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037. Earning Teddy's Trust
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2026-05-13 16:57:02
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Married For The Show 065. Midnight Text
RAINALater that night after I got back from Syvelster's house.I sat in bed trying to read myself to sleep.An hour had passed with the book open on my chest. The same page. The same paragraph. I'd read it five times and couldn't tell you a single word on it.My mind was still in his living room.~Did you like it?~The question kept playing on a loop. His voice. His calm. The way he'd stood there with his hands in his pockets and waited for an answer he already knew I couldn't give.~That's what I thought.~I closed the book. Set it on the nightstand. Pulled the covers up to my chin and stared at the dark.As usual, at this hour the house was silent.Castor was probably asleep upstairs. The entire mansion had settled into its nighttime stillness, the kind that filled your ears and made every small sound feel loud.I closed my eyes.I was almost there. Almost at the edge of sleep. My body was starting to let go, my breathing slowing, my thoughts softening into something shapeless.The
Married For The Show 0.64 The Conversation
RAINAThe kiss tormented for the next two days.Everytime I closed my eyes I felt the ghost of his breath on my lips, when pulled them open I felt his warmth around me.I was going crazy reliving it in my head every second of the day.So I decided I was going to do something about it.That was the only reason why I went to his apartment.I'd rehearsed what I was going to say the entire drive over. In the shower that morning. In the mirror while I did my hair. In the car with my hands on the wheel and my jaw set.It was a good speech. Clear. Firm. The kind of speech a woman gives when she's made up her mind and isn't interested in being talked out of it.He opened the door in a dark grey shirt and jeans. His sleeves were pushed up. His hair looked like he'd been running his hands through it. He stepped aside without a word and I walked in.I didn't sit down.I stood in the middle of his living room with my arms crossed and my back straight and I said it."What happened the other night
Married For The Show 063. The Morning After
RAINAI woke up with his mouth still on mine.Not literally. But the feeling was there. Pressed into my lips like a fingerprint. The softness of it first, then the depth, then the way he'd pulled back and rested his forehead against mine and said not tonight.I lay in bed for a long time before I moved.The south wing was still. Grey morning light pushed through the curtains. The house was doing its usual thing. Pipes somewhere in the walls. A door opening and closing upstairs. Maria's footsteps in the kitchen, steady and familiar.Everything was the same.But for me it felt different.I sat up slowly, my body felt strange. Not tired. Not sore. Just aware. Like every nerve was still switched on from the night before. My skin remembered where his hands had been. The back of my head. The small of my back. My face between his palms.I got up. Showered. Dressed. Did my hair the way I always did. Put on the earrings Castor liked me to wear at breakfast because it kept him from asking quest
Married For The Show 062. Comfort
RAINA Tears kept coming.Not the kind I could control. Not the kind I'd learned to do silently in Castor's house with my face in a pillow and my hand over my mouth. This was the other kind. The kind that twists your face and steals your voice and makes you feel like your body is trying to turn itself inside out.His expression broke open. The composure, the control, all of it fell away in a single second. He reached for my arm, pulled me inside, and shut the door behind me."What happened?"I tried to speak. The words came out in fragments. Andrei — the lawn —Two guards dragging him —SUV — Construction — Lost them."Slow down." His hands were on my shoulders. Both of them. Firm and steady. "Breathe. Look at me. Breathe."I looked at him. His grey eyes were fixed on mine. Solid. Certain. I grabbed onto them like a lifeline.I breathed. In. Out. Again.The words came back. Shaky but whole this time. I told him what I saw from the study window. What Andrei had been screaming. How I'd f
Married For The Show 061. Andrei
RAINAI almost kissed Sylvester Brian.Three days later and that was still the only thought in my head. Not Castor. Not Teddy. Not Bogdan in the cage or the warehouse on the south side or anything else that should have mattered more than the feeling of his breath on my mouth and the half inch of air that was the only thing that had kept his lips from mine.On the fourth day, Castor left for an afternoon meeting with Felix.The house went still. Teddy was in his room. Maria was in the kitchen. The security detail was at the front gate. I had about twenty of uninterrupted silence.I took the USB drive from behind the panel in my closet and slipped it into my cardigan pocket. Then I went upstairs.Castor's study door was locked. I'd expected that. But the lock was simple. The kind the compact pick Sylvester had given me was made for. I knelt in front of the door, worked the pick the way he'd taught me. Click once. Feel for the pin. Turn slow.The lock gave.I pushed the door open and st
Married For The Show 060. Up to Something
MARIA I had worked in this house for fourteen years. I knew every room, every corner. Every creak in every floorboard. I knew which doors stuck in the summer heat and which windows let in drafts in December. I knew the exact time the morning light hit the kitchen counter and the exact hour the west hallway went dark in the evenings. I knew this house the way you know a body you've been caring for that isn't your own. Every detail memorized. None of it loved. Before Raina came, the days were the same. Wake at five. Coffee on the stove by five thirty. Castor's breakfast laid out by seven. The house cleaned top to bottom by noon. Laundry. Ironing. Dinner prep. Then the evening, when the house changed into something else. Something I'd learned to ignore. You knew it was there. You knew it could burn you. So you kept your eyes down and your mouth shut and you got through it. That's how I survived fourteen years. Eyes down. Mouth shut. Kenneth Rowland had hired me with a pro
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