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21| SAY IT OUT LOUD

Author: Paisley C
last update publish date: 2026-04-12 23:20:58

Dante's Pov

She was on her third call of the morning when I set coffee down beside her and sat across the table and waited.

She wrapped it up in two minutes. She always did. She did not let calls run past what they needed to be.

"Marcus?" I said.

"Supplier update," she said. "The last two eastern contracts finalised overnight. V. Intl now holds the full eastern network."

"So it is done," I said.

"That part is done," she said. She picked up the coffee.

I looked at her across the table. She was i
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    Dante's PovI made the calls while she sat at the kitchen table.Security lead. Carver. My operations director. The building management at V. Intl. Three contacts I had in the prosecutor's office who were not Marcus but who would move things faster than channels.Each call took less than two minutes. I had learned to be brief when things were moving.Valerie sat with her coffee and did not pretend to be doing anything other than listening. She did not interrupt. She did not ask questions. She let me work and when I put the phone down she looked at me."Security on all three buildings is upgraded," I said. "Full external monitoring, thirty-minute check-ins, two staff per location overnight until further notice.""Good," she said."Carver is putting out to his contacts," I said. "If Cassian surfaces anywhere in that network we will know within an hour.""And the warrant?" she said."The prosecutor is pushing hard," I said. "My contact thinks this afternoon at the latest. Once it is issu

  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   47| WHAT HE SAID

    Valerie's PovI did not sleep.I lay in the dark and listened, to the city and ran Cassian's words back through my head in the precise order he had said them.Your father was the target. You were not supposed to be in the car.I had built five years of a plan around a specific beginning. The beginning was him finding a grieving woman in a wheelchair and deciding she was useful.I had understood that. I had planned around it. I had made peace with it in the particular way you make peace with something by deciding to dismantle it completely.But this was a different beginning. This beginning was before the wheelchair. Before the grief, before any of it.He had made the beginning happen.Dante was awake beside me. He had not pretended to sleep. He was lying on his back looking at the ceiling and he turned his head when I moved."Say it," he said."I do not know where to start," I said."Start anywhere," he said."He targeted my father," I said. "Not me. Not the marriage. My father's esta

  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   46| AT THE GATE

    Dante's PovThe gate intercom had a screen.I could see him on it before we even reached the ground floor. Standing outside the outer gate in a coat that was too thin for the temperature, his hair wrong, his face doing the thing it did now where it had no performance left in it. Just the man underneath all the years of performance, and the man underneath was not much.Valerie was beside me. She had not said anything in the elevator. I had not pushed her to.I pressed the intercom button."Cassian," I said."Sterling." His voice came through the speaker flat and hoarse. "I need to talk to her.""It is past midnight," I said. "You are at a private residence. You need to leave.""I am not leaving until I talk to her," he said."Then you are going to be cold for a long time," I said. "Because she is not coming to the gate."Valerie put her hand on my arm. I moved slightly and she leaned toward the intercom."What do you want, Cassian?" she said.A pause. Then his voice changed. Not the co

  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   45| JUST DINNER

    Valerie's PovDante cooked again.I walked into the kitchen at seven and he was already at the stove with his sleeves rolled up, something that smelled like garlic and white wine going in the pan. He did not look up when I came in."Sit down," he said."I can help," I said."You can sit down," he said. "Those are the same thing tonight."I sat down.He cooked without performing it. No narration of what he was doing or why. He just moved through the kitchen the way he moved through everything, unhurried and deliberate, I sat at the counter and watched. I let it be quiet for a while."The prosecutor's office called Marcus this afternoon," I said."I know," he said. "He called me too.""Charges filed by end of the week," I said."Yes," he said."And the restriction order," I said."Also by end of the week if the filing goes through cleanly," he said. "Which it should.""So by Friday," I said."By Friday," he said.We sat with that for a moment. He turned the heat down and reached for a

  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   44| EVERY ACCESS POINT

    Dante's PovThe security audit came back at two in the afternoon.I read through the full report while Valerie was on a call with Marcus. Every access point in the building documented, rated, and assigned a priority. The main entrance was solid.The new keypad system had held the previous night. The service entrance on the east side had an older lock that needed replacing. Two windows on the second floor opened onto a fire escape that ran to a lower roof.I had both access points upgraded before she finished her call."Done?" she said when she hung up."East service entrance and the fire escape windows," I said. "Both addressed this afternoon."She looked at the report I had open on the table. "You went through the full audit," she said."Yes," I said."While I was on the phone," she said."We needed it done," I said. "There was no reason to wait."She looked at me. Not annoyed. The other thing. The thing she did when I did something that she had expected but still noticed."The secon

  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   43| THAT MESSAGE

    Valerie's PovI read it four times.If I cannot have you or what is left of the money, no one will.Then I put the phone face down on the table and looked at Dante."He is telling us exactly what he is planning," I said."Yes," Dante said. "Which means he either wants us to know or he has lost enough control that he is not thinking about consequences.""Both," I said. "He wants us scared. And he is not thinking clearly enough to understand that sending that message is evidence.""Marcus needs to see it," Dante said."Already forwarding it," I said. I picked the phone back up and sent the screenshot to Marcus with two words. Criminal file. Then I put it down again.Dante was watching me. "How are you?" he said."I am thinking," I said."What are you thinking?" he said."That this is the message of someone who has decided he has nothing left to protect," I said. "And that is the most dangerous version of him. A man who has decided that if the outcome is going to be bad regardless, he mi

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