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Chapter 59 - The jealousy trap, Derek appears

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The gallery smelled like fresh paint and old money, the kind of room where every glass of champagne cost more than most people’s rent.

Ezra stood near the entrance in a charcoal suit that fit him like it had been sewn directly onto his frame, greeting donors with the practiced warmth of someone who’d spent years learning how to charm a room full of strangers.

I hadn’t told him about the photos yet.

Every time I opened my mouth to bring it up, something stopped me. The timing never felt right. T
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  • MINE TO BULLY    CHAPTER 71 – TOGETHER

    Add sex scene to this chapter Jace read the message twice before turning the screen toward me, and I watched something conflicted cross his face as I read Marcus’s words for myself.Not tonight, Jace typed back, thumb hovering before finally pressing send. Tomorrow. Somewhere public. I need time to think first.He set the phone down and exhaled slowly, shoulders dropping as though he’d been holding tension there for hours without realizing it.That’s the right call, I said. Whatever he wants to tell you, it’ll still be true tomorrow morning.Jace nodded, though exhaustion had clearly overtaken whatever urgency the message initially stirred in him.Thank you, he said quietly, glancing over at me. For staying steady through all of this. I don’t know how I’d have gotten through today without you.You don’t have to thank me for that, I said. That’s just what this is now. Both of us, steadying each other.He reached over and took my hand, threading our fingers together as we walked toward

  • MINE TO BULLY    CHAPTER 70 – THE COLLAPSE

    We arrived at the hospital just past midnight, the corridors quiet and dim, nothing like the chaotic energy of my earlier visit that same morning.Jace hadn't said much during the drive, still processing his own father's confession from only an hour earlier, and I hadn't pushed him to talk, both of us carrying separate versions of the same exhausting grief.A doctor met us near the nurses station, expression carefully neutral in the particular way medical professionals learn to deliver difficult news.Mr Monroe, he said. Thank you for coming so quickly.What happened, I asked. The message said his condition changed.He suffered a second cardiac event approximately an hour ago, the doctor explained. More severe than the first. We've stabilized him for now, but I won't minimize the seriousness of his current condition.Is he conscious, I asked.In and out, the doctor said. He's been asking for you specifically since he regained partial awareness.Has anyone else visited today, I asked,

  • MINE TO BULLY    CHAPTER 69 – THE EVIDENCE

    I stood frozen on the sidewalk, Vivian’s words echoing louder than anything else around us, the hospital, the traffic, Ezra’s voice calling my name from somewhere that suddenly felt very far away.Jace, Ezra said again, hand gripping my arm. Jace, look at me.I turned to face him slowly, my mind still catching up to what Vivian had just told us.That accident, I said, voice strange even to my own ears. I spent five years thinking it was just bad luck. Wet roads, a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. That’s what the police report said.Police reports can be altered, Vivian said quietly, still standing a few feet away. Especially when the person requesting the alteration has enough money and enough leverage to make problems disappear.My father tried to kill me, I said slowly, the words feeling foreign and impossible even as I spoke them aloud. Not just send me away. Actually kill me.Vivian’s expression shifted, something almost apologetic crossing her face.I don’t think he intended

  • MINE TO BULLY    CHAPTER 68 – THE SISTER

    I stared at the message, reading it three times before the words actually settled into something comprehensible.Someone else, I said aloud. Who else would he possibly ask for.I don’t know, Jace said, already pulling out of the parking spot despite neither of us having discussed actually going anywhere. But we’re not finding out sitting here.Wait, I said. We should call Helen back first. See if her mother mentioned anything about this.Ezra, whoever’s sending these messages clearly has real time information about what’s happening at that hospital right now. We don’t have time to wait for another phone call.He was right, and I hated that he was right, hated how quickly the ground kept shifting beneath every decision we tried to make carefully.Fine, I said. The hospital.We drove to the hospital in tense silence, my mind cycling through every possibility, every person my father might have connections to that I’d never known about, each option feeling more unsettling than the last.C

  • MINE TO BULLY    Chapter 67 - The collapse

    I stared at the message until the words blurred together, standing frozen in the middle of the crowded hallway while board members and staff filtered past me toward the elevators.Jace’s name flashed on my screen a second later, a call this time instead of a text.I answered immediately, voice unsteady.Jace.I’m downstairs. What’s wrong. You sound strange.I just got a message, I said, reading it aloud to him over the phone, my voice cracking slightly on the final line.Silence on the other end, long enough that I checked to make sure the call hadn’t dropped.They’re claiming someone specific called him, Jace finally said. Not just implying his heart attack was stress related. They’re saying they know exactly who made that call.Which means whoever’s sending these messages either made the call themselves, or has access to information about it that shouldn’t be publicly available.How would anyone even know that level of detail this quickly, I asked, pressing my back against the hallw

  • MINE TO BULLY    Chapter 66 - The sabotage

    I watched Ezra’s hands shake as he kept reading, each line of his father’s letter seeming to steal a little more color from his face.He arranged everything, Ezra said, voice hollow. Found out about my feelings for you somehow, maybe through the same household surveillance Weiss just admitted to, and decided exposing me publicly would be more effective than confronting me directly.Why, I asked. What could exposing you possibly accomplish that talking to you privately wouldn’t.Ezra’s finger traced down the page, stopping on a paragraph near the bottom.He says here that public humiliation would cure me faster than private discipline ever could, Ezra read aloud, voice shaking. That watching the entire school turn against me would teach me to bury whatever I felt for you more effectively than any conversation between us ever would.I felt something cold and murderous settle in my chest, five years of assuming a stranger had betrayed Ezra suddenly replaced by the much uglier truth that

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