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30| I CANNOT STOP YOU

Author: Paisley C
last update publish date: 2026-04-16 22:49:37

Dante's Pov

She told me in the morning.

I had not slept well. I had lain awake running the video in my head. The small room, the cracked voice.

She came into the kitchen while I was making coffee and she said, "I am going to go."

I set the coffee down.

"No," I said.

"I have thought about it," she said. "I have the reasons. Let me say them."

"Say them," I said.

"If he confesses on record it gives us something the legal filing alone cannot give us," she said. "His own words. A direct admission of
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  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   41| NOT TODAY

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  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   39| THIRTY-ONE MILLION

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  • Making My Ex-Husband Crawl   37| WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT

    Valerie's PovThe security team confirmed at nine that morning what they had found in the second floor office.Three drawers emptied. A locked cabinet forced open. The file that had been inside it was gone. One of Dante's team had photographed the empty cabinet before we could get there and sent the images through. The lock had been broken cleanly. Someone who knew what they were looking for."He came prepared," I said."He knew exactly which cabinet," Dante said. "Which means he has been thinking about that room for a while."We were in my office. The door was closed. The morning was going on outside the window and neither of us was paying attention to it."What was in that file?" Dante said."I do not know," I said. "Not specifically. The building transfer only happened three weeks ago. We had not done a full inventory of the second floor yet." I paused. "But whatever was in that cabinet was the reason he came back twice before he broke in. It was the reason he stayed off the grid."

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