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HER DOOR
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2026-05-12 21:49:46
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MARRIED TO MY EX-FATHER IN LAW. THREE DAYS
Hannah's POV Three whole days.Three days of leaving food trays outside her bedroom door and getting nothing but one-word answers through the wood. Three days of watching Ocean move around this house like a man drowning underwater...physically here, but not really present. Going through the motions, but barely. I’ve worked for all kinds of people before this. Before Lola, before this house. I once worked for this rich family in Chelsea who were perfectly polite on the surface but completely hollow inside. I lasted eight months before the emptiness got to me and I quit. I came here for the money, but I stayed because of her, because of Lola. I’d do anything for that girl. Which is exactly why, on the morning of the third day, I pick up the breakfast tray she’s barely touched again and knock on her door. “Lola, I’m coming in,” I say firmly, then push the door open before she can tell me no. She’s not in bed this time. That’s something, at least. She’s sitting in the window seat,
MARRIED TO MY EX-FATHER IN LAW. HER DOOR
Ocean's POV I go back to her door at midnight. I don’t even know what the hell I’m doing here or what I’m expecting. She told me to go away earlier and I listened, but nothing feels any better. The house has only gotten quieter as the hours dragged on, and this space between us is starting to feel permanent in a way that scares me more than anything has in the last thirty damn years of this brutal life. I knock anyway. Three quiet knocks. Softly. “Lola.” Nothing. “I know you’re awake in there.” I can see the thin strip of warm yellow light under the door. She’s got the lamp on and she’s choosing not to answer me, and I completely understand why. Still, I can’t make myself walk away. “I’m not gonna stand here talking through this door all night,” I say, keeping my voice low and steady. “I just need to know you’re okay. You and the baby, that’s all I’m asking for right now. You don’t have to say anything else if you don’t want to.” Silence stretches out. Then, very quietly, a
MARRIED TO MY EX-FATHER IN LAW. IF IT'S ENOUGH
Lola's POV I hear him walk away from the door. His footsteps echo down the hallway, getting quieter and quieter until they disappear completely. He actually left, I told him to go away and he listened. I should feel relieved, I should finally be able to breathe now that there’s space between us. But I don’t feel any of that, just this heavy, aching emptiness. I pull the blanket tighter around me and stare at the wall, listening to the big house settle into its nighttime sounds. The low hum of the heating, a door closing somewhere downstairs, wind rattling against the windows, all those little noises that add up to silence. His house. I’m lying here in his bed, in his house, carrying his child… and he’s the one who killed my father. I close my eyes tight. I think about my mom, Suki Brown. She went back to her maiden name after my dad died, like some quiet way of pulling herself away from the dangerous world he was caught up in. I think about that now, she must’ve known some
MARRIED TO MY EX-FATHER IN LAW. WHAT I DID
Ocean's POV She wouldn’t look at me. That’s the part that keeps stabbing me in the chest the whole drive home. She just walked away, got into the car with Ezra, and didn’t look back. Not even once. Lola always looks back. It’s her thing...this little check over her shoulder, like she needs to make sure I’m still there, still watching, still hers. She didn’t check this time. And that tells me exactly how deep this cut is. When I step inside the house, I find Hannah standing in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs. Arms folded, face tight. She already knows, either word travels crazy fast in this house or Lola’s face said everything when she walked in. “Where is she?” I ask. “Upstairs.” “Which room?” Hannah looks at me for a second. Something complicated crosses her face...not exactly anger, but close. Like she’s weighing who I am right now. “Your room. She went straight up and closed the door behind her.” I head for the stairs. “OCEAN.” Hannah’s voice stops me. I turn ar
MARRIED TO MY EX-FATHER IN LAW. I DON'T KNOW
Lola's POV Yes. One single word. That’s all it took to blow my entire world apart. I’ve been rolling that “yes” around in my head the whole time since I left the restaurant. Since I turned my back on Ocean on that cold pavement, climbed into the car with Ezra, and muttered “take me home.” I sat in the back seat for twenty whole minutes just staring at my hands while London blurred past the windows like nothing fucking happened. Like my life didn’t just get flipped upside down. One word, and everything changed. When we finally get back to the house, I go straight upstairs. I hear Hannah calling my name from somewhere downstairs, all worried. I don’t stop, I can’t. I don’t have it in me to talk right now, to force words out and make them sound normal. I feel like I’m barely holding myself together. I walk into our bedroom and just stand there in the middle of it. Our bedroom, his room. The place where this whole arrangement stopped feeling fake and turned into something real a
MARRIED TO MY EX-FATHER IN LAW. HER FACE
Ocean's POV I catch one look at her face from across the busy room and my gut drops. I don’t need the exact words Willow spit out. I don’t know how she twisted it, how much poison she dropped, or how long they sat there while I had my back turned, buried in territorial bullshit with guys who suddenly don’t mean shit to me. None of that matters. I know Lola’s face better than my own. Every damn version of it. The bright, laughing one that lights up rooms. The exhausted one after a long day, the scared one that breaks my heart. The one where she’s biting her lip, fighting back tears. I know the sneaky little smile when she’s hiding something, the focused frown when she’s figuring shit out, and that soft, blurry morning face when she’s half-asleep and doesn’t know I’m watching her like a lovesick fool. But this face right now? I’ve never seen it before. It’s the face of a woman whose whole world just got ripped apart and rearranged without her permission. Like someone took a sledge
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