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Chapter 94: The Man Behind the Shadows.

ผู้เขียน: Anthony Wyles
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The air in the room felt heavy.

The conversation that had just taken place there made it so.

Derek was still thinking.

He could not wrap his head around what James wanted him to do and the consequences if he failed to do it.

His daughter is pregnant and even if it's something that conflicts with the plan he has with James, the thought of killing her and the unborn child is so absurd.

He was already preparing his response for James by the time he came back from the restroom.

His thoughts were jumbled together.

The weight of everything pressed heavily on his chest.

Then, he heard footsteps coming from the corridor.

Familiar.

The door opened, making a creaking sound.

His wife, Evelyn, walked in quietly.

Her eyes quickly adjusted to the dim lightning in the room.

His daughter, Reina, followed closely behind her, with a suspicious look on her face, while folding her arms.

They both halted abruptly in the doorway the moment their eyes landed on the tall figure standing across from Derek.

Ja
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    Her words had made the silence in the room more heavier.The tension was very evident now.There were varying suspicions in Derek's mind.Same as Reina.They both wanted to know the old secrets Evelyn had been keeping all this year.Secrets that may possibly connect her to James.They were looking at her now.Eagerly waiting for her to say something.Reina, who was naturally not patient, had to be.She folded her arms, tight across her chest, standing still.She waited for Evelyn to speak up.She didn’t speak immediately.Evelyn was standing in the center of the room.Her jaw was trembling, but lightly.She gazed at them all one by one, until eyes fell fell on Derek alone.Her husbandThe man with whom she had shared her life for the past 20 years.But now, her past had come to meet them.Well, she hopes it does not threaten her home.Her eyes softened as her shoulders sagged.It was as if the burden of the years gone by felt too much to marry.With a cracked voice, she said. “I am no

  • MY DISABLED HUSBAND IS MY PRETTY BOY?   Chapter 95: A Crack In the Silence.

    Silence followed.Nobody seemed to say anything.Everyone was silent, some were confused, People like Derek and Reina.Derek stared at Evelyn with a scowl that couldn't hide the confusion behind his eyes. The air felt wrong, like something had entered the room the moment Evelyn and Reina stepped through that door. The moment Evelyn had frozen at the sight of James.Her surprise hadn’t gone unnoticed.And now it gnawed at him.He was still trying to process everything he had been told by James, about Roxanne's pregnancy, and the suggestion to take her out, and now, Evelyn came , and started acting surprised seeing James.He couldn't be more frustrated at the moment.“What is going on?” Derek finally asked, the question snapping through the tension like glass. “Why do you look like you’ve seen a ghost?”Reina glanced at her mother, puzzled. Evelyn didn’t answer immediately. She stood stiffly beside her daughter, eyes locked on James as if afraid he might disappear if she blinked.Ja

  • MY DISABLED HUSBAND IS MY PRETTY BOY?   Chapter 94: The Man Behind the Shadows.

    The air in the room felt heavy.The conversation that had just taken place there made it so.Derek was still thinking.He could not wrap his head around what James wanted him to do and the consequences if he failed to do it.His daughter is pregnant and even if it's something that conflicts with the plan he has with James, the thought of killing her and the unborn child is so absurd.He was already preparing his response for James by the time he came back from the restroom.His thoughts were jumbled together.The weight of everything pressed heavily on his chest.Then, he heard footsteps coming from the corridor.Familiar.The door opened, making a creaking sound.His wife, Evelyn, walked in quietly.Her eyes quickly adjusted to the dim lightning in the room.His daughter, Reina, followed closely behind her, with a suspicious look on her face, while folding her arms.They both halted abruptly in the doorway the moment their eyes landed on the tall figure standing across from Derek.Ja

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    James turned around and went to the restroom.The room was silent as Derek started thinking.The restroom door creaked closed behind James, its sound echoing through the walls like a bell.Derek stood motionless, still facing the doorway, as if half expecting James to return and tell him it was all a cruel test.But no.He had meant every word.Take her out.Kill her.Roxanne.His daughter.Pregnant.Derek swallowed hard. His mouth tasted like dust and ash, and yet his throat burned as if he’d just swallowed fire.He stumbled backward, finding the edge of the chair and sinking down into it with a weight that felt heavier than the years he had spent plotting, climbing, and winning. He put his face in his hands.All this time, he’d thought of himself as someone without limits. Ruthless? Yes. Selfish? Certainly. But not aimless. Never aimless. Everything he had ever done, the lies and betrayal, the way he had used Roxanne like a pawn in his deceitful games had always been a strategy.

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    Derek was still in the same position, he was torn between disbelief and horror at what is happening.He had no idea this may come to be.Whatever Rex did already made their Job easier.If Ciel is taken down, it only made his revenge easier and when it is time, he can go back and taunt Roxanne the way he want.But it should not be him that should be fighting Ciel again.Ciel may be dying,but your daughter is still in the game.He could not get the words out of his head.Yes, he did not like Roxanne but he felt this fight was not hers to start with as it pertains to James.Both James and Derek just stood there, staring at each other.James does not seem bothered by the chaos he had just planted in Derek’s mind.He had no idea how much he had unsettled Derek.He felt he should be happy about the whole thing.Isn’t that why he teamed up with him?“I told you Roxanne is more involved than you realized,” James began. “But there’s more.”Derek tensed. “More?”James nodded once. “She’s pregn

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    The room was silent as James Ferguson left the room. It felt like a trail of smoke left behind after a fire.Derek just stood still, still staring at the door where James had just left through.He could not control the pounding in his chest as he replayed all what James had told him.His son in law has been poisoned. Ciel is now immobile.And the person responsible was not someone hired to do the dirty job.It was by his own blood. His elder brother, Rex.Derek paced slowly across the creaking wooden floor, his mind trying to piece together the implications. Well, he knew Rex to be someone who is always calculating, it probably runs in the family.Derek had seen the man a few times. His facial features had been etched into his mind since then.He has cold eyes and his perfunctory smile holds no warmth.Still, even Derek hadn’t thought him capable of turning on family with something as final as poison.He felt this shiver shot through him.He does not care about Ciel, but at this po

  • MY DISABLED HUSBAND IS MY PRETTY BOY?   Chapter 90: A Plan on Motion.

    The abandoned warehouse where Derek was first kept after James helped him out of police cell was cold.He just got back there.The scent of mildew and old wood, and ash from the fireplace long dead filled the air.The wall had cracked wallpaper and faded velvet curtains.From the look of things, this must have a nice house for some big family.Now, it has become a hideout for those seeking silence.Derek was pacing in slow circles near the windows.He was clearly impatient and he had an expression of distrust on.He was not used to being summoned like a nobody.But here he was, being called upon by no one else, other than James Ferguson.The man always behaved like a ghost.He just slip in and out.He had promised him alot of things.But he didn't like the fact that he was not revealing his full intentions.And he didn't want to be left behind.He had spent years alot of years to build his business ruthlessly, but at the moment, with his present dispensation, he could not deny that Ja

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    Roxanne had gone home to freshen up.And while in the bathtub, she had done something.Given the intensity of her sex life with Ciel recently, and the fact that he was the one who slept with her first, she had been secretly testing for pregnancy.Two pink lines.She had been looking at it for a moment.Her heart pounded against her ribs as she thought of many things.Everything around her seemed quiet.The hum of the water heater felt distant.How was she supposed to handle this?The test showed she was pregnant.She was truly pregnant.It didn't feel real.But the reality is that she is.There was no joy.The usual one that accompanies a newly married woman who took in on time.Because the man that is supposedly the father of the unborn child Inside her now was lying on a hospital bed, fighting a terminal sickness that doctors said had no cure.She felt nauseous.Not the morning kind, but the emotional type.And it was suffocating.She bent her head as she gripped the bathtub, she

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    Roxanne tried to cry but she could not.She sat alone in the dim hospital corridor.Her back was pressed against the cold walls.Her knees were pulled to her chest.She didn't mind her status as she allowed herself to express her sadness the best way she knew.She had left Ciel alone because he wouldn't talk to her after what the doctors told them.He was silent and stiff on his hospital bed.She had promised him something she was not sure she could keep.But she told him regardless.She said she would fix him and deal with whoever did that to him.But now, as the evening draws into night, the weight of everything settled heavily on her chest.And she realized it was not bearable.This was not supposed to happen.She thought as her first clenched in her lap.She and Ciel were finally getting it right.Trying to enjoy their love.But now, fate had taken it from them in the form of poison and a terminal sickness.The words of the doctors echoed in her head over and over again.They had

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