known him, she had s
I Was His Secret Wife, Now I'm His Nightmare The Hostile Takeover
Derek Lockwood woke up feeling annoyed, because he woke up to the smell of his own cologne turning sour on unwashed sheets and a soft body against his back that wasn't supposed to be there.Regina.She was still asleep, mascara smudged under her eyes from crying about the ankle monitor the judge had strapped on her before releasing her on bail. Derek stared at the ceiling and asked himself, not for the first time, how the hell his life had ended up here – disgraced, almost lost all his father's favour that he spent years chasing, half broke and sharing a bed with the woman half of Seattle now knew as a criminal."You're staring again," Regina mumbled without opening her eyes. "It's creepy.""Go back to sleep.""Can't. Court date's Thursday." She rolled over, draped an arm across his chest like she had any right to comfort him. "Diana Sinclair told me through her lawyer that the embezzlement charge might be withdrawn if I cooperate.""Cooperate with what?"Regina's eyes opened then, th
I Was His Secret Wife, Now I'm His Nightmare Late Night Activities
Derek's mouth opened. Nothing came out.Roman watched his brother's face cycle through disbelief, humiliation, and finally the same look he'd worn since they were kids and Roman had beaten him at everything that mattered. He didn't feel satisfaction, not really. He just felt done."Get out of my sight," Roman said, quiet enough that only Derek heard it, Derek's jaw ticked. Then, for once in his miserable life, he had the sense to turn and walk away without another word, the crowd parting around him like he had something contagious.Roman turned back to Audrey. She was still in a state of shock, her chest was rising and falling fast, adrenaline still working through her. He reached for her hand."Come on," he said. "You've done enough tonight. Let me take you somewhere quiet.""Quiet sounds good," Audrey said, and let him lead her out.The drive out of the city took almost an hour, Seattle's skyline shrinking in the rearview until it was just a smear of light behind them. Roman kept o
I Was His Secret Wife, Now I'm His Nightmare Cease And Desist II
Then he leaned in, close enough that only she and Audrey could hear him, his voice dropping to a low register. "Cedar Grove Assisted Living. Room 114. Third floor, west wing, corner room with the window that faces the garden." He tilted his head slightly. "Your grandmother has been there eleven months now, hasn't she? Nurses say she likes it when someone reads to her in the afternoons, since she can't really speak anymore."Regina's face went as pale as a ghost. "I know where everyone you care about sleeps at night," Roman went on calmly, like he was discussing the weather. "I know their routines, their doctors, their schedules. And I promise you, the kind of people I could send wouldn't leave a single trace behind, no note, no struggle, nothing for the police to work with."He let that settle, watching her throat work as she tried to swallow."So," he said softly, "you're going to shut your mouth for the rest of the night. And if I ever hear you speak to her like that again, anywhe
I Was His Secret Wife, Now I'm His Nightmare Cease And Desist
Derek sat frozen in the backseat of his car outside Sinclair Tower, his phone shaking in his hand, the bank notification still showing on the screen: 'Your credit lines have been frozen by order of Moreau Group.'Behind him, horns blared. The stock ticker on the building across the street kept sliding red, number after number, Lockwood Inc.'s primary subsidiary going out in real time for the whole city to watch. He read the notification three more times like it might change if he stared hard enough. It didn't."Sir?" His driver was looking at him through the mirror, uncertain. "Sir, we're blocking traffic. Can we keep moving?"Derek didn't answer. He just kept staring at his phone, at his own reflection ghosted faintly in the screen, until someone behind him laid on their horn so hard he flinched and finally told his driver to keep moving. He had no idea, yet, that tonight was about to get worse.☆☆☆☆☆The gala was already on by the time Audrey arrived that evening, string lights str
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